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I though SCC was scary. I backed off at the slung chockstone last year. The rock was yucky even before that spot. ... I enjoyed the left variation (Backpack?) better, I think you would too if crawling into the rock is attractive - don't get your helmet stuck. There's a rap station at the top of FtBG.p1 . I think there's a fair amount of fist sized crack on it. I even recall crawling right in and slithering on my belly like a reptile. Didn't do p2.

another technique for reachy bolts is to carry a small selection of large nuts or medium wired hexes. Sometimes you can poke the wire up through the bolthanger hole, give the rig a little push and it'll tip over (or snag it with a nut tool and pull it through) and the nut will jam in the hanger and the wire will extend down an extra 6" and you can just clip and go.

Another storage mechanism is to use the excess to pump water uphill. Then when you need the energy back you release the water back down through a turbine or whatever. I think this method is used in places in concert with windmills to smooth out the cyclicity of wind.

I think I met you down there. You were trying to cram yourself up an impossibly narrow offwidth? cool trip

I am sorry I wasted an hour of Leavenworth morning sunshine waiting for anybody then. But I got quality pitches down in good company anyways.

and for all this spray not a single one of you was at starbucks this AM. :wassup:

I will stay at the nopay camping site way up Icicle creek sat night, and still be around sunday morning. I have no clue who you are. I have a red truck with BC plates, a wicked tan, and a way-honed ropegun aura

I will be there on the weekend. I hope someone will climb with me.

I will be driving through from the eastside back to Vancouver this weekend. I would like to climb a few pitches on the way. I will probably not get a chance to check email or PMs between now and then though. I will just go to the 11worth Starbucks Saturday AM around 9ish. If you want to climb with me you should meet me there. If your name is Alpinfox you can get your helmet back then too.

This is a very funny TR

yep me too me three! who has the secret admirers now? ... and both XX and XY , how very metro

day = 24hrs

Rainbow Range for sure. Don't miss that. In Bella Coola it shouldn't be difficult to find someone to take you out on a boat to the rocks engraved by Alexnder McKenzie. I wish I could remember the name of the guy, but it was a long time ago. Hiking to Ape Lake itself is probably a just day trip for fit people. You can drive the road up to Odegaard Falls and then hike around to the lake. It's an interesting lake that produces jokulhlaups

I bet you wouldn't have trouble finding someone to drive you up the big hill in their big truck. I am not sure I would want to ride a bike DOWN that hill either.

awesome jesse and toby. I am jealous

the answer to your question dru is: $$$$$ right on Don!

white gas is easy to get, canisters are available but very very expensive. ask for bencina. you will probably need to provide your own bottles (eg pop bottles). quality varies, so don't buy your whole expedition supply from one place. I stayed at the Alburgue Churup, there's been lots of VOCers stay there over the years, almost a family feel though it is not the fanciest nor cheapest. But there's tons of accomodation in Huaraz (except when there is a national holiday - find out those dates and make reservations ahead).

searched and could not find. do you have a link? do my homework for me

there are no new thread ideas terrible cover: Hootie and the Blowfish version of "I Go Blind"

I thought you said you were getting som sport fucking in Mike, if you want intellectual stimulation too maybe you should just get a library card

I asked my friend who is in the same research group (on a different project) about that chucK. She said "Computers!"

Over the last year, Simon Fraser University's School of Resource and Environmental Management has been doing a socioeconomic study of climbing in the Squamish region, on behalf of the Access Society. The study has involved a variety of data collection techniques. The next step is an on-line survey of everyone who climbed anywhere in the Squamish area during 2004. The on-line survey is at LINK , and takes about fifteen minutes to complete. If you climbed anywhere in the Squamish area (Comic Rocks - Cheakamus Canyon) at any time in 2004, please fill in the survey. Forward it to all your friends, and encourage them to fill it out also. We hope to survey every person who climbed at Squamish in 2004. There are some draw prizes from Arc'Teryx and Mountain Equipment Co-op , but please complete the survey only once, by March 11th. Part of the survey relates to climber preferences. This is being done in conjunction with a similar study in the U.S., which should allow some useful comparisons. The survey will automatically be tabulated, and form part of the report. Preliminary results should be available by April. Thanks to funders for their support - Valhalla Pure Outfitters (Squamish) - Climbers' Fund; The Edge Climbing Centre; District of Squamish - Economic Diversification Office; Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection; Government of Canada; Mountain Equipment Co-op; Alpine Club of Canada (Vancouver Section) - Endowment Fund.

the leg loops are held up by fastex buckles. Doesn't that count as quick release? http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/gear/rock/alpine_bod.php#

or like kindergarteners singing the "Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round song"

the first key to having an non-twisty rope is to uncoil it from the factory coil properly the first time afer you buy it. If you do this wrong then your rope may never stop being twisty.