Gary_Yngve

Sounds like an MI or CVA? --------------------------------------------------- TROUTDALE -- A man who passed out while rock climbing at Lewis and Clark State Park Thursday died despite efforts to resuscitate him, authorities said. An ambulance and other vehicles stand near a climber who suffered a medical emergency at Lewis and Clark State Park. (Sky-8 photo) Paramedics performed CPR for about an hour and a half on the climber, whose name and age haven't yet been released, said Lt. Mike Shults, spokesman for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Three men had been climbing Broughton's Bluff Thursday morning. The climber who died was on top of the bluff and the other two men were climbing up towards him when he went limp in his harness and fell off the rock, restrained by safety lines. The two others in the climbing party lowered him to the ground, and another man called for help, Shults said. A search and rescue team received the call at about 11:30 a.m. It was unclear what kind of specific medical emergency the climber suffered. It could have been a heart-attack, Shults said. Also Online Sky-8 aerials of the accident scene Multnomah County detectives were interviewing witnesses at the scene, he said. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death. Lewis and Clark State Park borders the Sandy River along I-84, just east of Troutdale.

Total or as a %? See the 1890s and 1930s for reference. Neither.

So what's the enchainment?

Kong has some keylock oval lockers. BD has the positron keylock locker. Petzl has the Attache and the HMS that are both keylock, I believe.

Dan -: I got a speed ascent of Jen Garner! Here is my photographic evidence, taken in the dark. As you can see, pictures of all black, proof that I got a speed ascent of Jen Garner! All other speed ascents by everyone else are unverified and full of lies and misleading statements. For example, Chad's speed ascent is not valid because there was cached gear [she wasn't wearing underwear beneath her dress]. I keep on asking Chad for the details of his speed ascent, but for some reason, he won't tell me.

The route needs to avalanche before it is in again.

I can't believe there's no mention of bushwhacking...

That's because in your first year, you were busy with all the "Kaia topless at VW" posts on climbers@u.

I carry two pairs of latex gloves in my first-aid kit but not a CPR mask.

... two middle-aged ladies with definite Mountie potential. The belayer was using belay gloves in the gym. Not only that, she was belaying with a grigri.

Who's going where? Sounds like a bunch of folks are resort skiing. We're heading up to Heather/Skyline Ridge.

I guess I come from a different background than most people. My mom was a housewife (so I guess she's a retired housewife now? ), but she was nonetheless feminist. I can still remember how furious she was when the "Math is hard; let's go shopping" Barbie came out.

That's what always happens when people have gotten off easy for crimes and then the public gets pissed. All of a sudden, someone needs to be made an example of. I don't expect for her to serve any jailtime, and the downfall of her business and her public humilation are far more punitive than anything the courts could hand down.

Haha, and she [her business] lost millions of dollars when her own stocks plummeted as a result of the ImClone scandal. Serves the greedy bitch right. Too bad the Enron execs are getting off as easy as they are -- no doubt thanks to their friends in power right now -- if I were pres, I would have sent the Enron execs to the Gulag.

Also Mark Twight mentions in Extreme Alpinism that tieoffs suck. As for "don't fall on ice," that's my philosophy too, but you may as well have some screws in just in case to protect the belay, in case you get hit by rockfall/icefall while climbing, etc.

The first two screws I bought were 22cm, intended for glacial ice. Then I bought a 17cm. Then I picked up two more 17cms for cheap. Now I guess I should fork out the money for a 12cm.

I'm looking at all my screws and the shortest is 17 cm. I want a shorter one!!!

Sorry, but those are not the Mounties. The dude is too high up to be climbing safely without a rope in the context of a Mounties fieldtrip.

Thanks for the responses so far. Well, there's still some more stuff I need to work out before I can play over there. My advisor will be there as a visiting professor at the University of Oslo. I need to get hooked up with a place to stay. I likely won't have a car (as rentals seem pricy over there), so I'd either need to take trains or hook up with someone who has a car.

I'm getting hounded with phone calls, emails, and letters asking me to vote YES for if the UW TAs and RAs should get unionized [under the UAW]. What should I vote and why?

So what was your payrate? Minimum wage? Isn't the standard union cut only like 1-2%?

I may be up in Norway for a few weeks in late April or early May. Anyone have any suggestions for mountaineering objectives up there (or even where to find information [in English])?

Steel Grill is an awesome climb. It's a little spookier on lead because there may be one or two offwidth bulges where your last piece is five or six feet below. (Or at least when I did it I didn't have a rack of large cams, so my pro consisted of hexes slotted at the bottlenecks.)

I think R&D is a good climb for a newbie. Eric, have you done Saber? or Midway? Or another 5.4-5.6 route there? Sure, it may not have the classicness of Canary or something on Snow Creek Wall, but those routes aren't beginner stuff. btw - I thought we did R&D in two pitches? (after that it's 3rd-4th class slabs)

"How come that guy didn't take his ATC off when he started to climb?"