billcoe

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:

I'll take the Whisperlite and stove stuff. You OK with shipping? Let me know your paypal. thanks bill

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

I'll admit that I find it much easier to buy stuff than to part with it jj. LOL per your link: What you say is true JJ in that dude is seriously selling a reasonable deal, but I agree with Sol in that you have a choice and don't have to buy any or all of these. My starting price is $198. I could not even come close to affording one of these in 1996 when they were new and sold for $585 (w/fly) http://www.bigwalls.net/climb/A5f/1996Catalog.pdf I won't let it go for less than $198. Perhaps you should see what a new one is going for? http://www.ems.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3659353&avad=1768_f2bf61f9&emssrcid=AFF:AL1497 Sometimes they have 20% off sales which would be a great deal...what's that? $520 bucks or so. If you want to wait for a sale. They don't have a fly BTW, flys are $200 more. If someone is staring a trip where they need that Fish they have on order, but which won't be there when they need one of these, they can buy one of these now for the $399 price or wait and snag it at the last moment for under $200....or whatever. If you, they or anyone want to pay $649 (again, no fly) for a brand new one in this kind of condition (except my name isn't scrawled on it), have at it (Black Diamond single). Maybe you should send a note to the retailers asking $649 for a new one with no fly noting to them that their price is out of line? The deal of a used one you note has the 2 straps bolted together and nicks in the bed: go ahead and get that one. I'm not being mean or starting a fight either. It's all good, and I'll still bet that ledge is a steal (except it sold immediately), despite the condition. I've never seen one sell for so low, and it was purchased close to immediately at that price with a back up post, which means that others recognized it as a supremo deal too. But ya don't know the condition and he didn't post pics. It would suck to have the straps fall apart on a wall. In the middle of the night. Where there was no moon. And your headlamp got dumped out of yer bag cause ya didn't have it tied in cause it was in yer bag. Right after you smoked a doobie and crawled into blissful sleep. And were in serious dehydration deficit to boot.... LOL In either case, ya got options, I don't think selling a like new product for between $198-$399 that would sell for $649 new is a bad deal. You do, so don't buy it. Thanks for the bump and the heads up too. I'd prefer the heads up rather than wonder why no one is bidding. Thanks. Take care all Bill

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.

I'm sure I'll piss someone off, but I have 2 A5/North face portaledges for sale and figured folks here are the kind who would want to know it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/320893676940?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Single-A5-North-Face-Portaledge-Black-Diamond-/320893674176?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab6c0e2c0

"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.

I guess when your buddy says "don't smoke that Piss" or "don't smoke that shit", folks need to be listening? Was that piss called "Old Yeller?"

LOL! You don't want to compare my grades to most little kids but especially your son unless you need some belly laughter LOL. Congrats to the boy on the 5.14! OK, I'll fess up. I climbed with my boy and his buddy over spring break week, it was awesome. The awesome part was how stoked they got. Hardest thing that wasn't a bolt clip up was Frogland in Red Rocks. Less than 3 hours on route which I consider good time for 3folks, 2 of whom are beginners. We had good changeovers. Stan Miller and Steve Lyford did that for the first time last year (onsight - W/no topo) from the base to the car in 1:40min at the end of a long day in BlackVelvet Canyon - timed. Here they are on their first gear leads ever.

About a month later, $138,155 is the number each of us taxpayers owes. This clock runs faster than Steve Prefontaine ever did.

Just re-read Dredereks advice below and relax. For myself, I think that there are several issues with what you say, not the least of which is the selfishness you show. Maybe you learned via osmosis, but the rest of us didn't. Having professionals teach beginners helps minimize the death and destruction noobs cause themselves without it. And the soft rubber on rock shoes will polish rock faster than street shoes. Then to complete your display of selfishness when you are not well received here after displaying such a display of selfish entitlement, you toss it off like it's everyone else that is wrong and you leave. A quick note here to you: it's you. It's not us. Not knowing you or the guides skill level, you could have wandered over and helped him with the hip belay and might have learned something new yourself, or help someone else to learn something new as well. Guides in Europe still toss on a standing shoulder belay for clients in the alps. (it makes me shiver just thinking of it)

Would it be A: Evolv Geshidos in 7's, 39.5? Option B: - the mighty "MORE POWER" Optimius Primes with Trax rubber. size 8 (41) Or lastly, Option C: the Evolv Predators in size 7 (39.5) Wait, could there be an option D? "ALL OF THE ABOVE" $85 EACH!

Woof

LOL, I guess that's possible as it was damned windy that day and getting windier by the hour. By 3 PM we got tired of being beat up and we were stopping climbing and calling it a day after we rapped. Rapping off Elephant rock I encountered the worst knot in a rap line I've seen in my 38 years climbing. I had both of the ends tied to me, but made the mistake of kicking off the middle, which took off like a shot going sideways towards the first flake it saw...Rye Crisp? Wheat thin? Some damned flake. It pulled out OK but by the time I'd gotten down to it, the 2 ropes looked like they had been on fast in the washing machine and were a giant pretzel puzzle knot with the 2 ropes commingling. Took @20 min to untangle them hanging in space. Dudes above had coats but were cold waiting for me to stop f*ing off and get it done. After that we decided to head into the steakhouse to get some dinner and some peace from the wind. By the time we'd gotten back the winds had abated and the neighbors headed over to see where that tent was. I once chased a dome tent well over a mile that thought it was a balloon. (Illumination rock to significantly well below Timberline on the Reid Glacier.) I'd dropped my load and had gone back down to help up the last struggling climber in our group and was carrying his load for him. Feeling a tad weary and carrying his weight, my head wasn't held very high and we were still a ways down from the saddle: but I thought I glimpsed something...but no...it couldn't be. Get to the saddle and the story was that Bob Morris was telling this tale of a guy named George: who, once years back, had been setting up a dome tent when a puff of wind had taken it right off. POOF right as he gets to the end of the tale, the wind lifted the tent they were setting up like it was Dorothy and the Wizard, well over 50 vertical feet up and then it took off. That was the last they saw of it. Till I got up there to the saddle, saw that none of them had any interest in going all that way, asked them what they were going to do and they all say, leaf it be, the tent was gone for good, so I hiked down there, eventually found it, and drug it back up. Damned was I tired that day.

NICE!

Another nice TR! thanks dudes! Barbra Tuchman.