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    TRs: Valuable or chestbeating fodder

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    Cairns said:

    This site has TRs?

     

    I get so enchanted by the one-liners I have a hard time slowing down enough to read a whole paragraph.

     

    A well written TR is more trouble than it's worth. At least I can skip a poor one. A good one makes me anxious to go do something.

     

    I like the What Did You Do Last Weekend? A few simple sentences. I like hearing about climbs I've done, particularly if you had more trouble on them than I did. That's closet chestbeating.

     

    Here's what I did last week.

     

    Wednesday went in to look at new climb possibility but got scared off:

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    Thursday went to Smoke Bluffs. Saw people on Yorkshire Gripper and Crime of the Century! Top-roped Air Time.Heard that Dave Lane has moved to my neighborhood.

     

    What did I just say?

     

    Oh, yes, are valuable or chestbeating the only choices?

     

    Hey, (I hate it when I closet chest beat)....but I pile my cairns about twice as high as this.

    Get tough Newbies!

    in Newbies

    Posted

    eternalX said:

    Here's another for the list:

     

    Like all things on the internet, SARCASM REIGNS. If something sounds too mean or ridiculous to be true, it is probably a JOKE.

     

     

    Are you serious? cantfocus.gif

    debate fodder: lots of new climbers

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    Rather than painting it as a black and white, all or nothing argument that seems to be going on here, it seems to me that the "bolt or no bolt" is really a land use issue. For instance, I love mountain biking...and I love some of our national parks, but I can't ride my mountain bike on the trails in our parks. There is, however, plenty of great riding in land that is outside of the parks. I'm fine with this. Same with bolting: If the goal is to keep an beautiful area pristine and wild, I sure as heck don't want to see a bolt ladder going up the side of some rock face... I have no problem with a trad climber climbing it with removalable/not destructive aid. On the other hand, I don't see any problem with bolts in areas that are not designated to remain pristine and are for recreational use. Of course, if you love a non-protected climbing area that is in risk of getting bolted up, you better work on getting it officially designated to save it rather than starting a war with people who want to bolt it.

    Ideas on cleaning a pack?

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted

    Thinker said:

    olyclimber said:

    When someone discovers the majick method for removing the scent of cat pee from a pack, please PM me or post. Also, if someone needs a cat, let me know.

     

    Some dry cleaners have a special treatment available. A few phone calls should yield some good info.

     

     

    PS...I'll take your cat. I LOVE cats.......in gravy.

     

    I wouldn't recommend dining on this particular cat. I think it has a bloodline relation to a pole cat or some other scented feline. yellaf.gif There is the strange story of how its mother went missing for a few months up in Bellingham, and then showed up in my closet one day having kittens...and this one picked me out. Anyway, my son seems to like it, so unfortunately for all of you...this cat giveaway business is all in jest.

    Hike tomorrow?

    in Climbing Partners

    Posted

    My speed climbing technique is unstoppable! Is everyone working tomorrow or what? Or is the rain forcast (snow in the mtns) making eveyone think that going out tomorrow is a stupid idea? Echo...Echo... cantfocus.gif

     

    Am I the only one with a day off?

    Hike tomorrow?

    in Climbing Partners

    Posted

    Anyone interested in going on a little hike into the hills tomorrow? I need some one to time my speed ascent of some little hill like this here Mailbox peak that's been getting all the press lately. yellaf.gif Or PM me if you have any better ideas...I just have the day off and need to get outside. fruit.gif

    Mailbox Peak TR

    in Alpine Lakes

    Posted · Edited by olyclimber

    Wow. hahaha.gif Getting pumped about this Mailbox Peak climb. Any Official Timers out there? I'm going to need you for my speed climb of Mailbox peak, alpine style of course. I will be wearing my shorts over my performance prolyproplene and of course I couldn't go anywhere without my gaitors. I'll of course document the trip so there can be no doubt as to the validity of my claim: look for a picture of me in the dark, and then one of me with the rotting couch, shot-gunned TV, mailboxes, and that other crap. I have the day off tomorrow, so I'm headed up! Any of you Extremo Mountain Dudes out there up for it? HCL.gif

    Indoor Climbing Magazine!

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    bunglehead said:

    Wow. Guess I'd have to see it first, but I alway s thought of the gym as just a place to practice, not an actual climbing detsination. But then again, there's indoor skating, isn't there?

     

    You mean people actually climb outdoors? wazzup.gif Isn't that dangerous? yellaf.gif

    good routes after washington and ellinor

    in Olympic Peninsula

    Posted

    If you decide to go up Mount Stone via the Putvin Trail, a fun way out is to drop over to Scout lake and then out via Lena lakes trail. Then you just need a ride back up to the Putvin trailhead. Look for the yellow nalgene bottle I lost on the east side of Mt. Stone where my brother and I slid down to the little lake visible from the summit just south of Scout Lake. Finders keepers. snaf.gif

    Some thoughts on risk and injury

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    I have always viewed those who flame or show a lack of sympathy (especially on cc.com, because we're all climbers, wannabees or experts) for those injured or killed climbing as people who are insecure in their climbing ablility. They might actually be great climbers, but they are insecure. (Myself, I am not a great climber, and I'm secure with that for now. I'm working on it) The fact is we could be killed anywhere, and stupid decisions or chance that kills people occurs everywhere, not just in the mountains. While almost every accident can be attributed to human error on some level, that error was not that they were or are climbers. It can be a set of conditions that could happen to the most skilled people, like a non-lethal fall that leads to lethal decisions afterwards. I wish that people would show more respect, but then you just have to feel sorry that they go through their lives feeling so insecure.

    kicked out of Canada

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    minx said:

    my point was that they don't ever seem to touch a computer the whole 10 sec they look at my ID confused.gif

     

    Well, they don't rip your car apart and search it everytime either. But I have seen them doing that to people and have known it to happen to people...and in those cases they found nothing and let the people go on their way. They spot check, and if they sense anything funny they'll dig deeper. It wouldn't surprise me also if they just pick every 10th car to examine more closely or run checks on people's IDs. Bad luck to be one of those people, but if they checked everyone thoroughly it would take a whole day or more just to cross the border. You've just been lucky like me so far if they haven't run a computer check on you and detained you longer than ten seconds.

    kicked out of Canada

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    stinkyclimber said:

    Translation: Sadly, unless someone out there has scanned it, it is going to be dead trees only. It was an article in CAJ 1975 or 1976. Worth reading if you can find a copy.

    Thanks for the translation stinkyclimber...I would have never gotten that. And after years of living up in Bellingham I could speak Canadian, eh... cantfocus.gif

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