G-spotter

Pat, Dan and myself are heading to Squamish in Dan's mom's car. At Horseshoe Bay, Dan stops to pick up hitchhiker girl. She's going to Whistler. By the time we get to the Smoke Bluffs Dan has decided that driving hitchergirl to Whistler must take precedence over climbing with his bros. Pat and I are climbing at Ronin's Corner three or four hours later when, over the noise of Pat's ghetto blaster playing Ministry at high volume, we hear "DRUUUUUUUUU! PAAAAAAAAAAAT!" yelled from somewhere near Penny Lane. Pat fires off a bottle rocket or two. Soon Dan wanders into view. Loudly he informs us (and the three other parties on the cliff) "I COULD HAVE GOTTEN LAID BUT I CAME BACK TO SQUAMISH TO CLIMB WITH YOU GUYS!" This was on a Saturday. That evening, while smoking a fatty in pat's basement, Pat and Dan decide that they need to go sport climbing, so they hop in Dan's mom's car again and leave for Smith Rocks. Drive 8 hours,getting there Sunday morning around 2 AM. Motel, breakfast, off to the crag. Climb two routes (Toys in The Attic and Ring of Fire? something at Christian brothers anyway) then drive 8 hours back to Vancouver. On the bus on Monday I call bullshit on Pat until he shows me the gas and motel receipts.

It's true. You suck, wanker.

If no one reads how do Barnes & Noble stay in business? selling calendars with pictures of cats?

The first stuff they outsourced outside Canada was daypacks to Korea in 2000. Well before being bought by Salomon. REI came to Arcteryx and said "If you make a line of nontechnical daypacks we will drop the TNF crappy daypacks and sell yours instead." Who wouldn't say yes to an offer like that? But they didn't have enough capacity at the Vancouver factory to build that many packs, so they looked for a factory that could build them to that standard and found one in S Korea. So they've been outsourcing for 8 years. Where exactly is the breaking news in this story?

Spray Creek Falls is a perfect place to teach beginners, is in if Honeyman's in, is safer and has SPRAY right in its name. How can you go wrong?

It works like KK said G-Spotter - they are restructuring to ring more money out of the company http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/company-news/amer-sports/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=48058 Dude... 400 positions lost is not closing the Vancouver factory. it's middle management Euroville jobs. Ski boot managers from Salomon. Arcteryx is growing and hiring.

It works like this: You make 20,000 jackets a year and you have hired pretty much every available sewer in the area. You want to sell 40,000 jackets next year. You can't double your production locally because you already employ everyone you can in the area. You start looking around for more production facilities. There are a dozen factories in the world that can make garments of the quality you want. For argument's sake one is in Poland, one is in the southern USA, one is in India and nine are in China. The Chinese factories can make the same piece for half the cost to you of the other factories. Which factory would you choose to make jackets to grow your business?

I have walked out from the climb to the bridge along the riverbank and it is not bad so all the "oh no the log is gone" whining is pretty funny. Just do it.

Every sewer in the Arcteryx factory in Canada is from somewhere in Asia or Asia Minor in the recent past. North American-borns who sew are rare creatures and mostly don't want to work in a factory all day.

Hmm? That's not what Bruce told me when I sent him photo showing our route after Fred and I climbed it. I probably still have his email somewhere.

Weather Channel long range forecast - dartboard = zero.

fear of flying squirrels....

lillooet is looking pretty good for north facing and higher stuff thru friday with highs 0 to +5 and lows around -5/-6. lower elevation/high volume/south facng stuff will probably be wet but with short days this temperature range can build good ice in the shaded aspects...

Cotton is a soft shell

Aww, did you hurt your head thinking that hard?

Tofu Chili Dog with Bacon

Ski descent?

I have a photo of the ice gully that foms up in Cheamclimber's right-hand line but I bet it's a death trap right now like almost all of the alpine. I can't see it being a good summer route.

I've embroidered my exploits frequently.

Hey OW you got quoted in the New Zealand Herald! http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10486338

Was it a fixie?

"The hardest thing about climbing Everest? Getting two inches of dick through eight inches of down." - Sir Ed.

Mark McKillop is definitely "of the beast". Probably a sheep.

maybe this was the same man who mistook his wife for a handbag

Yeah, like you've had that going on for the last 10 years.