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Thanks Oly, I needed some therapy images. Damn, I am not visiting this thread again, since it will probably degrade again.

Perhaps if you had experienced the weather here the last two weekends you would understand. Crazy fucking Mazungo! Um it's Mr. Muzungu for you.

Ok here's mine I rode 50 miles at 7000 feet and higher through Nyungwe Forrest on Friday. It was one of the coolest rides I have ever done, tough though. Didn't see any snaffles, but I did see a troop of about 50 Colobus taking turns doing 10m Parkour jumps from trees. Then saw some golden monkeys, mountain monkeys and some Turraco's. Then Saturday and Sunday was spent hiking through the jungle and checking out waterfalls.

Let's I went back as far as November and then strarted getting tired. I didn't see a single TR from you PP? What's up with that. What kind of excuse is that Dirty Harry, shit at least you could come up with something original like, my dog ate it.

Where's yours?

And before we know it there is going to be a Star Wars forum!

getting prepared.

So are Satelite pagers something they do have? I mean I wouldn't need to call out or even text out. I just need to be reached so that I could turn around and make my way back to Seattle. Do anyone know about these and where I could rent them? In regards to the leaving a sat phone on to recieve calls, couldn't I just orient the antena so that it was sticking out of my pack? Also from what I have seen listed for battery life on these phone is around 19 hours? Is this correct. That would be long enough for my purposes. Thanks for the help so far.

Well I was reading the Gaurdian this morning and in it was an article that the FCC has banned the word bullshit. I guess they have two words now in their banned words list, fuck and now bullshit. It is unbelieveable I think. Aren't there other words that are more offensive? I can't imagine how much was spent on deciding on wherther to ban the word or not. Well I think it is bullshit. Oh here is a link Gaurdian article Discuss.......

Ok I know this is going to sound geeked out so flame away. This summer I am going to be back out to the PNW and if I am going to get on some alpine routes I am going to need to be reached immediately at any point. So I am asking have any of you used a satelite phone in the Cascades? If so did it work well in the mountains, any brand reccomendations, rental agency reccomendations, any other things I should think about. Note I don't want to buy one, need one while I am there. Thanks.

So what the hell is that little ride? It has a 5th element on it nice, I am not to big on Fox forks, platforms nice, discs hopefully Hayes hyraulic. No no waiting for the I-5 park to open, get out there ride and try not to think about crashing. It is going to happen at some point so don't worry about it. The last time I went I should gotten a picture, I ripped open my shin on my pedals. It was nasty looking blood all across my shin and my sock was completely soaked red, got some good looks form the locals, though. Have fun.

Holy shit, this is the greatest piece of writing in Spray so far. I have never read something so damn funny. Really who is this??? Who pulling off the uber troll??? Seriously.... If this real, damn dude, dudette, TV, TS, or whatever you are get life loser. Nobody is forcing you to read our drivel or are they? Do they got you gimped out in some basement force feeding you CC commie material, oh you poor fucking baby. If you don't like it, don't look at it asshole. Futhermore, don't insult me by saying "our disipline", I don't want have anything to do with you and I am not part of any displine, that is for freaks that got you locked away some place. I am not part of holy than thou climbing community, I climb, I laugh, have fun, can be sarcastic, can be rude, because I know it doesn't mean anything really and I don't take myself to serious. Climbing is climbing, it freaking amusing activity, that all it is, if it is something different for you then have it, but get off your high horse. You obviously have not met anyone from here and probably to scared to meet anyone from here, your loss, their saving grace. I have wasted enough time here, get lost loser.

Yeah I would be crying to if I knew that I was never going to explore this great world we live in. Poor bastard.

bolted cracks.......... A few more pictures here.

Ok a few more I found, yes I am heading back to South Africa for a week. Mainly working but I think I will try and squeeze 3 days of rock in. http://www.samountainmag.com/index.php http://www.rocrope.com/

Well I found some for the Distel's of the PNW. http://www.bouldering.co.za/ http://www.geocities.com/marijus3/

Here is some good core training suggestions. I have tried his suggestions a few times, but have never stuck with it.

