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Damn Dude, a little late. It is pretty easy say to the party below, "Sorry were slow, do want to pass?" Hell you might have actually climbed the route faster.

If you want them to aid on a seperate line then make sure to clip that second line in critical spots so they won't have to swing inorder to get in to the wall. I am assuming you have a newbie and you want to belay them up is your reason for doing this? It is easier to belay them with the second rope though. Jugging will be made easier for you partner if yo back clean every other bolt. The bolts are super close together, that is why I always reccomend leaving the aid gear at home and just french freeing it. Another vote for the West Side intro pitches, it turn it into a legit route, imo.

Hey Tim, we talked about it before, I will have a week in September to go to Pyrenes or surrounding area. If my gf goes directly back to the States, then I might stick around longer.

What hell are you talking about, there is climbing in RMNP?????

I believe the Bibler's are good in the rain. I was hiking theAT and it down pour for several day straight. There was about six inches of water every where there was a guy outside the shelter in a Bibler, he said he stayed dry. He also said he could poke at the bottom of the tent see the ripples from the water underneath.

Damn I thought I was loosing my mind. I was about to write a WTF post, thinking that you all were deleting my posts, because I live in Africa now. Glad that is not the case, thanks for letting us know Timmy.

Huh? What the hell is that? nsima?

Not that it matters now cause this thread has turned into spray, but this what I got in mind. Another trip to South Africa, hopefully get on some ice. Killimanjaro, probably the Coke Cola route. Mt. Kenya, 10 days on the mountain hopefully several routes. A most likely untouched wall in Rusumo, Tanzania, next week. Southern France for a week sporto shit. And maybe finish up the year with Christmas in Morroco.

Shit here in Rwanda we are paying $5.00 a gallon, it cost me over $50 bucks to fill the gas tank of our RAV 4.

I thought this was going to be about my friends car. I was going to agree that it is a studly car, it sounds like it has gone everywhere.

The interaction with locals mainly consist of them shouting Muzungo, and them spending the rest of the time staring at my every move. Seeing a Muzungo out in the village is way more exciting than watching the corn and bannanas grow, I guess. I did have a good time visiting my guards family, he and his wife just had another baby so we went to his house out about hour out of town and and about 10 minutes hike in. We sat around in their unlit house drinking beer and bannana beer. We be heading back to his village later for the baptism. Lately getting into mountain biking. This area is really great for mountain biking even in town, since there are trail everywhere and even more entertaining seeing the crazy Muzungo riding trails that they won't walk their bikes down. Coming up in May i am going to try and climb some lines on that wall I posted pictures of in Rusumo. Also just found out last night that the Belgian School has a thirty foot climbing wall, now I just need to figure out who to talk to about climbing on it. Aug Mt Kenya, Sept Southern France, maybe Morocco over Christmas, down to Jberg again in June, so I got a lot planned. Being working a ton lately trying to get the lab started up. That's about it. Been getting on anything lately, haven't seen any TR since Buckner(?).

Now that is some f*#ked up shit ... Glad none of that shit goes on here, this is much more fun!!! That is some funny shit, thanks!!!!

Climb: South Africa-Chosspile and Malisberg Date of Climb: 4/2-3/2005 Trip Report: Well I made down to Johannesberg, South Africa for work. After reading all kinds of articles for climbing in SA, I was quite excited since I have not done much since I have been here in Rwanda. It was a little difficult trying to line up partners down there. It seems that people don't use computers as much as we do in the States, but eventually I was able to get line up some partners. First person I hooked up with was Hansie. He was doing some visiting of family and friends and want to get out and climb. Works for me. He picked me up at my hotel once he found it, then we spent about 30 minutes trying to find our way of the city, I was worried that we wouldn't even make it to a crag. Eventually we arrived at the crag after about hour of driving. It was a smallish E38 style crag, bolt protected, slightly better rock, but much more scenic. A view of an untouched overhanging wall. The view from the cliff of the surrounding country side. The waterfall that was near the cliff, with the damn in the background. We spent the day there climbing. We did about 5 or 6 routes and I was cooked at the end. Made me realize how out of shape I have gotten in since I have been in Rwanda. Oh well, it felt great to get out on the rock. Here some pics. Hansie heading up the second route of the day. Me heading up the third route of the day. Hansie taking on a short steep overhanging one move wonder. We finished the day hanging by the waterfall drinking some beers and talking about the day. I was glad to see climbers down in South Africa are like climber everywhere else I been. Well the next day I made plans to get together with some folks from the South African Mountain Club. Essentially South African Mounties. It was me and older couple and friend of theirs. This time getting out of the city was much easier since my guides were from Johannesberg, though it took just as long to get to the parking lot (2 hours). It was beautiful out there, though it was raining. The hike in didn't look promising. Well we had an hour to walk into the crag so we were hoping that it would clear up, since it never rains steadily all day long in South Africa? An hour later we were in the kloof, it was awesome looking. The rock was just like in the Gunks, steep and lots of roofs. We hike down to the base and hung out for while drinking tea, and hoping, but it never cleared. Oh well I will have something to go back to. The main wall The second biggest wall all the climbing was about 2 pitch routes.

Well July I think I may find myself here:

WTF is going on? That is the first from you......

It depends on the insurance. All of my shots were covered by my insurance when I came out to Rwanda, that was Hep A, Hep B, tetanus, typhoid, yellow fever, menegitis.

Alright here is the latest in the lab project that I am involved with. We pretty much got the construction done, now we just need to get some juice flowing through the line. Da former shitter now it is going to be our autoclave room. This here is where we are going to set up our micrscopes and do gram staining. And this room is where we are going to do our ELISA's and centrifuging, behind the door in the middle is a store room. It has been a pretty cool experience so far, still have a ton of work to do. I think we might actually be able to turn this place into a laboratory. I here you all finally got some snow. Hopefully in July I'll go where there is snow and ice. I am either going to climb Killi or go get on some South African ice.

It is down in South Africa in the northern part of the country. Only a few hour flight about $400 rt. This weekend I am heading down there for work and do some climbing (rock). I hoping that I will meet up with some folks that ice climb so I make plans for another 'business trip' to go and get on that stuff sometime. It looks pretty cool.

Yeah I guess if you like traversing, it is all yours. I myself like to ride and carve turns instead of going straight.

Fuk yeah ice in South Africa. Can't wait to get on it. http://www.mcsa.org.za/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=13

Sounds like a good time. Love the name, Bernie Man, that's awesome.

Now you are talking Thinker, the terrain at Snowbird is way better than Alta. If it was the other way around, then I might complain that they don't let snowboarders in, but Alta is flat terrain in my opinion. You have to do too much traversing to get to the good stuff.

And ond one from the WITS U in Johannesburg http://www.wumc.za.net/

And another http://www.saclimb.co.za/

Damn, I finally got mine, now I can get to reading it on my trip to Uganda to go raft the Nile, and see what you all are spraying about.