chris_w

I have a bibler with the single loop pole. I like it a lot. 20oz. The pole is flexable so you can really bend it up to cram it in it's bag. It keeps it away from your face which is nice. It's long, something like 6'10 so there is plenty of room in there. I am able to read inside when it's crappy outside. It has netting so no bugs. I do get condensation inside but I usually have my whole head shoved inside and not exhaling towards the opening. If you are big or have broad shoulders, the opening is a tight squeeze. If I was to get a new one, I would also look at the integral designs, just because of the tight opening on the bibler.

sounds like it would work. The clove hitch might be a little more awkward to tie on the biner and get them equalized, but you could adjust them afterwards. I would think it was be a little more work and then you don't have a spot for your 2nd to clip into if he wasn't leading the next pitch. Might come in handy if you don't have that much cord to make a figure 8. Chance of using: .2%

I had a friend that bought an expensive knife and it kept opening on him during a climb. I laughed because I bought a $1.99 knife along with a little cord and it works just as good. I think I picked it up at a hunting store.

I used one a couple of years ago and it worked ok. It took about 4 hours for 3 of us to make a 3 person igloo. It was in the spring at stevens pass and the snow was pretty wet so it stuck together good. The 3 of us slept in it and didn't hear a sound all night when a storm came in. The people in the tents didn't sleep all that well. I think it would be hard to build in powder snow and take longer. For the price $150+ I think a would rather build a snow cave. No extra gear to bring and less chance of majorly screwing something up. Now if I was in the plains with no hills to dig into for a snowcave or not very deep snow, I think It would be more practical.

If you knew about it, you sure didn't lead on. I didn't know how to bring it up.

I don't trust anyone anywhere. Sometimes I don't even trust my belayer I think I carried my wallet to 17k on Denali.

I had a digital video camera on my alaska trip and used solar charges to recharge the batteries. I had to piece together a system but it worked great. I was also able to run my CD player off the chargers until a cloud would cut the power. I think the chargers were called Isport or Isun and they were yellow. I bought them at boaters world. I hooked 2 of them together to get enough power. I then had to buy a batter charger adapter. Worked really good for me.

Hey, Isn't that a movie star? And I thought they didn't like light?

Good discussion. I think that it can be done in al pons. The headwall is steep, hard ice but has a fixed line and might already have steps in it. The sections from 16-17k can be hard and sometimes your walking over rock. I'd be afraid of something happening to a pon and ruining my trip. Maybe because I haven't used al pons that many times. I'm heading up this year and I plan on taking a steel set. In 2003 there were pickets\biners on the way up to Denali Pass but no fixed lines.

Do you remember where you were when they gave the verdict to OJ?

Washburn face - Super secret bouldering wall between washburn's thumb and 17K camp.

3 Attempts on Rainier - No summit Yet 3 Attempts on Chair Peak - No summit Yet 3 Winter attemps on Colchuck Peak - No Summit Yet 2 Attempts on Mt. Robson - No Summit yet And a bunch of unsuccessful first tries.

How about Rob Hall

I'm guessing Messner on the top and if I can read the small print on the bottom of the pic, I think it says Salathe. I would have guessed that anyways.

How about any movie with Ernest Borgnine. Remember him in Airwolf?

My GF has this on VHS. I'll check to see if she has the soundtrack too Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

I remembering seeing that one. It was really really bad. I'd rather watch cliffhanger, in russian.

O'Toman walked into a bar and ordered martini after martini, each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar. When the jar was filled with olives and all the drinks consumed, the Irishman started to leave "S'cuse me", said a customer, who was puzzled over what O'Toman had done, "what was that all about?" "Nothin', said the Irishman, "my wife just sent me out for a jar of olives!" "I've Lost Me Luggage" An Irishman arrived at J.F.K. Airport and wandered around the terminal with tears streaming down his cheeks. An airline employee asked him if he was already homesick. "No," replied the Irishman "I've lost all me luggage!" "How'd that happen?" "The cork fell out!" said the Irishman. "Water to Wine" An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car. He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?" "Just water," says the priest. The trooper says, "Then why do you smell wine?" The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord! He's done it again!" "The Brothel" Two Irishmen were sitting at a pub having beer and watching the brothel across the street. They saw a Baptist minister walk into the brothel, and one of them said, "Aye, 'tis a shame to see a man of the cloth goin' bad." Then they saw a rabbi enter the brothel, and the other Irishman said, "Aye, 'tis a shame to see that the Jews are fallin' victim to temptation as well." Then they see a catholic priest enter the brothel, and one of the Irishmen said, "What a terrible pity...one of the girls must be dying. Irish Cemetery Three Irishmen, Paddy, Sean and Seamus, were stumbling home from the pub late one night and found themselves on the road which led past the old graveyard. "Come have a look over here," says Paddy, "It's Michael O'Grady's grave, God bless his soul. He lived to the ripe old age of 87." "That's nothing," says Sean, "here's one named Patrick O'Toole, it says here that he was 95 when he died."! Just then, Seamus yells out, "Good God, here's a fella that got to be 145!" "What was his name?" asks Paddy. Seamus stumbles around a bit, awkwardly lights a match to see what else is written on the stone marker, and exclaims, "Miles, from Dublin." Irish Predicament Drunk Ole Mulvihill (From the Northern Irish Clan) staggers into a Catholic Church, enters a confessional box, sits down, but says nothing. The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention but Ole Mulvihill just sits there. Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall. The drunk mumbles, "ain't no use knockin, there's no paper on this side either." Irish Last Request Mary Clancy goes up to Father O'Grady's after his Sunday morning service, and she's in tears. He says, "So what's bothering you, Mary my dear?" She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news. My husband passed away last night" The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Tell me, did he have any last requests?" She says, "That he did, Father..." The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary?" She says, "He said, 'Please Mary, put down that damn gun!'

So I see a new REI Store location. Kahiltna glacier. If you can't carry a used stove on a commercial flight, you won't be able to take one to Denali. They already fly the fuel on a seperate flight, maybe they will have to do it for stoves now.

you can at least test an avy transceiver to see if it works, assuming you can borrow another to test it with. How can you really test a rope. If it doesn't look beat up, and tested ok sending\receiving, then I would consider it saving bucks.

Looks like they had one hell of a party in there.

I thought it was the Taboo Glacier? Or are there 2 there.

Good TR. I've gotten hammered on Rainier in the winter before. A couple weeks ago we had to dig the tent out twice during night and took me about 45 minutes to find our snowcave the next morning with most of our gear in it. Try using the Energizer Lithium batteries, they are fine to -40 degrees. Should improve battery life. You could also only turn the GPS on when taking a waypoint. Saves a lot of battery life. I used 1 set of lithium batteries for 30 days on Denali and still had plenty juice left over.

Maybe look at shipping them up. Not as easy or quick but maybe cheaper. For denali a couple of years ago we paid the extra price for sleds on the plane and then shipped them back. Took 1-2 weeks but much cheaper.

Did we loose the CC.COM squid?