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Yeah, err, maybe I should have been making fun of you Country Yak, although I wasn't Hey, can't somebody make a cool spray gremlin? Spittle flying all over or some such?

Cool thread. I used to downhill ski as a kid, started skiing again this season on teles and it isn't so hard to pick up. I tried using my climbing boots with the tele bindings for an approach to an ice climb. That was really funny and stupid. I got such awful muscle cramps in my feet because the boots lack support, I could barely stand. Not a way to go. I'm saving up for a new pair of aggressive skis and I'm going to transfer my fancy tele bindings to those. My current skis are really light and I'm going to get silvrettas to mount on them. Then I'll be able to do approaches on climbing trips in climbing boots and go skiing for turns on the tele gear. Net result, one pair of boots on each trip. Lugging an extra pair of boots around is super awful. One thing I disagree with in a previous post is benefits of AT over tele for touring. Judging from trips with my randonnee ski-toting friends tele gear is cool for rolling terrain because you never have to mess with boots or bindings. [ 04-10-2002: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

ALRIGHT Nacho, you got it down! Hey kleenex, thanks for the link and the offer man. Those sat images are awesome. You know, I fell so much last weekend it isn't even funny. That's what you get from flailing at sport routes that are way over your head Wait, I just realized klenke sounds like a toothless person pronouncing the Icelandic word klinka, which means woman working in a beauty parlor or something like that. Or maybe it means doorknob. If I open a beauty parlor in hell you can come work for me, or be a doorknob. If you do have teeth you probably wouldn't make a good doorknob though. I can't really take you up on the offer, I don't really know enough to ask interesting questions. But thanks, maybe later?/Stefan [ 04-10-2002: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

Yeah, and my daddy can beat up your daddy

Wow, here I was thinking that the weekends go bad when fronts that built up way out there over the Pacific hit us at a bad time, by random coincidence. You guys are funny - well, except for that bit messing up my screen name, it really isn't that complicated klonker But, seriously, I'm just trying to figure out stuff like orographic this and convergence that, yada and blah. I can go to the bookstore and goof, but not while I'm stuck at work plus I'd much rather get a recommendation...

I'm fascinated by the weather... why is Rainier only visible from Seattle when I can stare at it from my office window, but buried in goo when I have time off...? Does anyone have any recommendations for a layman's introductory text on weather phenomena? Could be an introductory college textbook but something nicer to read wouldn't be at all bad. Any ideas?

Would someone post human-readable directions to whatever place it is?

All out of stock

Sobo, you might want to look into grad school

Club's full of lawyers and there are waivers and shit. I don't think a lawsuit would get anywhere. After all, we (including them) climb at our own volition.

My measurements indicate that the tree people use when they're top-roping the small flow next to the Alpental quad lift doesn't really have any bark left around the anchor slings. As I bolstered the anchor with an extra sling and hooked my rope up to the whole thing I was thinking, this is kinda sad.

Yeah, post again much closer to your trip. You'll definitely find someone. I'd be up for the Fisher Chimneys route myself, but I don't plan that far ahead.

What is gu used for in the porn industry?

New alp or reverso Ray?

Sure, sounds great, can I get a ride?

Or, in this case, top-rope

Hey Steve, SEF, we will understand if you take a quick look at the responses and never become back, but if you do, and I hope you don't, then you should at least pause and give yourself a quick pat on the back. Because you've really entertained the masses here I'm not sure you should take all of this, or the previous bashing, that seriously. The Mounties take a beating, sure, but probably for a lot more things than the club members warrant. I think most of the posts about "Mountaineers" are really about organized climbing activity. 'Mountie' is just a handy sticker that everyone understands. It's really no wonder since the Mounties are the biggest club around here. There isn't much that can be done about this. It'll be snowing in hell (skiing, whee!) before this bboard embraces organized climbing. Organized beer drinking now, that's another matter. Why don't you show up for pub club one of these Tuesdays? They're really pretty cool, nothing like all the flaming that goes on on-line.

Hey Jon, that's an excellent idea. You know Mattp also has that Darrington web, right? Maybe you could do extra clones for giving the royal treatment to the other crag areas. One for Index, one for Lworth, etc. Hahaha!

Matt Truitt and I climbed that flow earlier that same day. We were there right after the lifts opened in the morning and stopped around 1 pm, a little after the sun came around to hit it. We spent the rest of the day skiing the upper lift and never saw you guys. I copied your picture and drew our line in blue on it. Hope you don't mind I guessed WI 3, maybe 3+ except that it is easier now because it's basically been kicked to death. There is a staircase all the way up, one can just hook with the tools. I'm not really sure whether the thing is still in for leading, unless you can solo it. The two chandeliers on the right (marked with red ellipses) were dripping rivers all day, made us nervous. The pillar (third ellipse, closest to blue line) looked better than the chandeliers but I still didn't want to put anything (screw or tool) into it. There is a big space behind it and it didn't seem to be very well attached at the top. Leading the rest on screws might be a questionable idea, the ice is very soft and screws can also melt out. [ 03-31-2002: Message edited by: fleblebleb ] [ 03-31-2002: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

This was a way scary scene. Get better Jim.

Anyone headed for a one day ski trip I could join this weekend? Have gear+car, but all my buddies are busy. Ping me back/stebbi

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I have a pair of skis with G3 Targas mounted (soft springs), and I was futzing around adjusting them to my tele boots (T3s). The whole setup is new (to me), and it turns out for the first couple of times I used it the cables were so long they were almost just dangling there - just barely short enough to get a little 'snap' when putting the skis on, and to hold the boot in the binding, but only with a tiny part of the extended tele toe actually in the binding. (Yeah, I know, stupid, but I was so psyched about having skis after 12 years of not skiing, and I'd never really tele'd before, so I didn't notice or didn't figure it out, whatever, I just ran out to start logging face plants.) Anyway, I skied with this silly setup for two days and was doing fine. Then I fixed it and it's a whole different world. But this gave me an idea - if I can ski with so little of the toe actually in the binding, then why shouldn't I try skiing with a pair of crampon-compatible climbing boots? Turns out my climbing boots fit the tele binding just fine, only of course they don't extend into the binding. Is there a problem here that I don't know about? Why shouldn't I ski some approaches and stuff like this? If it is all good, then why don't people talk about this possibility more? Not getting it/fleb

Off topic? The hell it is! Doesn't someone here know all about this? Cuz I sure would like to find out, too. I want to be able to split board up to an alpine climb in winter conditions, do the climb on crampons or aiders in the same boots, and ride back down. I wouldn't mind buying one new pair of boots for all of this, but would be way happy if I could just continue to use my trusty Salomon M9Gs. Anyone?