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Otay for Ingals go up for scramble type thing. I want to do Stewart again this year but want to wait a little later for little more unseasonable conditions just to get a different feel for the mountain. Definitely give me a call once you get back.

Was it the leashes or the people using them that were responsible for dropping their tools?

Yep I somewhat agree, that is why I say it is your call. So do you only use your cams once and leave them like I have seen down in the Gunks?

I have Trango tri cam yellow (WC #1 size), Wild Country ridged #1 and #3, BD Camelot .5, ABC red (WC #3 size). I also have some Wild Country flexies (red, yellow, and tourquoise)and Camelot #2 and #1 that I would consider selling at $20 each. Will do volume discounting.

I have a Balfa-Minuteman (frame new $750). It is a steel dirt jumping bike it has probably seen about 4 hours of use, 13 inch frame, DJ III fork (5 inches of travel), single ring with Evil guard, Magura Louise hydro brakes, Deore rear shifter and derailer. Asking $700. Will sell just the frame. Over the years I have amassed a second rack of cams that people have left behind. No history on them, it is your call, but I can tell which ones were stuck and which ones were bailed off of. Individual cams $5-$10. I have two crappy BD mountain axes a 65cm and 70cm. I say they are crappy cause they don't feel like the Air light that I want. $10 each I have two Charle Moser- Pulsar. They are straight shaft tools, believe I have some spare picks and hammerheads. Will sell for $250. Make an offer on any of the above stuff and I will think about it, but to be honest those prices are good deals. Willing to trade for stuff too. Things I need/want Air Light mountain axe, beacon, probe, and winter bag.

Hey if you want any company on Ingalls I was thinking about running up it sometime soon. That route looks like it would be a real nice easy solo.

Still everybody is going on about the biner. Why would you use a biner in the first place? There is no need to use one. Am I stoned right now, no, granted I did ride my bike through the hippie infested hempfest area, but there was no herbal in the air.

When there is such a thing as Android leashes why use any other leash or go leashless for that matter. I think leashless tools will be a fad just like it was in NE at one point in the late 70's or 80's. Oh and BTW whoever said climbing with leashes is aid is wrong, climbing with ice axes is aid and who gives a crap of whether it is aid or not, it is fun, thats what really matters. When there is icing using Androids it is simple you clip, unclip, flick clip-in point and clip. Hmm, what 5 seconds at the most.

Too bad it is not a voodoo doll, then I could snap his head off. Come to think of it, I guess wouldn't affect his decision making.

Gotta to love it, beer and climbing. Been wanting to get back down to Smith, can't wait.

Yeah That's not saying much though. Since when I am hungry I don't care what it is, I'll eat it. I couldn't imagine life without procuitto or pork tenderloin.

Summertime- Bombay Saphire or TEN and tonic in highball with good slice of lime and only a splash of tonic to carbonate my gin Winter- Guniness or Deadguy on tap

You can still get the knot stuck in the rap ring or sling in this case. The arrows shown are which direction you pull to retrieve your ropes, not the direction of force when rapping on a single strand. (I am hoping in this scenario that people would choose to rap on the "ok rope".) I don't see the point of the locker. Maybe it's too early and the two brains on the wheel have not gotten up to full speed. I am going to get some coffee and then see if someone can explain to me.

The way I look at it you shouldn't be simu-ing unless you are completely sure you and your partner(s) can solo the terrain you are on. I look at simu-ing as a method to get me and my partner(s) to the hard sections where we want to belay without having to coil up the rope, or put it in the pack, whatever just to save time. I have to check that link that somebody posted on using the Tibloc, to me it seems sort of stupid, risking damage to your rope. Maybe work well one time, but even just ascending a rope with one of those things does damage. The do and don't are simple. Do: climb in a safe manner and stay on Don't: fall.

So whats up. Anybody into climbing tomorrow or can hook up with anyone that is going? I am interested in something sort of local 32/38/Index.

I'd go some time if you guys are going from the Seattle area. I don't really like driving to ride. Any downhillers out there. Now that is something I would drive for. Been wanting to check out E27. Been out to 38 a couple of time fun stuff there.

Yeah Lummox gots ya beat. Mine is, at a hanging belay I thought I clipped my ex-wife into the hanging belay. I took her off belay and then then she looked at the anchor before sitting back in her harness and realized I double clipped myself into the anchor. Ten years later never made that one again. I feel like this true confessions, something like that.

I've tried it and it sucks. We went up on a Mt. Katahdin in Maine with one, it was constantly tangled and had twists, when it was being carried in the pack it was way heavier than the rack. I myself prefer to short rope over easier terrain. That way you don't have much rope drag and the the weight of the rope is evenly distributed between the climbers (kiwi coil). You also have the benefit of staying contact, so say you do pass a hard section the second can easily request a belay or some gear to be place just in case.

wtf? resistance is futile? fuck yea. specially if mistere comes through with his namesake. I don't look at it as resistance, just going to show up and do what I normally would do. Climb and party, and I guess eat some food, especially if there is no meal in a glass there (i.e. STOUT).

