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You otter have a good birthday AlpinFox!

Ya but the 10 has less than that.

The Grivel Helix and the Petzl Laser are both 5 stars. Last winter I was grabbing them by preference over BD. They stayed sharper thru the season too.

The Brown Album was the height of their career.

that's just not true. in fact, it's almost complete bullshit. although, on warm days you get heat conducted into the ice by the screw and a surface water film/less thread contact with ice.

What proportion of all rappel tangles occur on non-windy days?

One would therefore expect boulderers to be the smartest climbers?

lighter ropes = less mass, higher proportional surface area. not quite sure if this leads to increased rope-on-rope friction or what exactly. on any diameter of rope, tangles can be avoided through proper management tricks.

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You can still get Blue Nun.

Ya, it's hard to think of a local peak with higher geothermal flux than the Baker summits.

The important temperature in this case is the one inside the mountain.

The report noted that about 20 percent of tourists to Colorado report acute mountain sickness, and complications arising from sports activities at high altitudes, such as the potentially fatal conditions of pulmonary and cerebral edema, are on the rise. SICK, bro-brah!

I would hazard it has something to do with snow+sunlight = melt melt+fractured bedrock = groundwater groundwater+cliff band = seepage

dude, that's the gospel according to Jack T. Chick

Bear Grylls is a fake.

To hell with winter sport climbing, just go bouldering. J Tree and Queen Creek.

Chocolate pudding powder, milk powder, water. Mix per directions. Add a shot of Baileys.

the threads keep it in. the picket mechanism does not, and in fact can lead to ice breakage and screw failure. that's why you should put it in perpendicular to slightly down. falling on ice is more likely to result in injury from crampon points catching ice on way down/getting stuck into leg/whatever or you hitting a mushroom/feature and breaking something, than screw failing. i've never fallen on one myself but i've caught two.

Dougald McDonald's blog (The Mountain World) has some good analysis but what it comes down to is that they did not have enough subscribers to make money and their sugar-daddy Marc Ewing got tired of covering losses out of pocket.

How did the stuff over left look - Central and Joffre? I heard a rumour Central was all melted out?

basic science fail?

BUMP BUMP (a girl thread should alweays have two bumps)

Whatever happened to the "Girls of cc.com" thread with all the hawt pics of minx and archenemy

Crush closed packet to break up clumps of noodules. Tear open one side of packet Extract flavour packet. Open and sprinkle over noodules. Voila! Ghetto fries.