G-spotter

your body is a temple to gluttony

Shitty tat-and-tinfoil-hanger anchors atop well-protected climbs are nothing but faux danger

Did Abbie Hoffmann ever do time for shoplifting?

Temperature inversion up high makes for good freezes overnight and consolidated snow in the mornings getting softer in the afternoon.

cracks are lines of weakness in the rock climbing cracks increases their widening leading to massive rock failure along climbed cracks... case in point, mickey's beach crack now mickey's beach arete trad is harder on rock than sport is.

You might want to read this one. Childhood self-control is a good predictor of adult happiness, adult IQ AND adult success. And it can be taught. http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2013/5/lifelong-impact-of-early-self-control

Never mind copters, they will have dog robots that run up to you with that stuff.

It's definitely a fun day out. I hear tell under winter conditions it's actually more of a climb and less of a scramble.

But if you use Dynafits, unicorn sightings are practically guaranteed. sickie

I learned to ski the way you want to learn to ski. I got some loaned garbage can skis with Silvrettas in them and skiied in my mountaineering boots. After a couple years I got better skis, better bindings and real ski boots. Fact is, I still can't ski worth shit. I ski green runs on the hill, sometimes blues if I'm feeling really daring. I get more skiing in in one day of lift skiing than I do in a season of winter climbing. I ski for pleasure less than 5 weekends a season. I am climbing ice or winter mountaineering or heading south to dry rock the rest of the season. But you know what? I can ski just well enough to be able to use my skis to get to and from winter climbs. And I can ski well enough to do easy tours like the Garibaldi Neve. While I am a shitty skier and will probably remain a shitty skier the rest of my life, I ski enough to scrape by at the type of skiing I learned how to ski to do - easy tours and approaches to/descents from climbs in winter and spring. I like skiing on lift-serviced hills but i hate all the other skiiers being there. So even though lift skiing is a lot better I slog out on easy backcountry terrain instead by preference. I may be holding back my development as a skier but on the other hand I enjoy skiing the areas that I do go to. I didn't throw my snowshoes away either. There are plenty of ice climbs where snowshoes are a more viable approach.

Trip: Sumallo Cirque - Zero Gully to Mt Payne Date: 10/14/2013 Trip Report: Graham Rowbotham and I got in some tool swinging and early season winter conditions climbing on Mt Payne yesterday. Zero Gully is the most reliably filled-in early season line in the Sumallo Cirque and a nice objective whenever conditions permit. We had both climbed Zero before separately but neither of us had summitted Payne so that was the objective this time. Gates are all open. We drove to where the old bridge was removed and hiked the old road that now sees regular use as a quad trail to the back of the cirque. Zero Gully was in harder condition than I have previously climbed it in with a mix of deep well-bonded powdery snow, last year's frozen mud, and fresh water ice. There were several body-length or two crux sections with steep climbing. It took us about two and a bit hours up to the notch. From here we traversed to Payne and climbed snow in a vague gully on the east ridge to reach the summit pinnacles. There are three false summits before the highest one. Conditions were great, clear above visibility unlimited. We descended the SE ridge until and obvious downclimb took us back to the Payne-Rideout's Pup cirque and back to the notch at the top of Zero. Downclimbing Zero was a good exercise in mindfullness and my toe is still sore from where I enthusiastically kicked steps in a rock while reversing the moves down one of the bulges. About two hours back down. The lowest third of the gully had firm and deep enough snow to face out and plungestep down, which certainly helped. Total time car to car was 9.5 hours. Conditions are very good in Sumallo right now and should be all week. Lots of ice forming but only Zero and the North Couloir on Rideout (Minus Five) looked continuous enough yet for guaranteed ascents. Most of the other routes had some sections of either verglas, or bare chockstones, that might foil attempts. Gear Notes: Two tools and two crampons. Approach Notes: Sumallo River FSR is 2wd for most of the way and the last 2 km or so to the pulled bridge is 4wd hc. Then it's an hour's walk up the quad track to the back of the cirque and another 30 minutes traversing to the base of Zero Gully.

spray cause retardation, just look at y'alls

How bout that Ueli guy on Annapurna huh? A woman's place is on top and all that. Ueli shows that the mountain likes guys who finish quickly too.

omg stfu n00bs

maybe his preference for men waxed and wayned

Is that what you did in prison?

ueli wears them

GEORGE TAKEI IS DEAD??? OMG

renton granite is a inside joke here Hater, it's real!

IS THIS STAND UP PADDLEBOARD SESH GLUTEN FREE?

The Renton granite crag is a little bit of a drive for you but worth checking out.

where will i go for my panda porn fix now? 8D

Objectively, it would be 400% better with 400% more condors

Having three i's on the back of your name is like having three exclamation points in your name, only upside down.