catbirdseat

My God, man. Think about what you are saying!

I was hiking the PCT through the Stevens Ski area and found a ski while taking a little detour. I don't expect its owner would be looking here, but I was wondering if someone might suggest the best way for me to return it to its owner. It has no name on it or other distinguishing marks. For all I know it could be a rental, but then don't the rentals have numbers on them?

The answer is 7 years, then. You are right about the waiting part. I'm not really an especially impatient person. The nice thing about climbing in the mountains is that even though you have to wait a lot, you can always enjoy the view. The time usually flies by without your noticing it much.

blue_tuberosa

I miss trask.

At least your ridiculous good looks were unaffected by the accident.

Thank goodness this bad man has been caught. His Yugoslavian chess match endangered millions. Bobby Fischer

If you do Gunsight Notch you can climb through either of two gaps. If you go through the left one, it's straight down grassy slopes with lots of blueberry bushes. If you go through the right gap there is a little goat trail that goes up and to the left and takes you to the grassy slopes. Whatever you do, don't go down that loose gully. It should be possible to hike from the CP trailhead to camp below the col in about 6 hours. Return in 5. If you go this way, you are looking at two bivies or three days. The summit day still is long. You have to be able to climb almost all of the mountain unroped or you'll run out of time.

I've been leading for 4 years. I'm pretty fast on lead when the climbing is in my comfort range.

Speed only comes with experience and concentrating on it over several climbs. If you try to force yourself, you might increase your chances of an accident. Having said that, there are lots of safe ways to speed things up. The biggest waster of time is not in the climbing itself, but in standing around thinking about climbing. It's frustrating when you top out on a pitch, build and anchor and yell "on belay" and your partner isn't ready to climb immediately.

Sounds like he is talking about the Mt. Washington Trail. I don't know of any others. That trail is used by climbers to access the Bobs area and others.

How about a chalupa?

The next thing you know someone will mention Molly Ringwald again. Doh.

I think we covered this topic before. The conspiracy theorists are full of hooey. Their arguments don't stand up to any sort of scrutiny. Buried in "The New Rome by Osama bin Laden" thread

Harry_Pi is steppin' out, into the limelight.

Dude, there are a lot of people who don't know what you are serious about and what is merely role playing. Hell, I don't.

forest

Is this the same Charlotte Fox who climbed Everest in 1996?

Nice TR. Congratulations, good job.

So if you want to try out hybrids, which size would you try first. PMS carries the two smallest, black/blue and blue/green. I would have thought the green/yellow would get used the most.

My answer: "You're damn straight, and you can also use the open pit mines and strip mines".

Seems like a rational marketing decision to me. They looked at what sizes sold the most and found it was the yellow and red. They said, "I'll bet everyone who owns a yellow and red will go out and buy one of these". If you already own a double set, you might not, but owners of single sets might buy one. I probably will.

I would suppose that you would have to change the material from aluminum to brass to get the required strength. The harder material would reduce the tendency to get stuck. A small recess on either side of the piece would make it easier to use a chock pick to free a tricam.

The FF folks are like anybody. If you act friendly, they'll be friendly back. Also, they are curious creatures, just like their customers, and I'll bet they get plenty bored at times too. They don't sell a lot of pins, so they must have figured you were going to do something really interesting.

I'd have to agree with this statement. We all have our good reputations to defend, haven't we?