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Everything posted by catbirdseat
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Spray is good in the Spray Forum. I'm guilty myself of spraying inappropriately. Sometimes it's too tempting.
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Just be glad there wasn't a foot in the boot when you found it. Stranger things have happened.
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"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam."
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Squamish Campground - Charges Laid
catbirdseat replied to murraysovereign's topic in Climber's Board
Let's hear it for the Mounties . They always get their man. -
Whenever some kid tries to tell me how horrible the United States was to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, I just tell them stories like the Bataan Death March. That usually shuts them up. Japan had it coming. A very traskian thing to say, but there you have it.
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Use an Ah-So. If you don't have one, then you can always push the cork into the bottle. Then you'll have to drink the entire bottle at one sitting. Cheers.
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I've never seen anything remotely metaphysical, extraterrestrial, or otherwise unexplainable by science. I must be either unlucky or unimaginative. My take on Bigfoot is that any large creature as ubiquitous as it is claimed to be would leave remains when it died. No one has ever produced any such remains. If just a few hairs could be found hanging on a bush, DNA analysis could be performed which would show exactly what it was.
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It was Aaron Ralston and he was forced to cut off his arm with a dull knife. There was a story in Backpacker magazine about another solo hiker who's leg was trapped. Unfortuanately, he died after several days because he, like Ralston, never told anyone where he was going.
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That was great, Bug. Keep it up and you'll challenge Uncle_Tricky. Too bad it turned into a spray thread.
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Last winter there were times when you could barely boot down the Muir snowfield without falling down, let alone ski down it. I remember looking at a snow board track that had wipeout marks every 20 yards or so. I think the fellow finally gave up and walked down. There were sharp sastrugi mounds with ice in between. The horror.
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Yew can always clam it wuss a troll.
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I've never seen such passion in E-rock since the Starsky and Hutch thread. He must really be a skier first and a rock climbers second.
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Dru, they are indeed "inventive", but I believe the word you wanted was "invective". Okay, here is an example that I think might be interesting. On the seventh pitch of Dreamer, the classic route goes up a "dirty" right facing corner. The climbing at 5.6 is easier than most of the other pitches. You can tie off trees, if you like, once you are half way up. There is one bolt near the top, which I didn't use. I didn't think it was all that bad. I went that way, bcause I wussed out on the new alternate 5.8 variation, which is a completely bolted line (six clips) that follows slabs to the left of the classic route. I can see the motivation for putting in that variation. It was to raise the difficulty of the pitch to more closely match the other pitches. It wasn't necessary at all in my opinion. I don't feel strongly for or against this, but I am sure there are those that do.
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Yeah, the boring trip reports don't get replies and don't stay in the top ten for long. Some people might not care whether a response is positive or not as long as they get some attention, but most would like some recognition.
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Good trip reports have reasonable paragraph break that make for easier reading, particularly if it is a long report. Good reports integrate images and text together. Good writers consider their reader's viewpoint. This is why, as willstrickland mentioned, it is such a good idea to take a break, step back and review what you have written, before posting. Granted, I don't always do this myself. A good criticizm doesn't just say "your trip report sucks", it tells the author how he might do better next time. And what is wrong with sending the person a PM to save him/her public embarrassment?- unless that is your intention.
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If the ratio of males to females gets high enough in China and India, eventually the true worth of the female will be realized and the power will shift in the woman's direction.
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Ah the joys of parenthood.
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Just staying home, but we're putting on the usual feast. It's one of my favorite holidays. Turkey with stuffing, slow basted with butter Vegetables Oyster dressing Potatoes Gravy Cranberry Sauce Baked Quince, home grown Apple Pie Pumpkin Pie Chess Pie
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When I think back on my climbs, there is almost always something that stands out about that climb that makes it memorable. It isn't always something to brag about. Sometimes it is a stupid gaff. Even though mistakes are embarrassing, they make for good reading. I think that if you can laugh at yourself, then others will laugh with you rather than at you. What I try to do in a TR is to not spend too much time covering details of a route that are either common knowledge or can be obtained easily in a guidebook. Changeable features like snow and ice deserve the most detailed comments. Weather is something that is always different from one climb to the next. For me climbing is as much about the people who are my partners as the climbing itself. Everyone is different and people say and do the most amazing things. I used to go on scrambles with this guy who always had the funniest hats. A whole collection of them. He's bring several on each trip and rotate through them. It was hilarious. I did one climb this year with a guy who was constantly cracking jokes and laughing, even though we were on a seriously steep, exposed and chossy fourth class scramble. He made the difference between what would have been a miserable failed attempt and a fun outing. So the best suggestion I can offer to others is to not exclude the mistakes, the little things, the human things. If the only thing that was memorable about a climb was a particularly funny joke, then focus on that. Of course, if you have a first ascent to describe, you got to give us the salient details.
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You are getting warmer...
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It a LIVE webcam, knucklehead. If you had wanted to capture that moment, you would have had to upload to cc.com's Photo Gallery.
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If you want to stay alive, stay out of the hospital. Layton, you are a survivor of the US medical establishment- a statistical anomaly.
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I dreamt that I met the girl in lummox's avatar image and it turned out she had a butter face.
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I've noticed a lot of new login names with low post counts. From the posts, I get the impression that most of them are not just new avatars. I think it is actually a hopeful sign for the board. New blood, new perspecitve- it's good.