G-spotter

Slaughter a chicken and read the entrails.

In America that would be a "D Cup Game"

Davis Love?

"Goes down smooth, like pussy on a Triscuit"

I threw my Reverso away because it was sharp enough to shave with. Now I have a BD ATC Guide. Meanwhile CBS is still coming up with theoretical but unplausible solutions to other peoples accidents.

There are some ugly climbing girls, but climbing boys are notoriously blind.

It sure as hell wasn't the rope or belay system that failed. The same accident could have happened on a single pitch sport climb like the guy who died at Vantage last year. So there is no sport/trad thing here.

and maybe a prussik will and maybe it won't...why not just not rap off the end of your rope?? It's horses for courses Rudy!!!!! A racehorse isn't any good at plowing a field.

that one would be the steepest route at squamish of the grade even if it is a Gunks slab so back on the topic of climbing girls calendar... i have heard there is a site that displays pics of topless women if you donate $50 to breast cancer research. Maybe CC.com can get something like that going for Kurt.

Leg wrap sure as hell isnt gonna stop you from rapping off the rope. Mostly I use a prussik when scrubbing to clean a route. But I have started using it in the mountains and ice climbing because of the "rockfall - unconscious" scenario.

this is that rare one where the tilt make it look like a slab instead of looking steep. check out the tilted horizon in the baackground

What is inappropriate for novices may be better for experienced persons. And vice versa. I never INTENTIONALLY fall while sport climbing either. This is climbing, if you want to go falling take up falling. But I fall a lot both sport and trad!

Supposedly if you get scared and hang on tight with your hand above the prusik then it doesn't catch you - also if you make it too long you can accidentally rap down below your prussik and be unable to reach it and get stranded.

You'd lower off a bolted anchor at the top of a sport route without question - but would you be as likely to lower off some slung blocks and tree roots on top of an alpine trad route?

cutesy bear pic some hikers we met took on the trail. Mom was about 6 feet away looking pissed so they cooled it till she took the cubs and headed south For some reason this pic makes me think of a shot in Alpinist of Dean Potter and Timmy ONeill

Carter? No way? He was the best player this year. without him the Sedins will go back to sucking.

He was surplus ever since Luongo.

5 pitches (30-40m pitches, none are full length, even so we were running out of gear) total plus some scrambling (about a pitch) at the top. It would have added about another 2-3 pitches of mid-5th class to coninue up the upper arete directly to the false summit, but we finished at the notch behind the top of the pillar proper. takes about 3 hours from the trailhead (4wd trailhead 2 km past Slesse parking) to bivi sites. takes about an hour or so from the bivi site to the base of the route. despite what it said in the earlier TR I don't think going straight up to the base from the FSR via the drainage below the pillar is all that smart. lotsa bush down there. bears too. maybe in da winter if conditions stabilized this would be the best way to go though.

I like to put the prussik above my device. Even if you feel the ends slip through your brake hand , a prussik above will still hold you. It's also a better setup if you have to pass a knot or somethin' and lets you make those big stretches down from a hanging end -of -rap to clip the next anchor below you if you're really screwed! And finally for those rap off the rope end and start downclimbing situations, it helps you to keep control of the ends so they don't bounce back up out of reach - like what it sounds might have happened to this mine shaft guy.