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It was mentioned by erik in the other thread that you can always girth hitch a shoulder length sling to your harness if you want a personal anchor. The sling does double duty and you save weight.

It's a good thing for Middle Earth that Frodo Baggins isn't given to rolling around in his sleep on bivy ledges, as he never tied in to an anchor.

Okay, so little Johnny 2.0 grows up and decides to make two copies of himself. Those copies will by known as Johnny 2.1 and Johnny 2.2. Is that right?

Back in the 1970's, Sigg offerred the Tourist cook kit for the Svea 123 stove. It featured an integrated base, windscreen and nested pots. Heat transfer was efficient, it was light and it was resistent to tipping over. I still use the pots, battered as they are, although I've since switched stoves.

All hail, the new Thread Resurrector of 2004.

I posted the link for the benefit of Alyosha. You were one one of the people who contributed to that thread. I am not disagreeing with you. There is no substitute for tying in with the rope. The rope is strong, dynamic and cut resistant. I still use a personal anchor in many situations. For example, I think it was Dru who mentioned it in the previous thread, if the leader runs out of rope just short of a belay stance, you can untie the rope from the anchor to give him another couple feet and be safer if you are tied in by means of a sling of some sort.

Someone needs to explain to me under what circumstances the number after the decimal point would change.

The issue of personal anchors was all hashed out previously.

When rappelling you are not tied into the rope.

Karhu still makes a three-pin leather touring boot.

There you go again, Chuck, dragging us all back to reality, kicking and screaming.

You can make a Purcell Prussik Tie-In. This is a continuously adjustable personal anchor. I made one out of 6 mm perlon and tried it for a while. I like it for alpine climbing, but not for sport or crag climbing.

Hey, it's klenke with whiskers!

Acetaldehyde is a powerful electrophile that smells like pumpkin.

You da han', man.

You forgot to mention that the tree was right in front of his business sign. People couldn't read the name through the tree. But seriously, trees may look very nice, but they are bad for business.

Damn you caught me with my pants down.

Classic DFA. We used to get posts like that here all the time, but we chased the poor fellow away.

Go ahead, remonstrate all you want. You are inebriated and your opprobrious behaviour will not go unpunished. You will be lambasted by legions of avatars.

The MVS Bugaboo photo that Will submitted is the best so far. In fact, I haven't seen a better pic ever on this site.

I would agree with that. It's easier with less loose rock (less being relative) and its more fun.

i should ban you for that! If you did that would go a long way towards proving Lord_Bosco's point.

Those who would be best suited to be moderators are probably the least likely to serve.

On Miami CSI some woman gets "shot" in the neck. They blame the ex husband, but it turns out he was innocent. The bullet was in a bucket which fell over outside in hurricane force winds. One of the bullets got caught up by the wind, went through the window and into the woman's neck, killing her.