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Nice find Bigtree. It looks like the 400t would even be better for just woods wandering. Of course you'd still be using the 1/100,000 scale maps Garmin has. Unless you uploaded it to the National Geographic topo maps.

Ouch. That sucks. thanks for the heads up. what wud happen if, as your car was going by by, you walked in and ordered a Taco? and kept the reciept. Could you small claims them for the $164 or whatever it was?

My son and I have a contest going right now to see who can play music louder...I'm winning..no one beats Robin Trower with Euro-tecnotrash ...........livin in a sea of evil. Evil of love....da da da da da whoo hho hohh dadadada.........

Oh dude, ETHICS? do you realise that you are on Cacadeclimbers! No problem Bill, apology accepted. ha ha! _______________________________________________ -huh- .....wait... HOR?....... Never mind, I've met lots O HORS smarter than me, after all, they're the ones gettin the money eh!?

NAU NAU NAU DUDE, TOO CONFUSING OF A WEB SITE!

I've already bin drinkin' I'd like to pre-apolgise for offending folks. Aoohhh FU(K ALL OF YA!

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Way to drive home how I am under the poverty level….. No way that salary is poverty level. Be a great job for some folks I would think. Someone who loves to climb and be around climbers for instance. Thanks for posting it here Shawn, good luck with filling the position.

I think that I saw that bumper sticker.

Of course.... it held Geoff didn't it?

Simple, the easy answer Ken: (William Carlos Williams already covered this, so I'll just copy him. "so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens." _____________________________________________________________ BTW: Did anyone else catch that up there in Jh's post? Looked like a hint that monitoring help may be appreciated? Or am I reading into that? JH? what say? You do a lot of cold lonely work out there....?

Follow the trail, click here to go to my story

I want to hear that story at Jim's Friday night before the movie, but after you've had 4 or 5 beers:-0 BTW, I don't know if you remember me pointing to a scrawny lil tree and saying - thats my rap ring up there....in pulling this from another thread, I need to correct my poor memory and say...thats my 2 biners up there on that scrawny tree:-) story from the other thread:

Link to Moofs post I wanted to toss this out there for any one looking at Fish Products Russian Aid trees, but unable to get the cuffs. I got a pair recently and they look great. Can't wait to do some aiding in them as they are purportedly better and easier for steep aid. This is the kind of thing you need to strike while the iron is hot, as Sean may figure that it's not worth the trouble, or he gets busy with something else tomorrow.

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I'd better get 2 then.

What do you use, why did you pick it, how is it working for you. I'm in the market, and like to see a discussion amongst folks I trust (generally:-). Especially interested if anyone has the Delorme Earthmate GPS PN-20 W/ their new reworked Topo USA 7.0 software. Delorme not only has better maps than Garmin, but you don't have to pay extra for them either and I think I want (I know I don't NEED one, got along so far without it, so WANT is the correct word there) the high res topo software. My bro has been using an older Garmin Etrex (low res screen) that he uploads to National Geographic maps at home to track where he's been wandering, which have the 1/24000 res like the Delorme. He's all over the woods with it all the time too. He'll put more miles on in a weekend than some of us all year. It's sick. He usually is working in the woods too. However, he lives a long way from me though or I'd have him teach me how to do all that. He doesn't know jack squat about the newer products on the market I asked him. As it is, easy of use would be on my list, and I think Garmin is that and the Delorme isn't. Otherwise, how about the current Garmin 60csx and 76 blah blah? Has anyone tried any of these products? What do you use them for and do you generally even find them useful?

Yeah it is, great artwork there! Someone has some massive mad photoshop skillz. My palms are still sweating from remembering Ivans earlier TR up there. Nice to see what it actually did look like, cause in my minds eye, I didn't think Ken would be smiling...at all, but he looks just like I remember him when he climbed up to my belay ledge last fall at Beacon. BTW, don't ya gotta have some sympathy for those off course dudes. Anytime you cannot see your feet cause the weather is so thick and the wind is hitting you hard on 90 degrees sideways accompanied with thick snow, maps are useless and direct bearing via a compass lacks accuracy as you get blown off course while still making what you think is spot on the money direction of your heading. Reliance on Taun Tauns, if you have one, of course, would be the logical first option of course. Maybe a GPS the second? I still don't own one but am looking right now. Some GPS's do not have compass's, and rely on figuring your direction of travel to get a bearing and give you a direction, which would suck for some situations I suppose - like falling off White river canyon, digging in in a whiteout, then having to actually walk for a while, stiff, numb wet and half frozen after crawling out of your cave the next day - possibly off course in deep-assed snow, to determine your course? Ya gotta wonder given the conditions, if they maybe lucked out in not getting swept down that slope in an avalanche.

I wonder if this might not be what the framers of the US constitution had in mind all those years ago.... I'm waiting until "Cruel and Unusual" is finally interpreted to mean being put in any of the existing jails (as it's very, very cruel) and all the criminals are set free pending locating dormitories with wide screen TV's for them.

Lil guy might get some great fingerlocks.

"MTI Adventurewear [font:Arial Black]Spray Jacket[/font]" Hmmmm...wondering: I'm thinking that many of the CC.comers could use this handy device while posting. Bet the person who first designed the "Spray jacket" probably got rich. hmmmm? Possiblities? Like...

I just don't usually talk about it Ivan. Best pitch at Arapiles 10 years ago was an easier steep 1500' free solo I still dream about. (tiptoe ridge 5.5) Better than all the ones I mentioned above. Still remember how sweet that one was.

Sick! Here's my warm weather pics of one route I noted earlier then. Added a pic of Dream of Wild Turkeys too, 3 -4 real good pitchs that might be best of class except for Jim Dying that very day (at Smith Rocks) and it being his favorite route in the world I think - it was just last November and 75 degrees warm. The 2nd 5.10 pitch on DWT. This is Ujahn, I got the wide one earlier and he had his hands on the belay so theres no pics of that one. Bill on the Elephants Trunk below about to slot a wired nut into that stacked block. I'd considered passing on it wondering if it would pull that block in a fall...No helmet either eh... don't have pics of the other routes, I don't carry a camera when I free solo.

Bet he's thinking Dean Potter taking huge whips onto micro TCU's on Tombstone kind of thing, not grabbing a rubber ducky and falling into water. Count me there, I'll be there with Guiness Stout for you dudes. It's truncated date night with wife first, so 7pm will most likely be the earliest, so start the movie without me. Phil, can you bring your Thailand guide book and info so I can drool over what warm climbing is like? I'm most likely climbing in Karabi/Railey next December.