Alpinfox

How many gecko's feet would I have to skin to make a pair of gloves? ___________________________ MMMmmm..... VanDerWaals Forces....

yup

You're still a student right? Which means you have health insurance... go see a doctor before you head off to see Atilla. Be sure to post a TR with lots of pictures from your trip to the Doc.

Just to be absolutely clear (and in case any hot single climber chicks check me out on cc.com) this: ...is not me. I just found that page doing a google search for "alpinefox". My flock-of-seagulls cut is WAY better than that.

February 2004 from Hwy2:

Yikes! That's expensive. Take some regular webbing with you for leaver stuff. I would be pretty nervous about a waterknot in any dyneema/spectra sling due to it's slipperiness & thinness. Maybe a fisherman's would be better? I dunno. RE: Q#1, If you trust the jammed knot not to slip through your anchor, it seems like it would be OK. However, having the 6mm through your device insures that it will stay close to you (i.e., you will be able to reach it), when you get to the end of the rappel. The only reason I can think of to not have the 6mm line through your device is to avoid tangling. Re#2, I believe it is standard practice to use two oval or D biners as the "perpendicular" biners. The gates of those two biners should be opposite, but NOT opposed. If they were opposed, the rope would push open one of the gates. I've never tried using three biners, so can't comment on that.

Anytime? We better install a "horseclock":

"Suggestioned" is a cool word, but I think the word you were really looking for was "recommendinated".

A good guess, but no. I bought a bunch of books from a dude on Ebay, kept the books I wanted and I'm selling off the ones I'll never use. I would like to visit Mt. Lemmon someday, but I think it will be a while.

SOLD! That'll cost ya 2 larvae Mr. Bug.

<SOLD!> Red Rocks Bouldering, Robert Jenson, 2002, $10 Rock Climbing Arizona (Falcon Guide), Stewart Green, 1999, $18 A Cheap Way To Fly (Guide to N. Arizona), Tim Toula, 3rd Edition, 1991, RARE!, $8 <buyer fell through, still available> Cheap Way To Fly (Guide to N. Arizona), Tim Toula, 4th Edition, 2001, RARE!, $10 Squeezing The Lemmon, Eric Fazio-Rhicard, 1991, 1st Edition, RARE!, $10 <SOLD!> Squeezing The Lemmon II, Eric Fazio-Rhicard, 2000, $20 Phoenix Rock II, Greg Opland, 1996, $15 Queen Creek Canyon, Hynes & Karabin, 1991, RARE?, $10 <SOLD!> Queen Creek Canyon, Marty Karabin, 1996, $15 2005 Colorado Fourteeners Calendar, Colorado Mountain Club, $5 <SOLD!> Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall (Falcon Guide), Ramsay Thomas, 1995, $5 <SOLD!> Home Climbing Gyms, Randy Leavitt, 1998, $5 Shipping will be $3 for the first book, $1 for each additional via Media Mail. Or pick up in person in Seattle for no charge. Contact me at Alpinfox AT yahoo DOT com or send me a PM. Cheers and happy climbing!

Well?

WOOOHOOOOO!!! #9!!!

HAHAHAHA

NW corner of NEWS!!! Hey Lance, you should come to "Sea At El" this spring/summer.

I'm pretty sure it touched down last year as well, but I was just looking at it from the Hwy. I dunno if anyone has ever climbed it.... painful approach fer sure.

Did you lead that one Catbird? I would have found the beginning chimney section a little spicy to lead, but I don't do wide cracks (wink wink nudge nudge) so I let the MisterE wide-crack machine tackle that one. That climb is incredible; chimney, hand crack, finger crack, layback, and slab all packed into one 40m package. Sweet.

For fellow trivia buffs: I did some research on maximum wave heights. The highest wave ever recorded was in LITUYA BAY Alaska in 1958 measuring 520m and was caused by a landslide. Two boats rode the wave and survived!!! The highest tsunami ever recorded was 85m measured on the Japanese Island of Ryukyu in 1971. The highest wave ever recorded in the open sea was 34m.

Damn, that's a nice picture. Who took that?

Yeah, they help you have fun. So I wasn't able to find any previous reports (in AAJ) of a winter ascent of Mt. Maude. Anyone else know of one?

WTF!??! Me thinks Fido got it on with a Raccoon?

Nice job Dave, now gimme back my snowshoes!