If you do a lot of climbing that requires two rope rappels, you should just go to a double rope system. It really is the way to go on multi-pitch climbs. It doesn't take any time to get used to it on straight forward climbs. It is just like belaying with a single rope. Where it can get a little more difficult is wandering pitches, where the lines are clipped seperate to keep rope drag down to a minimum.

Get out, you can be in control of the bike at 45 mph. Most of the time when I have problem on my road bike with drivers, I think they don't realize you can move just as fast as them at times. Depends on what you mean by control. 45 mph on a road bike means you can steer it, but there's no stopping it within a reasonable amount of time if something jumps out in front of you. You're also praying to baby jesus your front tire doesn't blow Sorry still have to disagree I have had cat, squirrels, people cut out in front of me and avoided an accident (the squirrel got to meet my spokes up close and personal though). I have also had front flat on a downhill descent. I'll give you this, it depends on who is on the bike. When I first started riding yeah I didn't have as much contols as I do now-a-days.

Ok since there was another Rope-up thread I felt the need to post this again. Cause I's wants to party at Rope-up. The party sounded really cool last year and since I was on the other coast I was unable to attend and add to the insanity. When I first heard about Rope-up I was pysched to show for this year. After reading all this crap now I am not as pyched, but this is what I think needs to happen. Rat and Bobbyperu should bartend, and Erik too I guess, that way we are in store for some drunken debauchery . I don't think that will happen since the corporate sponsor may feel the need to regulate the alcohol intake. So plan B needs to be ready as I have heard plenty of you say come prepared with extra goods, so that the party is over when, hmm I don't know, whenever. I'll be pouring after closing time . I think by Saturday morning we'll know whether or not we need to make a big beer run and find a good party spot. Also since this started as a party and it seems that a lot a people want to keep it that way. (Don't get me wrong Beck the festival idea sounds cool, but maybe that needed to be a different event, it is to late now though.) I say show up and act like you have in the past. I really do hope a lot of the loud, unruly, drunken climbing continues, it seems that it was sort of the theme and what made it a really fun party. So it is up to you guys and gals who have shown up in the previous years to do what comes naturally. Party and climb like stars. Anarchy is such a great thing. Either the corporate sponsors will either be into or not. If they are into the scene that is really cool, free beer , free food , free swag I am always up for. Granted it is Pyrimid beer, but free none the less. (I really hope it is not heffer whizin, that shit is nasty.) If they aren't into it, then they probably won't participate next year and Rope-up can go back to the organized chaos of of the cc.com grassroots network. So everyone who made the party the previous years show up. Cause it is you who are going to make the party again this year too and the years to come. I will be really bummed if you guys bag out on some of us that didn't get to party like you all did last year. On other note, I'll be a pack mule, and help haul stuff for a port-rave on the Tooth. That sounds like fun, the rave that is.

Damn that took forever, but I managed to read all the posts. You guys had me laughing like crazy at times. Now this what I got out of it. The party sounded really cool last year and since I was on the other coast I was unable to attend and add to the insanity. When I first heard about Rope-up I was pysched to show for this year. After reading all this crap now I am not as pyched, but this is what I think needs to happen. Rat and Bobbyperu should bartend, and Erik too I guess, that way we are in store for some drunken debauchery . I don't think that will happen since the corporate sponsor may feel the need to regulate the alcohol intake. So plan B needs to be ready as I have heard plenty of you say come prepared with extra goods, so that the party is over when, hmm I don't know, whenever. I'll be pouring after closing time in the beer garden . I think by Saturday morning we'll know whether or not we need to make a big beer run and find a good party spot. Also since this started as a party and it seems that a lot a people want to keep it that way. (Don't get me wrong Beck the festival idea sounds cool, but maybe that needed to be a different event, it is to late now though.) I say show up and act like you have in the past. I really do hope a lot of the loud, unruly, drunken climbing continues, it seems that it was sort of the theme and what made it a really fun party. So it is up to you guys and gals who have shown up in the previous years to do what comes naturally. Party and climb like stars. Anarchy is such a great thing. Either the corporate sponsors will either be into or not. If they are into the scene that is really cool, free beer , free food , free swag I am always up for. Granted it is Pyrimid beer, but free none the less. (I really hope it is not heffer whizin, that shit is nasty.) If they aren't into it, then they probably won't participate next year and Rope-up can go back to the organized chaos of of the cc.com grassroots network. So everyone who made the party the previous years show up. Cause it is you who are going to make the party again this year too and the years to come. I will be really bummed if you guys bag out on some of us that didn't get to party like you all did last year. On other note, I'll be a pack mule, and help haul stuff for a port-rave on the Tooth. That sounds like fun, the rave that is.

Get out, you can be in control of the bike at 45 mph. Most of the time when I have problem on my road bike with drivers, I think they don't realize you can move just as fast as them at times.

Yo Alpinefox lets get out to Index sometime, there is plenty of good cracks to work on there and it is close by. Definitely harder than what we have gone out and done. Got worked yesterday over there, ready for some more though. What about later this week??