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It's unfortunate, but all too many people don't start thinking about climbing until the good summer weather arrives. Almost all the climbing courses start in the early spring or even winter, so they can get all the lectures and field trips out of the way in time for the students to go do their experience climbs in the summer. Kiwi, what I would do if I were you is hang out with some cc.com folks and learn some rock climbing skills this summer. Maybe join JGowans on his Adams slog this weekend, then sign up for some alpine course for the 2004 season.

Attitude, trust me, I've met JGowans girlfriend at the crags last night. He doesn't need anyone else. She's awesome- an absolute beauty.

Iceguy started messing with my title and now I'm stuck at "choss dawg" in perpetuity.

I heard a good story the other day. The story teller and her boyfriend were camping 5 miles up the 4th of July Creek trail on a blistering hot day. Two flushed and exhausted hikers came up to them and asked, "where is the drinking fountain"? They had nothing but the clothes on their backs, no water, nothing. My friends gave them some water and sent them back down the trail.

You knew what you were in for when you came "out of retirement". Ha ha.

You have to start somewhere. Put the historical database in place first. Then worry later about whether you want to turn it into a change control resource. Break the task down into manageable pieces.

I wonder if it belonged to that fellow who fell off the west face a couple of years ago?

Sometimes the situation just sucks and you have to deal with it I guess.

Al_Pine = A = Brilliant

The wireds rack a bit more neatly than the slung ones. I have several old Chouinard hexes that were originally slung with 7 mm perlon that I have replaced with 5.5 mm spectra. I like wire best in the small sizes and spectra better for the large sizes. The large sizes are such that you can get your hand in the crack and manipulate the piece directly. The greater flexibility is an asset in finding just the right orientation (especially if you are trying to use the major camming mode). It is also as it has been mentioned earlier an advantage in that the piece is less likely to move. You might not have to even add a draw or single to it at all, whereas I always add one to a wired hex.

It's perfectly safe. Neighhhh, chill out.

Dwayner takes the prize for the creative use of graphics in telling a whopper, er, story.

E-Rock is turning into the bad-ass jewish version of Johnny Destiny.

Tasty

Some are more blown up than others, IYNWIM.

If you really have "come out" of the closet, then I wouldn't expect you to see any breasts.

Hey trask, eat balls, asseyes!

aid? what aid? viagra=aid

Is this some sort of coming out in the open party or what? Did he finally decide to physically mingle with the hoi palloi?

I'll see if trask will cough up a list. That will tell us if he really is serious about quitting.

In the wake of the departure of trask from cc.com, several avatars have become homeless. They lurk in miserable squalor, cowering in dark alleys with sunken eyes. If we can them, perhaps we can find new homes for them.

Mark Twain once said, "I can quit smoking cigars any time I want to. I've already done it a thousand times."

So anyone get that cam out of Poison Ivy Crack yet? Let's hear how you did it!

So you are saying we should cut him off, cold turkey. What if it is too much to bear and he comes back begging to Jon to reinstate his account? Hopefully he got Jon to swear not to do it. Reminds me of Odysseus and the Sirens, when he told his crew to tie him to the mast and put wax in their ears and not untie him no matter what he said or did.