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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"

polar circus w/ mrs. reynolds

The Chisel is in the pebbly texture brown CAG, shows up on a map on p259 and in the descriptions somewhere around p278. It is above Snow Creek on McLennan Ridge (opposite side to the Snow Creek Wall) past the Toketie Ck junction. That picture in High Adventure is looking up valley and you can see Nada Lake.

BC

of course it is a troll http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/etymology/rule_of_thumb.html if people really want to research stuff they use google. if they just want to talk shit on the internet they use cascadeclimbers

I don't know too much about geology or water projects in Eastern WA. But I would guess that large scale reclamation and irrigation projects are drilling deep wells into old groundwater reservoirs, deep aquifers that are not recharged quickly, nor do they deplete quickly during one or two year droughts. But the water that supplies the ice climbs is probably from perched aquifers nearer the surface... like sediments sandwiched between the basalts. These are probably recharged seasonally so they might dry out a bit during a short drought, but will be replenished with a wet season. And also this water supply is not the one tapped by the big reclamation proj.

only the bottom 2 rows need to add up to 100, since the top 50 includes the top 25 etc. dig? I don't know what it means though. But then I don't pay any income tax

interested

you might be surprised. I hear she is an expert on semiconductor physics

Silvia Vidal ...well 'ard

is that French system still in the new edition of the richardson guide that came out a few months back? French grades don't mean much to me, nor I think many of the people who climb at Skaha. But if they are going to be in the book they should at least be accurate. You are probably one of few local people with the international experience to make the call of accurate french grades in that book. Are you going to set Howie straight?

I did the W.Ridge of Prusik last year. It was a good day with some challenges. Daylight doesn't matter much if you are hiking on good trails. Where is this Lighthouse tower?

given that there's a fire closure in Ingalls Ck, and missing bridges in the Icicle, are there any suggestions of alpine routes (5.9 or easier) in the Alpine Lakes area that can be done as a daytrip from Leavenworth area? Long day is fine - I'm tuff