Sphinx

And you say I'm immature?

STFU Richard Dickhead. Your whining about the moderators is fucking pathetic. Up yours.

You did not delete the post Republican = Totalitarian enactments? As a moderator you should reframe from the use of the fword and the cword and set an example. Anyone that surfs this board knows what caveys about. If I where to be verbally theratened by his avatar I would just sling it back at him. So you whacked his Pee Pee, he has seen enought punishment give him back his avatar. And yes unless it is vulgar I should have freedom of speech. I have my hat and coat , think your man enought to show me the way? Is the "c-word" 'caveman'?

Bullshit. Sorry, I was quite unclear there.

Bullshit.

Ask Dan -.

Caveman can go himself.

Shut the fuck up you stupid moron. I just hope your alcohol abuse leads to an early grave, say, tomorrow.

The Mountaineers must have a Scotland branch. I ran into a similarly outfitted group on the hike into the Bugaboos. These Scottish fellows (really nice guys BTW) brought no other footwear than plastic boots. (This was August and about 70 degrees with no snow in sight.) They managed to climb the Kain Route on Bugaboo Spire in said footwear.They carried two packs. They would hike one up the trail a couple hundred meters, drop it and go back to pick the other one up. Rumor had it they brought an entire ham with them to eat. You gotta be kidding me.

I'm beginning to wonder about BD by now....

Fuck the mountaineers, Mazamas, and all the other piece-of-shit 'climbing' groups out there. Let them burn in hell! Just do it yourself. It ain't that hard to learn to climb. John Long's books are great, read em.

Do you get Internet service down there? He's got to spray, remember?

The guy's articles reflected extreme immaturity. Climbing sucks anyways (The mag, not the activity).

How you likin those new Scarpas you got there, Timmy?

REI gear is OK. It works for casual users (eg backpacking), but I feel that for more gear-intensive, more severe conditions situations more specialized gear is worth it. My only beef with REI is the lack of climbing gear. I can deal with clueless salespeople, I just ask them a question they can't answer, and they leave me alone.

That would be my wife. She and my daughter are the same way. They are completely unable to distill a series of events to the essential and tell a story. They get mad when my attention wanders. That's the one! She can take up to half an hour to describe an event that originally took only a few seconds to transpire. Once, while listening to her ramblings and attempting to watch the TV at the same time, I raised the remote control and pointed it at her face while desperately and repeatedly pressing the "mute" button. ....I slept on the sofa that night. That's funny. Too bad no that night.

I just read an article by Andy Kirkpatrick, who is the only guy I know of who writes unbiased articles on how climbing gear works in the real world. He says 1. fill power measurements differ from country to country. 2. he says that 800 fill down is available from only one or two sources, and is damn expensive 3. whoever claims 900 fill down is on crack and works for a sleeping bag company. Now, I have an inclination to believe this guy, as he sounds like he knows what he's talking about. What do you down specialists say to this?

"How about I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call."

It is the system and is our enemy.

Actually, the force exerted by gravity on the dumbell actually "pulls" on every infinitesimal piece of the dumbell. Add up all the forces by integrating, and the EFFECT is that of the force being on the center of mass. Saying that gravity pulls only on the center of mass is incorrect.

And then you meet them at Pub Club and they all seem so normal....and you wonder what's wrong with us. Is it just climbers, or is it everyone?