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I don't know WA specifics but I know around Lillooet I would want to climb stuff like Isodorth and Belmore; and things like the Urs Hole on Cascade in Banff, before there was any snow in the huge terrain traps above. Also before half the climb gets buried under avvy debris. Of course this has been a very snowy November and buried a lot of the usual suspects already, but the idea still has merit. Plenty of things out there are only really doable early season and turn into death traps a bit later especially if the snowpack has PWLs and/or sunny aspects

There are plenty of routes than are only any good in early season, before the snow falls...

+1 for Therabands, tons of reps and a proper routine from a PT.

yesterday was gray and wet JUST LIKE YOUR MOM

that webbing is wayyyyyyyy too thick. i have 1/2" inch tieoff loop webbing on mine

I seem to recall that the FA party on the south face of Siula Grande aided a 20m? pitch on an overhanging cornice off two leapfrogged pickets. Ya got a link? I'd love to read about that. my mistake - right climber, wrong mountain. it was Santa Cruz in Peru. see 2002 CAJ p 146

they can always eat polish babies if they do

It's cause the Irish have good booze.

I wish I could eat BBQ'd dog. Unfortunately eating strays who were going to be put down is bad for the planet. Raise a chicken in a cage 6 inches on a side for 26 weeks, with its beak cut off, bathing in its own feces, in a closed barn with 50,000 other chickens, then slaughter it and eat it, NOT CRUEL. Raise a rooster for two years to be a fighting bird, treat him like a god, until he slips the spurs on and goes up against another rooster so raised, CRUEL. Go figure.

I seem to recall that the FA party on the south face of Siula Grande aided a 20m? pitch on an overhanging cornice off two leapfrogged pickets.

Soylent gray is SQUIRRELS!

Someone in Montreal accepted a bribe? WOW! Never heard of that ever before!

I used to have the same pyjamas as that dude in the back.

Next thing you know they'll arrest the Cypress Hill guys.

Henry David, though professing vegetarianism, devoured raw woodchuck. Which is functionally equivalent to Squirrel.

I've worn these things down to -25C no problem. Ben Firth wearing a pair of the Atlas gloves (not as good as the Ninjas but all that was available in this style in 2003) during FWA of Temple N face. Of course he used to wear Carhartts for winter climbing too... People aren't wearing these because they are cheap, as you suggest, but because of the superior performance. On Flickr and on UKclimbing.com I have seen anecdotes of Cham and Swiss guides ordering Ninja gloves by the box for winter climbing... I have destroyed a couple pair of the softshell gloves over the years. I got the Ninjas to use as an approach glove and then switch into my current pair of BD Pilots for the climbing but I found after a while that the Ninjas climbed better and were warmer than the Pilots so I stopped climbing in the Pilots.

This just tells me you haven't used the Ninjas because they, unlike other gardening-style gloves, are super warm and made of a hydrophobic fabric so even if you get them wet they don't feel all that damp against your hand. I must have tried about 5 different styles of other brands before I found these and saying you've used an "almost identical" glove just indicates you can't notice the differences that make these ones the real deal. So if the exact same glove cost $100 instead of $6, suddenly you'd think it was worth wearing, right?

you can fish for both http://tinypic.com/5a5ky0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11834184

yes

in a old burlap coffee* bag *now waiting for JayB to chide me as hypocritical for drinking nonlocal coffee

That's pretty big talk for three pictures of toproping

I stick them in the unheated mudroom. Works great for the coldest 6 months of the year.The other 6 months of he year I eat fresh stuff from my garden. Haven't had to buy soil yet, except some special sandy stuff for my window cactus