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Eric, I must say you clean up really nicely. You got yourself a beautiful bride. Congratulations.

I think it's pretty low to make light of someone's misfortune, especially since this person is still out there suffering.

So do you think this may be a case of mass hysteria?

It is good. ...

One end of the carabiner get's quite hot, but the other end shouldn't get so hot it would melt Spectra. All the same, I think nylon is the best material to use.

Why do you think that? Interesting thing about it is that the first time I top roped that route, I used the arete of the column on the left a lot. This time I might have used it once. There is a crux on that route that's a real head scratcher. There is a funky pod that looks like a flared hand or fist jam, but there are also some face features. So you're there going, "do I jam this, side pull it, undercling it, crimp it, or what?" I don't even remember what the hell I did.

I have a cast iron Dutch oven. I could make an awesome peach cobbler for a hot dessert.

Those videos seem so dang familiar, but I just can't put my foot on why that is.

Choada_Boy, you appear to be reverting inexorably towards equivalence with one of your earlier avatars.

Guys, this is all very funny, but I don't think that it is appropriate at all to use this forum for laughs. It's one of the few good places on the net where people have a good chance of recovering lost items. If we turn it into another arm of Spray, people will not use this forum for what it's intended for and we'll have all lost something in the end.

Ropes don't act like perfect springs which obey Hooke's Law. They obey a non-linear function. For small displacements, brought about by small masses, the force constant is higher than at larger displacements.

We're going to stick a chef's hat on Porter, put an apron on him, and hand him a spatula. We're gonna make him a burger flipper. Gimps gotta pull their own weight.

The response about kids falling harder is nonsense. Force required to stop a climber has only to do with the mass of the climber and how far they fall and the stretchiness of the rope (which is constant). There is no way a greater force can be generated given the same fall distance by a lighter climber. You are quite wrong about this. The force generated RELATIVE to the mass can be greater. The acceleration on the small climber can be larger than the acceleration on the larger climber.

Trip: Vantage - Sunshine Wall, Various Routes Date: 9/19/2007 Trip Report: TeleRoss and I went out to Vantage on a Wednesday when it was kind of gloomy and cold in Seattle. We were the only car in the parking lot and never saw a soul at Sunshine Wall all day. It was partly cloudy at the Coulee and nice and warm with temps in the upper 70's. We climbed Corner Pockets, George and Martha, Elvis's Pharmacist, Red M&M's, Chemically Adjusted Reality, and a link up of Stems and Seeds to the finish on Bob's your Uncle. That link up just wore me out. Just when you're past the difficulties on Stems and Seeds you get to do the crux on Bob's your Uncle. Just about every muscle in my body was in open rebellion. It was a really fun and productive day and Ross is a hell of a lot of fun to climb with. Ordinarily six pitches at Vantage wouldn't be a big day for me, but this is the first time I'd done that many routes at those grades. This was my first time up Red M&M's. It's an interesting route. I can say categorically I am not ready to lead that one! Chemically Adjusted Reality turned out to be very easy for 5.10c, more like 5.10a. It seems to protect just fine, and is not quite as loose as it appears. Returning to the car, there was one other car with a pair of hikers. There was a car at the Feathers and that's it! The trash is all picked up and there is a sign that some climber posted on the kiosk showing how bad it looked and reminding people to pack it all out.

It's interesting to speculate what the US would do, but I doubt that launching nuclear attack on indiscriminantly on the Middle East is an option. Al Queda members are distributed all over the place, among innocent people. I do believe that the CIA would carry out a wave of assassination attacks all over the world. Anyone having even an inkling of suspicion on him would be marked for death.

This demonstrates the importance of signing trail registers when you hike alone.

I use the climbing rope. Faster stronger simpler. I sometimes do that too. Sometimes one will finish a pitch and not have enough rope left to use. Therefore, one should know several methods, including slings, cordellettes or whatever you happen to have. To make a blanket statement that the rope is faster, stronger, and simpler is an oversimplified statement. How you the rope will determine all of the above.

The Microbe Hunters, by Paul De Kruif (1926). It's still in print because it is a good read about guys like Leeuwenhook, Pasteur and Koch, who changed the world.

Rarely. I still usually pull it all together and tie off with a knot. It's faster. See the thread on the ACR.

When I do pullups, I can hear a sound in my right shoulder joint that sounds like cellophane crinkling. There is no pain at all. But it's freaking me out. Is this something to worry about?

Someone named "cooter" posted on the Rebel Yell TR thread about losing a shoe.

Cooter, look in Lost and Found. Someone posted about a found shoe at the "basecamp for Silverstar Peak".

That's a really clever idea for climbers. If you carried one you'd always be able to find a good place to put your foot.

Now you're talking, man! Something like an enormous monkey fist, should do the trick.

Why do they call him a "seal" and why does he not have tusks?