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1. losing weight I'm no longer stuck in 5.8 2. Ultimate Frisbee After sprinting for an hour 3x a week, lumping a big pack anywhere doesn't seem so bad. 3. Hangboard I can stick those crimpers now

No shit... a pillar of salt. I hadn't thought of that one.

if you gaze for long into spray, spray gazes also into you.

BTW - Pouring a beer out in the manner described is blatant beer abuse.

I like dark beers and I've been known to give out a punishing now and again.

Never stop dreamin boy, 'cause when you stop dreamin, it's time to die. -Shannon Hoon

That dude has some spiffy via ferrata pants on.

-poop-

3 pages of thermos recommendations?

Do you hear that noobs that are looking for info on Chair Peak? Rap off the NEB, leave the E. Gulley alone. It sucks. It will kill you. It will also kill your children if given half a chance. The only reason my partners and I made it out alive is because we are very very lucky. In fact, one rock fell and it stopped mere yards from my pack. It could have easily turned my crackers into crumbs.

Climb: Chair Peak-East Face Date of Climb: 10/22/2005 Trip Report: While all of you sprayers were at the Lovefest, Lylabob, CCMeter, and I ran up Chair peak for a bit of exercise. CCmeter and I working on our map skillz The East Face. Our route was just to the left of the large chimney in the center. The weather was fine, the talus was steep and the climbing was fun and rompy. After 7 months of teaching new climbers, it was great to leg it out and haul some a@$$ on an easy climb. Now a little boring $#!t you already know: The route we took goes straight up the middle of the East face. We tended to stay to the left of the large chimney. Beckey rates the route a 5.5, but it is mostly fourth class. The rock is generally solid, blocky and fun, but the pro placements were scarce. Getting down seems to be the biggest cause of epics on Chair. From the summit, you will find a short, but well-defined trail heading south. It dead-ends at a cliff. Instead of rappelling the cliff, you can down climb the West-ish side on some loose scree and slabby rock until you travers over to the notch at the top of the east gulley. It looks downclimb-able, but there are a number of high, overhanging platforms that would be very difficult to downclimb. Carefully rappel to the lower slabs at the bottom of the gulley. The descent could easily turn into a rockfall deathtrap if there was another party above you. The East gulley has a lot of looseness above it. One redeeming factor is the mutlitude of overhanging platforms in the gulley that you could hide under as rocks came whistling past. I had never climbed Chair Peak before. It was a fun climb on a beautiful day. CCmeter demonstrating the use of web-throwers for use in "Extreme Hiking" Gear Notes: We took a standard alpine rack and one 60m rope. The Leader, Lylabob found about 8 placements in 400' of climbing.

They are "extreme trekking poles"

In another forum, Blowboarder said: He/she has applied a rating to a climb when it is toproped. I've seen it elsewhere. Maybe it's just me, but I always thought that a .12D climb is a .12D climb regardless of how you get up it. Granted, leading a .12D takes a lot more skill and testicular fortitude than a toprope, but that doesn't make the moves of the climb any harder than .12D. Is this the "New Wave" of ratings for climbs, or is this a contrived load of crap? Does anyone really give a shit? Do I need to down-grade my climb of Moscow since I TR'd it? What will that do to my 8a.nu score?

Schweet. Thanks.

Where is the DT area at E38?

From a gym employee, and the only person I have ever encountered that curses more than I do. "Alpine climbing is just extreme hiking. Stupid f_cks." It might have been Chaps.

I'm not Chaps. As I stated before, I would be a lot more creative and crass in my insults. I certainly wouldn't resort to "You are dumber than half an earthworm".

I normally don't weigh in on a name-calling thread, but that is some weak shit. Please go back to the third grade and learn to insult people properly. As for the rest of you, carry on.

I have spent a surprising amount of time watching this guy's head explode repeatedly.

Is he Minx's brother?

I'm not willing to pay international shipping charges for my feet. They will likely be classified as oversize and require a hazardous materials sticker. The work has to be done on-site.

You sure the chubby secretary in office 4A isn't willing to work on that? Because I know goddamn sure my union contract states "doesn't do feet". We are outsourcing the work these days, and I'm currently soliciting bids for the project.

Um, People, the feet still need rubbing.... ……...Oooo oooO...(…) (…)…...)./ .\.(…..(_/ ..\_)

I tried the Pika cam hooks. They bent. The extra bend in the design moght be cool if they made the piece out of something a bit beefier like the Leepers.

Today sucks... Useless meetings, general office irritants, and no coffee at the coffee station. I'm going to listen to some Thievery Corporation while I work on an emergency project. One of you should be here to rub my feet.