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He means "The Eiger Sanction" by Trevanian. "Shibumi" is way better.

Striations are microscale. Microscale features are all that frozen rocks can do. Even there it is moving till, not moving ice, that makes the microfeatures... and the till is saturated. Dry till won't abrade worth shit. See at the bottom of a continental glacier the pressure is enough to plasticize both the rocks in the ice and the rock the ice is resting on. Can you wear through a brick of butter by rubbing it with margarine? Hell no. But run some water across it and it will melt. Same deal. How come you don't see any plucking or quarrying, say, in the Bypass Glacier cirque on Slesse? Cause there is not enough water. The ice is just a reservoir for the erosive water.

That one-zipoff-leg-half-unzipped look must fuckin' reel in the Mountie babes So debonair and yet so manly.

Quarrying is a minor component except in down-ice obstacle lees - compare south face of Smoke Bluffs to north face. Abrasion is silty glacial water, not rocks frozen in ice. Rock frozen in ice idea is 50's science. It can't be observed, modelled or duplicated or proven. In short it is bunk!

"dude, I'm at the belay." "what's wrong?" "The tip fell off my last screw and I'm belaying you from a snow bollard and my third tool"

There is no McKinley. That's a common tourist mistake. There is only Denali.

Your reading comprehension suggests you failed highschool English. If there was just ice there with no liquid water the erosion rate would be pretty much zilch dumbass. I mean to say it's the water.

sell it to a local and it will be the largest and most popular artificial climbing gym in East Africa

streams don't stay in one place under a glacier but move around from side to side because of the pressure

Despite what Gary says, don't use WD-40 on your cams. It attracts dirt and removes oil which lubricates them. Then you have to use more Wd40, which attracts more dirt. Eventually your cam seizes up completely. Instead, the best thing you can use is "White Lightning" bike chain lubricant. If you can't get any, Metolius Cam Lube is the same product in a different bottle at a higher price

I wish the government would subsidize my liability insurance

That would be more true if it was limestone he was pissin' on.

How many people would live in Florida if they couldn't get state-subsidized hurricane insurance? Does it make sense for the government to take tax money from "grannies in trailer parks" so that people can own million dollar homes on the beach?

Imagine a whole stadium floored with artificial pubes.

I don't bob for Poles, even crazy ones.

i went nordic walking

save gas, fart in a jar

Why did the Oregonian call his dog Herpes? Because he wouldn't heel.

When your mother passed the afterbirth, the doctor said "Oh my god there's two of them!"

Actually there was a lot of windfall in the early 2000's... I was climbing over and under logs all day getting up there.

It's been done already.

I'm a geomorphologist. Snow Creek Wall is a landform. Stick to mines and underground rocks where your specialty lies, dickwad Trolls like you wither in the light of day.

That theory has been discredited since the 1950s. Wake the fuck up and read the science before you spout off numbnuts It's the sediment-filled subglacial water that does all the erosion!!!!