Sphinx

There's climbing in Minnesota? I thought it was flat.

But there are plenty of young, bold, dead climbers, too. A lot more than old and bold ones. Doesn't Twight have a list of 40 partners and friends who died climbing?

nobody has jumped at the opportunity to register a Dan - avatar. Think of the spraying opportunities!

"Boy, this snow is really hard. Maybe we shouldn't keep going without crampons or an axe. Oh, hell, let's go for it."

I am starting to worry a bout you brutha, I think you need a little chill time, some TLC, maybe a vacation or something. You need to get all your pieces back in your pie before something realy yucky goes down. The Cali Life Style is messin' with youy PNW vibe.... SLOW DOWN... CHILL OUT...FIND SOME FRESH AIR, and then DON"T RUN IN IT TAKE CARE OF YOUR SELF Maybe he just needs to get laid.

That blows dead donkey dicks. Sucks to be you dude. Oh, and thanks for grossing me out.

You got it wrong. If God is aid, and Dog is God spelled backwards, then Dog is Dia.

Stop spraying and hop to it man! There's customers up front and burgers to flip! Don't make fun of my job, man.

I went into REI today and put one of these on the candy scale. With the plastic wrapper still on, 7.5 oz. You could remove the big handle and prolly get it down to the same weight as the "evernew" Ti pot at 6 oz. Thanks for the tip It's even a little bigger than the Ti pot in case I forget my helmet.

Jammies are gaper food. Get some if you want to look like Mounties..... More seriously, I used to tape, but once I learned to climb cracks better I never used tape anymore. It isn't worth it, plus the tape makes my huge mitts fatter.

I'd rather be working.

"But your are a lier " Sorry, Jon. DH says so, it must be true.

Hey Alex, Ever "tied" into the middle of a rope while glacier travelling? If so, my guess is that you probably did it by tying a figure-8 on a bite, or maybe a butterfly knot if you know your shit, and then CLIPPED INTO IT WITH A LOCKING BINER! There is nothing unsafe or irresponsible about that. Granted, it is preferable to tie into your harness directly whenever possible, but what that guy was doing was certainly not stupid or reckless. Lead climbing with a braided nylon rope (I saw someone doing this at exit 38)? Most people would probably consider that stupid and reckless... There's quite a chance of the biner being cross-loaded in this situation. On a glacier the forces are much lower, so it doesn't really matter. Plus I like to keep things simple, tying in directly gets rid of one more potential weak link.

Amen, man. Oh, and Seattle kinda sucks, too. Even the people @ the Patagonia store don't know much about the stuff they sell. Pretty pathetic.

Don't call me a Frenchman or Sexual Chocolate or I'll fight. Besides:

http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&productId=403&parent_category_rn=5760753 I've got this thing. It's like (12oz), if you use AL foil for a lid it's lighter, and reasonably durable. I know a guy who's been using one for about 10 years now.

D-Wayner, methinks you spend too much time beliittling sport climbing. You would never be around a sport climber, much less a boulderer, so why do you care what they're doing out in the middle of the desert near a few 20 foot rocks? You're beginning to sound like a broken record. Oh, BTW, you keep slamming sport climbing. What do you think of new-school mixed? It's worse than sport climbing, as it takes the bastion of trad ice (more 'manly' than trad rock), and converts it to a 'no risk' 'pansy' sport. Plus it scratches up the rock in addition to drilling holes and placing bolts. It's all pointless anyways. Say, weren't you the one drooling over all the beachside limestone pics? How're you going to protect those? Sling a gecko maybe?

Go ahead and cry while all those "poor, misguided non-climbers" crank down and have a blast, while you whine about how this isn't 'real' climbing. Bouldering is great training, and just because it has evolved beyond training into a separate activity doesn't mean it isn't fun, or rewarding.

Go with Al. Cheap (about 10 bucks), very light, etc. Perhaps not as durable, but for 10 bucks, I don't care. I like one with a simple bail, no handle. As for Ti, doesn't MSR make em? Not cheap, but hey, it Titanium.

Me I did, and I'm happy. Shoes are the only thing I am somewhat concerned about.

I have to smile every time I read it.

Climbing faster is more fun, for me at least. Yeah, I could siege the south side of Hood in a months with 24 camps on my way up, and everybody would give me shit about it, even though ostensibly "the best style is what is most fun". Too many hypocrites out there. It's easy to 'murder the impossible' these days. Going faster and lighter is better style, at least in alpinism. Otherwise, why is there so much hoopla about speedy ascents? Spray on, flamers.