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A group of us were climbing in Banff this past week. Actually, I was driving up the Icefield Parkway past Mount Wilson Friday morning as the helicopter was flying to the site. In the Calgary paper, an avalanche expert said that one of the contributing causes was a temperature inversion on Thursday. The temps at the base were 15 F while higher up on the mountain they approached 32 F. Both Wednesday and Thursday were sunny in the area. Terrible accident.

The condom came off before I did.

Ya should have stopped after the first sentence.

There should be a bouldering section as well.

Maybe.

Aren't there, like, twelve thousand of these in Washington?

Short for NeGroid... Negro...

On two occasions, the title of this thread has changed to "Touching the Groid." Is this a racist remark directed at the African Mr. Mudede?

The first rule of rescue is not to add oneself to the body count. Dying with your buddy is the romantic response, saving oneself may the pragmatic one.

This is key to me. What was the purpose of that paragraph in the review?

Cutting the rope saved Simpson's life.

This is wrong on so many levels ... .

charles@thestranger.com

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I made a solo attempt on Jan 1. Didn't get past treeline due to knee deep powder and blowing conditions. Even the skiers turned around. (Acutally was only heading to Muir, but ... .)

Spoiler: They all lived.

Hey Mod, I thought the Newbies forum was a no flaming zone.

One of the guys at Feathered Friends used an Epic tent on a trip this summer. I don't think it rained on him, though.

gosh

Like Catdipshit said, get a 9.4 or similar for alpine. But, an extra 10-m is an extra 10-m in the mountains. Think about it. Overall, potential for fewer belays, slightly longer rappels, generally more flexibility. When you don't have it, you'll want it. Go 60. Like the wHoar said, get a 9.4 or similar for alpine. But, an extra 10-m is an extra 10-m in the mountains. Think about it. Overall, potential for fewer belays, slightly longer rappels, generally more flexibility. When you don't have it, you'll want it. Go 70.

I'd say he brought ethnicity into it: "As an African who comes from one of the poorest countries in the world, a place where a majority of the population lives perpetually in harm's way, you can easily imagine what went through my mind when I heard an evidently well-to-do Englishman say these words with that air of pomposity (if not boredom) that's always the mark of a public school education. But it would be too easy to criticize this film on such terms; it would place me on too high a moral ground. Being something of a gentleman, I would much prefer to take this drama-documentary to task on a more leveled plane, and confront it only as a work of cinema." Although Mr. Mudede may know others that may occupy the moral high ground in Africa, he currently cannot, as he is now lives in a reasonably multi-cultural city prospering as a "film critic," where his biggest dangers are paper cuts and being bored at the cinema. Sorry Charlie.

"Touching the Void is boring," says Charles.

Joe talks about getting burned out on adrenaline sports (and his friends dying) but just can't quit.

I bought a pair of these Pamir Bibs and they .

There are tons of titanium ice screws out there and Ushba makes a titanium ice axe. Try a new rumor.