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You could be in an office with unemployment looming and nothing to do but spray on cc.com! Top that, Carl!

"it deserves to knew pieces there" OMG! If you pull those bolts you solve the problem also. People see bolts and they have this overwhelming urge to stop their upward progress to belay right there when a much better belay stance awaits only 15 m above and they still have enough rope to get there.

It looks like the screws are pretty strong. Witness the pile of broken carabiners on the table.

I refer you to the knottygirl thread...

Close, it was made of papier mache. That's a good stand-in for neutronium, wouldn't you say? I feel a geek attack coming on. Of course genuine neutronium would collapse into a perfect sphere...but then less than 2 solar masses wouldn't be enough to overcome fermionic repulsion- the thing would explode. Then again if it were larger than 2 solar masses, even if it held it shape, it would be darn hard to move around with all that mass. But then you can invoke warp fields... help me!

That's akin to navel contemplation. A stimulating intellectual exercise, but not a productive use of one's time.

Don't count on those 7 mm slings having full strength unless they are used with a standard carabiner. Strength goes down with the radius of the hardware. Hard to say how much strength they'd have threaded through a piton, but it's gotta be plenty for rappelling off.

Sorry to put the thread back on topic, but this morning's paper had a little article which said that Snohomish Sherrif's Dept. found the bones in a ravine distant from the Mt. Pilchuck trailhead and confirmed that they were human bones. Okay, you may return to your regularly scheduled gun rant.

Remember this planet killer?

I said as much, although with fewer words. Good story, dude!

If the word hadn't been mispelled, you never would have found that.

The Denali is a lot of bang for the buck.

Remains to be be seen.

What panties?

Better stay close to the wc.

How can anyone NOT like mayonnaise? I am certainly glad that we are finally addressing some of the more important issues that we face in our daily lives.

That was awesome- really fun to watch.

I'll have to take up skiing or go visit Mom (and Joshua Tree).

Lucky dude. Totally avoided catching a crampon. Probably just finished the pitch like nothing happened.

That's why they say never do a virgin. They'll follow you for the rest of your life.

Does it depend on what sort of rock it is, Bill, or would you recommend natural bristle no matter what?

No, it's those Indianans.

Right now, I don't know if I have a job anymore. My company has been bought out.

Yes, if you were to buy to more, get the 0.5 and the 0.75.

Did it look like this?