billcoe

Hey, if you're going to sit on your ass and bitch like an internet climber (like the rest of us), and not a real climber like you are: the least you could do is share some awesome pics of you kicking ass out there someplace in the real world Mikey!

Cedar Wright looks like a good guy to partner with. Leader has his leg stuck and is threatening to full on blow and he stays right in the line of fire but best position to help. I was thinking if it was me in his place, I'd have a prussic on the TR line clipped to leaders harness and be out of underneath there and elsewhere within seconds of dudes first stomach contraction.

more like the bonehead has arrived. I can never tell if he's being incredibly sophisticated with his spray or he's a complete bonehead. ha ha! Left in extreme wonderment! Love it! Long time dude, show up more often.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Waarf. Better you chop your rope and die than one flake get rounded, that's what bone always say's. There's always more people to take their place, no loss, no worries!...Off to spray now, the bone has arrived. LOL! Hola Kevin!

http://outlet.libertymountain.com/shop/product.asp?p=2890&pg=3&c=2149&o=1&s=5 Semi-reasonable. As the dollar declines these will cost us more.

Yawn, of course "Pro-audacity", he's an open source guy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity

Whoh! you read some crazed stuff. Right below that was this one. Check out the last line which I made bold. "Man's penis freed from metal pipe with industrial grinder A man who got his penis stuck in a steel pipe had to be cut free by firefighters using a metal grinder, after doctors in casualty could not free his genitals from their metal trap. An angle grinder at work Medics at Southampton General Hospital struggled to get the man's penis out of the stainless steel pipe, because the restricted blood flow had caused it to become erect. Instead, they resorted called in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. The fire crew turned up with a special equipment unit from St Mary's station in Southampton and seven firefighters to help, in what a spokesman understatedly described as a 'delicate operation'. The firefighters used the four-and-a-half-inch industrial metal grinder to cut the pipe from around the anaesthetised man's penis. The penis was left bruised and swollen, but otherwise unharmed by its traumatic day. The man, thought to be aged around 40, did not explain to hospital staff how exactly the pipe got stuck around his penis, after he presented himself at the hospital's Accident & Emergency department on Tuesday morning. He was said to be 'quite concerned and anxious'. A Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: 'It was a very delicate operation that required a very steady hand and the crew was worried about things getting too hot during the cutting. 'It's certainly an unusual call-out, and I'm sure the man won't be getting into that situation again.' Watch manager Greg Garrett from the Redbridge fire station told the Southampton daily Echo: 'I’ve only come across this type of thing three or four times in my 17 years as a firefighter. It’s not a daily occurrence.'" huh, 3 or 4 times....what....wait.....

That's not a fair question Bill. See, I got old and fat, and currently have more money than brains or skill. Coupled with poor conditioning, I'd easily trade money for the weight: and lots of it - if it was needed for a project....well, you can see where I'm at. I see them come up for sale on occasion, and they are not near that price linked above. I bought a few in Oz few years back for $ 7 each, which seemed cheap. They are incredibly light, and for the route like you and Marcus did up in Alaska, peak 11,300? - you don't want to be carrying any weight if you could help it, let alone a bunch of Chouinard old school chrome moly steel. If you get up on a rock band someplace, a couple of these in the right place if you had N. Wall Hammer to wham em in......might save your life, reduce the time needed to bail or protect a deadly runout vergalased rock section. $30 still seems way high, $10 seems low (BD/Chouinard chromemoly pins are more than that now even used usually.) So someplace in between. If you are planning on heading to any of the international places where Russian go, (Tibet/Nepal/Kyrzkstan/Someortherstan) they might have sold some to finance a trip and you or a buddy could score big if you took a few extra bucks. Of course, I still can't conceive that someone paid $143 for a single USED Green Alien, so again, I'm probably a bad one to ask. Do you have a project coming up?

I had a great time hanging with you that day JH, thanks. It was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than what I've been doing, and having a great ground support crew (Kenny and Hanmi, a sharp-eyed pro photographer no less!) lined up, ready and dialed-in was awesome. BTW, I got home early and exhausted, had taken a shower and was probably sleeping by 3pm. My wife just shakes her head as I'm waking up all bleary-eyed, pillow-haired and muscle sore creaking around and smiling she says: "you sure got old:-)" It's nice to do something which has value to other people that is also enjoyable and in which one survives to play another day. Appreciate both your organizational skill of dialing this in and your company out there, thanks again for the invite. Good times! Thank you again for the photos Hanmi!

