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I think his point was your just another cc pocket hardman, who sprays far bigger than he can sack. yeah that was my point, but said with much less tact.

You're the only one on XCDs these days, Beck. I tried using my straight skins on my shaped skis. Once. The next day I bought fat skins and trimmed them to fit. It sucks to shift your weight slightly only to faceplant because you're now standing on the unskinned edge of your ski. Not cool. i love this shit. only on cc.com will you have someone who appears to have just started skiing (cracked) giving a bunch of crap to someone who has probably been skiing longer (beck) than said person has been alive. What's your point? Beck didn't even give any 'compelling reasons' against shaped skins other than versatility. My point is you talk like you know everything, yet you admittedly just bought the gear six months ago. Beck asks some legitimate questions and you bash on him. Why don't you get some experience before you start laying waste to everyone elses points.

You're the only one on XCDs these days, Beck. I tried using my straight skins on my shaped skis. Once. The next day I bought fat skins and trimmed them to fit. It sucks to shift your weight slightly only to faceplant because you're now standing on the unskinned edge of your ski. Not cool. i love this shit. only on cc.com will you have someone who appears to have just started skiing (cracked) giving a bunch of crap to someone who has probably been skiing longer (beck) than said person has been alive.

Erik, Explain to me how that is worse than what Will is doing with this thread by publicly bashing ricardo. As I understand it Ricardo was discussing this one other person over a radio, yet Will is bashing this guy on the internet, even after he got his gear back anyways. What is the purpose of that? That is complete f-in asshole in my book to rail on someone over the internet.

"You killed my father, prepare to die!"

The best part of this whole f-in stupid argument is that Will admittedly placed one pin as well, so as far as I am concerned everything he said about climbing it clean is discredited. Maybe you were in over your head? Get over your lost gear buddy.

look in the travel section in the seattle times sunday paper. go with one of those little travel angencies that mostly deals with travel to and from south america, they usually have price quotes in the sunday paper. i believe we went with buena vista travel out of bellevue in 2000.

It looks like Greg already has someone lined up. Anyone interested in getting out on alpine routes or local cragging this weekend? Drop me a PM.

check your pm's

Shorts over polypro? attitude you are a dumbass. do you ever contribute anything worth a shit? why do you f-in care what someone wears? the best part is you probably couldn't even walk around your house in 48 hours.

go bouldering, it is much better for your health. plus you can put that super giant crash pad to use.

quit spraying and get to work you lazy ass

yo cavey what's up? i know i am a wimpy bitch. are you getting out this weekend?

no i think this is more appropriate.

yeah i don't know. you might see me up there.

time to go to bed rudy, you have a tough day of climbing tomorrow.

rumr why go to squamish and clip bolts? the masses want to know.

yeah i got another rope gun besides rumr. if he decides not to go for some reason you can be partner. either way hopefully i will still be out there. too nice to be working.

i might be out there as well. just look for the ghetto honda. tlg i think you know what it looks like. not sure what we will be climbing though.

so are you going stupidass, i mean rumr?

rumr slacker a$$ bitch, why don't you quit your whining and get back to work, you still have another 1/2 hour before you can leave.

You might check out this place in montana. They cater more to the hunter/fisherman type but they make some expedition bags. My dad bought me one of their expedition bags and it looks indestructible. I have not had a chance to use it and abuse it yet. They are expensive, but it is very well built, compared to the tnf bag I have. You could probably get it custom made if you asked. redoxx bags

i was up there last year and both my climbing partner and i took our randonee boots. i have the scarpa lazers and he used the scarpa denalis. i also brought along my scarpa invernos for the climb. he didn't bring along any other boots. i was in the same boat you are in that i had bindings that were not compatible with climbing boots. i was happy i did too. my partner ended up hating life on summit day because he was in his denalis. i only wore my mountaineering boots on summit days so for the most part they were extra weight, but i was glad i didn't have to wear them for 6000' on summit day. yeah it was an extra 7 lbs i had to haul around, but think of it as training. fwiw the skiing was absolutely phenomenal from 16k to 14k camp. you could yo-yo ski all day long. i will agree that the conditions very from year to year and week to week for that matter, but if it snows every day like when we were up there you will be very happy you had your skis and good boots to kill time while at 14k camp. there is nothing better to do. we were also not up there to ski from the summit. had we not summitted it would have still been a good trip because the skiing was so good out of 14k camp. i think the people that left there skis at 11k were regretting it as they watched people who were skiing every day in fresh powder. also good randonee boots make the ski out much more friendly with that f-in sled. i guess it comes down to what is important to you. i am a big skier, so it was important to me to have my skis up at 14k camp with a good pair of boots. there was a post not to long ago about this same topic. you should look there too.

june and july is the best time of year to go down there. that is when we went down there and the weather was stellar. avalanche danger was not really an issue considering it was blue bird skies and sunny almost everyday.

hey tim are you planning on heading up there in the next couple of weeks?