Sphinx

Thegroid

Depends on the shape of the biner, too. I got to watch BD kill a wiregate once, and the gate exploded when the thing failed. The 'skinny' biner might have a more pronounced D-shape, so less force is transferred to the gate, which is the weak part of the biner.

I think he is joking. But it's a little to realitic for me!Let's see: Big Groups (eg Mazamas, Mounties, etc)Big Groups Suck Ass!Big Groups Suck!Big Groups are OK if they're not assholes!Big Groups are OK!Big Groups RULE!

Anybody checked out Smithrock.com lately? The place is becoming like cc.com! Check this out: holy shit!

Seether, 2008.

Uh huh, yup, exactly. Nuff said.

He spewed a bit, people said he would get shut down after fify posts, but it took only 3 or 4. VERY funny. I wonder what avatar he's posting under now.

I've only used the Mammut Galaxy. I rather like it. 10mm, reasonably durable, etc. I haven't used anything else except for Mammut's Flash which sucks, as it's fatter, heavier, floppy, fuzzy, sheath slips, etc, bad rope.

Timmy, who is that ugly chick?

Use a 10mm dry 60m for all around rock and ice. But there's no way around it, that's overkill for glacier walking, where you want a short skinnny rope. You will end up with a lot of ropes, but start with the fat long one.

Fried TORTILLAS are great!

I just bought the new Queens album. Some of the songs are good, but there is too much of the bullshit "radio" stuff. The new album by Seether (Disclaimer) is really, really good though. All the songs on that CD are GREAT.

Past the end is the point. Unlike you, we typically take the caps off the scope....moron.

You get a jawbreaker and some lipstick? What's your point? (BTW, that chick has a VERY elastic cheek!)

Too true. What a fucking wanker.

Dood you are so right. Simpson is dumb as hellllll. And he wasn't trying to lead that Scottish ice climb I think he was trying to solo it. Simpson was such a bumbler, an epic waiting to happen. But yeah This Game of Ghosts and Touching the Void were awesom books. No, he was leading, which is why he survived; his belayer kept him from going farther than 70 feet. PLUS he was doing it half-leashless with a non-leashless tool. Hardcore, no?

Oh, BTW, was M. Layton's ascent of Big Four an 'epic'? I'd say yes, but you could argue that their lives were not endangered, so it wasn't an epic.

But Simpson is also stupid, in that several of his epics could have been prevented. 1. When you are on a bivy ledge, make a BOMBPROOF anchor, so when the ledge drops away, you will hang on something secure. 2. When you are a beginning ice climber, don't try to lead something hard. He writes that he was uncomfortable walking on his crampons before he tried to lead that Scottish IV. Pretty dumb. 3. Siula Grande seems to have been bad luck. etc. Still, I like his books, and it seems that God refuses to kill the guy. He's got at least 9 lives.

That was disturbing. Was the cat OK? I hope so.

Alpinist or whatever it's called is pretty damn good.

I'm thinking of getting some that say "No Iraq War" and cutting off the "NO"