About five pitches up the Glacier Point Apron, rapping down from Deep Throat, some guy all by his lonesome at a belay stance on some adjacent route, with his buddies a pitch below, calls out to me,
"Hey, can you show me how to set up a biner brake?"
Necro, I thought you were too with it to be posting retreads like this. It came up in the "Snaaakes" thread awhile back, along with the admonishment to await the surprising end of the animation.
The Peanut, in Yosemite on the Yosemite Falls trail. Insecure run out 5.10 face climbing on dodgy brown rock with every bolt a 1/4" spinner with messed up protuding bolts. I don't remember the specifics about the anchors, just recall that they inspired sphincter clenching. This was a long time ago, it may have changed for the better, or completely fallen off the map.
Around Olympia the lights on a lot of main streets have a sensor that responds to something that looks like a strobelight. Lights and sirens WILL get you through the stoplights, but its faster and safer if you can make them green in the direction the emergency vehicle travels.
Ahh, I see the avatar picture has been changed. On behalf of all of CC.com who just could stand the, ahem, titillation, I'd like to thank you for the great service you have done for us Muffy.
Yeah, my Dad and his wife and my sister and her three kids are among the evacuated in San Diego, though it sounds like their houses survived. There was a full on firestorm in the canyon across the street from Dad's house. You know its a serious deal when my father is camped out in my sister's grotty half demolished project house in another part of the city. I'll wager that Santee Boulders and Mission Gorge, the places I learned to climb, are well crisped as well.
Well, because Spray is kind of like that. See Trask's current "Perfect Tit Size" thread for a different take on essentially the same issue.
Later Addendum: Okay, I now understand that this thread was originally in the Climber's Board, that puts a little different spin on things. Does this all tie into that Chestbeating Attention Whore poll E-rock?
Gary, was the border guy a short bald guy with a waxed dome? We had a run-in at the same crossing years ago, issue was a 20 year old misdemeanor marijuana possession event in Edmonton. I never have made it to Skaha....
We had a rattlesnake in the crack halfway up the first pitch of Frogland in Red Rocks, that gives me the creeps many times over compared to those snuggly little bats.