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The dog was there for technical assistance only and not needed in this case. I should have re-consulted her: however, as the one 2nd from the right is a Cassin (the great climber Ricardo Cassin just turned like 93 years old and there was a nice interview in Climbing mag with the man himself) and the one on the right is a Stubai. Which one of the Forrests is the newer design ?

Does anyone know the reason that the 2 Forrests are different sizes and one has the lanyard in the handle and not the end?

Only for crawling in the dirt Spence. Wouldn't work well for climbing at all.

I'm sure she would be if she heard that comment:-)

There's enough laws already. Suppose you could choose "None of the above" on a ballot. Congress would never have a quorum again.

Kevin ____________________________________________________________________ At the risk of feeling old: be careful Ivan... love ya bra... but.......(insert cranky old finger wagging style text here) [/rant]

Found this on Rockclimbing.com thread. RC.com thread here LInk to Canadian co

Whoa: full value day! Thanks for the look at it too.

Dude! You got a book? Damn, now, you AND Chongo both have books! Who knew? Link to Chongos book list

I think that's pretty good advice for a beginning (1st post no less) advice columnist! Bravo! BTW, I'll be copying and pasting this for Pope later when he gets his panties in a bunch again if that's OK with you.

Agreed. One can't help but notice the irony: GOP post-surge withdrawal timeline = Mission Accomplished. DNC post-surge withdrawal timeline = Admitting Defeat. Sorry dude, but what planet are you from if you think that the Iraqis, who are driving this, are either Republican or Democrat. You should read the artical you linked, it's interesting.

Good news all the way around. Last I saw, it's still their country. They have their own constitution you know. It's difficult to accept good news, but lets not look this gift horse in the mouth hey? Per artical. "What's changed? The sharp reduction in violence in Iraq - to the lowest level in four years - has made the country's leaders increasingly confident and more assertive about its sovereignty, giving rise to demands for a specific plan for American forces to leave." "So far, the United States has handed control of 10 of 18 provinces to Iraqi officials."

Yes it must be the middle part of the sequence. 1) Spray about the secret place on the net. 2) Have it picked up en mass by the pleebes, dicks and asswipes. 3) Either lament the closure, or reminisce about the old days before the government got involved and started dogging everyone and charging for parking. #2 commencing.

I totally agree with your first post David. I think you'll find it even more true as you get older:-) I sure do.

7/03/08 166 6/27/08 164 6/20/08 167 7/18/08 164

Not weird at all. You ever see Hodads planting trees? BTW, I fully expect this to be the most viewed thread on CC.com if you add a few more pictures.

Ditto, and I was going to tell my own wasp story how Wasps and rappelling don't mix but will lead to over 300 stings: no need now.

Not necessary at all unless you eat Kosher or vegetarian!

For Bolt replacement. link

Love that, come along with Eldiente and me sometime then, your racks.

""The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," Gore said in a speech during an energy conference in Washington. "The future of human civilization is at stake." Gore, who was Bill Clinton's vice president, called for the kind of concerted national effort that enabled Americans to walk on the moon almost 39 years ago..." You disagree with this?!

BTW, 2 of those are 7.8 Metolius twins. 1 is a 9.1, 1 is a 70m 9.4 and the rest of them are rock climbing lead ropes. Oh, I let out my snow rope to Ujahn so he could do Hood. So add another rope there. I also have a 7mm trail line does that count? I don't buy every rope I post, I put it here so that my brothers can be schwinging on new cord.

I have 3 hanging off a remote cliff. 2 in my car. 4 in my basement and one on order. You got a calculator?

pftt, I'll have my hair oil free by them.

*Leading a new route at Elgin Wall @31-32 years ago, (1976) rattlesnake rattled right in the face as my face cleared a ledge. Dropped down and downclimbed. *New route at Rocky Butte, was top rope soloing up to pull a loose rock I'd missed on rap off, it came off easy enough, and I'd stepped up to a stance and was standing there looking up and around, feeling like the movement was so good of a feeling that I should just finish to the top, when I hear a hissing right to the left of my crotch. A bat had been under that flake and it was ANGRY! I almost pissed on myself. * I had considered doing what appeared to be a perfect line, ground up, couple months back. Instead, I cautiously rapped and tossed rock on the line just to the East of it. After I cleaned and led that one, went up and traversed over to my original route which I'd passed on, and after a short bit of shoveling work, exposed a boulder which my earlier perception from below had caused me to believe was part of the wall, but was in fact a detached boulder about 7 feet across, 6' high and 2-3 feet deep. It came off shockingly easy, swept the route and took out a few trees as it cascaded down the hillside below. It would have killed me had I stepped on it via a ground up ascent. Biggest was the snake. And the guy who had his rope break on rappel, that was a close second.