COL._Von_Spanker

That should be: or for the NW flavor:

Yes there was a screwdriver. Maybe someone used it instead of camhooks (which are very helpful). I bet one "dem queers or dykes" left it there.

Shit, I wish I could go.

When are you headed down to the valley tex?

Index! Where was everyone? Bigwalling doing what he does best:

I luv the aliens. And if it were true, think of how many people use them and are fine. It would be like writing 'DEFECTIVE BINER: While leading I took a fall and the biner broke." As we all know everything in the climbing world is bullshit until proven otherwise by pictures (and impartial observers?).

He said shit.

I stumbled across this great find on ebay. Good thing he discarded the 'used' pitons " ROCK CLIMBERS STARTER SET 1 PITON HAMMER 6 KARABINERS 11 WAFFERS 3 STREIGHT NOSE 4 WEDGES WITH RINGS 2 WIDE CRACK FOLDED. All pitons shown here are new and never used. I discarded all used pitons because they may have been stressed.Your equipment is your life.All pitons are hand hammered iron. Iron is better than steel because steel can be brittle in cold weather.The hammer has been up the sawtooth ridge many climbeS in yosemity and MT WHITNEY" Ebay Rocks EDIT: Added Description

Speaking of ERIK, where is he these days?

Yeah, down with heavy harness'. There are sooo many times when I am rock climbing when I say "gee, I wish my harness wasn't so heavy. I mean, I know I have 20 pounds of gear hanging from me, but if only my harness was 9oz's lighter."

Trango is pulling out all the stops in their engineering dept.

No sir, you must be joking.

I have used gore floss , and other flosses for years repairing shit from packs to boots. Currently the sides of my trango s's are custom re-sewn by me, with floss. I haven't done it on a rope, but I am gonna try. And if you use mint floss and it's dark you can run the rope along your tongue as you are feeding it and know when you are in the middle. I learned how to do that from 4 years of outdoor retail experience and 2 Nols courses.

Maybe I need to start catching the tuesday flu.

But talking smack to a know it all is not. Sierra Designs Old skool "windshirt" which is a what people used to call a nylon wind breaker. It works good if I don't sweat too much. I recently got one of those Arcteryx soft shell, rain jacekt hybrid's and wore it all ay in the rain at index aid climbing and it was fine. Contrary to what nols dude thinks you aint gonna die if you don't have the right windshirt. And usually if it's raining hard enough to say, "damn it's really raining hard" you are going to get wet regardless because anything burly enough to keep you rally dry will rain on the inside.

People arguing about the intracacies of clothing is dumb.

City park is a good first solo because of the bolts.

cut down on the harry pooter

I guess I won't be watering my pristine manacured lawn this summer.

Haven't you read FOTH!! You should bring the ten essentials.

Has anyone seen Ron's movie about aid climbing? I guess he has some technique that totally different. Lambone talked all sorts of shit to Ron on RC.COM

I enjoyed it but thought is was total pulp. It had potential to be really interesting, but then descends to a book that it written to be turned in to a movie.

Well, your mom and I are splitting a campsite so you are welcomed to join us.

Zenyatta pitch 4?