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  1. 5 parts gin to 1 part rohypnol?
  2. Gin and Juice
  3. omg pics?
  4. Work safe LINK
  5. G-spotter

    Do it...

    spray will never end
  6. G-spotter

    Do it...

    spam with -1 replies? how do they do that??
  7. and the Trogdor comes in the NiIiIiIiIiight
  8. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Seems like the Germans and Austrians manage to put up multipitch 14's on lead ground up. I guess that means the Prussik crew failed.
  9. Spintronics is still only a theoretical technology.
  10. They are working on the road. No idea about the snow but it looked like it got slushiez up high yesterday, although it's melted today.
  11. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
  12. Is that Ronnie Dio?
  13. you can daytrip it from Elfin Lakes. Dalton Dome would only make sense if coming from Brohm Ridge as it is the other side of the mountain from Elfin.
  14. it might have been some guy named specialed
  15. G-spotter

    CATS

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  16. damn in Squamish bouldering is more like group sex than a solo sport
  17. the double sliding x is basically the equalette with no knots
  18. GOD SPEAKS TO PARIS IN PRISON!! Paris' playhouse to resemble Pee-wee's?
  19. This is grade 10 physics in Canada. Cool - yes. Radical - not really.
  20. ... and your video crew.
  21. Take a look in ANAM at the Tahquitz double fatality where a cordelette caused sequential failure of a three point anchor because it did not equalize the three pieces. Sliding X's or an equalette would not have failed, as simulated replications of the accident using the same gear that failed in the same placements and test weights showed It seems this was an error in setting up (equalizing) the anchor, not a problem with cordelette. The reason I do not use the Sliding X is because if one anchor point fails, the resulting extension will likely cause the others to fail...as in this case of a poorly equalized anchor. And, of course, the reason we use multiple anchor points is b/c we do not assume any single point will hold a fall. Am I mistaken? Should I be reconsidering using the sliding x over an equalized and tied cordellette? In what situations? Just read the Supertopo post for details if you are interested, but in essence, even if a cordelette LOOKS equalized, it transmits the majority of the force to the shortest arm, resulting in asymmetric loading of the pieces. Also, it is non-directional - if you move even a little bit, it unloads one arm and maxi-loads another. In contrast, it turns out that when tested in actual failures, even if one arm of the Sliding X unclips, the friction of the X sliding, together with stretch from the nylon, results in no shockload on the anchor.
  22. It was on SuperTaco, it was in Rock and Ice, it was in Climbing, it was in ANAM. You can look it up. That's where I read about it.
  23. Vinyl is not an old enough format for me. I only listen to stone tablets.
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