Al_Pine

I'd be embarassed by these quips if they actually came from anyone who climbs at all. <- me waving to you guys from the climbing area <- you guys

I like to rack my gear on my harness and on a sling. The sling is one of those pieces of tubular nylon about 5 feet long and tied to make a loop. On the sling I put my tricams, my hexes and some cams. For the tricams I put the pink thru blue on one biner and bigger on another. For the hexes, the smaller ones 1 thru 5 go on a single biner, then 6,7,8 on another and number 9, 10 and 11 get their own biners. I put the big cams #3.5 camalot, #4 Camalt and #3 camalot on their own biners on the sling too. The smaller cams and the stoppers go on my harness. The cams on the right loop. #1 TCU,#2 TCU #.5 on one biner, #1 friend, #.75 camalot on another biner and the #1 camalot and the #2 friend on their own biners. I put my stoppers on the left loop of the harness. I have a double set of stoppers , 1 set of Wild Country and 1 set of Black Diamond. The Black diamond from #4 on up. I separate these onto 4 biners, grouped according to size, so I have one biner with all the smallest stoppers, 1 biner with the medium small, 1 biner with the medium larges and 1 biner with the largest ones. These all go on the left harness loop. I keep the quickdraws on the two rear harness loops. I have 3 foot long slings tripled to make quickdraws and one 5 foot (double) tripled and those go on the left rear loop. Then I have 8 Petzl sport draws with wire gates that all go on the right rear loop. I also have webolette (I love that thing!) and a nut tool that I keep on the left front loop with the stoppers.

woah!!!! nice job sweet pics!

Yeah. the rock is shitty up there. And I don't know what you mean by "bveautiful area"? It's a fuckin' barren moonscape up there. Brrrrrr

This past weekend I went on a backpacking trip on the Chelan Lakeshore Trail with persons Pokey, Gumbie, Happy, and Cheerleader (the organizer). The entire trip was TOTAL FUCKING HELL!!!! First thing, we fucking sit at the car, next to the fucking honeybuckets because Pokey can't get her fucking boots to fit right . Then once we DO get going she just drags her fucking ass because she's got like a goddamned espresso maker and 3 GPS's in her fuckin' black behemoth backpack. Then if THAT isn't enough, Gumbie is also crawling along 'cause he obviously eats too many damn donuts and sits in fuckin' air conditioning 24 hours a day, because he can't deal with the fucking SUN!!! JEEZUS, and the guy is wearing black polypro! The guy needs to fuckin cower at each bit of shade and "rehydrate" . He is sweating liters. You can't get any where fuckin near him or he dribbles on you. Fuckin' gag me. So anyway, this is obviously FUCKING PISSING ME OFF. I just fuckin' slaved the whole goddamned week,to get 3 days off in a row, and I'm ready to enjoy it, and here I gotta sit next to fukcin portapotty getting bit by bugs while some whiny dink adjusts her "sock system". . At least it's sorta funny to watch the cheerleader be all nice and perky and upbeat , when I can tell that inside she's just as pissed at the slug contingent as me! Anyway, we get going a little faster cause Happy takes the black behemoth from Pokey who now understands the goddamned reason people actually think for a fuckin' minute or two about what kind of useless shit they'll leave home instead of dragging it EIGHT MILES OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS!!!! And, finally we really get to cruise when we drop the Gumbie. He says he'll "get up early, and catch up." Yeah. Right. . Whatever. Later dude! We finally get to start moving, but it's getting late cause we've wasted 4 hours waiting on Gumbie and I'm starting to bonk. I need some food, but I don't want to eat some gob of sugar that will give me this big insulin surge. I'm letting the others know I need to eat, but NOW, OH NO, all of a fuckin sudden THEY are concerned about getting to our destination within the next week. I say, "OH Great, where were you little hurryheads the last fucking eight hours!!" Now I wanna stop, but NO, the same fuckers I've had to drag a-fucking-long now want to go on. Just goes to show ya... Well FINE!!!! JUST FUCKING FINE!!!! We hump it a a mile or two more and finally come to a place where all these fuckers are happy to "lay their mats" . Of course, it's a fuckin' mile from water, but they say they'll go fetch it. So we stop. We dump our shit in the dirt at this totally dumb spot Happy heads off to get some water. Then Cheerleader suddenly decides to GO too to "fill some water jugs" once she realizes that if she doesn't, she'll be alone with me (who just pissed her off by calling her "perky") and the comatose Pokey. Great, now I'm sittin' in the dirt with Pokey, who's got her eyes rolled back in their sockets. I guess it's up to fuckin' me to set every-fuckin'-thing all up. FINE!!! Fucking FINE!!! I'll set their fucking tent up! Then they take like a fucking hour to get 5 jugs of water and when finally do come back they start acting a little miffed about me not rolling out their goddamned sleeping bags. They start hinting around that since they got the water maybe I could boil it up. FUCK YOU!!!! I'll just eat cold before I let you blackmail me just because you took a fucking hour to pump me a bottle of water. I'd rather spit my share on you than be your kitchen help . Those fuckers are lucky I didn't fucking whack one of 'em in the head while they were sleeping when I went out to piss that night. They might not be too happy though when they figure out WHERE I pissed . to be continued!!!!

