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you need to specify WHICH area

David the simplest solution to that problem is to alternate between skinning forward and backward. Then the same hand is always uphill

thanks trask, I've been working out

did you get my cams too? ... I hope somebody did I saw a guy on campus with some RPs hanging off his backpack 'biner. I guess the A2 crack linking Psych101 and English120 is pretty gnar!

"Who needs a goat when Beck is giving away free Nalgenes. Piss off, get your own!"

punny!

are you talking a fabric 'buttbag' type or a solid one made out of wood?

"Hey you! Seventeenth from the front! Your ice axe has to be in your UPHILL hand!"

these chimneys are in the boulders below Carnival Crack in the Icicle Canyon. There is another fun gimme chimney in some random boulder up valley of Bridge Creek. Some of the most fun chimney bouldering I have ever done. Also I will add North North Arete on the Chief to my list of quality chimney involved climbing.

I have had the problem of the graemlins not loading and other image loading related problems on my Unix machine, running Solaris. And I can't look at the photo gallery on it either because my "browser is not enabled" ... so it's not some poisonous gallery conspiracy virus for me like Billygoat suggested. I'm not complaining though, everything is peachy

various posts from rockclimbing.com:

educational, thanks

clever! I hadn't noticed or thought of this but I see it now. did you experiment at all with making the stud end more of a bullet shape or conical, so that your aim needn't be so precise when you are reclipping the wrist piece? did you do any testing to see how much load you could hang on the wrist loop before the whole thing breaks? My guess is that the failure mode would be the stud would pull out of the threaded hole. I guess you are manually machining all this? so it would be a drag to spend time turning some out just to do destructive testing

did you fabricate the spring clip thumb part too? is the stud milled out of the same piece as the plate or is it riveted in? How is that piece of webbing that wraps around the shaft below the stud plate connected .. or is that just webbing wrapped around a hoseclamp? the keyhole slot that slips on the stud doesn't have much difference in size between the wide hole and the long slot, how much actual overlap is there on the stud? Judging from the wear marks it looks like less than a millimeter? Seems like this is where the actual weight-bearing is when the leash is in use, are you concerned about it getting worn down and a sloppy fit?

this is a cumbersome method that may work. Save the whole webpage as a 'complete page' (the other option is .html only). This will create a directory on your 'puter with all the images and files that make up the webpage you are looking at, then just go in there and find the animated gif you are looking for and junk the rest? I had the same .bmp default problem with XP the other day, but I forget whether or how I got around it.

Kings Creek Seepages or similar stuff in the Kananaskis comes in early sometimes. High elevation stuff on the Icefields Parkway - lots of rambly mixed up stuff at Bow Falls to the right of the main flow. There's some stuff at the far end of the Stanley Headwall, Sinus Gully and farther left, though a long hike in. Of course Marble Canyon is equidistant and often is in by mid-late November too.

I just destroyed a 10" power mitre saw ... oops. perhaps today is a better day for baking than carpentry, I will try not to burn my cookies what tools have you destroyed?

serious machinery is no problem. I'd like to see the plans and the finished product if you have pics

you have plans/pictures of your home-made android leashes?

The lone voice? You really believe that Matt? And so by extension every other person who posts does so with insane and uncivil voices? Well, at least you don't play favourites, apparently we ALL suck

I remember reading about some europeans putting up a new route in Tsaranoro or somewhere. 5.12ish being bolted on lead with no aid I think. The leader had a pulley on his harness with a zip line to the belayer. When it was time to drill a hole the leader would hang on tight and the belayer would haul the drill up to the leader via the pulley . Then the leader would start the hole clip the rope to the bit as 'pro' while drilling. Good effort I say.

I like pit zips because you can shove your extra gloves and camera on your back (when wearing harness) and it keeps your front side less bulky. I didn't realize Beck was demoing the latest in high tech softshell outfitting. I thought he was wearing a leprechaun costume.

then the unnamed silent masses who have appealed to you privately that they'd would contribute except that they are skeered of the naughty words would do well to actually speak up and add to the sum total and maybe they will push the average tone away from the spray and towards the non-stupid serious discussions that you prefer. You know that cat-poster philosophy "Be The Change You Seek In The World"

heh if this is the person I think it is ... the drive to leavenworth was enough to scare me off long road trips with her.

aha ... Oct 17 is the "my music taste is better than yours" thread. that means the thread schedule should play out something like Oct 28th: "Relationships Suck" Oct 24th: "Guns are Cool"/"Canada Sucks" Oct 27st: "The Mountaineers Suck" Oct 31st: "The Baby Jesus Sucks"