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Sean, will you make the clouds part and the sun to come out too? I have to change my wifes motorcycle oil first if it's clear.....

Show up with the pics next time will ya?

What? Stevie Winkler kick his ass for jumpin his mommas bones again or sumpin?

So I'll guess 1.

I thought he was Canadian? WFT. Shit, he was American, well, that explains it Dru.

Not yet, gotta have his "Red Wings" too. NOW, lesson over.

Possible Troll for 2 reasons to me. A) Trask had friends? B) Trask climbed?

Blowboarder, ya seen Donnie Baker lately? Wonder what he'd say about all this? Tell him he's missed by the CC.comers next time ya bump into him.

I might have misjudged ya. Generally, I think Aussies are FU*ken RAD. (Rad= combination of a bunch of things, tough, skilled, amazing). Still wishing you a good trip dude.

Shouldn't this be in it's own thread? BTW, I have a couple these damn things. They generally hate and kill all cute small furry things. It's unbelieveable to see them get a squirell so flustered that it will literally fall out of a tree right into the jaws of death. This ones not as good as the other one. The other one will kill every damn rat, mouse and squirel in sight. I've never seen anything quite like it. He can smell where a mouse had walked 3 days previously and follow that scent trail. He'll do the moles too, but needs to see the mound moving, and he'd leave a hole that a horse would fall in. I'd like to get a shirt for him that says "Squirels make me mental".

No, I thought this thread is THE official gym-job availability forum.

OO MORE INTERESTING AS WELL.

If I can add to Laytons post and maybe help you understand at least my point of view. To me, you sound like the kind of person who winds up in a body bag. I wouldn't climb with ya. PERIOD end of conversation for me. If you were around and we could get out and ease into it, things might change. I'm not just saying this cause a dumbassed Aussie almost killed my other climbing partner 20 years ago although that does remain in my mind. But that's me. Hope that helps you out in the explanation dept or maybe clear up some issues you MIGHT be having with Alaskans. Good luck mate.

I just heard of this the other day. Now this is the second time. I wouldn't discount it. People use to think Chiropractors were quacks too and they're not. Check this Kat: 10 pages of bullshit you don't need to get 1 post link Summary: the 2 posts to read if you want to miss the choss including my posts: 1st she breaks her back, then later - polarity/cranial sacral sessions and she's fine. I'm like WFT is THAT? I'd never heard of it before. I wanted to find it and dig this out for you as it seemed so germaine to your question. You can also PM Gblauer on RC.com and ask her about all of this. " Belayer Failure = Broken Back Quote | Reply On Saturday, 2/10, I lead an easy 5.7 as a warm down. I got to the top of climb, clipped the last bolt, called out to my belayer and let her know that I was done with the climb and that I was going to drop off the wall. She acknowledged me and off I came. Edited: I called down to her, let her know that I was at the top of the climb. I was a foot above my last bolt, so I elected to let go and "drop" off the wall rather than sling the horn. She acknowledged my intentions and said that she was ready for me. I never felt the "tug" of the catch and continue to ride to rope all the way down to the floor. I landed on my feet, crunched into a ball, rolled on to my back. I immediately felt a "bloom" of searing pain across my lower back. Two days later, I am out of the hospital with an L2 compression fracture. What did I learn? 1) It can happen to anyone (yes, even you) 2) You are only as strong as the weakest link in your system 3) Cull the herd; select your belayers carefully and only allow those you trust to give you a belay 4) Keep your circle small; know your belayers, constantly check on their potential for distraction, moods and energy level So, several months of hard core training down the drain with one 30 foot fall. I really hope I can get my head back together. Climb on. ________________________________________________________ jakedatc wrote: s Gail how are you doing? hope things are healing up chica Gail said: Thanks for asking. I am feeling rather well. My belayer has been doing polarity/cranial sacral sessions everyday and she has cleared most of my pain. 2 days after I got out of the hospital I went to see a spine doctor. She spent an hour with me, examined my xrays/ct scans, did neurological exams, range of motion etc. She told me to ditch the brace and get moving. She advised me that I could do whatever I wanted and to use pain as my guide. I have actually been back to the gym 4 times since the accident; each time it gets easier to climb. I actually lead 2 10's today and I am not sore. I have the "leader must not fall" mentality, so my joy of leading isn't quite there. I hope that once my bones heal, I will be more willing to climb with my old sport attitude; falls (without consequences) are ok. Right now I am afraid of what it will feel like at the catch, not sure that my back would feel all that great. I am glad to be back working out, it's going to take a long time to get my head back to where it was. " ______________________________________________________________ Good luck, and report back if you decide to proceed will ya? Sh*t, it's got to be better than pain meds. She had discussed it somewhere else on the site and fleshed it out a bit. I have to admit it sounded like a mirical cure when she layed it out.

OR feel free to bump it to the top too. Note: you dudes have about a month to take this deal up.

I only personally know 3 people who underwent similar surgeries and none were considered sucessful buy the people who got operated on. None. They all had pain as bad (in one case substantially worse) as previously.

Jump in on a rescue or 2, ya get to drive all over hell up there. But ya usually are walking around and down on shoe leather (hopefully down) in true big-time shit weather. I know, late south side starts always were mentally tweaky too, where you'd see the same damn happy downhill skiers blow by you with huge smiles on their faces 10 times it seemed as your creaky legs worked hard and your lungs were huffing. I'd be thinking, how dumb is this, I could have jumped on the chair lift and been there already.

Cool! Uhhh, what time we eatin tonight Torg?

Damn, take a cleansing breath or 2 and get yourself outside dude.

This is called climbing now? I'm getting old fer sure.

Best thread revival of the year Eggplant. BTW, a quick perusal of their names should have sorted this qestion out. Gore is something bad that happens when you take a bad fall. Bush is not suitable for rapping on, only peeing on: Thus - I can speak with assurance, they would both suck.

Nah, but it's got onstar so he can just press a button and ask "Where am I". But to get out in the wilderness, like a real urban woodsman, you really should have ponied up and got the Escallade.

I couln't get Ascentionist to load. Anyone else?That site working? PS, great Badger story Alpine K, those dogs aound like they f*ed around and finally got put down.

Wow, I just got back but I woke up this morning thinking of this one and haven't stopped yet. At Smith, towards Monkey Face, I think it's King Kong (maybe Godzilla?) that has like 30-40 feet of unprotected climbing towards the top before you get to the single bolt on the route which is right at the crux, it's an old 1/4" Rawl stud with NO hanger. But it does have some old 1/2" webbing/tat on it. (there is, however, a hidden crack offroute to the left lower down which you can get a few small wireds into which probably makes the fall only 20-30 feet if the bolt pulls and your shit holds) You have to just clip the tat and go. Has that been replaced yet? Been a long while since I've been on that route. I think that route hardly ever is done because of it, I have NEVER seen a soul on it, ever, but if there was a real bolt/good pro there..... Thoughts on that one?

Righteous stuff Tim, nice...thanks dude.