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    Are reservations needed for the Tilly Jane AFrame?

    in the *freshiezone*

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    That's the story. No reservations are required for small groups. Tho’ what constitutes a "large" group hasn't been very well defined. Hopefully, common sense and courtesy will prevail and no one’ll get bent when I crash their scout troop or church social. Also, there’s a larger stove in the cook hut this year, so overflow or early risers can head over there. Have fun.

    Joke: Never argue with a woman

    in Spray

    Posted

    Long years of married life have taught me that there are only two ways to argue with a woman.

    Unfortunately, neither one works… cry.gif

     

    Got this in the mail today:

     

    Two cars were waiting at a stoplight. The light turned green, but the

    man didn't notice it. A woman in the car behind him is watching

    traffic pass around them. The woman begins pounding on her steering

    wheel and yelling at the man to move. The man doesn't move.

     

    The woman is going ballistic inside her car, ranting and raving at

    the man, pounding on her steering wheel and dash. The light turns

    yellow and the woman begins to blow the car horn, flips him off, and

    screams profanity and curses at the man.

     

    The man, looks up, sees the yellow light and accelerates through the

    intersection just as the light turns red.

     

    The woman is beside herself, screaming in frustration as she misses

    her chance to get through the intersection. As she is still in

    mid-rant she hears a tap on her window and looks up into the barrel

    of a gun held by a very serious looking policeman.

     

    The policeman tells her to shut off her car while keeping both hands

    in sight. She complies, speechless at what is happening. After she

    shuts off the engine, the policeman orders her to exit her car with

    her hands up. She gets out of the car and he orders her to turn and

    place her hands on her car. She turns, places her hands on the car

    roof and quickly is cuffed and hustled into the patrol car. She is

    too bewildered by the chain of events to ask any questions and is

    driven to the police station where she is fingerprinted,

    photographed, searched, booked and placed in a cell.

     

    After a couple of hours, a policeman approaches the cell and opens

    the door for her. She is escorted back to the booking desk where the

    original officer is waiting with her personal effects.

     

    He hands her the bag containing her things, and says, "I'm really

    sorry for this mistake. But you see, I pulled up behind your car

    while you were blowing your horn, flipping the guy off in front of

    you, and cussing a blue streak at him. Then I noticed the 'Choose

    Life' license plate holder, the 'What Would Jesus Do' bumper sticker,

    the 'Follow Me to Sunday School' bumper sticker, and the chrome

    plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. So, naturally, I assumed

    you had stolen the car."

     

     

    Teles take over mt Bachelor!

    in the *freshiezone*

    Posted

    AlpineK said:

    There's nothing wrong with resort skiing. It's fun, and it helps you log enough dh time so when you go bc skiing you can rip it up.

     

    Sure, it's fun. Fun like crack. mushsmile.gif

    One little taste and you're hooked. ("This snow seems sketchy, let's go ride.") Next thing ya know, you're just another Romper Suited Tosser cruising the groomiez with your pack on. boxing_smiley.gif "I'm really a backcountry skier. No, REALLY I am! Lookit my bindings!"

     

    Most Hardcore Epic ever?

    in Climber's Board

    Posted · Edited by nonanon

    tshimko said:

    Alpine_Tom said:

    Another hardcore epic: in 1893, Fridtjof Nansen deliberately embedded a specially-built ship into the Arctic icepack......

     

    Nansen's story is right up with my all time favorites. The story of two men having made a Farthest North and then taking more than a year to get back to civilization is incredible. Wintering over in a cave-like shelter made from stones.

     

    Farthest North is one of the best books I've ever read, but they were all so damn competent I wonder whether their adventure was an "epic" or not.

     

    Creative uses for leftover skin fragments?

    in the *freshiezone*

    Posted

    cj001f said:

    nonanon said:

    A few years back there was a tip in Climbing about sticking them to the bottom of your rock shoes for short snow approaches.

    That has to be the sketchiest advice I've ever heard of from one of those columns. Pray tell what conditions would this be useful in?

     

    Dood. It was in Climbing! hahaha.gif

     

    But if memory serves, the advisor in question was talking about a snowfield at the bottom of a route on Longs Peak, fwiw.

     

     

    Creative uses for leftover skin fragments?

    in the *freshiezone*

    Posted

    jaee said:

    Stick a couple on the bottom of your sled so it doesn't slide backwards on uphill slogs when you stop.

     

    Okay, I know you are, but are you Me???

     

    That's what I use 'em for too. I stick them to the inside of my sled until I need 'em, which has only ever been a couple of times. A trail gets too steep and I'd rather take a pack.

     

    A few years back there was a tip in Climbing about sticking them to the bottom of your rock shoes for short snow approaches.

     

    Moon's gonna make for a great winter camping weekend this coming. Long as the clouds cooperate which they won't.

    Brush with Greatness

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    I worked for Karim Abdul Jabbar in the eighties. We’d talk about biking. He had a Strawberry with a top tube that came up to my shoulders. Nice guy.

     

    One morning I got to the compound in Brentwood and the only car in the courtyard was his Blazer. No security staff, no housekeepers or landscrapers or contractor’s vans, it was very odd… I rang the buzzer and waited by the gate but no one answered. I could see his car and someone was always there, so I just kept ringing. Finally, Karim comes over the intercom in a very bad mood and shouts, “Who is it?” “It’s me,” says I, “here to install your trophy shelves.” “Well you’ll have to come back tomorrow,” he moaned. I apologized but insisted on coming in as all my tools were on site and I had a truck load of shelving materials to off-load.

     

    Eventually, he caved and buzzed me in. Sometime after lunch a couple of tile setters showed up. Apparently, the Lakers had lost the NBA championships the night before. Who knew? Karim stopped talking to me after that.

    Tele Bindings

    in the *freshiezone*

    Posted

    Hell, I am a 'Grandpa' and I've broken every part there is to break on the Voile CRBs. Any advantages of having 3-pins and cables are kinda beside the point when you break off the side of the toecup (twice) or the spring cartridge casing cracks and spits your release spring out into the snow (3 times.) I got so tired of doing field repairs I gave up on releaseables entirely. Saves on duct tape.

     

    If the question is O2s or Targas, T9s are the answer.

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    Bizarre Movies

    in Spray

    Posted

    I thought Requiem for a Dream and Spun borrowed a lot from Drugstore Cowboy, both technically and thematically. You could throw some Salton Sea in that soup too.

     

    The more movies I see the more I like Kill Bill.

     

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