iain

Oregonians are way too smart for that. ODOT does a good job in my book. They are even working on lowering the amount of cinder they run on roads in the winter (you often see cinder laid down, only to be followed up by a plow coming through pushing all the cinder off again). It has been contaminating drainages around highways, so they are working on other options, and only laying cinder every other plow or so.

Again, the biner is totally legit in that case because it should not be under tension anyway. It just sits there as a backup in case the bark on the tree shears off under rotational stress or whatever else might happen. The whole concept is that there is no knot in the system weighted, so you maintain the maximum strength in your line. This is also why prusiks are used to anchor lines under heavy load, as they act as a load-limiting clutch to protect the line from failure.

whoops Loren got in there but I unwittingly stumbled on the this time

quote: Originally posted by Muffy The Wanker Sprayer: okay call me silly, but as I was a salad bar queen for a cupple of years at a restraunt this is what I know... when we set up the salad bar, we put in ICE, and then salted it to keep it frozen harder for longer... Don't ask me why this works, I just know it does, having forgotten to salt the ice on one occasion... so how is that salt can de-ice and keep ice icey??? A good question. Here's the deal: Ice forms when water reaches 0°C. Salt lowers this temperature. So when you put salt on ice, it is more likely to melt, since the salt dissolves into any remnant liquid H20 in the ice and lowers the freezing point. At a certain point, around -9°C or so, salt does not have much effect as it becomes difficult for it to penetrate the lattice of ice to find residual liquid to begin the dissolving rxn. To keep your salad bar cold, you add salt to ice because you want the temp around the salad items to be as cold as possible for as long as possible, so you lower the freezing point below 0°C. It doesn't keep the ice frozen longer, but it drops the temperature of the briny salt water that forms. How's that?

thanks for the input. I think I will get a pair since they should last a long time. I think it's pretty underhanded of BD to make you buy a set of 80 dollar poles first, then lay down almost that amount again to replace the top part of your poles. -Iain

thanks guys.

Obviously, this wouldn't work to anchor a toprope belay because there is no way for rope to be pulled in by the belayer. In that case I would get some 1" webbing and do a wrap-3-pull-2 anchor with some lockers.

Well if I had a rope and a carabiner, and I had a BFT in front of me and wanted to anchor to it in the strongest manner possible, this is what I would do: But I don't think that many wraps are necessary on most tree bark.

If you are doing a true high-strength tieoff, it should not matter as there should be no tension in the knot or biner itself. The idea behind the high-strength tieoff is that there are no knots in the system to weaken the anchor. Carabiner on a 8 bight is a hell of a lot more convenient than tying a rewoven 8 around the working line, and prevents nylon on nylon rubbing when weighted (as in a highline, etc).

quote: Originally posted by gapertimmy: please email me at gapertimmy@mtbachelor.com if you are still having issues. tim Looks like you got the mail autoforward to the beefchub account working again too.

After the amount of rescue action Rainier received last season, I'm not too surprised that some cost recovery would be popular at this point, regardless of Nat'l Guard involvement.

There have been some steep icy skin tracks where I would have felt good having them though.

Any of you skier types use them? They seem kindof pricey.

I was just about to make some more wands and was wondering if anyone had a good material for the flagging part that I don't know about. I've always just used surveyor's tape and bamboo poles. Usually use tape large enough to mark on w/ a sharpie. Just wondering if someone had some groundbreaking high-viz material they use. I have used those "pumpkin" trash bags that are on the shelves around halloween before too.

I've never seen cars age faster than in Minnesota. Salted roads are a terrible idea. I've seen ODOT spray some antifreeze on hwy 26 periodically. Wonder why they don't use that.

I have trouble understanding why any religion formed thousands of years ago continues to control our modern life decisions. Christianity, Islam, you name it.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: "the only way to escape an avalanche is to BE an avalanche" - John Baldwin I think living in Bermuda would help your odds.

Religion sucks in general.

Are you referring to: "Just checking up on the state of the kingdom" [ 11-22-2002, 12:58 PM: Message edited by: iain ]

You need the Flash authoring application to create this site. Dreamweaver won't cut it, but behaves well when adding flash content to your site. Personally I find flash stuff cute the first few times I use it, but annoying after that. It doesn't take too long once you have a handle on the Flash environment, and that doesn't take too long either.

Some of the funniest stuff ever is the first 10 minutes of "Friday". When he sits down to that salad bowl of cereal I was dying!

They may have already left for Yocum. Wonder what that's like in these conditions? Guess we'll find out.

quote: Originally posted by fern: Lake Lousy Sounds like fun even if its a lot of road time. I meant to go up to the Golden area for some ice last year but it was that or Fairy Meadows. Maybe this year.

Here's some alpine ice in the Rockies to climb next spring. Cool looking couloir a ways west of Clemenceau. Dunno if it has been climbed or what.