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Please study the fingers necessary at these concerts in the poster below so that you are in tune with the rest of the fans.

Yes, join the club.

Hopefully that arm there, which pitched the 1st 8 innings of Health care so well, can hold out to pitch the big Nuclear Power plants. HAH! you thought you'd avoid this didntya!??! LOl Speaking like Elvis: :Thank yew, thank yew very much"....

RC.Com has tried to do exactly that Goatboy, however, when an accident is still fresh, open debate of any sort, even discussing only the technical issues involved in a highly moderated thread, often comes off as rough and mean sounding. ("Ed Earl had put his hash pipe down and backed off the edge of the cliff thinking his rappel setup was looking good, while Bubba, his partner, was busy picking up the pipe and firing a bowl while forgetting to eye Ed Earls setup") You might check it out, they are able to make it work most of the time.

damdest things. Don't look like they'd work very well. http://chickenscreamer.com/#

Agreed, but it didn't happen unless there's pictures Noggin!

Now that's a trip report! Nice to see someone not getting rained on, and actually getting on something~! Cold though it was.

NAH, SLAGGING ON OTHERS DOING IT WHILE CONTRIBUTING NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE ONESELF ON THE INTERNET IS:-) What else can you do when it's raining so hard? I still have moss on my harness and gobies on the backs of my hands from the rain and moss soaked cracks of the weekend before. This looks much more fun. Drier as well. Any climbing pics Jefe? Don't make us beg. COMMMMEEEEOOOOONNNNNN!!!!!!!!1111

http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/North_America/United_States/Oregon/Portland_Metro_Area/Rat_Cave/ We're hiding the location of the rat Cave 'cause there's a line of folks waiting to get on these routes? Mayhaps someone needs to discuss it over there on RC.com I wonder where all them rocks are coming from laying there in the dirt?

I don't agree.

From the news. No. Armchair quarterbacking isn't a good thing as none of us were there. The news is notoriously incomplete and fragmented on stories like this. There were other climbers around at the time as they called 911, they didn't try to go for it either and there's probably a good reason they didn't take a shot at it. Or they did and we didn't hear it from the news. We can't speak to any of this in truth. For myself, from being up there, I can say that I would have tried to have walked towards the north and down then around what amounts to what is a fairly gentle slope. I have not made that hike before as they don't want anyone in the crater, then hopefully the helicopter would have dropped supplies to me for overnighting. It might not be a feasible thing to consider, especially without skis. Possibly, despite the minimal snow we have seen this year, there could still be waist deep snow there and passage neigh impossible with my walk-around idea. We really don't know anything, we weren't there. Eventually we will hear the whole story I'm sure, until then, I shouldn't be speculating and I apologize for doing so. Here's to hope of a rescue still, and not a recovery.

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Kelso-climber-fell-near-craters-Shoestring-Notch-84486752.html They give all kinds of details but not if he got fished out. I woke up twice last night (oh, the joys of being old) and was thinking of this guy alone and in the cold, possibly separated from his backpack and laying in the snow with a broken leg or hip: as I listened to the rain pelting onto my roof inside my nice warm home. To anyone who climbs with me, I ain't coming back without you. If you spend the night out, I'm there with ya unless I absolutely have to go for help, and even then, I'll be trying my best to make sure you got an extra layer of my clothes on you and my pack to lay on before I sprint. I expect the same from anyone who goes out with me. Hopefully that happened in this case, we don't know from the fragmented reports. This kind of thing could easily happen to any of us (as Nate says above) Hoping for the best for this guy and that he gets out to give his loved ones a hug and to get out and climb again. Full story text: "by Eric Adams Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- The climber who fell into Mount St. Helens on Monday was located near a well-known area, the Shoestring Notch, just behind a glacier with the same name, according to rescuers with the U.S. Coast Guard. Shoestring Notch is located in the southeast corner along the volcano crater's back wall, which is 8,600 feet tall according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Those who know him described Joseph Bohlig as an experienced climber who's summitted St. Helens nearly 70 times. Skamania County Undersheriff David Cox said he fell 1,500 feet to the rocky crater floor." opps, I see LCK just linked the same story.

Just follow the Mfg directions. Water or a little woolite in a washing machine, both are fine. Air dry. I'd use cold water in either case, there is some natural shrinkage and you want to minimize it. I've heard of people putting them into a pillowcase to eliminate the tangling, but I've never bothered. I use steel for toproping (steel carabiners and belay device like a DMM V-twin or gri gri) to minimize the black you get off of aluminum and thus have to wash less. Did the person who recommended that you get a new one once the old one became dirty, did they suggest they could take that old dirty one off your hands?

I'd be reading what Jayb says fairly carefully and argueing a tad less with him, he called the last housing price decrease/crisis in this country.

Congrats for sure, thats a huge accomplishment for sure!. For me, there's nothing quite like climbing with your kid: got any pictures to punctuate the story? My son last November, home from college for Thanksgiving in the pic below topping out on the FA of the route Opdycke named "Child Abuse" LOL. I'm still cleaning the blackberry bushes out of it, check out under his feet. Bring some pics when you have a moment.

opps, logged in with the wrong avatar this time did we:-) ? I'll keep that info about the clogged toilet handy though.

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/941842/Re_WTF_Climber_falls_on_St_Hel#Post941842

It was 1pm when the authorities were notified, it appears from the story that although his buddies had plenty of time, they didn't go get him, probably expecting that someone else would take care of it. If that's true, then I agree with the WTF part of your title. The search is suspended until tomorrow...dudes laying up there right now. Shit.

Sure thing Brah, tight pants, the least of your issues. From the story "Nate Holland is a man of conviction and dedication to his cause. He is seeking to rid the world of what he considers the most heinous offense in the history of snowboarding. We're talking, of course, about tight pants." Young folks...sheese. Sadly we saw the loss of a young person today on the mountain and I'm sure that tight pants were not any kind of an issue. "by David Krough Posted on February 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM today at 3:15 PM ****** GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. -- A snowboarder was killed in an accident at Mt. Hood Meadows Saturday. Mt Hood Meadows spokesman Dave Tragethon said 23-year-old Kyle Cryblsky of Vancouver died in a fall at the Rose City terrain park, an area with jumps and rails for experienced riders. Cryblsky had come off a jump when he crashed. He was pronounced dead at the resort's clinic. Tragethon said Cryblsky was not wearing a helmet, but medical examiners had not determined the exact cause of death."

I'm reviewing small cams right now. Short version: pass on the Splitters. Look carefully at Zeros and Mastercams and pick the one you like best. One caveat, the Zeros perform great once you get them out of the store. Unless you had a project in mind, aid climb on thin cracks or are a gear whore, pass on the 2 or 3 smallest Zeros.

Well, although my interest in Joe and what he thinks can be measured in micro-give-a-shits, for those who need Joes help in choosing a political candidate to vote for, here's the full text:

If that was you climbing underneath me yesterday right when I was to commence tossing rocks off, then I accept your apology. If however, this is just you having an EMO moment at the keyboard Keith...well, sack up and stick around bubba. This asylum can use the occasional voice of reason, you can't go off and leave Off White to the wolves and the crazies all alone. Seriously....

..or maybe:

yeah? What pic? I know, lets all guess what it would be! My guess, it was this tattoo: