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Make new trad routes with the stuff. Make a saw cut and fill with the expando stuff. Add water. Crack widens. Repeat.

The sofa would have been on the east side, would it not? Best for watching the sunrise, unless it was coming through the eye.

Not everyone has a 1" rock drill that can go completely through 10 ton boulder.

They done went and destroyed a perfectly good boulder. Chemicals used to destroy 8 x 12 boulder in Seattle.

I've heard that with the loss of a hold, the Waterchute goes at 5.10b.

Lately, I am more likely to be there in the late afternoon. Today, Jeff and I crushed the purple V3. Then Jeff unlocked the secret of the black V3.

That's a lot of nonsense. Have you ever had any trouble turning a screw to remove it? I have not. Most of the friction comes from the teeth.

I love this quote, "I think Paris Hilton was the first person to supposedly do it accidentally, but when you're a celebrity well-known just for being famous and you have no other discernible talent, then you're going to use whatever you have to stay famous. There is no such thing as bad publicity."

You should put a call into JGowans

Indeed, the Future is Now.

That would be New Testament.

Hey, she might not be a troll. There was a recent poster, toast####, who turned out to be real.

I think the Trango Jaws would be a better choice for rapping with icy ropes, as it would be much less likely to collect ice- no grooves or teeth.

These are different times. Dwayner and Pope might have had something to say on this thread by now!

I can only assume that the reason that threads are 10 cm on all screws is cost of manufacture. I have no idea whether they are machined or cast. I figure it's the latter.

You didn't explain the "stealth" part. Where does that come in? Does the foam absorb radar? It should absorb most of the sound of wild...

You should look up Barry Collins (BCollins). He recently moved to Colorado and he says he loves it there.

Pretty soon we'll have someone spraying on cc.com while climbing the Nose.

Sometimes the first bolts at Smith are pretty darn far off the ground, but once you've clipped the first, you are protected until you clip the second. I can see wanting to be protected from groundfall, but wanting to avoid falling altogether? That's silly.

Bummer, man. Your BMW? I guess bolding doesn't work in the title.

That's awesome, MisterE. Bravo! I could see that you pay a lot of attention to detail.

Can anyone tell me why they make ice screws without extending the thread along the entire length of the screw? It must be fairly common for screws to punch through into air pockets and through curtains. If the screw is long, say 16 cm, and the curtain is 10 cm, and the thread are on the last 10 cm, you might have only 4 cm of threads in ice. The preferred solution would be to remove the long screw and replace it with a shorter one, but it would be entirely unnecessary if the threads went all the way to the head.

Come sit down on zee couch here and let us talk about it, shall ve?

I still remember college chem lab. All the books we had still called for benzene for many experiments. The TA's told us we couldn't use benzene any more because it was found to cause cancer. We could substitute toluene. It smells about as good as benzene.

Whatever happened to Muffy, ChrisT, Anna, and a whole lot of other female avatars who have come and gone?