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Friend and I drove into the Bridge River. Didn't climb anything. Most everything was very thin at least in the lower sections. Didn't get a great view of NnG due to clouds but the lower approach pitches looked quite rocky. Plenty of water around, just need consistent cold and all will be fat. There isn't much snow either.

I don't know much too much about Yos walls. I think Squamish walls need more hook variety though, a couple of bathooks and something filed pointy to whack into deadheads are handy. Fixed heads here seem to corrode within a season due to wetness, the cables rot off.

no I did Tyndall on the other side of the valley. All the rock in that area is terrible. Stick to snow routes. After a day of hiking on a ridge top with a cross-wind blowing over the rock slabs I was all sparkly from the tiny rock chips that got blown onto me.

hey Dale did you know there is a big picture of you in this month's Beatiful British Columbia magazine?

Dru's not banned. Maybe he forgot his password?

thank you for posting a picture. It would be nice if you could resize it so that it fits within the browser width and people don't have to scroll across.

so let's stop being vague here. Let's name some names! Who are the meanies that are creating a hateful spray environment and scaring people away? Who's peeing in the swimming pool? CBS's initial post says something about the banning process being arbitrary. Sure is! I got the power, gimme a list and let's clean this place up!

You can use your own hair instead of stitches. Just get a little tuft from either side of the cut, twist it up and pull the cut closed and tie a reef kno. I read about it in a magazine once

you have to convert the .wavs to CD-A format, A as in audio.

bye bye Metalhead_Mojo

the water supply pipeline at 'The Farm' burst, it's unlikely there will be much farmed ice there this year.

I can only take one day this weekend. I would like to go ice climbing on Sunday, anywhere between Vancouver and Cache Creek. Please PM if you would like to climb with me or if you are going already and don't mind me crashing your party for the day. Have gear etc., I am not a total noob.

apropos of nothing other than my desire to pull out my own , I scared away a guy at the gym today because I was lifting the same weight as him ... never managed that before.

This statement seems kinda fucked up if you ask me... And thats coming from some one that kills, butchers, and eats 90% of the food in the freezer and the food I consume. its a way of life! if your not going to eat the beast you kill, its life was taken in vain and there is something very wrong with killing based on an intellectual experience. the creatures life ends up with no more meaning than a couple of pages in a book. who said anything about not eating it, what do you think the steaks are for? That would be the whole point of doing it. I can't imagine myself taking any recreational or aesthetic pleasure from the experience of ending an animal's life and then chopping it into pieces. What's left is the intellectual (and culinary) experience of collecting my own food. I've done it with fish (catch, clean, eat), maybe someday I will do it with a deer. plus ... I make bambi joke you laugh hahaha don't take so seriously.

there have been a few other threads here on this topic. One of them mentioned something about (I think) Chondroitin possibly being linked to higher cholesterol levels. something to look into.

I stopped eating meat except fishies in 1990. I ate a few burgers and bacon slices this last year though, they were tasty. But I don't think I will ever go back to eating much meat. Chicken and turkey tastes like dirt, I don't know why people eat that junk. I would like to go hunting someday, although I am pretty squeamish, but I would like to learn about chopping bambi up into steaks, as like an intellectual exercise.

I don't think the G3 email has ever worked. Phone them.

I have never been in a climbing situation where I was prevented from doing my business because I do not own a freshette. If someone told me I was inconveniencing them or slowing them down because I wanted to stop and pull my pants down for half a minute I would sock them in the nose

rock the double helix!

Why do you say this Iain? How much have people been charged and under what circumstances? Is it only non-Canadians that get charged?

watch out if your elbows start to tweak though!

I did a 5 day trip over an Easter Weekend. 1 day drive from Vancouver, 1 day approach up Athabasca Gl, 1 day storm/Snowdome, 1 day Mt. Columbia, 1 day ski out and drive home. We ascended the gaper routes, mostly on skis.

I have never got the impression that a guy invited me climbing just so that he could look at my ass and boobs. I have rarely got the impression that a woman has invited me climbing because she wanted to become my friend. I have been associated with lots of all-female groups both formal and informal. (Not the least of which is the all-girls private school I went to for 12 years). I don't make new friends easily. The sort of group that Junebug advertised is something I might have gone to as an opportunity to meet new people with something in common (climbing), someone else did the organization so it requires little investment on my part to go and expand my social circle. This website makes for similar opportunities to meet new people and make new friends...hello pubclub!

well I wouldn't have but I want to know what trask means by coyote. Is that the same as a cougar? You all know I am always working to improve my vocabulary!

traces are the stringy bits that connect you to the sled. the things you pull on.