catbirdseat

If your trad limit is anywhere close to your sport limit, you are doing great. I wouldn't complain. Still there may be some truth to what you say. The only way to compare a trad route and a sport route of similar grades is to top rope each of them and then decide.

Hey, it's Joey. I wondered what happened to that guy. He was the one who sat next to me in third grade and spent all his time throwing spit balls at the clock and making funny faces.

Hey, that artist really does some fine work! I'd love to put one of those in the garden. Somehow I don't think the wife would approve.

Yeah, that's right. Baseball commentators are fond of the term, especially when referring to pitchers who are ahead in the count.

Short People Short People got no reason Short People got no reason Short People got no reason To live They got little hands Little eyes They walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet Well, I don't want no Short People Don't want no Short People Don't want no Short People `Round here Short People are just the same As you and I (A Fool Such As I) All men are brothers Until the day they die (It's A Wonderful World) Short People got nobody Short People got nobody Short People got nobody To love They got little baby legs That stand so low You got to pick 'em up Just to say hello They got little cars That go beep, beep, beep They got little voices Goin' peep, peep, peep They got grubby little fingers And dirty little minds They're gonna get you every time Well, I don't want no Short People Don't want no Short People Don't want no Short People 'Round here

You should enter the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

Hey moderator(s). This threat started out about the Mountaineers, but on page 2 the discussion changed to that of tie-in knots. It might be good to cleave this off as a new thread starting with DFA's post. Call it "Tie-In Knots" or something. "Actually, why would you use a figure 8 to tie in when the DBBB is smaller and you can actually untie it after dogging the hell out of some savage project? The fig. 8 is old-school, yo; get with the newness. "

That's news to me. Can you provide a reference?

Boonie, sounds like a Scot'teryxesque report. Say that word ten times, real fast.

My previous theory was that Dru = Catturdeat, mainly because of the volume. A new theory: catturdeat = joe_retard = Harry_Pi. The reason is that the posts are so conscientiously self-consistent.

I don't know, my head is in a cloud.

No, but I have heard of some old timers who still don't trust their sewn harnesses and wear a swami belt as a backup.

No, but I have heard of some old timers who still don't trust their sewn harnesses and wear a swami belt as a backup.

Show up at Pub Club or Rope up with a stack of those beauties and they'll go fast.

Tragic. "When he said he was going to run down to the grocery store and get something to eat, that's what he meant. He didn't drive," McLin said. "It's sad to see a lad with so many promises for success fade out and be destroyed."

This is what I've come to expect from a Scottish wanker.

Dude, they are all brilliant. If I were you, I'd have a print shop make up about a hundred of each at about three inches square. You could sell them for a buck a piece. I'd buy one of each.

I'd say them same thing, if I were a fucking idiot. Then go ahead, because you ARE a fucking idiot. You only exist to yank my chain anyway. we can fix that.... Nah, I ain't as thin skinned as that. Let the poor dude have his fun.

I'd say them same thing, if I were a fucking idiot. Then go ahead, because you ARE a fucking idiot. You only exist to yank my chain anyway.

I'd say technique is everything in friction climbing. I wouldn't give the edge to taller climbers on slabs.

Yes, I've heard that. 20-20-20 on a 60 m rope. 20 m isn't a lot between you it seems to me. But you are right, if you want to reach the other climber on rappel you need an equal length of rope in the coil.

No, it is coming straight out of me ol' noggin. This IS Newbies, ain't it? Iain, you can do as you like.

Or Trask's ass. For crying out lough. He said it was a BIG hex, but it wasn't THAT big.

If you are a team of two, use the 60 m rope and tie in 30 m apart with each climber carrying coils of 15 m. Assuming you can get the rope anchored by yourself, which is no mean feat, you can then rig a Z-Pulley with the rope you carried in the coil. It's a tough haul for one guy with a Z-pulley, so you had better learn out to convert you 3:1 to a 5:1. If I were a single party of two, I would carry two pulleys per man and two flukes or pickets per man. You have to realize that you take much greater risks travelling on glaciers this way if outside assistance is not readily available. I would never recommend travelling with fewer than three on a rope if you inexperienced.