Gary_Yngve

No. I read about it on the web so it must be true. And I'll take my tool over your thimble anyday.

RuMR could fix the problem by becoming a tranny.

In the old days, Mr. T would show up with an economy-size can of whoopass.

That is awesome!

not Mounties?

Oil of Okenlay

Maybe he stole all of Saddam's WMDs.

Yeah, I dig the purple suit and matching antibotts!

I can cruise the right crack comfortably now, but I think there's enough monkeying going on with shallow jams that it's at least an Index 10a. Have you done the left crack yourself? I always peel off a few feet below the final handjams when liebacking above the roof. What do you think the wide stemming alcove is for someone 5'9"? I'd say 5.10-. One of my projects is figuring out how to do the featured corner (not the one with the easy handcrack) with as few holds as possible. I think there are 2 or 3 places that I haven't figured out.

You can only count FAs on boulders if they have a prominence of at least 10 feet.

The 65 stops at 125th and 35th.

I thought it was a good show. Crowd was a bit on the quieter side, though I was near the front whereas the peanut gallery was in the back. I had a nalgene that made the show extra enjoyable. Was thinking about joining the postfunk, but I was feeling tired and bumped into a perfectly synched bus to take me home.

I think Erden counts! http://www.around-n-over.org/lastLocation.htm

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That was a great show!

If you had taken the Navigation class, would you have descended the wrong way off of Big Four?

I can climb 5.9+ in the gym. Do you think I can climb SE Mox?

Sorry, you must travel as a minimum of 3 and have the climb approved by the committee.

If I'm camping out at a well-used site on a glacier route, I'm boiling my water or using some other form of purification. Usually I avoid that by trying to find campsites/routes that offer more solitude. I don't trust hordes of gapers to follow the pee downhill, get snow uphill rule. I'm sure the rangers on Denali have stats for how many people complain of the runs, and I'm sure it's a nontrivial amount. There's no way of finding the stats, but I'd be curious how many got it from bad snow and how many people got it from poor hygiene.

No need to buy a water filter. One of the following is almost always true: You can carry all the water you need. You can use the chlorine stuff (lighter and cheaper and no aftertaste). The alpine water is pristine enough. You're in a large group and can mooch off of someone else's filter.

There's a classic quote from the Beckey excerpt of Tim Egan's The Good Rain. "As teenagers they (the Beckey bros) joined the Mountaineers, a formal climbing group whose members are given to long and somber discussions about their long and somber mass expeditions to the high points of the Cascades." This quote came true to me when I was sitting in a talk there from some folks who climbed some peak in Tibet. There was a couple hundred feet of alpine ice face to the top, and the audience was insistent in finding out exactly how many pitches and what angle it was. I found the repeated questioning of that minutia nauseating. So what questions should Layton be prepared to answer? Here are some possibilities, and I encourage more to be submitted: How many pitches did you climb? How long was your rope? Isn't it dangerous climbing as a party of two? We always climb as a party of 8 to 12. How many rappel rings did you need on the descent? Do you use belay gloves? How did you take those pictures and still belay?

ABC Huevos are cheaper than BDs and pretty much equivalent. How often do you want to climb? How hard do you expect to be climbing this season? That will also dictate how much / how pricy of a rack to get.

This thread is a riot! Keep up the good work! My opinion on rack stuff: Don't buy until you have a chance to try. Ask around with the folks who took the crag course last year. There's always someone who was super-psyched to be climbing, bought an aid rack's worth of gear, and then remembered that their ass was too fat. I'm sure they'd happily trade shiny Camalots for donuts.

I got hooked up with a copy two days ago, though I've been too busy to have time to look at it yet.

The other day, my dad was cleaning out his backpack and found a four-inch stainless-steel decking nail. He thought hard and remembered over a year ago when he picked it up off the ground so no one would step on it or ride over it. Then he remembered how he had taken that same backpack carry-on through several airports, including overseas.