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Thats what I was thinking too (where is the barf emoticon?) Careful Muffy, don't overtax that there blonde bombshell of a brain. Best leave the 'thinking too' to me and concentrate on sprayin... Soylent Green is an absolute classic, isn't it.....

I was actually hoping DFA would throw in his 2cents here.

Welcome to the world of multiple Avatars! I obviously don't play this game well. I posted the question for a bud of mine who lives in Idaho and I wanted to avoid the razzing for the bolting....and there it is! So FUCK...bring it on. I'll find out if he's interested in your friends used drill I'm assuming the route is somewhere around Idaho Falls, certainly not your beloved Vantage.

I can confirm that. I corresponded with her briefly in February before she came out for her interview. We exchanged a few climbing photos and one of them was the same photo dug up by Dave Schuldt. Nice work, guys!

http://www.warmlite.com/ despite the warning, it IS safe for viewing at work... great marketing? .... or not?

I watched a Stephenson http://www.warmlite.com/ get destroyed by heavy winds on Baker last year. The climber ended up in somone else's tent halfway thru the night. I'd like to hear from someone with more experience with them....do you suppose it was operator error, or are they more vulnerable than Biblers and IDs?

I am a self-confessed luxury lover. The tarp/bivy combo seems to offer a lot of options, esp in heavy rain. I'll add to my earlier (quoted) statement by saying that I would almost always take the bivy bag and leave the tarp home for a 1 or 2 day climb, but if I were heading out for 3+ day climb in the Cascades I'd probably take the tarp along....not a hardfast rule, but simply my humble opinion.

The 2 tent system works well for me. I don't usually like to pitch my Bibler on anything other than snow, whether it's winter or summer. Below the snow line you'll likely run into more humid conditions where ventilation and breathability are huge factors, and thus a 2 or 3 season tent will outperform the 4 season tent in almost every case, IMHO. Unless you're setting up a camp for several days I don't see much use for taking a tent on most climbs, esp in the summer below snowline. A bivy and a tarp are lighter and more versatile.

Actually, it IS. It has consistently provided both news stories and op/ed pieces from multiple viewpoints. They're pretty good at flagging the 'editorial' articles as such, which is more than I can say for most US papers. Maybe you're confusing Arabnews.com with Al-Jazeera.

One of the major differences between the tents is the design of the vents. ID and OLD-style Biblers use 'tube' vents, while the newer Biblers use 'slot' vents in the apex of the tent. I prefer the newer Bibler vents, myself. Look at the difference: http://www.integraldesigns.com/tm3r.htm http://www.biblertents.com/2002/itent_eldo.html

Yes. At Camp Muir. They said it sucked and would never do it again. That's prolly the LAST place I 'd dig a snow cave. Imagine digging through months and years of layered waste...... makes me shudder just to think about it.....

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we get closer and closer to Soylent Green every day.

I really had a hard time picturing anyone putting in the effort to filch tricams and clogs......... glad all is well, bro!

I did too, and that's the point. Everyone has to do it. The impacts are unavoidable with that many people flocking to the 50C's

No link, but I'm sometimes grateful for those climbs being published, as it concentrates the masses of gapers on those specific lines, leaving the 'better' 'cooler' routes less crowded. My favorite memory of a '50 Classic' is the smell of putrid urine and other unidentifiable smells at the belay stations on the Durrance route on Devil's Tower. Oh....and those pee bottles stashed behind blocks and down cracks there. Rarely have I seen anything else approaching the magnitude of that man-made mess on vertical trails. I have been back to the Tower since, but can't bear to go back up the Durrance.

from web page: "As for live or recently deceased fauna, rumors of gerbil (and mouse or hanster) stuffing have been circulating since about 1982, and I know of at least one case, in 1984, when a Denver weekly printed a confirmed report of a gerbilectomy in a local emergency room. Unfortunately, such cases have been slow in making their way into the formal literature of medicine." and just for fun: http://www.d-zyn.com/gresmedical/

I climbed Rainier with a lady who had tried to summit 4 or 5 times previously, but was turned around due to altitude problems. She took Diamox the time I climbed with her and performed reasonably well. I didn't query her too much about the drug, but it made an obvious difference for her. The major difference is that she had a history of pretty severe symptoms that prevented her from completing the climb....for what that's worth.

Though I do both stuff and fold/roll my Bibler, I prefer to fold and roll it. I try to minimize stress to any of the seams and keep the little 'visors' over the doors from getting mangled too badly....seems they're never the same once they get torqued.

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I think that would be sweet to train an african gray to climb with you... he could fly up and meet you up at the belay ledge I bet you could train an African Grey to make the clips for ya. That would be pretty cool--no more stick clips cheater parrots are aid Would it be aid if he trained the parrot to scream sprot climbin' motivational spray in his face at the crux? .... Something like "bro, you got it!", or "duuuuude, it's only a LITTLE blood, you got plenty more!", or "CRIMP IT!!!, cross over to the pocket!, now HOOK it!!!!"

the way I convert it, 1/3 of that 35m rope is 38 ft. That would put a 2 person team approx 35 feet apart....a bit too close for my comfort. 50 ft is about the min I like to go, but that's just my opinion. I prefer to have more time (distance=time) to react when there's a problem. Of course, distance also translates into the potential for greater speed (of your falling partner)....and potentially a greater force once the rope comes tight. Another consideration would be the difficulty of the route. I may want the flexibility of a longer rope if I were doing a (semi?) technical climb that requires the use of running protection and/or belays. And on a completely different subject.....I TR'd on static rope for a couple of years in the midwest before I ever climbed on a dynamic rope. Never had a problem at all with an anchor, stresses on myself, or anything else. Static is definitely cheaper if you do a lot of TRing.

Black, Dark Green, Navy Blue they all look the same to me..........but the point is DARK IS GOOD. Bamboo is a poor thermal conductor so I don't think the dark color causes a significantly greater melt out rate than light colored ones. I use some surveyor's tape and duct tape on my bamboo wands. Do yourself a favor and get the LONG wands (3' plus) instead of the short wands. By the time you come back to look for them, they've inevitably been trying to melt out or have been snowed on, so the extra length is great. Stick em WAY in so they won't fall/blow over on warm days. The long wands leave plenty sticking out in case it snows/blows while you're up. I'm going to add some reflective tape to some of mine this year for kicks.

I LOVE cats!!!................in gravy

I agree. They'd melt out very quickly and fall over. Plus, for some of us colorblind folks, having a black bamboo wand contrasted against the white snow is a godsend. The skinny silver wire would be worthless in that regard.