catbirdseat

Your question is not inane, but rather insane. Do you think we will all enjoy weightless gear? Maybe we'll have antigravity belts like on Star Trek? The more significant change will come in the climbers themselves through biotechnology.

My favorite paragraph. Reminds me of Monte Python and the Holy Grail. "It's only a flesh wound".

What she didn't say was that I and my own group of newbies jumped on the route Snowbyrd and company was going to do- R and D Route. We had said we would do Givler's. I just pulled off for a second to point out R and D to my friends and they all called out, "We want to do that one". As we started up the route we saw Bird, Nymph, Selkirk and the Weasle cruise by look up and continue down the road. Glad they had a good time on Givler's. I teamed up with my friend Scott's daughter Linnea while Scott teamed with the daughter's boyfriend Chris. Neither of the two young people had ever done any multipitch trad climbing. In fact, the young lady had never cleaned gear before. It was all new to her, but Linnea did fantastic. Since we had so much fun on R and D, we decided to go to Castle Rock since none of my friends had ever been there. We jumped right on Saber. There was a shiny new B/D #10 stopper fixed in a crack, so I clipped it and moved on to the belay. There, I met a woman belaying her partner. I noticed she was tied in only with a nylon daisy chain and not the rope. She said she and her partner, Justin had just moved out from North Carolina and mentioned that she hadn't been able to clean a nut on the last pitch. I told her if my partner could clean it, I'd give it back to her. Sure enough, Linnea came up with the stuck piece! No one told her it was "stuck" so she worked it out. Good girl! I met up with the other woman at the next belay and gave the stopper back to her. Someone left a helmet near our packs and we think it was Justin.

There were a fair number of ladies last year. The the ones that were there were most fair.

I second, Jason's suggestion of using V-threads instead of ice screws. The latter can melt out surprisingly fast, especially when they are loaded. In your case, you might be soloing and won't be monitoring your anchor, so you want something that is totally bomber. When I am top roping glacier ice, I usually use two equalized v-threads. Call me anal, but I don't want to have to worry about my anchor.

All I can say is wow! Glad you made it out okay, and thanks for sharing your experience.

My bad.

Oh, okay, then that makes a lot more sense. CT is like an X-Ray. The photo shows his bones.

Is that an actual picture of the man's face? It's hard to believe.

See this thread. Even trask weighed in. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB11&Number=125244&Forum=f11&Words=%2Bknee%20%2Bpain%20%2Bdown&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=124780&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=&daterange=0&newerval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post125244

You're shitting us!?! Right?

Used to be people just died when they were allegic to food. Now they are accumulating. All sorts of genetic flaws are surviving into adulthood so they can be passed on to another generation. Hopefully genetic engineering will catch up and we will be able to correct all these flaws.

Talks about climbing-->Actually Does

Dude, it's time to go rock climbing.

I've gotten this an many other variants over the years. Someone must fall for it occasionally, or they wouldn't keep sending them out. Hey we ought to collect as many of the variants right here for a good laugh. Unfortunately, I usually delete them.

Damn, Cavey, it's too bad we are the only ones awake this morning. Time for .

I don't have any evidence. What would motivate the president of Panama to make such a move that would be locally so unpopular? If you smell a dead fish, do you have to actually see the dead fish to know that it is there?

Maybe Dick Bass can loan him the money.

I don't like Castro any more than you do. He is megalomaniacal killer. I would love to see him lying in a pine box with a bullet between his eyes. But there are limits to how far we should go to kill him. I would draw the line at killing possibly dozens of other innocent people along with him, which is what these people would have done had they succeeded. That is the very definition of "terror" where one stops caring whether the ends justify the means.

Let's not call it a "War on Terror" then, because it is hypocritical.

Four Cuban terrorists were pardoned and released on orders of the outgoing Panamanian president and sent to Florida. These men were caught with 33 lbs of high explosive, planning to assassinate Fidel Castrol at a Latin American summit meeting in 2000. The Bush Administration denied that it pressured President Moscoso to make the pardon. These four men are all killers. One of them was involved in a car bombing on US soil that killed South American diplomate. I guess it's okay to pardon these terrorists because they are against someone we don't like. They are OUR terrorists and therefore good terrorists. It should score points with the Cuban expatriates in Miami. Bush could sure use their support. Yahoo News Story

007 = Tom Cruise

Could you do us all a favor? The trailhead is SUPPOSED to be marked by a toothbrush. Some rascal swiped it (he probably had his girlfriend along and had forgotten to brush that morning). Please replace the toothbrush. I think it was a Crest brand. The toothbrush should be lashed to a tree on the left where the trail leaves the logging road.

I'll bet it's a first class ticket to Rope Up.