Great sequence Hamni, thanks for sharing them. Love how you panned on that boulder all the way down.

Yup, great looking kids Paul. They are always cute at that age, then they grow up LOL! My son finally took up climbing when he went off to college, he's home on summer vacation. Mom put him to work shoveling bark dust around the house and I did the same cleaning new lines. Here he is cleaning a new route we did that he named Runaway Weasel! The slab around the corner he's thinking will be named "Prancing Unicorn"..... When my buddies went to Yosemite, one rainy day they sat around the fire talking all the route names that could start with "Coe". A couple were disappointed that this one wasn't tagged "Coedependant". LOL

Yeah, ..and his face looks so sanguine!

Yes, it use to be. Wholly dependent on weather, slope conditions, party skill level, your confidence in your skill and theirs, what you would be facing on route -etc etc. None of us were there so can't call it at all IMO. They may have been plunge stepping down fantastically perfect slightly soft snow in awesome conditions and hit a short ice patch that they didn't see on the way up. Who knows. In either case, I suspect that there is nothing to learn which we do not already know. I read these with sadness, or when a family loses a great kid like Luke Guldberg and the 2 he was climbing with, but it happens -and when it does, it's always sad. These are choices we make to face these things or not, the mountains will never be 100% safe for any of us. Skill, talent and luck all are present in varying degrees - always. Regards to all. wow, 2 folks posted while I was typing, guess I need to speed up....

"The big spenders, whom you usually elect, tend to build powerful campaign organizations. Then they steam roll the small spenders, like myself, and then you elect the big spenders, and then you suffer under the tax burden that the big spenders put on your shoulders. You who are the workers have to carry the load of big government with its many acts of destruction and its many wasteful rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul programs and its various wars. You workers are carrying a heavy, heavy burden that you may have voted for. This limits the share of your production that is left over for you to consume. Although we sheeple are the foundation of power, we sheeple are regularly shorn. Let us unsabotage our economy. Vote for the small spenders ... especially the small spenders who understand economics." I can't argue with it....

Not Mark, Matt....Matt Spohn I think.... He posts on Cascadeclimbers so he can step up and say himself, but like many of your better climbers, dude climbs more than he posts. You been playing whack-a-mole with that thing? LOL! They should take it back, Metolius is good about that kind of thing.

I recently saw a used Green one go for $143 on ebay. Used! And then there are some for $60 on Mountain project right now that some guy is selling. Probably sold already though.

Well do as many as you can for sure! Woot! If it was me, I could only do the first 5 or 6 Biatches...even when I was young.

That was fast! Glad you enjoyed it Chirp!

Woot! I heard Hanmi has a photo of that?

That is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time! Thanks so much!

NICE FIND SWEAT! WOOT! That looks awesome, sick and crazy at the same time.

Well, at least it's large enough to adequately cover your grave. Ujahn had been talking up this finger crack route he'd been cleaning elsewhere. I went out one day and soloed climbed the route using his fixed line. I get up under this column that is the right side of his "fantastic Fingercrack". I look carefully and as the climbing was hard there and as I'm edging up directly under it notice that the damn thing is not touching the main wall on any of it's sides. It appears to be free hanging like an icecycle. It's just hanging free right over my head like the sword of Damoclese ready to chop my neck which I'd stuck right out there....holy crap, I can't reverse the moves without weighting the rope and the rope is going to put pressure on the upper part of this death block somewhere (that I can't even see from below) I don't know it my weight would dislodge the thing.....I had to weight it eventually. I felt so lucky that thing didn't fall off there as it would have been instant death. I come back and describe this to him, and we show up the next weekend with my pry bar. He goes up to lever and I was @ a 1/4 mile back ground spotting as he cranked this thing: which turned out to be @ 15' across and about that long, 2" out from the wall- @ 100' up. It moved remarkably easy and the roar and crash, despite being a long distance from my cush spot, still had me scrambling and moving at high speed to duck for cover behind the boulder I had been resting on. It was so loud!

I though that this part was right on the money and well spoken Bob.

WTF? Where you were: Where everyone else was: ps, you might take a hammer and duct tape & check the sharpness of that edge your rope is running over up there. Picture makes it look like it will core your rope if you pop the next piece up. Whew! 4th times a charm!

I just think he could possibly be a nice person if he'd stop being such a mean spirited- projecting attack assclown on about every thread he posts on. .... nah. Maybe not.