snoboy

Nice rig! I think they got you covered, but there is: 1) Canting - just like an alpine boot. side to side. 2) Walk/Ski mode - little switchy thing on back of boot. Probably has 3 positions walk (open), forward lean, and more forward lean. Now there's still one thing missing, no? FRESHIEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean like bolts?

I bounce my hooks sometimes. Gently! DFA I was tauhgt to bounce the s$%^ out of stuff. The idea is that if you really load a piece then you know it will hold a fall if the next piece blows while testing it. Otherwise you never really know, and you get higher and higher wondering if any of the stuff below is any good at all??? Then you test less and less, and eventually you blow a piece. I dunno about new wave sick aid stuff though.

I've always felt that there is no such thing as unbiased reporting. Therefore the fairest thing is for reporters to make their bias known.

I thought about this, but never tried it yet. If you put the L-piece on the outside, and sandwiched it to a piece on the inside that connected the two runners, then you wuld probably have something pretty strong. What I envisioned is a piece of thin plywood cut to fit the inside of the sled, and then bolt the two runners through the bottom of the sled and through the ply. Then most of the force is on the ply, and the plastic is there just to make it all slide nice. You might want the traces to pull on the plywood too. I've heard good things about the crazy carpet system that fern described though. Cheap too, and easier to carry on the pack if there are sections where a sled is not appropriate.

I was in an old mine with my Tikka once and I had the same thing. I couldn't see more than about three feet?!?! Yet outside I can see thirty feet with it? wid dat?

Woot! was that your first ?!?

I keep forgetting I have a hot tub this summer

What you gonna learn belaying??? THe classic aid "lesson" from me involves shouting directions up to some one who is totallly clusterf$%^ed on lead. I'm the one who gets the novel! Lets have an aid fest when Muffy comes up!

If I wasn't clear in my answer please let me know. GregW - I understood your answer, but I think it's that very belief that makes me puzzled. The way I see it is that the military is a branch of or a tool of the administration. Most of the time the people in the military have chosen to be there, no? Obvious exception when there is a draft or likewise. So... in my reasoning the people in the military are choosing to do the will of the government. Now if you don't agree with what the government has chosen to do, then why should you support the people who have chosen to help them do it? I understand thinking of them as individuals and all. I mean if it was a brother/cousin/friend of mine in the army/navy, I would be all for them getting back alive and all, but I don't think I would agree with what they were doing...

tomcat - I asked Gregw why someone should support the soldiers even if they didn't agree with the reasons for the war. You obviously agree with going to war. So you don't really help answer my question. Thanks for coming out though.

OK granted they are not "my boys" and it is not my country, but why the f#$% would you support something if you doon't agree with it???

From canada.com : Typo in the news wire??? CAA bulletin says for South Coast: The WB web site is down, maybe they really did get buried!

muffy is the biggest prankster of them all muffy is real and not just someone's alterego muffy is accompanied by her little penguin friend & a working compass muffy is an eccentric and well mannered neutered male muffy is a mom muffy is essentially your everyday ditzy mallrat muffy is waiting not so patiently for spring muffy is apparently her real name

Translation: "If the protestors looked like me and thought what I did, then I might listen to them."

No, he just has a new computer... dru at home! snoboy is the brand under which we proudly market our fresh produce snoboy is clubbed in the head with the stick before he can even say anything that's all folks.

Wouldn't an L-shaped piece work just as well? Aluminum might be strong enough, and certainly lighter than SS. I know you can usually find that sort of stuff easier than T's.

I dunno what plastic the boots are made from, but I know they can weld plastic kayaks back together...

try tucows.com or something... Google it.

Kamloops is in the middle of everything. Not too much in town, but not too far from anything. One of the reasons the Adventure Tourism program is based there. I have climbed there at the Beach, and at Roche Lake. They are both OK sport crags. If you go to the gym called Rope's End they have some topos of the area, and will point you in the right direction. Roger's Pass is not to far for w/e trips, Squamish is about 4-1/2 hours over the duffy. What you schooling there?

That's odd, coz I use LimeWire too, and I swear I am on a windoze machine Yeah LW's good. It's a Gnuttela network client(?). Friends "in the know" tell me Gnuttela is so last year, but I can't remember what's cool for this year.

If ya go to Zombie - try the one that starts in the left corner and then goes l-r across the roof. Maybe there is more than one that fits that description, I'm thinking of one about a metre out from the back wall. Make sure you bring the lowe balls.

Whoa! You're starting to sound like your roomie there a-gal!