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BWAHAHA....hahaha...heh....hmm

helens' eruption is most likely the reason for my lean to earth sciences...mom got me a killer volcano flipbook and I was hooked.

man you guys really ARE dumb

Clearly you were incompetent at Donkey Kong Jr. as well.

DFA is that the petzl skull and x-bones

emotional rescue

When it comes to securing zepplins, there's simply no alternative.

in a child seat in the back of a ash-dusted vw bus. There was a picture of me in the Corvallis Gazette-Times with my mom and a caption to the effect of "this kid has no idea what happened"

...too bad they don't understand the concept of garbage in - garbage out... have a good weekend

here's an interesting article on the president's stage managers.

what's high-tech about it?

but man I really wouldn't want to blow out an anchor on a load-shifting setup, much better to tie off w/a cordelette in my opinion but that's me. The above is also illustrated in "On Rope", a caving rigging book that is quite excellent for all kinds of vertical work.

yes it is a compromise between extension and allowing for some shifting loads. It's complicated to set up and usually only worth it for a rescue where you have some time while the litter is being rigged, patient treatment and whatnot. I'm sure many people know this but you can lessen the extension of the X'd webbing shown before by tying knots in each leg.

hey! that trango thing's exactly like what a mountain rescue unit I know does with a 10m piece of cord.

scripted thanks for queuing up the ptop though

exactly one month later, almost down to the minute

I love that area so much... hwy 12 is probably the coolest highway in the states right where it drops down out of Dixie Nat'l Forest:

first class! probably fun to watch them as they desperately try to blow it off the book. maybe some sort of glue would make it even more entertaining.

please leave me out of your barnyard fantasies erik: I hear the tillamook pastures are a sure thing. easier to score than burnside next time you're in oregon.

if living in Hillsboro, you might as well live on the coast in Tillamook or something. Only adds 5% of the commute time.

yeah it's a pretty cool but still possible to over-tension the line pretty easily if you don't follow a few rules.

a friend of mine packed in a cast iron skillet and some huge steaks to grill up on a climb in the sisters years ago. the guy was a beast.

while an antihistamine will reverse the effects of anaphylaxis, its effects come far too slowly to do any good. In the case of the bee sting allergic reaction you mention, injectable ephinephrine would be necessary as vasoconstrictor to insure an airway until the antihistamine can do its job. this is subject to the severity of the allergic reaction.

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the high-strength tie off is frequently used to tension tracklines in highlines. no, there is no knot at any end. everything is attached with prusiks to maintain full strength of the line. the prusik attachment provides a "clutch" which starts to slip at a known force, rather than catastrophic failure at a knot.