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chalk doesn't belong in caves. neither do bolts in my opinion.

Hopping onto an unknown monster like the Emmons in the dark with no boot track. Part of the appeal of climbing! It will go, you just have to have faith!

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If you are hard-pressed you could move a prusik or two along with you. This would obviously be a pain on harder stuff, but it works.

'twas only a matter of time

I thought the sings were wearing black clothes and listen to loud music no that's when you grab your legal weapons and spray down some jocks in colorado

it is a gateway to terrorism.

middle school shop class

don't go knockin my sedan chair now...

this is how I cross crevasses safely:

or even worse, you are featured on the evening news being helicoptered off the mountain

this becomes more difficult in early spring when you show up at work with raccoon eyes after a sick day

of course. I chalk up my ski days up to mental sickness all the time.

in a desire to rack up my votes for greatest mountie - the EDK is an incorrectly-loaded overhand knot. It is very weak and I would not use the EDK for ropes of dramatically different size. I have used the EDK quite often though.

despite the lack of fun terrain at timberline, I like the laidback atmosphere much better than at meadows. meadows is more interesting, but I wind up being pissed off there too often.

lower mountain? is there terrain on the upper mountain?

here's a link to the information. If you have comments, you can sign on to the mailing list and let the forest service know your opinions (they have not approved it yet). Link to Timberline

Thought this was interesting...

I bet they find some fried cat in a transformer somewhere.

or tie the end on your bumper so when your partner gets back, he can drive off a ways and you have a killer zip line.

I don't bother placing pickets until someone falls in. Or to belay across something extremely sketchy. Otherwise you're probably wasting a lot of time on anything bigger than a snowcone.

Here's an interesting article about the updated BD tele bindings from Mt. Hood: Couloir article The best quote from the article: "The most encouraging note in this is the indication that, although BD is understandably antsy to recoup their investment in developing the O2 and O3, they are committed to bringing a great product to market, but not until it is a great product. " Are they kidding?

I can see the mechanism for damage from a 60m fall on rock and would probably retire the biner. What I want to see is a bunch of biners dropped from that height, then drop-tested with a bunch that have not fallen. I don't like the idea of doing something "just because". That's how you wind up with 12mm ropes in rescue, doubled-back plastic buckles, and etc, etc.

it's from the nra bedtime stories collection

since the lead guy is going to be testing the waters, doesn't it make sense for the second to have two pickets?