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I think it's like when darth vader started fighting the emperor in return of the jedi. one big ball of evil. there may have even been lightning bolts coming out of the stadium.

oh yeah good call. that way you will feel relaxed and stable when your bathroom turns into a superfund site as you pass a powerbook battery

what happens to used lithium batteries? Are they just incinerated after you take them to the recyclers?

savages!

This question leads me to wonder just what people are using aluminum crampons for these days. Personally I find them poor performers on anything but steep consolidated snow-ice approaches, yet I have seen people use them on pure snow/ice routes such as the headwall routes on Hood. There have been a few accidents in which Al crampons might have been a contributing cause. They seem to be marketed heavily under the fast-n-light banner, perhaps to the disservice of aspiring climbers just getting into the game. I think they are really great for the "what if I hit some steep hard snow" situation like n. ridge of stuart, etc. but not so good for much else. Maybe others think differently.

Look, just tie the f'ing EDK and be done with it. It is widely-used, time-tested, and lab-approved for recreational rappeling. It is used thousands of times every year with no incidents. It is approved by the AMGA for guiding purposes. Or alternatively, use the time-tested double-fish if for some reason you don't believe what reality tells you, that's fine too. Learn the core set of knots and get really good with them. Don't mess around with a million options. There's no point to it. Just choose and be done with it. You'll live. I'm sure this topic will come up again.

I seriously thought he was joking...someone actually went up there??? freezing level was at summit level most of the weekend and all that stuff gets first sun

Check it out, I didn't realize there was such sweet ice at Smith Rock http://www.katu.com/stories/75404.html

http://hjem.get2net.dk/thaihaj-LB/tsunami.htm I've heard that place is a monument for totally out-of-control tourism development, starting in the 90's.

dunno how true that caving story was but it was a good read. and in terms of adventure, caving can easily beat out any climbing

He may be mispelling his name all along, so I would not worry about it. I'd take it more as a suggestion than as an absolute.

not since West Side Story have I been witness to such a verbal smackdown.

this is like where the two gangs have that dance-off in Breakin'...only way sadder.

using apostrophes to make your limerick work is rather pedestrian

is that a shot from mutual of omaha's wild kingdom

actually if you are rich you should get etymotics. they even have a cheaper version specifically for the iPodders

I have the bumblebee T-1 from a few years back. They are beasts and weigh a ton (I use the old liners). A friend of mine switched to the new 3-buckle T-2 from his old T-1 and said he could not tell much of a difference. Yes, touring will be a bitch, but a lot of very long, very hard trips have been done in T-1 boots. That T-2x looks like a shortened T-1 to me. At least the buckles appear to be the same. It could be sweet. I think the T-1 looks cool, which is the number one priority (that, and I got 'em dirt cheap).

anything involving p. diddy in any capacity

it would make my 5th grade day

damn I got served

right on, there's no finer meal while listening to BTO live.

somebody shoot me

i think michael jackson's nose is responsible.

I'd rather eat a kentucky-fried butter stick wrapped in a donut.

Which is odd, because it would fit nicely in the character and suffering section. I swear it's like eating a log of marzipan.