Crackbolter

Yes

It's eVent not event! Its Epic by Nextec not epic! Why have a bivy sack in the first place? Just go home if it rains. You can save as much as 3 pounds by not bringing one. Just buy a sleeping bag with Epic by Nextec on the outside, Pertex Quantum on the inside and a YKK Uratek zipper. Oh wait, no one make a bag with a windproof zipper yet. Maybe one day. 4 New 30 degree bags It is about time ain't it? New jacket too.

Very interesting indeed.

Nice chime headspacer.

Oh come now Andy, we all know you and Cole have a fridge stocked with Boundry Bay kegs and kegerator taps on the outside in the office.

One other thing, pro deals are easy to come by. Just about anyone will offer a pro deal but not many companies are willing to give away gear. Consider offering incentive such as a slideshow at their local retailer or images for advertisement. The whole reason they are sponsoring climbs in the first place is for marketing so you need to find ways to help them market their products that will capture a very large audience. If you plan on writing articles to big name publications and they notice you are wearing or using their equipment, they are more likely to give money or gear away. You need to have articles already published though.

I get requests every day. Most are just climbing the same old boaring peaks as the guide companies are guiding. Many have a specific cause for the climb such as donating the proceeds to cancer research or environmental cleanup on the mountain, etc. If you want sponsorship to the full degree, make up a climbing resume and a gameplan. The biggest sponsorship I did this year was because it coencided (sp?) with publications that I advertise with and other gear companies that are in the same ballpark as us (Arc'Teryx, Life Link, Black Diamond, etc). If you would like a copy of a recent sponsorship resume to model yours after, just e-mail me off the board. Other advise, stay away from BIG companies liek TNF, MH & Marmo'. They could give a rats ass about the cool stuff you are doing. They want a poster child not real life adventurers. Good luck!

Not because of my backcast...I hand tie my leaders.

Beck, do you know who is watching this forum? Do you know the famous and not so famous folks who make up the community? Maybe a few well know old timers chime in now and then but a few old timers never chime in but are reading your nonsense. Work gets out real fast because the "community" is much smaller than one would think and climbers have been known to remain friends well after thier age shuts them down. Shame on you dude.

Wait a second....Isn't this thread supposed to be in SPRAY?

You can't!!!! I might run into you!!! Please say it ain't so.

No harm done here Lowell.

How fast is this board really? Okay, lets see who can guess where this picture was taken from?

None anywhere you will be hiking or climbing or descending.

Do you think it is because we are climbing with longer ropes? I always thought the original ascents were broken up into shorter pitches.

It is my fault. I souldn't have made him look so bad in the Marmot 900 fill debate. Sorry.

Must have been with Phil? We were at Big Beaver and right on the other side of the ridge we could hear the trees crashing down and splitting and the sound of sucking air. Kind of sceary but too far away to matter.

Try just making it to the summit with your high tech gear first. Chances are, you just might be good enough to do it with what you have now let alone make it more challenging adding other factors like equipment. This day and age, you might just as well try to be the first to summit the peak in the winter or be the first to ski it or even set a speed record if you are looking for hard man status.

What? No Leftover Salmon or Breakdancing Breakoffs? Did you see the parade? How about the drum circle? Yeah, Nickel Creek is cool but Chris Thile is better when he is playing with Tony Rice or Mike Marshall.

Then it is W.W.Y.D.?

That is W.W.J.N.D.? pay to pray, pay to play, pay to spray!

Miox

I'd like to get my hands on the Fixe Triplex bolts. Like candy. Slaphappy...time to replace that hammer .

Good choice. They wonder where the noise comes from so late at night so far into the mountains....