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  1. Oh, that would have simply been brilliant. 2020 hindsight and all that, drat.
  2. it's just ice cream
  3. I thought the fix you used a few days before, just strapping them onto your feet with a few wraps of athletic tape, was brilliant and functional enough!
  4. Oh, that's revolting, at least you tried. She must not like her dog. That river is also reputed to be a fine source for liver flukes. I watched a bloated cow float down it once.
  5. Oh, I believe it has a reputation already. I've overheard a number of people fretting about the terrifying traverse on P2, shown here with the charming Snowbyrd, and thoughful backrope provided by Thinker.
  6. I think you just got lucky, I've seen a steady stream on most of those routes on Fall weekends. Certainly Spiderman is still the mega-classic 5.7 crack down there and gets lots of attention. Hot tip: it goes as all one wonderful pitch with a 60m rope. Trezlar is usually empty though, I think it might have gotten a bit of reputation after that fatal accident years ago.
  7. I'd guess you've even got the home-done drilled out version of the big ones, as well as numbers one and two on perlon. If not, I've got 'em, we should enact a costume drama down at Smith some busy weekend, walking along in wool knickers and Robbins boots with a Goldline in a shoulder coil and a rack of hexes, grumbling about the powder puff boys and the wack-and-dangle merchants.
  8. That reads like the kind of fantasy one might have while passed out in the middle of Lake Ozette.
  9. more of an upgrade, like a padded, heated chockstone.
  10. Looks like we're done here, move along now. Fat Kid fun time has been moved here
  11. Off_White

    Supertopo

    Just don't tell my wife I'm a polygamist.
  12. Off_White

    Supertopo

    I dunno Mark, there seems to be a whole wave of reverence for the LAW lately, another example is all the rhetoric about immigration policy. Nattering on about the LAW is the way to avoid being labelled a racist for wanting to kick Mexicans out of the US, and an obsession with motorized drilling and the LAW is a way to oppose all drilling, and indeed all human access to the wilderness. This was certainly the case in the Joshua Tree bolting ban, and plays no small roll in the furor over Infinite Bliss up here. Funny thing is, those so smitten with LAW don't seem to hesitate to smoke pot, drive while over .08 BAC, speed, run red lights, cheat on taxes, and commit adultery. In the case of your Scott Loomis quote above, I really liked Ron Olevsky's response: The where in particular is the real issue: how many bolts is too much, what places shouldn't be bolted, what role should fixed protection play in the wilderness, indeed, what is "wilderness." This is the real debate, and concern over battery powered drills is a tactic, not the substance. But yeah, Loomis sure does come off as an arrogant asshole, doesn't he? btw, you can't say "fuck" on supertopo either.
  13. I know the Columns and Bend and such will be fine, I was wondering if anyone had been up by Lava Point or Wildcat Wall, whether there were any snow or access issues. I figure ticks are a given, sounds like a bumper crop this year.
  14. Off_White

    top this

    Abuse of power comes as no surprise.
  15. Failed to complete my knot when leaving 3rd class ledge 1500' off the deck in Mexico, climbed two pitches before figuring it out (better than going 1700' to the deck).
  16. 5/3/2006 Update: The left side is now dry, the only wet routes are four in the vicinity of the central drainage. Team Ropegun, Ed and Duke, are down in Red Rocks this week.
  17. Is your name Rand or McNally?
  18. Hah, brilliant words to live by, I resemble that remark. An excellent signature line too I might add.
  19. Off_White

    top this

    That photo is like Goatse light, it should spread across the web and ambush the unsuspecting wherever they roam.
  20. Off_White

    top this

    Top this, big boy:
  21. Turning Point still awaits a 2nd ascent, 20 some years later. I doubt it's gotten any easier despite new wave aid ratings and such, bet you'd find some adventure there.
  22. I thought that was pretty old news. Shall we talk about Lambone's situation on Glacier Peak next?
  23. Great pictures, looks like fun.
  24. Off_White

    Hey Minx!

    The way you speak with such authority is, uhmm, noteworthy.
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