Bill_Simpkins

I leave my phone at home and my wife knows she won't hear from me until I get back. Just lay down the rules. Better to be an asshole then a wimp.

You may want to see this thread.

Yeah, I've heard rumors too of Cascade volcano binge climbing. I don't believe this is the first link up ever. However, the verbage was correct in saying a linkup has never been doucumented. But I'm sure with a bit of digging, we could gfind a handful of people who have done it. 28 hours though, very nice! I'm surious on the individual times. I wonder what's going through Fido's mind right now....

Remember what ASK MEN has to say about it: "Bouldering: This method consists of climbing small boulders without any equipment. Basically, it's like hiking with some obstacles thrown in. " So don't worry about it man. The Pad People are of no threat to you.

"Mt. Squamish" is one of our little hills. Keep an eye out for the french hotties in sports bras along the 45 minute standard route to the top. You may encounter a little bit of Class 2, so be sure to carry a couple of #10 Hexes to back up the hand lines. Four or five of them should suffice. However, most people go there to climb cliffs. In case you don't know: Cliff: "In geography, a cliff is a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure. Cliffs are categorised as erosion landforms due to the processes of erosion and weathering that produce them. Cliffs are common on coasts, in mountainous areas, escarpments, and along rivers. Generally speaking, cliffs are formed by rock that is resistant to erosion and weathering. Sedimentary rocks most likely to form cliffs are sandstone, limestone, chalk, and dolomite. Igneous rocks, such as Granite and basalt."

"Skull leader, report back to the SDF-1 immediatly!" -Robotec, the cartoon sent by the gods.

Maybe, but the idea could potentially sell a lot of property. Fear sells a lot fo things. Plus, either way, it is a low-risk investment.

Here's a wild-hair investment idea. Buy up land that will be waterfront property after a two-foot rise in sealevel. It's a no-lose situation. If it never becomes waterfront, the land will still appreciate, if it does happen you'll get a very good return. Or, for a more immediate return, declare the land as "Global Warming Safe", put some stupid endorsement on the saying, and jack up the prices for rich liberals.

Does this mean my ropes might get wet when belaying Soul Mate in Seal Cove? Also note that a two foot sea level rise will eat away at the already fragile seaside bluffs of which many houses sit upon. Better relocate.

Hey Chaps, let me repeat myself. Rainier is like 0.000000000001 % of the climbing here. Click on the links below, if you can figure that out. From my earlier post: ------------------------------------- Hey Chaps. Mountains other than Rainier in our back yard Sitting around and spraying...in Sqaumish What are posters are up to, when its not raining. Just routine climbing in the local hills. Eat your heart out! ---------------------------------------------- Of coarse, out fo staters, especially from the middle states, arn't qualified to climb these. They need a special permit and have to graduate to shorts over poly pro and Mountaineers training.

Same thing happened to my right middle finger from bowling over a month ago. I've iced it and pulled on the finger (keep it to yourself ) to try and realign it. The swelling has not ceased and the finger moves slowly. It sucks for playing piano or fingerpicking guitar. Is not getting any better.

For this I reccomend filling up your gas tank before departing the last sight of civilization. If you plan on exploring many of the loggin roads, bring an extra can. Just my 2 cents.

When I'm not using them they are in the compressionstraps on my pack. A water bottole pounch on the bottom helps too. Some packs have a little pocket for pickets at the bottom of the compression straps. I also do this for glacier travel. When I need them for climbing, I just clip them to my harness, usually the right-rear loop. They have never gotten in the way. I am tall, so maybe that helps a little.

Possibly...maybe.... Firefighters may be risk takers, just like many of us. Many of them may join the crew for that reason. However, they are stuck responding to old lonely people pretending they are sick so someone will come to their house and talk to them. They drive around all day issuing burn ban violations or what not. If they spent most of their days putting out sick dangerous fires they they might be satisfied. Meanwhile most of the risks they do take ( and are very appreciated by us ) are successful and have many rewards, socially and personally. They get out on a mountain with other firefighters and the brotherhood(pc.....sisterhood..) remains. Maybe their comfort level is elevated beyond what it should be. Also notice that most of these accidents are on the Big Volcanoes, prizes to be had. "Firefighters climb big mountain". That and a bit of mob mentality?

We had a wallet stolen out of our car last weekend. The car was parked in our driveway. They cleaned out our checking account. Most of the money was spent on filling up gas tanks and small stuff, but it added up to $1400. Don't leave anything in your car. The officer told us that in EVERY neighborhood almost every car is looked in EVERY night.

It seems that the major of unfortunate accidents on the local volcanoes involve firefighters or East-Coasters. Am I wrong? If I recall correctly, recent ones are Liberty Ridge episode, last weekend at Gib Ledges, The Mt. Hood Blackhawk thing. I believe the list is huge. Why would this be? Please post your thoughts.

Oh, and CHAPS! We are not wasting time, we are wasting our companies time! Good to be at work! Cheers!

Hey Chaps. Mountains other than Rainier in our back yard Sitting around and spraying...in Sqaumish What are posters are up to, when its not raining. Just routine climbing in the local hills. Eat your heart out!

Looks like GWB might get his rapture.

They don't climb in MN, they just belay each other.

I think that learning how to aid climb is a valuable tool no matter how you climb. It's helps you to place gear more efficiently and teaches you lots of tricks to get you out of bad situations or into better ones. It also helps you judge what peices placed are good ones and bad ones.

I love the Superflys. I have some of the Superfly Lockers also. They weigh 41g. I would get a set of burly biners for your cragging rack, maybe for the pieces you use alot. I try to conserve the use of my lightweight ones for when the weight really counts. On the flip side, I woulnd't be caught with a heavy biner on an alpine climb. light biners save a lot of weight, as do the dyneema slings.

My post wasn't directed at you, although you sure did take it personally. I think I'm suffering from cubical frustration.

Told you so. You CAN'T trademark a term that has been used in slang for years, well, you can, but it won't hold up in court. You can't protect words themselves, but you can protect the context in which the word is used. I think the only way you can actually trademark a word is if you came up with it. It's a fine line though in some cases. If your shirts were call "Dirtbag Shirts" then they would have legal ground, or if your print matched their logo. if your shirts simply had some guy calling someone else a "Dirtbag", it wouldn't be a problem. Lets take the band Judas Priest for example. Now they don't have legal rights to those words, they have been around for hundred of years, but to the logo and things inteded towards the band. For instance, if someone made a shirt that said "JUDAS Priest, Metal is Forever" on it, and sold it, they could be sued. But if someone made a shirt that said "Judas Priest! Someone stole my shorts!" then they wouldn't. I think their shirts have thier name as "DIRTBAG", the manuafacururer, when yours simple are stateing that the wearer or character in the shirt is a dirtbag. Then again, this may be a battle you don't even want to deal with.