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Oh their egos aren't big enough for you.

Yeah right...And the footage of them climbing routes in Smith shows they have no talent. What do you care about them promoting themselves and making a living off climbing? You jealous?

Good thing I wasn't driving... The city all looked pretty much the same to me from the passenger seat. Probably why I get lost almost everytime I drive through that town.

If that goes through maybe they'll repair the road up to the trailhead. It was closed last summer at the 14km mark due to a several rockslides and a huge washout at the (I think) 17km mark.

You can get great sushi at Tojo's near Kitsalano. It'll run you about $75 per person though. Some of the best sushi I've ever had.

Not dissing the place, just stating the facts it's a zoo on Friday and Saturday nights.

Please put a helmet on that little cutie. It'd be a shame to see a cracked skull. Head injuries are one of the biggest problems for kids under 12.

Maybe not "fratty" but if you head there on a Friday or Saturday night be prepared for metrosexual yuppies.

May be owned by a Euro firm now, but were started in So. Cal back in the 70s.

DerWinerschnitzl

Oh yeah...forgot to mention for those of you who like cheap beer that the Ballroom's happy hour ends at 7pm. Have fun. I've got a soccer game to watch on the eastside.

The ballroom has a patio with a firepit. You people call yourselves climbers? All this whining and uncertainty because of a few clouds. Not one in sight right now.

All involved in this case are pretty dumb IMO. Free Breast Exams...Door-to-door? Discuss.

There is a drawing in the Becky guide for the fisher chimney route that is a really good guide to finding the entrance to the chimneys. Way better than just looking for the obvious gully. A few years ago when I was there once we found the entrance to the chimneys we relied on info from someone who'd done the route years before. "If the climbing feels harder than 5.5 you are off route." When the climbing got a little harder looking for the exit to the area below Whinney's slide, we backtracked and tried another way and found the exit about 50 feet up the rock along with a bright orange arrow painted on the rock to help people find the entrance from above on the descent Have fun.

Nice tidy whities there Gary.

There are quite a few threads on the issue. About 6 years ago I had a State Farm insurance agent suggest I stop climbing for 3 years and then I could get a policy without lying. Once you have your policy you can resume climbing and as long as you are current on the premiums they cannot do anything and must payout even if you die climbing. I'm not sure that I would stop climbing just to get insurance, but I've not really climbed in about 20 months due to shoulder problems, so maybe I'll qualify via that route... Although I do have really good coverage through work now so I probably won't.

You are a wise one OW.

whether many of the posters on this site were out of high school and then I went to a pub club and found out the answer

Tom - Granite mountain sounds like what you're looking for. Head up via the ridge and there's some scrambling over rocks, nothing higher than class 2-3.

I think West Crack on Daff and Cathedral Peak are my favorites. I didn't really like the Regular Route on Fairview.

Yeah. I can mountain bike again at the Wallace Falls area. I hated paying that fee.

I think Jason commented that it works quite well but uses butterfly knots instead. I've been taught that it is a good precaution for 2 person teams and put knots in, but haven't have the bad fortune to fall while roped up with just one other person so I don't know if it helps. I suppose you could get together with some friends and test out various combinations while practicing self arrest and crevasse rescue. Let us know what you find out.

I watched the start of the race but it was so foggy I had to give up and retire to my netflix pic of the evening..."Easy Rider". The documentary on the DVD is classic and way better than the actual flick.

I am not working that day.