Climb: Switzerland of Rwanda-Several Routes Date of Climb: 4/8/2006 Trip Report: Switzerland The view from Switzerland of Rwanda. Another good day out in Rwanda. Needing a break from the scary rock throwing baboons and change of scenery, I decided to check out a new area that I would pass on my way to Panga. I managed to rope Joeri into making the drive out there and see if we could find some new climbing. After a little 4 wheeling through the villages and getting 'What the hell are you muzungus doing here?' looks from the local we found some cliffs. We parked the car and made our way acoss the open grassy hilltop to the crags. The first crag we got to was awesome looking cave with an overhanging wall above, but because the rock was so compact cave it was completely featureless. So we continued looking. Below us we found a couple of small cliffs and went to work immediately. Again these cliffs were quite featureless, but they were low angle. We managed to squeeze out 4 routes from here in the 5.7 to 5.9+ range. We started with Easy Street 5.7 and Slippery Slab 5.9 Joeri topping out on Easy Street. Then we did Side Way 5.9+, we did all these on TR, but I want to go back a lead them. Joeri ended up doing another easy climb on the other side of this block. After doing these routes and putting on a show for the locals, we went to check out the rest of the hillside. At this point the locals had figured out what we were looking for and were able to lead us directly to some more small cliffs. Again came across a nice rock that was steep and overhanging on most sides. I did manage to see one line though that will go at hard 5.10, but looming above was a larger cliff so I decided to save it for another day. For another day. The cliff above looked great but still pretty featureless except for a couple of cracks and one blunt arete. The crack in the middle looked like a full body route and needed wide pro which the only piece that I had that might work for part of it was #3 Camelot and the blunt arete would probably need to be fixed with bolts, oh well more to chalk up for another day. To the right was Ass Crack 5.8 which was manageable with the gear I had. I cruised the first 30 or so feet at 5.4 and plugged in a piece. Step out of the crack to make some harder slab moves, but I couldn't make my way back to get gear so I made some shakey down climbing moves and tried a different approach. Groveling between to big butt cheeks was my other option which worked ok since I was able to get gear. Eventually made it to a good stance about 10 feet above my last piece. I had about 10 feet of featureless 5.10 slab climbing. With a somewhat big pendulum potential back into the ass crack I decided to take the chicken traverse to the right. Next time I might put a bolt in to make it a more direct line or just go for it, we'll see. Joeri followed up the route, after the grovel he opted for the chicken traverse as well so I didn't feel to bad for chickening out. --_and_Ass_Crack.JPG' alt='sleep.png' alt='-_-'>--_and_Ass_Crack.JPG'> Ass Crack is on the right the others are waiting to be climbed. Granted the cliffs are not as big and expansive as Panga, but the rock quality was really good. I am looking forward to going back and doing more there. The rest of the day was spent going to an area that I thought might offer some good bouldering, which it did. We managed about 15 problem in the V0 to V2 range and still left a lot to do there. For the most part we were alone there which is very rare in Rwanda, but eventually we were joined by a couple of guys who decided to give bouldering a try. It was fun hanging with them and showing them how to boulder. One guy learned really quick and was strong and did all of the problems we did, but in his dress shoes. An other guy managed to climb one problem that none of us could pull at the end of the day. He scared the hell out of all of us and I think himself on his 20 minute shakey, bellflop finish ascent and on the top exclaimed never again. We gave the guys a ride to there village and proceded to the next one which had a bar. Stopped and finished of the day with a warm Mutzig. Life is good. Gear Notes: Normal rack, next time bring some bolts so that I can do more leading. Approach Notes: Why would you care, you'll probably never make it here. If you do, I'll have a guide book completed at some point though for future climbers.

Here is a good TR on climbing Mt. Kenya, no it is not mine. Mt. Kenya TR

Very Nice! I was wondering when that would down as ski descent, question has now been answered.

Nice find Snugtop! That is awesome. Crazy bastards.

Everybody complains about small biner being hard to clip, but really I think they are easier. Yes using the finger through the biner and thumb pushing the rope technique does not work well with small biners. Try grabbing the whole biner spine of biner in palm and thumb push the rope into the gate. Even with glove I don't find it that difficult clipping small biners. Anyways, I like the Nuetrinos, probably because I have a rack of them and have no need to replace them.

Yeah damn straight!!!! Plan it around the end of July so that I can make it up there for the bbq.

Not as far as I am concerned.