Cool site Klar ! What climb is this one? Or this one?

Yeah!!! You Europeans are all a bunch of whining pasty cowards that say "brilliant" all the time. I HATE THAT !!! Love those death flakes eh dude. The Tooth Rules . Very glad you enjoyed your stay. Please come again!

Bagdad Jim ROCKS!!! NO IRAQ WAR !!!

quote: Originally posted by Uncle Tricky: Hey Lambone, not saying you're wrong, cause it's all subjective, but I'm curious what single pitch 5.9s in Washington you think are way better than zilla? Yeah everybody tell us you 5.9 rec's. Good 5.9's are fun to climb. These are good: Toward the end of Liberty Crack, Stretch the rope near end of Rock On, Zig Zag pitch on NW corner NEWS, p4 Total Soul, Off Duty, Last pitch Lovin' Arms. There's some pitch on Rock On that's pretty long and cool if you stretch the rope.

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: oh yeah, and I like godzilla! But there are better 5.9's out there... For the sake of discussion, NAME ONE! Besides the aforementioned GM.

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: Oh and just cause I spray on CC.com alot dosent make me a poor student... I didn't mean you were a lousy student. I meant that you were a student lacking assets (money or property). I'm sure I could be wrong about that. Your employment in a low-paying position also led me to believe you don't have a lot of financial exposure in a lawsuit. Well, unless the woman you married is a moneybags (or you're under 18, then they could get your parents). Anyway...can you tell I'm bored. I just thought Dru was being sort of a dick.

Pretty impressive dump. check this out

PAGE TOP!!!! You go girl!! And take the goat with you....

Trask we love you

quote: Originally posted by greghinemeyer: i just was finishing off a nice vacation when i rolled into seattle for a few days. good beer, some good music. but my god i have never seen so many coffee drinking,cigarette smoking,fleece wearing pasty faced slugs in my life. Glad you enjoyed your stay. Come again soon!

Muffy versus MtnGoat. This should go on for a few pages. A match made in heaven.

quote: Originally posted by trask: I propose we open up all lanes for one. Isn't that the next Eyman initiative? Send me your campaign contributions to me and I will use it to make payments on my bo... er...work for us to defeat this evil of people in carpools getting to zip by us and get to work or home 2-5 minutes quicker!!!! Soon everybody will go just as slow OR SLOWER!!! There will be NO reason AT ALL to ride the bus. That'll serve those holier than thou public transpo'ers. Hooray for equality. Death to politicians. SEND ME YOUR nonTAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS!!!!!

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Hey Dru, What's you're problem? Did Lammy stand you up or something? And why would anyone sue Lammy anyway? Isn't he a poor student? Perhaps they could sue Vertical World though!

quote: Originally posted by Peter Puget: That route to the left of Rattletale is pretty good to although it's a bit harder. No one even seems to go there. Noone climbs that route because a) the bottom is a choice of bolted moss or grovel crack b) the guide says it's 5.12 (good route though, haven't done the 5.12 last pitch) Noone goes to Rattletale Wall because a) there's like two climbs normal people can do b) it's a long ways from anything else c) the trail has been destroyed

page top! Good night [ 10-08-2002, 12:19 AM: Message edited by: Al Pine ]

Get the gear beta from Erik and then double it!

Eat balls, ass eyes!

quote: Originally posted by jhc: You've got all your gear out in the driveway and you're loading up your truck for a much needed three-day climbing trip. Suddenly your wife comes out of the house just screaming her head off at you. What did you do wrong? You made the chain attaching her to the stove too long... page 4