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quote: Originally posted by Dru: I saw a climbing rope break once in a tug of war. It nearly killed Fern too.... so is the lesson then that tying in with the rope is plenty strong enough for only one person, but on those Mountaineers rope teams of 50 they maybe ought to back themselves up with daisy chains?

nay ... unnecessary piece of gear. although some people have been known to build their belay anchors simply by clipping cams and widgets directly into various pockets of their daisy ... bomber

good job K and jordop. looks like it was a fun 5 days! in the Mt Garibaldi #2 picture the low sub peak on the left that isn't blocked by clouds is the Tent.

yeah, I want to see pictures of Dru trying to ski

quote: Originally posted by iain: my f'ing wool beanie hat <snip> Wear a beanie hat <snip> since dru's away I'll pick up the slack ... Dude it's called a TOQUE! ...eh?

I have not used this binding myself. However my friend who is not a large fellow recently had a heel piece blow out on his Freeride binding. The failure was at a small plastic hinge pin. He was able to return the broken piece for a replacement from tele-pyr with little hassle. The bindings were bought earlier this season and used predominantly for touring, perhaps 25 days.

*hiccup* [ 05-14-2002, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: fern ]

For my own amusement I recently made a list of what I consider a complete rack and added up the MEC prices (i.e. Canadian $$, pretax). For a rack that includes at least 2 pieces for every size from thin fingers to small fists, all respected Western Bloc brands I got, Total: spare carabiners + quickdraws:$210 Nuts+Cams+Hexes+Tricams: $453.60 for the deluxe (22 pieces), $330.30 (17 pieces) for the streamlined. How much money is too much?

quote: Originally posted by Bronco: What's so unusual about this calving? it is bigger than usual, hence it is unusual.

quote: Originally posted by sayjay: freeclimb (and others): don't confuse glaciers (and thier behaviour/what makes them go away) with ice shelves. glaciers are formed by the accumulation of snow on land in regions where there is snow/ice cover year round. they can be depleted by either by warmer temperatures (snow melts) and/or a decrease in precipitation (less snow accumulates) true quote: ice shelves (such as the one that just split off the Ross Ice Shelf) are frozen sea water not true. The ice shelves are glacial ice that has extended out into the ocean and past the grounding line. Ice shelves are hundreds of meters thick. Frozen sea water forms sea ice which is around 2 meters thick at most.

ha ... the perspective on that photo make the belayer look like an action figure hanging Tori Allen monkey style off her chalk bag

I have a flexible schedule and can take the day off to go to Squamish on short notice. Send e-mail to fwebb@geop.ubc.ca or PM here. [ 05-10-2002, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: fern ]

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Fern it was a good thing you admitted to soloing Diamonds and Spades and not Fern Gully... who says I haven't? ... sometimes you don't have a partner handy and you just wanna get up something

obviously the picture is pre-chop, duh. robert is really cool and modest and the most kickass climber I have ever met, but he seems to have Joe Simpson style luck. he was soloing SoD and self rescued from the 14th pitch (down Chongo's fixed lines). [ 05-08-2002, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: fern ]

the Devil's Bathtub is a cool place to skinny dip and scare the tourons. it's kindof like a natural hot-tub (lukewarm-tub) under the Royal Arches. If you run into a german guy missing a finger who looks like this say hi for me

quote: Originally posted by slothrop: Hey Dru, how come the Russian guy at Climb On in Squamish hates your beloved Tri-cams? I went in there a while ago wanting to get one to play around with, but he went off on a tirade about how much they suck. He's not Russian he's Czech and he hates normal cams too, he only likes nuts.

I say if some dood has found a way to get yuppies to pay him thousands and thousands of dollars to babysit them in the beautiful mountain environment while they all drink and eat yummy food and then go and do a fun climb together, well Right On Buddy!! Score!!

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: quote:Originally posted by fern: if I could channel the spirit of someone into my climbing that person would be Walter Payton. Running Back for the Chicago Bears? yep, Sweetness.

if I could channel the spirit of someone into my climbing that person would be Walter Payton.

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: We share a common bond that all soon to be married bro's feel.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Squamish (in more or less ascending order): Diamonds and Spades aka Unnamed 4th class or 5.2 nothing to brag about but I was able to free-solo this climb after 5 years of intensive preparation and training

I like Jumars better because my hands are small, Petzls are too awkward.

well no-one's perfect

I'm sure that girl is very nice and a quality climber but why is she sitting in corner with such an unfortunate haircut? ... very amusing.

isn't that grizzled old guy on the portaledge Hans Florine or something? last year on the BD site you could fill out a questionnaire and they CLAIMED they would send you free stickers. I spent many precious moments deciding whether I felt oval carabiners are 5:Extremely Useful, 4: Moderately Useful, 3:Useful, 4:Not Useful, 5:Pointless and Irrelevant. Did I receive a sticker pack in return for my honest and well considered thoughts? ... No I did not.