catbirdseat

Here you get your choice of two different strengths of coffee "2X" or "3X". If you want 1X you have to dilute.

Do you mean, a la Yngve type stuff? No.

What happened to the "Thread Killer" poll option?

The main thing is how you fit in given your experience level. If you have the bread, why not?

There are places. They exist. They just don't have the flashiness and pizazz.

Does anyone have pictures of Lower Malemute?

Did they send French Canadians?

Soon? Already. They've already chopped down many of the few remaining trees to add soccer fields. Seems like they are trying to accomodate everyone who has a big idea. Greg's post reminds me of another great one: Caught Out in a Storm

I think we've all been dissed!

Perhaps chipping was not the word I was looking for. Is there a word for using a hammer to break off sharp edges that might be used as holds?

"Not now Mom! I'm using it!"

Now that I can't go , it makes me feel better to know the weather will be crappy.

On adventure climbs people are more inclined to leave things as they are found, at least in part because of the constraints of time, but also because there are fewer "bystanders" to be concerned about. Obviously, you have to avoid trundling on your belayer. So it comes down to whether the follower feels like doing a good turn by trundling an occasional loose hold.

It helps if you are small. My daughter cruised it when she was 10. Nine times out of ten, it helps to be tall, but on G & M at Vantage, it struck me as being a distinct disadvantage.

I suppose what would make a more interesting discussion would be the degree to which one should clean a route of possible loose rock. Lots of places this isn't really an issue, but some places it is, for example North Bend and Vantage. When is one going too far? There are routes in Vantage where you'd never see the end of it when cleaning and just have to quit and say "good enough".

The forecast has it raining in Seattle, but dry in Squamish. Is this too good to believe?

Please elaborate.

I've seen discussions about holds that have been chipped to make a climb easier. Has anyone ever seen a route that was deliberately made harder by chipping? If there are holds that are loose and likely to pull out and fall on a belayer, I can see the logic in removing them for safety sake, but otherwise no. And I am sure there are lots of people who would say that if it can't be removed by hand it should be removed. I'm sure that the standard must vary from crag to crag.

or Mounties Yes, or Mounties.

I used the term "always" in a relative sense. If the bolt weren't there, guided groups would probably take that much longer to get past that section and everone else would suffer.

How timely.

The bolt was always there. You just never noticed it. It does seem like a strange place. Maybe whoever placed it wanted it that way.

So where is the trip report all ready?

That photo was from a reunion. They couldn't get the original Ginger to appear, so they had to get a stand-in.

Each hair grows for a certain time and then falls out. Your individual hairs are all in a different part of the cycle at any given time. The length of the cycle puts an upper limit on the length your hair can attain. Bald people have either very short cycles or hair follicles that have shut down completely.