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There were stickers on all of the lenses that said 100% UVA and UVB protection. They could be lying. I will let you all know if I go blind...

I'm not a fan of glacier glasses or ski goggles. Goggles are too big and glacier glasses are too expensive (for a nice pair) and too delicate. Then I had a gear epiphany - Motorcycle goggles. I got a pair of these: Bobster MC Goggles I used them this weekend and they worked great. Less fogging than my glacier glasses, much less intrusive than my ski goggles. This model also comes with interchangable lenses (smoke, clear, amber) for different conditions.

Thanks. I think I will drop her a note.

I could almost feel the oppressive weight of it all here at work. I'd like to compliment her on the site and all, but I couldn't find any e-mail address or register. Oh well.

I really want Terry's job. Knocking the bejeezus out of coworkers would be such a fulfilling career. I would accept half my current pay and I would do free OT from time to time.

Looks neat, but I don't think so. 630+ mph for the trains? The current land speed record is around 730 mph. It's a very convincing hoax until you try to do any further research.

Not just a sloppy water knot, a scary water knot. Quicklinks - those are the little screw links for connecting chain, right?

My boss sent me this website - It's a photojournal of a recent motorcycle ride through Cernobyl. Very good stuff. Link

Yep, but it's crap too. The gate hook has some mushrooming around the edges. it's taken a good fall.

Very nice sir. Sorry I couldn't make it. the women, the sun, the beach and the boulders were great in Bellingham.

Evil and misleading... Jeff you suck!

At these altitudes is there really any benefit to acclimatizing for 3 days? You could actually be risking getting sick since you aren't involved in a comprehensive acclimation schedule. I think there was an incident in the latest edition of ANAM describing a research party spending too much time on Rainier to avoid getting sick (as most 2 day ascents do) and not enough time to properly acclimate. On a related note: is it acclimate or acclimatize?

You guys are really making Rainier sound like a siege type summit. Two days is plenty of time to make it with good weather. If you can't make the summit in 3 days (with good weather), you should probably get off the mountain and do a little more training before you get hurt. If someone is truly worried about the nature of the climb, you could always plan a day hike with your ful pack to Camp Muir, just to see how you do. BTW - Camping at Ingraham Flats cuts 1-1.5 hours off your summit day.

Note: this works very well with softgoods such as ropes, runners, and cordellettes, but this method loses it's effectiveness over time with stoppers and cams. It's also not very good for ferrous metals, as it may cause increased corrosion.

**** is aid.

Ok, so maybe I really don't have a clue here, but the rope's strength is in the core, right? The sheath is just to protect the core. If you were to mark the sheath with a marking pen, especially the Sharpie that has been specially relabled for just this purpose, you should be ok, right? Fuck it, I'm buying premarked ropes. At least then someone can sue if the sheath fails and I fall to my death.

On Saturday I was climbing on Guye Peak with one of the local basic climbing classes. I was cleaning fixed lines that we had set in the gulley between the north summit and the middle summit. I noticed a tree nearby with a red sling on it, so I figgered that I would rap off the tree to avoid any incdent while downclimbing the steep gulley. I looked at the anchor - it was a double sling wrapped around the tree and clipped with a carabiner. The water knot on the sling only had one visible tail. Not so cool. I retied the sling around the tree and added one of my own and rapped down. The only thing that was holding the knot was the melted end of the webbing. Whoever had been the last to rappel the gulley was very very lucky. Sure, the gully isn't too steep and not too exposed, but that is no excuse for sloppiness. If you left a red 9/16" double sling clipped with a red OP doval with yellow tape on that tree, you are very lucky… And you need to check your anchors more often.

Back on topic - I just run a piece of perlon between my earrings behind my head and hang my rack off of it.

What about the pollution creaed during the fermentation of the grass in the stomachs of the animals? You are an environment hating bastard.

I have two ropes hanging in a dark closet in the hopes that they will mate and I will end up with extra accesory cord. If I wait long enough, the accesory cord will turn into 8mm twin ropes, and eventually usable 9.7mm singles...

It's funny that one person thinks that he can rag on others because his car gets better gas mileage. It's like saying "I only shit in the river once, you shit twice!" Everybody is shitting in the river. Get over it. Better yet, start riding your bike to work.

How long can this thread go on?

I will climb something at Snoqualmie then head to Larrabee (sp?) for some bouldering. Maybe Distel can laugh at me as I fall off some V2's.

I just saw that OPEC is planning on reducing daily production by 1 million barrels. Gotta love those guys...

I'm with Gripped and Distel on this one 100%. I am new to climbing and I was having problems getting to 5.10 climbs. I just couldn't do it. I spent a lot of time bouldering with good "coaches" and I gained the strength and technique to do the more exciting moves on the longer routes. It also helps your confidence when you can relate a tricky move on an airy lead to something you were able to do just a few feet off the ground. I did notice that I lost some stamina when I was focusing on bouldering. The 30 seconds of super-pump on a route doesn't help much for an extended push.