Weekend_Climberz

Mmmmmmm.....Skiing, free food, and FREE BEER!!!! I heart Friday's !!1!!~

I've got six bags of quickcrete and room for two more CCer's if anyone else wants a ride out there. We're planning on climbing Saturday and working on placing signs on Sunday. Shoot me a PM.

I'll be digging holes and mixing quickcrete at a climbing area on Sunday. Does that count :tup:

He was fine, not a scratch. I ended up with a bloody chin since I had both hands on the rope and stopped his fall with my face Freaked me out more than it did him Afterwards, we had a long discussion about the rules of ice climbing. Rule #1: Don't fall on ice

Soloing 5.10c, right? WTF is up with the new flip flops, the colors don't match any of the socks I bought from last spring!!1!1 WTF!1~

Yeah, it's a bit foreshortened, but in all it was about a 30 footer. He was about 10 feet above the last screw and he pulled me up off the belay a few feet and with rope stretch it was a good distance. The pic was taken on Weeping Wall Left. He placed the screw to the right of the bad ice that he's climbing and only about 2cm of ice shattered around the tube. No screamer, too. Makes me much more confident in falling on one of those babies as long as the ice is good.

There's a difference between a slob and a pig. Most men I know (I happen to fall in most of the categories you listed: coding, general nerding, and accounting (I added that one, though)) [Can you tell I like to code with all the punctuation in weird places that don't make any sense?@!] fall under the general "slob" category regardless of profession. A slob just doesn't care if the socks are on the floor, dishes in the sink, etc, etc. A pig, on the other hand, doesn't know any better.

I've seen this recently, first hand In this pic, CBS fell just above where he's at in the pic (marked by X) to where I've circled in the lower right. I've also marked where his last screw was placed. He was lucky he fell upside down, that's the best way to do it, helmet first :tup:

I found to my surprise that my Silvretta 555's will fit my plastic boots. I haven't skiied in them, but probably will try it soon just to see if it'll work. I've climbed a bit of WI3 in my Garmont G-Lite's and they seemed pretty well suited for the task. I would want to do much more than WI4 in those beasts though.

I met Big Lou the first time I climbed Rainier. He wasn't that big and at 15, I was an inch taller than him already.

Also, knowing the way the USGS laid the lines on the maps the are in circulation will change your mind, too. They gave 2 pictures taken from a plane of an area at slightly different angles to a drafter and they looked a the photos and estimated the contours visually. You should be able to get yourself within 100 feet on a map with an altimeter and good reflector compass. I haven't used a GPS, nor will I, especially since China can shoot our satelites out of orbit now.

Favorite, ironically from Dirt, would have to be "Rain When I Die", though "I've Got Something (About You)" is my favorite song to jam on my guitar with Rain When I Die: Is she ready to know my frustration? What she slippin inside, slow castration Im a riddle so strong, you cant break me Did she come here to try, try to take me Did she call my name? I think its gonna rain I Know Something (About You): Why can't I take it all OK? I like to dig and fuck around with your day I'm gonna tell your mamma Yeh I'm gonna blackball your name Ain't no way you'll go without me Every chance I'll make you pay On your space, in my face, I tell you I know Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin' 'Bout you, I know somethin' Why can't I put your words away I'd like to have more of you in my veins I'm gonna tell your papa Yeh I'm gonna try and ball your babe Your gold key don't fit my crapper Ain't got no shit today On your space, in my face, I tell you I know Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin' 'Bout you, I know somethin' } I'm gonna tell your mama Yeh I'm gonna blackball your name Ain't no way you'll go without me Every chance I'll make you pay On your space, in my face, I tell you I know Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin' 'Bout you, I know somethin' When I die Was it something I said, held against me? Aint no life on the run, slowly climbing Caught in ice so she stares, stares at nothing I can help her but wont, now she hates me She wont let me hide She dont want me to cry Will she keep on the ground, trying to ground me Slowly forgive my lie, lying to save me Could she love me again, or will she hate me Probly not, I know why, cant explain me

Facelift is much much harder than both of those albums and was by far my favorite. Some of the live shizzle in the box set is good too. Anyone got some old Green River?? There's a defunk Seattle band that kicked some ass, just about as hard as Mother Love Bone. Anyone catch that guy Sean Smith's show locally? Heard he does some good MLB reditions :tup:

I think he means Truth is Stranger than Friction That's the one, now that is some classic CC.com shizzle. :tup:

Dang, I thought the one I posted was good. But, alright, here's another: Damn Rooster, that's a fucked up egg you laid there. I didn't think rooster's laid eggs though, but whatever, not that there's anything wrong with that. He's a local guidebook author and luckily my girlfriend wasn't home, because he would have taken her home, too. Not strange at all.....you obviously have never met John. I've met John briefly to exchange beer for cash. Good beer by the way :tup:

I'm I the only one who finds it a bit odd that John named off hot "Guys" and not "Gals"? Anyway, I met CC.com's latest hottest couple last night and had dinner with them. I don't know how he does it, but that guy is a straight PIMP.

Ray Charles...

I think the swivel action is mainly used for when you are belaying a leader, i.e. not in autoblock mode. Haven't used one though, so I'm really not that sure.

Dont engage him. He is trolling. That is his favorite saying. Correction, that's George Lowe's favorite line. Dru is just plagerizing.

Hey, where's that post about the dude sketching on Diedre that the poster met that morning. Someone should bump that, that was a funny random climbing partner story.

I have tip loops that I'd give to you for free. The catch is that they are pretty wide. They almost slide past the widest part of my BD Arch Angels. I think the tip is 110mm or something like that.

I don't know Kev, I'd take DSL over cable any day.

Is that Will Gadd's girlfriend??

I would think the Johanessberg area would be great in winter, though the access is a bit more complicated. Maybe even Mazama :tup:

Hey, now it's Tvash in the news: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17381933/