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  1. Is it located down a gully by the school?
  2. I thought the only things you could have full quivers of were skis and windshirts
  3. Let's see them try this regulation out on the sumo.
  4. G-spotter

    A Riddle

    Whale bacon. duh.
  5. G-spotter

    A Riddle

    Hell, just rub them with bacon.
  6. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080613.BCPOWELL13/TPStory/National
  7. Oh wait, the religious conservatives aren't gonna like that. a Darwinian argument in favor of homosexuality?
  8. If sickle cell anemia is conserved in the gene pool because of the survival benefit it confers against malaria; Is it also possible that homosexuality is conserved in the gene pool because it confers a group survival benefit? For instance: A lesbian aunt with no children of her own may care for her sister's children - making them more likely to survive to bear children themelves. In ant colonies, for instance, none of the workers or soldiers breed, but the ant gene pool is successful.
  9. G-spotter

    A Riddle

    taint
  10. "Let's get out of here before we have to rescue someone."
  11. Was the geologist named McJizzy?
  12. If the trigger swages had not broken the cam would have held.
  13. Why hasn't sickle cell anemia been bred out of the gene pool?
  14. G-spotter

    A Riddle

    Yang is quelled by yin. Together they form qi.
  15. "I remember the Oil Price Bubble of 2008"
  16. Save Gas. Fart in a jar.
  17. You must have missed posts like this one from May 16:
  18. Why did the friend break? Was it placed horizontaly? The route is predominantly finger sized and Andy only had about 2 pieces that fit the crack, so after placing everything that fit I started placing things that did not. I had the friend in a pod with two cams tight and two cams mostly open. When it was weighted, the swages on the trigger wires of the tight set of cams broke (they were about 15 years old and heavily used at that point methinks) and the cam then rotated out of the crack and came sliding down the rope with me till the next piece - which I think was a #7 Rock or something - held me.
  19. The first fall I still remember was a 20 footer off of a wet section of Eagle's Domain onto Cairns' old rigid #2.5 Friend, which promptly broke and tuned a 20' into 50'. I'm pretty sure that I had taken some small falls and hangs on gear before that though.
  20. Many older trad routes in the 90s near Kelowna were retrobolted by the prototypical "punk kids with a drill", who learned to climb in a gym and ventured outside with Dad's hilti to make "first ascents". The guidebook provides an amusing commentary.
  21. Jesse's point is that he had to add one or more bolts to that very same route - that despite being a 14c climber on gear, and 12 soloist, he couldn't mentally deal with the poorly protected nature of Steinbok without retrobolting. Thus bringing the climb down to his level. The insinuation is that he should go back to Steinbok, remove the bolts, and climb it in the same style as the first ascent.
  22. Once or twice over the years I have heard some climbers advocate that leaders new to trad climbing should take some "practice falls" onto gear in order to learn to trust it. Here is a case where the gear was not trustworthy and a fatal head injury resulted.
  23. Can you deep fry guacamole?
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