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  1. http://www.optionsforsexualhealth.org/about-opt/affiliated-research-projects/chlamydia-screening-whistler
  2. G-spotter

    Sport vs Trad

    Yeah my legs are too big.
  3. the opposition base is pissed... so are a significant number of those that voted for B-HO. At least that's true today. 14 months left until midterm elections... exactly. The opposition base is pissed (they always are, whether in power or out), and once again the democrats are going to shoot themselves in the foot by squabbling endlessly amongst themselves and will then wonder how they blew it so quickly. Meanwhile the Republicans can't wait to take back power in 2010 and maybe 2012 too, so they can get back to doing absolutely nothing about health care except maintaining the profit margins of the insurance lobby. the base was pretty blase during the 2008 election I'm hoping for a viable third party to rise up like zombies?
  4. Is that where you caught chlamydia?
  5. You can buy a separate hard drive with like 250GB of storage for $100, why fuck around backing up online?
  6. That's so gay.
  7. G-spotter

    Sport vs Trad

    There is an enormously contemplative, nay, mystical feeling of peace created from the long process of meticulously gardening, preparing, working, rehearsing and finally redpointing a route that those who only climb onsight will never experience. Personally I prefer to climb onsight in the mountains because I'm too lazy to hike more than I have to, but for cragging FAs I much prefer the top-down approach when situations require it.
  8. That's just the same as Alpinist X though.
  9. Don't take the brown acid
  10. There is no overlap between the two, except, say, that the Selected Alpine describes a route on Mt Edith and the Scrambles Guide describes the climb's descent route on Mt Edith as an ascent route. But there is an overlap in that some of the easy "climbs" in the Selected Alpine, like the East Ridge of Mt Edith Cavell or the North Ridge on Mt Assiniboine, are mostly scrambling even if typically/historically done roped, and the "very difficult" scrambles in the Scrambles guide are pretty much of the same technical difficulty but on peaks that are usually/historically done unroped. The classic route on Mt Lorette is one that might be in both, I can't remember.
  11. Then there's that book she wrote that was all "I dated Dean, and then I dated Kennan, and now I married Dean and he's my soulmate for life" and almost as soon as it's published she divorces Dean. The next edition is gonna have some interesting revisions.
  12. G-spotter

    Sport vs Trad

    Sunny with 95% chance of gapers
  13. G-spotter

    Sport vs Trad

    if you threw in some "cock gargling fetus felcher" in there you might sound like polish bob
  14. Buckaroo, Even the JBs are sliplasted. http://www.acopausa.com/product.jsp?navigation=3&content=12 Nobody makes board lasted shoes anymore. []
  15. G-spotter

    Sport vs Trad

    So Pope, if somebody puts up a rappel bolted one pitch slab climb, with 2 bolts in 50 meters, are they deliberately increasing the danger or just mimicing the trad experience for those who repeat the route later?
  16. It's the only one in print anyways. As well, Alan Kane's "Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies" contains a "very difficult" category of scrambles that are moderately easy climbs for some
  17. maybe I just misread it this morning.
  18. The east face has kicked back a couple strong parties and is still waiting for a first ascent... north face too I guess although it's not as good a line unless you like flakes in your moss
  19. And it was rigged up and filmed on with an ascent of at least the top couple of pitches for K2 the movie...
  20. So when he says the face has never been freed and never been done in a single push he means just that route, because there's the Brazeau/Walsh which was done entirely free a couple years ago in the same time car to car? http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/brazeauwalsh/ Or then there was this one http://www.thecleanestline.com/2008/04/photos-from-the.html#more
  21. Acopa JB's
  22. This is probably a really dumb question but I don't do a lot of route seiging/redpointing/headpointing/whatever and I'd appreciate suggestions from those who do (ie. working a project into submission and finally leading it cleanly after many tries) Let's say you have a project that is pretty tough for you that you have been working for a while. There are several separate cruxes with individually hard moves. After a whole lot of work you can do every move and you can link all the moves together on TR with no falls most of the time. Success is close. You switch out of projecting mode (getting on the climb just to work the moves and linkage) and into sending mode (trying to redpoint). Now say you set off on a redpoint try and fall off part way up. Here's the question: is it more efficient to use this opportunity to work the moves some more and head on from the point you fell (or last bolt/piece of pro you are hanging on below that) to the top? Or once you are in redpoint mode and you've just blown on a redpoint attempt, should you lower off, pull the rope and immediately (or after a rest) give it another redpoint try from the ground? Like I said, dumb question. My inclination is that since I'm trying to redpoint, and I already have the route pretty dialled, the ultimate redpoint will come faster if I lower off when I fall and then try it again quickly. But maybe there are those who find the opposite approach more effective?
  23. G-spotter

    Sport vs Trad

    And you've been taking camera tilt lessons from Mike Layton.
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