lizard_brain

So - Who here excactly is the final authority on what climbing is supposed to be for everyone?

Where do they sell these?

B-b-but what about bolt chopping spray?

Bolt spray. It's what matters.

Just keep the spare batteries for your butt plug in a sock.

i've heard a noise in the night and thought of my ice tools. the down side would seem to be that once i've used them the intruder wouldn't be able to get away. maybe leashless is better (but then you loose your tools). That's why the retired old ice axes are good. Nasty looking, easy to use, you're used to handling it... Let your old friends be your home defenders.

...that's 1 for each of us - mano a mano.

it it were me, on the way out the door I'd pick up the bear spray, an ice tool, and stash the 9 in my back waist band....just in case. They'd never have to know it was there. I keep 2 old ice axes in the corners of my bedroom.

I went to a gun shop a few months ago. They asked if they could help me. I told them I was moving to Belltown. "I have just the thing." He showed me a Kel-tec P-32. Nice. What I worried most about was what I do if I kill a mugger on the street. Stay or run? I finally decided I'd be more scared armed than unarmed.

And what about us polymorphs?

I just get so tired of having all these murderous people breaking into my home in the middle of the night all the time. I never know what to do about them.

Depends on what she looks like.

Some of us don't care about bolts, just bolt spray.

I've heard that Oregon has recently lightened up it's deadly force laws. Fewer questions asked when killing home intruders.

Get lost.

Let's see... Doesn't like reading threads about bolting, so starts a thread about bolting spray...

Climber Barbie:

Are those your measurements?

Yeah, I understand... At the TH the other day, as we were getting back, this guy and his wife pulled up in a pickup and told me they heard there was a 'trail to the top'. I said yeah, sort of. He kept looking back and forth between his wife and the trailhead. He looked like some middle-aged blue-collar good ol' boy. I told him we just got back, and it 'took us two days', and that there is no trail above 9,000 feet, just snow to 12,278 feet. He kept shifting in his seat and looking back and forth. I was trying to give him the message 'it ain't easy' and 'it ain't for beginners', and I gathered from his body language and the way he was looking at his wife was 'we oughta go fer it!' I gave him a couple of scare stories and left it at that. I figured if he did try it, he'd burn out well before the Lunch Counter anyway. He was in jeans and running shoes. 'D'ya think we could make it in a day?' 'That depends on how fast you walk 15 miles and 7,000 feet up a 12,278 foot mountain, 3,000 feet of it off-trail in snow.' I have no idea if he went for it, but it was up to him. But I don't care anymore. It's up to them. I didn't say 'go for it' or not, I just gave him the info. Okay, I did tend to be negative because I thought he had no idea what he was getting into. But the original poster sounds somewhat experienced, and Adams is nothing for someone with experience, just a matter of routefinding. And on weekends, that's not a real problem on the South Spur, just follow the conga-line of 200 other hikers and climbers and skiers and snowboarders and Boy Scouts and Mazamas and moms and dads and kids and dogs going up and down that thing. It's relative to who you're talking to, and the route you're talking about...

Hey, that was the 70s! But I bet he had a high stroke volume...

I know, I am an exersice geek.

It used to be thought by doctors that athletes had bad hearts from all that exercise, that their hearts were 'sick and unhealthy'. Doctors actually believed this up until the 1950s. It was in the 1960s that physicians started studying the effects of running and exercise on the heart, and then the running boom happened in the 70's. (Remember 'The Complete Book of Running'?) There's an article about it here.

There's something called 'stroke volume' that I am just dying to tie in here just for the name... (Here's the boring part) Your heart pumps so much blood per minute. You exercise more, your heat ventricles get bigger and stronger and pump more per beat (I just wanna say that again... pump more per beat...), so your heart doesn't need to pump so fast to circulate the same amout of blood per minute, so it slows down. Same amount of blood is circulated, stonger, healthier heart with bigger ventricles, pumping more per beat... More efficient for keeping that morning wd.

That's when I first wake up. Daytime it's around 58.

My doc says I'm 10 pounds overweight, but I'm healthy enough that it doesn't matter. Resting heart rate 38, etc. He does say though, that if I lost 10 pounds, it would take almost 10 minutes off my marathon time. He knows how to motivate. Forget about 'live longer' and all that crap... 'You'll increase your marathon time by about 10 minutes!' He's tricky...