vegetablebelay

There were 2 intact slings up there when we went to collect the gear. One was in good shape and the other looked a little weathered. It was a mystery to us how it could have happened.

And you have a great day too!

quote: Originally posted by JoshK: "Another Yugoslav holds the record for surviving a fall from the greatest altitude without a parachute. Air hostess Vesna Vulovic plunged 33,330 feet into a snowbound forest in Czechoslovakia in 1972 when the airliner she was on exploded. " DAmn! Talk about bouncing a Czech! ** ** plagerized from another board.

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: You're awful violent today. Is the Mrs. Doctor away on vacation? That and the fact that he doesn't have that hippy coming over every day anymore...

Nice going guys. Thanks for the pics!

Ice Girl. Not to be mistaken for our very own icegirl.

NO on R-51

quote: Originally posted by Dr Flash Amazing: You republican twats are no fun at all. Sure, you're more than happy to get your knickers in a clove hitch about the so-called liberal media, but you can't for a minute entertain the idea of politicians knocking each other off. Boring as hell! Well, now that I think of it the stock market did rally big late that day....

quote: Originally posted by Dr Flash Amazing: Just look at all the people connected to Clinton who mysteriously died off. Was that during Lewinsky or Whitewater, or both? Here is the Clinton list: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/clinton.htm

BABS SEES CRASH CONSPIRACY By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barbra Streisand -Photo by: AP SHE'S quoted bogus Shakespearean passages, misspelled the name of Sen. Dick Gephardt, and issued a position paper identifying Saddam Hussein as the "president of Iran." Now liberal activist Barbra Streisand is privately saying that Sen. Paul Wellstone's plane crash was "no accident." "I was shocked but, knowing a bit about her, not surprised by her statement," a witness told The Post's Braden Keil. "She said there's more to this than meets the eye." Wellstone, his wife and daughter, and five others died on Oct. 25 in a small plane crash as they were making campaign stops in his home state of Minnesota. If his replacement, Walter Mondale, doesn't win tomorrow's election, the Democratic Party could lose conrol of the Senate. Streisand expressed her paranoid conspiracy theory to an audience of interior designers bidding on the chance to decorate a planned addition to her Malibu estate. The singer, who recently sold her triplex on Central Park West for half of what she originally asked three years ago, gave up looking for another apartment in New York and is sending her furniture out west, where she is building a separate building to house the antique items. "She's asked five top West Coast designers to bid on a project to incorporate her New York furniture into a farmhouse-like addition on her Malibu estate," said the source. In a letter to the five candidates bidding for the job, she tells the prospects she won't have time to discuss anything until after the election. "She then says they better be voting Democratic and goes into a long political missive about reproductive choice, the Supreme Court, the environment and the power of the right wing," adds the source. Babs' Web site - which hawks everything from soup mugs to golf balls - consists largely of her political statements, with a big section defending her screw-ups. Last year, her site urged fans to be more energy-efficient even while she criss-crossed the country on fossil fuel-sucking private jets, roamed the roads in gas-guzzling limos and SUVs, and vacationed on big power boats. Streisand also urged her fellow Americans to set air conditioners at 78 degrees. One source told Keil that Babs kept the 16 rooms in her unoccupied Central Park West triplex as cold as a meat locker. And don't forget the time Streisand urged everyone to conserve energy by hanging laundry outside on lines, rather than use electric clothes dryers. But when asked if Streisand herself was using a backyard clothesline, her spokesman said: "She never meant that it necessarily applied to her." http://www.pagesix.com/seven/11042002/pagesix/pagesix.htm

quote: Originally posted by jkassidy: Prediction: My dawgs will spoil the Cougs' little top-5 dream (Christ they got some lucky bounces this weekend) in the Apple Cup. Whatever. Then they'll go home to watch real teams play in the bowl games over the holidays.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Sorry I was not heywood, guess again. If you DO guess one of my avatars I will fess up. Daisy.

quote: Originally posted by trask: My favorite of yours was Heywood Jablowme. Someone didn't see it that way though. After seeing that one, I went to my girlfriends high school reunion and wrote it on my nametag but she wouldn't let me wear it.

M R C Here's another dude who's going to sleep with Trask on his mind I P S [ 11-03-2002, 07:25 PM: Message edited by: vegetablebelay ]

Hey, just become a Coug fan and you'll forget all about the other local losing teams.

quote: Originally posted by snoboy: quote:Originally posted by Tyrone Shoes: Anna, You just don't get it...you know what, forget it, disregard. Congradulations on your solo! Take care. I guess a bunch of other people don't either? Just heapin' on a little more humblin' is all.

quote: Originally posted by Off White: Like they say, "regime change begins at home." Who is this "they" anyway?

quote: Originally posted by freeclimb9: quote:Originally posted by Anna: WOW...Mr Chip-on-his-shoulder...Man...You fuck...you son-of-a-bitch...FUCKIN...FUCKING...prick. BUZZKILL! Man, all these hot-headed pilot types!

quote: Originally posted by thelawgoddess: still ain't so bad - cute in a nasty rugged sort of way. (kind of like some hippies.) quote: accidently ran over one of those a few years back. they get pretty dang big Wait - what are we talking about here?

quote: Originally posted by Fence Sitter: naw that dude was a freakig pansy...he missed a couple of times...how can you miss when you have a disguised car with a hole in it so you can get really close... that guy should have kept to his tree stump... cause even though he was a snipe in the army, he doesn't have that impressive of a kill ratio (given that his targets are unsusspecting and unarmed civilians) The misses were probably the Malvo kid.

Bye.

quote: Originally posted by troubleski: tell me that I am not the only one who feels like this today... he This guy must feel a little like that. 01 Nov 2002 12:12 BST Soldier survives 3,000 ft chute failure BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Yugoslav Army paratrooper has survived a drop from an altitude of 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) after both his parachutes malfunctioned, according to Belgrade daily Glas Javnosti. The paper said on Friday 40-year-old Dragan Curcic escaped with minor cuts and bruises after his main and spare parachutes first failed to open and then became tangled when they opened simultaneously during an exercise on Tuesday. "He went through the roof of an army building. Only God himself saved him from certain death," an eyewitness said. Curcic, with more than 3,000 jumps to his name, performed another parachute drop on Thursday, this time without problems. Another Yugoslav holds the record for surviving a fall from the greatest altitude without a parachute. Air hostess Vesna Vulovic plunged 33,330 feet into a snowbound forest in Czechoslovakia in 1972 when the airliner she was on exploded. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=1667153

I say consider yourself fortunate that you received such a great lesson with minimal consequences. If you do continue to climb, you'll be a safer and wiser climber. As we've all read about, my partner Stefan took a fall on rappel and I got a firsthand look at the site and cirucmstances of the accident last weekend. I feel lucky that I received an in-your-face reminder about raps - one that was more personal than reading about the same thing in ANAM. As a result, I'm sure I'll never take a rappel lightly as long as I climb.