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a drone for $1000? screw the gopro, gimme a drone-pro

very nice curt!

sold

certain accidents will require the action to occur within hours. (head injury, internal bleeding, ect) A spot would be the only way for rescuers to get the information fast enough if a cell phone is not available.

not meaning to jump on anyone's case but just trying to help out. Maybe you need to hone in those basic skills on the crags which will help with time management on the alpine. 7 hours for 6 pitches on the w ridge is really slow even for a team of three. (team of three should be no more than 20% slower than a team of two when you got 2 double ropes) I suspect that it was the making of belays and belay transfers that took the most time. 45 minutes to get both climbers done with a pitch (low 5th) is a goal you should achieve before going into the alpine. good on ya though for getting out and doing it. PM just saw your point #12

I got 17 black diamond hotwire carabiners that are about 10 years old. Got to many biners so I am clearing out some of the unused stuff. rather sell as a lot but will sell smaller amounts. thinking of $3 each or the lot for $40. they have been used but never dropped. Doubtful that I have taken a leader fall on them. (if that matters) will post photo later. WIll ship to cont US if buyer pays actual USPS shipping costs. paypal fine

got a blue rei fleece jacket that my boy has outgrown. If your kid is 45# or less, it may fit. label says 4T. free to anyone who comes by Monroe for pickup.

got a blue rei fleece jacket that my boy has outgrown. If your kid is 45# or less, it may fit. label says 4T. free to anyone who comes by to pickup.

the tooth s face at snoq pass (short day) s ridge/face ingals peak (long day) beckey route on liberty bell (long drive with short day) will prolly want a thin 50m rope to rap with for first and last route.

how do you know what the increase will be? Have you seen some documentation from someone reliable and not just someone's opinion? Fox news, conservative radio and blogs don't count for unbiased information. Re educational cost as a factor....many people in many fields acquire 30k+ in debt. That's a cop out from a system that is overhead heavy and run inefficienty. If cost of education was the driving force for the cost of health care, then it would be seen as a increase in wages. So do nurses have a double digit increase in wages yearly? Cost of education is not the driving force for the increase in health care costs. As I understand it, the huge driver is the huge amount of procedures (expensive) we have available to keep people near death alive. No cost is to high to save someone. (as it should be) as baby boomers get to this point, this is where the real costs pile up.

hard to believe but not every climber in the PNW does look at cc.com. Maybe we should mandate all climbers to register with the cc.com for the public good.

what is wrong with the sat phone? is there newer stuff that is much better or is there a problem with that model?

knee injury? ACL?

Great question. One that will likely be thrown to the wind and back lashed with lots of sarcasm from the peanut gallery. so there is no reasonable explaination for the missing airplane and all of its passengers? assuming a missle took out the pentagon. You think to highly of the governement and its ability to cover up shite.

obviously so nobody would see the cruise missile. Duh We have a winner....... so I am dumb enough to ask and maybe get sucked into the stupidity of it all. If a cruise missle took out the pentagon, what happened to the plane that was supposed to be flown into the building?

@ 30 years old, you are a young pup. get after it! when you said you were older, I assumed ........................

don't know the OP at all, but maybe what he needs is just a plain ole strength program (with no emphasis on climbing for balance in strength) mixed in with regular rock gym time? something like 2 days in weight room and 2 days in the rock gym per week? nothing fancy. something like squats, deadlifts, bench and overhead pressing in the weight gym pulling of course is done in the rock gym. I suspect that the hardcore mtn athlete, gym jones and even crossfit is too much for a "aging" climbing athlete. Maybe crossfit conditioning once a week. but what do I know?

you r question reminds me of my first ice lead. Went up n ridge of baker before there was the select guide to wa cascades. Only had beckey guide for beta. Went up with one 70cm alpamayo axe, a 40cm stubai tool I found on w ridge of s twin sister and 3 old chouinard ice screws. That lead was "interesting" (in that I thought I would die) but we were committed (I thought) by that point. That is a very big difference between the tools in length (with different swing patterns, neither of which I mastered). Later on I bought a pair of grivels, one 60cm and a 50 cm, both reverse curve and I used the 60cm for regular alpine and snow and pulled out the secret weapon (the 50cm) when things got steep. I thought this worked very well for the alpine ice stuff. Though modern hardman tend to use matching tools but then they are doing really hard stuff. I think your offset matchup is a good setup.

that is a rather broad judgement call for such a large population. Sure you will meet some people like that in the organization, but when I took the basic class about 21 years ago, I had a very skilled and knowledgable teacher (as good as any guide) in a small group setting. Will someone else get the same? Can not say, but I can not cast judgement on a entire group because I have seen some good instruction there. Plus, it was $100 for something like 20 days of instruction. damn cheap. No idea how they run today. But for such a price, why not take both? FWIW, I support the idea of hiring a good guide service for instruction. That is a good value for the money too.

AOK, you asking about training for alpine or rock climbing?

OK you got me. I am the .65%

you will hear many things, positive and negative. You could do worse than the mountaineers. You could also do better. All depends on how much you put into it for either option. mountaineers have there strength and weaknesses, but overall it is a good value for the money spent.

I am the .41%.

I have made it to beacon 0 times this year. 0 times more than last year or any year prior.

it is a long and dirty cc.com story best to just forget. hint though....it is spray..