G-spotter

If you get an Arcteryx logo tat and send them a photo it used to be they'd give you a free harness

Copp, Dash and Johnson Search Update 6/5/2009 1:59:24 PM This may or may not be accurate in two hours, but Nick Martino and Eric Decaria are in San Francisco trying to get visas for China. Assuming they can get visas today, they would fly out tonight or tomorrow and be on the ground in Chengdu by Sunday afternoon or evening and at basecamp by Monday evening, China time. There are 2 Chinese climbers who arrived at base camp last night and will head out to advanced base camp at first light. 2 more Chinese climbers are on route from Beijing and will be arriving at base camp shortly. Pete Takeda and Steve Su are on deck and planning to leave Boulder on Sunday. Jonny Copp, Micah Dash and Wade Johnson Search Update 6/5/2009 11:11:00 AM June 5, 2009, Boulder, CO—Three Boulder, Colorado climbers—Jonathan Copp (age 35), Micah Dash (age 30), and Wade Johnson (age 24)—are overdue, having missed their flight on June 3 from Chengdu, China. The three traveled to Mount Edgar (6818 meters/22,368 feet) on the Minya Konka massif, Western Sichuan Province, China. They embarked from base camp on May 20, 2009. There hasn’t been any contact with the climbers since. Copp and Dash are highly experienced alpinists and professional climbers who have many years experience tackling big unclimbed mountains around the world. They received the Mugs Stump Award grant for this expedition from the American Alpine Club in 2008 but had to delay the climb until now, due to political unrest in the region. Johnson (a photographer with Sender Films) was accompanying Dash and Copp to base camp and did not intend to attempt the climb to the summit. On June 4, 2009, a small party of experienced climbers, organized through the Sichuan Mountaineering Association, arrived in “base camp” and are preparing to continue up to the “advanced base camp” to gather information. Search efforts are being professionally coordinated by friends and colleagues in Boulder and more climbers from China and the US are being deployed to the area. Developing information will be shared as soon as it is available. “We’re taking all the necessary steps to gather information about the climbers’ whereabouts and haven’t identified any complications beyond their lateness. Although we’re concerned, in alpine climbing it’s not unusual to for climbers to be delayed or out of contact for this long. We are still hopeful,” says Robb Shurr, spokesperson for the search effort.

The F-bomb appears in the latest red Beckey guide!

Where is the Nodder?

You need a monocle tattooed on your other hand for that one really.

Wolfram Alpha

You can take some long slings and link pitches instead of doing 30m pitches. Or you can short-rope or simulclimb. No need to tie in on a half rope and it will be faster too.

You can get a key if you are connected. Riff raff will have to hoof it or come down Crossover, which really is better anyhow.

tape is aid and chicks dig scars.

It sounds like Saturday around midnight at the crag the Mounties were swarming is a good place to score some booty?

They live up there and eat the insects that get blown onto the snow and die.

Or you could block lead instead of swinging leads and then you don't have to do so much switchover at every belay...

Dude, Paul is dead.

The awesome saga of kainsacad and RikRik http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/75714/site_id/1#import

Ronny J Dio is a Mike Schank lookalike

And to think it all started with a Facebook status update.

For many years he was the “monetary architect” of the “Liberty dollar,” much beloved by antigovernment “Patriots.” Nowadays, after running afoul of federal authorities over his alternative currency scheme, Bernard von NotHaus has embarked on a more ethereal venture: the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu, where he is the “high priest.” Church members step into the “High Room” for one toke of marijuana, then retire to a meditation room “in serene bliss,” according to a church press release. Von NotHaus, 64, says he once was friends with psychedelic drug proponent Timothy Leary. But he’s best known on the radical right for creating “American Liberty currency” certificates in denominations of $1, $5 and $10, starting in 1998. The certificates were backed by stocks of silver and gold stored in Idaho, von NotHaus said. The currency has been popular with extreme-right tax protesters and members of the radical “sovereign citizens” movement, who maintain that the federal government has no right to tax or otherwise regulate them, as well as those who believe that the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is run by a private body for personal profit. In 2007, federal agents raided the company’s Evansville, Ind., headquarters, and seized two tons of copper coins featuring Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and 500 pounds of silver from a Liberty Dollars warehouse. The raids followed the U.S. Mint’s issuance of a public warning to consumers and businesses that using Liberty Dollars in lieu of U.S. currency was a crime. Although von NotHaus feared he might be arrested on allegations of violating federal laws prohibiting the private manufacturing of currency, he was not criminally charged. He has always insisted that Liberty Dollars are a voluntary barter currency, not “legal tender,” “current money” or “coin.” Von NotHaus said he has been smoking pot for 40 years. But it was only in the past 12 that he began smoking one puff of marijuana every Sunday morning and learned “to listen to the God within my own mind.” The idea of a church came to him “as a means for other people to experience their higher consciousness,” he wrote in a lengthy essay on the church’s website…

Wicked. That route doesn't get done much at all.

What size of cracks can you protect with that?

How come Roger Dean never did any hip hop album covers?

http://www.alpineascents.ca/?q=forum it's like someone with a random word generator is trying to build a mountaineering forum. is this some kind of spambot AI or what?