Alpinfox

LINK This jackass is selling "ice shoes", a "repel harness", and an "ice hatchet". Anybody have a big north face duffel full of ice gear/clothing stolen recently?

I'm thinking that perhaps this could become a sticky thread in this forum. If you are searching craigslist or ebay (local PNW listings) and see someone trying to sell climbing/outdoor gear that seems suspicious to you, post it here with a short description and maybe the owner will recognize their stuff and be able to contact/maim/prosecute the thief and recover their gear.

BEST TR OF THE YEAR!

There is a new piece of gear that can cut down your rack size by about 75%!!!!: [img:center]http://www.ashlawnhighland.org/wn--Monroe%20Dollar%20Coin.jpg[/img] Now available at fine gear retailers near you! Awesome trip report. Alternative transportation makes things more interesting. I have very fond memories of motorcycling up to Alpental and going for a quick jaunt up Das Toof. Not quite as eco-friendly as the bus/bike combo though.

Blinking? Old and fat? Sweet baby jesus, even Kevbone is paying more attention to the "substantive issues" of the debate than you jokers. Edit - that was a good point about the lack of an american flag lapel pin on McCain though. Unpatriotic fuck. He is obviously doomed.

I did a little when I first read that, but now I know what you mean I've done seven from "the list". Rainier - Lib Ridge Forbidden - West Ridge Grand Teton - Exum Fairview Dome - NF Bugaboo Spire - NE Ridge Liberty Bell - Lib Crack Stuart - NR Two of those were done this summer. All were enjoyable and memorable routes. I have several more from "the list" on my personal, short-term to do list.

Can I come? Alpinfox need job.

I wanna know if they are gonna change the rate on that 12mo CD. 5% is pretty good!

It's a rare day in America when citizens vote for any legislation directly. We are a "representative democracy". So have you voted for any representative that has voted for legislation proscribing freedoms and the right to choose? If you have voted for any republican in the last 25 years, the odds are good that you voted to limit my right to have butt sexx, marry a member of the same sex, or have an abortion, while also voting to have your fairytales taught as fact in public schools. This is why you are getting especially harsh treatment on this website right now, right before an election. Climbers tend to be of the libertarian, live-and-let-live type and don't appreciate people telling them what to they can and can't do. The christian right have fucked up our country and are threatening to continue to fuck it up and folks on this website are pissed about that.

They don't teach spelling/grammar in sunday school?

So I hear you saying, "it's part of his culture, therefore its ok for him to persecute 'witches' and run them out of town". That is bullshit. Just because he is an ignorant, brainwashed hillbilly from an exotic locale doesn't mean we should respect his beliefs. He is, in-fact, a deluded (he believes in christianity after all) thug with a penchant for egomania.

Worthless? Aren't the properties still there as collateral? If that is the case, even with dropping housing prices, there is still a real asset represented by those securities right? House prices have dropped at most ~40% in places like Florida/Vegas/Phoenix, but that means that 60% of the value of those assets is still real and attainable. Right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

$85,000,000,000/200,000,000 = $425 not $425,000 DING! More analysis of bailout cost

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Looking for any scenic/action photos in particular? BTW: I talked to Fred Beckey recently about his early ascents of Classic Crack. In your book you say he and the boys laid it back. I asked him about that and he said, "I think we jammed it... yeah, I'm pretty sure we jammed it." I dunno how well he remembers it, since he (jokingly) said, "not sure I could even find CC right now", but I'm curious where you got the laybacking story?

Topo looks really nice. What program did you use to make it?

convince me.

I didn't say "sheared" numbnutz, I said damaged. I've got plenty of quickdraws with bolt-side biners with gouges and deep scratches in them. You don't? Wires are flexible and therefore count as pseudosoft. Like your brain.

I believe there is some general rule of thumb about hard/soft not hard/hard or soft/soft. That is, biners (hard) shouldn't be clipped to other biners (hard) directly, nor should slings (soft) be connected directly to other slings (soft). When one biner is connected directly to another biner (or a bolt hanger for that matter), the amt of surface area in contact is extremely small resulting in very high local forces which can damage the metal. When a sling is connected directly to another sling, the bend radius is very small again resulting in high local forces which could cause failure if the material was old/weakened etc. The combination of hard/soft, a sling connected to a biner, allows maximal surface area contact and therefore lowest peak forces. I'm not an engineer, but the above makes sense to me.

It's Ken4ord's birthday! Ken, I want you to know that you are a very special person.

I don't recall needing anything bigger than a #4 for sagi-scarious. Where do you put the #6? Carnival Crack (10d) in the Icicle would be a good place to test out the big gear and technique. It totally flummoxed me. There is another splitter OW crack in the Icicle too, but I can't remember it's name. I think it's a 10b. I haven't been on it.

SWEET! No fewer than THREE little birdies chirped this news to me this morning. It was hard to wait for the report. Congrats!

That is a good point Off. Well, assuming nobody out there in cc.com land is a pro floor finisher and willing to loan out their gear, where would be the best place for me to rent the gear? Is the Lowes/Home Despot/etc stuff good enough?

Very good to know. I wonder if maybe you missed a couple intermediate stations? We should go back and check.

Nice!