snoboy

Apparently you found it.

Feel free to ignore away. It's not gonna impinge on my free speech.

sausage fest right now.

Excellent solution to the Safeway Card dilemna.

Where is the self righteous discussion of NIKE's labour practices???

Then maybe it's time to think about rappelling... Yes, I agree that it would be a good way to lower an injured climber/leader. But I still stand by my assertion that a lot of people would have no idea how to do it properly.

I think all these ideas about using prussics and stuff to effect a transfer are actually quite misguided. Simple is better, and simple is safer IMO. What I do in a case like this is simply to use two belay devices. Lower until the knot is jammed on the first device, then get climber to unweight rope momentarily while I grab the other rope, and pop the 1st device off. Then climber weights rope again, and lower away. With communication and preplanning this is a very simple and safe system. I bet that a lot of people don't even know the proper way to set up a weight transfer with tied off munters and all that jazz. Not to mention that it could turn into a bit of a clusterf%^&k on your harness. As to the accident, I have really no idea what happened, not having been there, and so have no comments on what went wrong.

Don't show your license as ID...

Smart dogs... But then wouldn't the threat be a little reduced and the need to shoot the guy three more times be possibly elimanted??? Ahh, armchair 1/4-backing, love it.

Hmm, so a guy is "rushing at you with three rabid dogs"... you choose to shoot the guy??? The only person around who might have some control of the dogs??? WTF?

Yawn... oh was somebody saying something new? Oh, OK, didn't think so.

"Never clip in to the rap anchor if there is any other possible way down... if no other way down, clip in, better to die quickly, then suffer" Bastardization of a Twightism.

I did not choose my avatar pic, it chose me. As for my name, well, it seemed fitting.

Shouldn't that be "happy shoeping?"

Did you even look at OW's link??

read = I suck, and I have a good justification for it. But I am having fun anyways. Nothing wrong with that.

Yup, no PB in Canada. I pick it up when I come down to the states.

allergies... peanut butter... therefore no pb at school for the sake of little johnny who might die... Try living in Utah... Try living in B.C. No shit!

For some reason, even though corn season is supposed to be summer time, I always find the yummiest corn is this time of year.

I gotta do my laundry.

You are so suck End of discussion.

Yes, it does... looked pretty good. The Habrich Spur is not too aldery either.

Then you should give it to the grrrl.

I don't think you could keep the guy off the ground if he fell, (DUH!) but I think good spotter could do a couple of things that might help the guy out. 1 - Give him a nudge as he's falling to make sure he lands on the pads. 2 - keep him from cracking his head open...