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it's wintertime let's laugh at funny pictures of people skiing: Free your heels and your wardrobe will follow: Fix your heels fix your problems?:

low light conditions might make it more interesting actually. It'd force you to identify layers by feel rather than sight.

protectability does not only refer to the placement of screws and the use of ropes. It also refers to the opportunities you have to manage your safety through your movement and use of tools and crampons. The quality of ice, the nature of the formations etc. all play into this aspect of difficulty. If you have a rope above you this is mainly irrelevant. Certainly not in all cases as there are circumstances when seconding can be as serious an effort as leading, but top-roping at Marble Canyon doesn't fall in that category.

like Alex said above. The WI# ratings include protectability. You don't have to protect while top-roping.

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Coca leaf tea is nice for relieving headaches and nausea. I doubt you will find medical studies about it though. It's easy to get in South America. Maybe if you have to pee in a cup for your job you should avoid it though.

'the author' does not care who links to that site. Also 'the author' intends (and always has intended) to dismantle the site once the WCIv2 is in print.

the greek restaurant is overpriced and sucky. the chinese buffet is gross. so far the best dinner food I have found in Lillooet is what I brought myself and SubWay

didn't CBS also predict that those maintenance company hostages in Iraq would be tortured and murdered? I hope that if I ever go missing that catbirdseat will spare no time in announcing my doom. To me it is a beacon of hope

woot! skiing is the most fun thing you can do with two planks attached to your feet. This is a great area. Peeps from Spokane should chekit out! most plab

John Millar and Conny Amelunxen climbed Shreddie in the '99/'00 winter. I believe they also installed one or more bolts at that time for some mixed whatnot. I don't remember what condition the 'dagger' was in that year.

North-North Pole (Arete)

These pictures are not excerpts from The Ice Map. The ice map is more better and accurate. more: lillooet bridge river

this is my favourite part now that I'm a mod I can lay the smackdown on mattp all I want and he can't ban me.

if I am not wearing a pack, but am wearing a harness over my jacket then I sometimes leave a pit zip partly open and tuck my P'n'S camera in behind my back. I don't like having extra bulk on my chest.

do I? blonde? sucky

The water supply problems have been fixed. So as long as alpine temperatures are low enough on Blackcomb, the mixed routes at The Farm should sport some ice.

rapists should be castrated

Don't forget to smile, because skiing is FUN!

if Bug clips himself to RuMR then the weight difference won't cause a splat. I think somebody already posted this, but it is still funny.

what happened to the Gear Review section? I thought that was a cool feature of this site, though very underutilized.

maybe not an 'ice age' but it could get significantly colder in the temperate-high latitudes over a very short time span. This is observed in Greenland ice cores. that article isn't very well written or clear. this paragraph is pretty garbagey for example: "Evaporation over warm, tropical and subtropical oceans transfers water vapor to the atmosphere, which transports it toward both poles. At higher latitudes, that water vapor precipitates as rain or snow and ultimately returns to the oceans, which complete the cycle by circulating fresh water back toward the equator. The process maintains a balanced distribution of water around our planet."

what you say about proprioception vs long-held stretches is interesting. That would imply that yoga is counterproductive to dynamic climbing like bouldering where accuracy matters.

I feel sad for those people who died. Being buried in an avalanche is a deeply sucky experience.