billcoe

If anyone hasn't seen it yet, check out the Micro (not Mini) Traxion for this job. It's the total shizz!

IMO Black Diamond Camalots are better cams. Not just better for the price as they are cheaper: better. As far as the "deformation" thing noted above goes, outside of seeing one or 2 pictures of the smallest Metolius cams (the aid climbing pieces) being broken when someone took a free climbing whipper on one, I've never seen one of those deform either. Cheaper. Lighter. Better than Dragons.

I can understand why you won't be able to buy it now. It's gone up to $138,322 since I posted that earlier today. Maybe this clock is broken? http://www.usdebtclock.org/

You mad about this at all? http://www.usdebtclock.org/ It's the US debt clock. Clinton had that under control. Bush went crazy and fired it up, then Obama as done everything in his power to make it spin faster. The wrong way. Each and every US taxpayer now owes $138,311. EACH. We seem unable to even slow it down by spending less or taxing more. So we keep borrowing and borrowing even knowing that most of the $ we are borrowing is just going down the toilet via worthless and wasteful Big Government projects. ...what was the question again? Oh, right. no.

From the wayback machine, (I don't remember any of this). European dude. Eurospiders. Eurotrash. Not Asian, although they may be heading that way next. You got the rest of it right but forgot that there are also 2 kinds of aliens inhabiting the earth right now. The big ones and the Greys. Greys are the little ones, which the big ones eat, and they eat an occasional human as well. And you call yourself a teacher..... ______________________________________________________________ Jim also has Stewart's stuff - young Chris pulled it off and gave to Jim. Evidently a #7 stopper held the fall and is now fixed as a testament to both the strength of stoppers, and as a way to commemorate Stewarts fall. Praise be it wasn't an Alien, or you'd have been lunch eh? Damn RIGHTEOUS CHRIS! http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/715302/Re_blownout#Post715302 Looks like the nut was left in at this point. 8/2007

Looks like a good job on the info presentations. Thanks for sharing it Paul. This looks interesting: As the 4th edition just came out, this has to be the companion version with all these rumored new climbing areas scattered all around in them. Looks like it's time as any day now given that it's April, it will be summer:-)

I understand. The Mayor, aka Woo Li master named this route below as well. This is Jeff Thomas's picture of my son fighting the blackberries (ALL of the greenery in this picture is blackberries) following the first ascent. Route name: Child Abuse . LOL, Jim cracks me up.

Apparently knot, but feel free to pitch some route names out there. The Mayor of Beacon came off of it, looked up and enthusiastically and loudly exclaimed: "SWEET FUCKER". Thus, named.

Don't need booze for that.

We've stolen a lot of foods and done OK, but the Vietnamese have stolen *cough** borrowed* some (French, Chinese are the 2) and absolutely mastered them. Wow!

You need to get out of the house more, the horn of Africa, despite otherwise being a shithole in many respects, has some amazing sauces on foods. Syria....sauces...uhhh..... good hashish that they get from Lebanon? (ie, blond Lebanese! Woot!) ..nevermind...LOL

2 questions, what kind of a deal, (ie, size, type etc etc) and what's your real name? (sorry, I don't like talking to pretend people). Mine is my avatar. Bill

E-OMC is next up just in time for spring. 10.2 x 60 M for $101.95 http://www.e-omc.com/catalog/products/7262/Sterling-Evolution-Kosmos-VR10-102-mm-x-60-m-Rope.html

They are Ivan, stainless too. They'll be there for generations with any luck so that when Wolf comes along at 6'8" and 250-260, he can pitch at will with joy and glee. PS, I have a Leeper friend of a friend if you want to borrow it Adam. They are marginally effective for Metolius cams but will work. Get a hammer and a funkness, pull the triggers via the friend of a friend and WHAM!!! They look like this:

Thanks for the Trip report Max!

It was the Heavens Gate spaceship.....a bit late for the Heavens Gate crew no doubt, but they had to stop at an intergalactic piss station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29

Me too! That statement caused me to look it up too. Despite being the guy in charge of EOD for our company when I was military and having worked with a lot of dynamite and C4, I'd never heard of it either. Igneous rocks !:-) Ivans gonna turn that little thing into a fist crack! YEAH, GO IVAN GO!!!!

Folks who know him say just the opposite of that chirp. That he's kind,generous and thoughtful. Good dude.

"Icicle TV", heh heh -love it! LOL! Thanks for sharing.

Jesus Ivan, I hope it works out for your little brother...it sounds bad. I got a voice mail from the Hound looking for a partner but missed the call, hope he got one lined up and some laps in someplace.

Thanks for the report Mike. Do you mean Evolv Cruzer? http://www.evolvsports.com/shop/approach-shoes/cruzer-slate/ I love the Evolv shoes. I have a pair of Guide Tennies and wonder why I waited so long to get them. BTW, if anyone is thinking of taking out a second mortgage and getting the LaSportiva Gandas: real good shoe but not even close to worth the $ IMO. They're very comfortable and run true to size, but they weigh more than the Guide Tennies and don't kick steps any better for the extra weight. Again,. that's IMO. Thanks for the heads up on the Evolv shoes Mike. How is the sizing? Evolv is all over the map on that. The tennis shoes they use to sell were sized wayyy wrong. For instance, a 10 would fit me, but I wear an 8-1/2 street shoe. In fact, I still have an old pair of Evolv tennis shoes (close to unworn, but ugly green) that might fit a 7 -7 1/2 foot that they called a size 8-1/2 or 9.

what's your problem with guns, nancy? His name's Rob, not Nancy. Ivan,I thought you were going to talk on this: http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/04/19/holocaust-remembrance-day-more-important-every-year

Huh? Anyway.....Canada has nothing on us. http://www.newser.com/story/144443/pregnant-man-splits-from-wife.html Idiots and their money are soon parted.

No need. Go see a doctor or go to the clinic. You can get shots to fix that drip ya know:-) jus' sayin'...

Ummm, glad they are so pro-active and agree with your last point as well. I do think folks would need to check that hip belays were being adequately taught. That's the only criticism I think which might (or might not) hold water. I do not believe the OP's statement, or that any guide would be doing a hip belay incorrectly, but will add that in the alps, shoulder belays are still utilized to this day. I guided for many years for a couple of organizations, and was just stopping due to having kids about when the AMGA was being established. My buddy got certified, but I passed on it. Having seen the process of certification evolve over the years, I am 99 percent certain that you or the guide service do not have to worry what an anomys internet poster thinks. Us internet people just generally tend to be full of crap. However, the guide service might consider (if they have not done so) doing a review of former clients. Call or otherwise contact them, to check in and see how they are doing: what was right about their experience with you, and what could be improved (if anything). Feedback is valuable on many levels, and the service might get some referrals out of the deal as well.