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Doing an image search for "rolleyes" on google gives some.... uh..... STIMULATING... results:

How old are the pipes in your house? What kind of pipes? DANGER DANGER DANGER!!! FEAR FEAR FEAR!!!

Trano'll climb more gooder than the Nepals. Nepals'll be warmer. For winter attempts on Cascade Volcanos, I'd probably go with plastics.

Gato Negro ain't a sport route!

Every time that it is appropriate.

The cracks don't need to be vertical (just straight) to obviate the need for long slings. Also, the whole route need not be straight. Use long draws where the route angles and short draws where it's straight. Saves time + energy to use draws or not have to extend your trippled slings on every piece of gear. In the vantage accident, it seems likely that a biner got loaded over one of those incut edges very common at vantage. If memory serves, it was the gear side biner that broke, not the rope biner, so it didn't matter how long the draw was. I could be wrong about that. Fact remains, most (yes most) of the time, clipping directly to the cam, a short draw, or trippled sling is fine. RE: the original question. If you are primarily sport climbing, get a dozen draws and maybe four 24" (60cm) slings. If primarily trad/alpine climbing, get ~10 24" slings and couple of doubles and take a few quickdraws along. The mammut 8mm slings are obviously the best.

That story ain't as good as any of tricky's. I give it a mild, half-hearted chuckle at best.

Impending doom:

OH NO HE DI'INT! 50 Cent Disagrees with Kanye West

WHERZ MY CAMS BITCH!? It's pretty funny how many people responded on the RC.com thread thinking the story was true.

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

What metal-face said.

I'd like one of the 3/8 inch drill setups and one of the 1/4 inchers. I'm working on a proj on the side of Pope's house.

I'M MAD AS HELL! AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

I think so. It's for a box. I don't know how many are in a box. 36 sounds right.

Trader Joe's. $8. I like the Tangerine flavor. p.s. I don't think my trader joe's carries the glucosamine/chondroitin variety though.

Nevermind

That is fucking disgusting.

I would be nervous about falling on a either of the traxion locking pulleys because the cams on those have teeth which could tear the rope sheath. The Silent Partner, soloist, and Rocker have smooth cams.

He called me about an hour ago asking if I knew of any parties going on in Portland and I told him to call you.

I've tried using the reverso for solo TRing and I thought it sucked. Very difficult to pull rope through with one hand. I think the ascender feature of the reverso is so cumbersome as to make it an emergency only type utility. I borrowed a Yates Rocker from Billygoat recently and that thing is the bidniz for solo TRing.

Where pray tell? That's OK. We're all friends here. Except Layton. I fucking hate that guy.