olyclimber

Da-dah-dat-dat-da!

We are the world.

Ladies love it when you brag about "scooping them up", don't they? It is so alpha male.

Define regularly. And where are you alpine climbing? If it isn't more than 2 times a week, you best tuck your tail between your legs and run on home. WE'VE GOT STANDARDS HERE!

these are rather pedestrian foods to be carrying. might I suggest a cocktail of 10 supplements before during and after the climb. bonus points if their names are long, obscure, and difficult to pronounce, and if mark twight has mentioned them. Well, I've already been put in my place once today. I'm not a real climber. Please refer to me as "OlyPoseur" when you're talking to me. But I'm not from Olympia, dammit!

I've never worked in a gear store, but I have a low REI number. Does that count?

That depends, how do you plan to use your certificate? Is your resume printed on eVENT or Schoeller? Alpinfox, perhaps you'd like to join me on my quest to become a "Real Climber". I plan on climbing three days a week and living off of nothing but freeze dried icecream and gu packets. If I can get this time machine I bought off the internet to work, I plan on travelling back in time so that I can complete 5 NOLSe courses before I turn 19.

You mean like someone who calls them self a climber but doesn't climb more than twice a week? NOLSe, you are a very funny guy. You seem have these bizarre standards and ethics that have nothing to do with reality. If I up my climbing to three times a week, do I get the special NOLSe "Official Real Climber" certificate for my resume?

Or having a pretentious screen name.

Fairweather, I'm not sure what happened to you. You actually used to be able to have a meaningful dialogue with those that don't hold your point of view. While I didn't agree with many of your ideas, it was interesting to have you post them on cc.com. From what I know of your particular point of view, it seems to be a popular one (if not on this website, a popular one in this country...look who is president). I took a look this morning at this "other website", and it seems you have lost your debating skills. You were dismembered right in front of everyone by Alpinfox and Sexual_Chocolate. You've got to be embarrassed. Anyway, if you think you can pull it together, I would like to invite you back to this board. True, I am a "nobody" on this site, and I certianly don't have anything to do with how it is administered. But it is useful to have both sides to a debate, if they are coherent. Your skills have gone soft over there.

If anyone has a Canon s400 with a broken LCD, I can tell you how to repair it yourself for $33 (+ shipping for the little LCD). I just got through replacing mine in under 15 minutes. I could do it for you for a beer (you provide the LCD, I'll tell you how to order it). PM me if you want the details.

What a story. Glad to hear they made it off, sounds like they were pretty lucky.

I also believe that Eugene McCarthy said "Give me a windshirt and a packet of GU, and I'll climb any 8000m peak".

Brought to you by global warming, which won't be getting any better due to the policies of the current administration.

If you're talking about me, don't worry, I've got a thicker skin that that. As for being conservative - don't mistake that for being a pro-Bush, true-believer. I may not be willing to support a guy like Kerry, but I still have problems with Bush, and our political leaders in general. I can sum it up with one thought: in a nation with almost 300 million people, the most able, talented, hard-working, intelligent candidates that we could come up with were Dubya and Kerry? And the last time around - Dubya and Gore? Pathetic. We have some common ground here.

Shhh....we're going to scare the last conservative off the board dammit. Then we'll be stuck arguing about windshirts all day instead of politics.

Personal responsibility and self-sacrifice is underratted. The willingness to throw away other people's hard-earned money is too freely exercised. What ever happened to "ask not what your country can do for you?" If you are worried about underfunding of your favorite bureaucracy, take you tax cuts from the last 4 years and donate them to charities. Indeed, if you think your taxes are too low and the federal government is too small, nothing stops you from giving extra to Uncle Sam. Just cut a bigger check - no need to wait until April 15th either. You mean give them more money for the war? Thats where it would go.

Compassion is over rated. Survival of the fittest!

WTF is an "Off budget item"? Is that Enron style accounting? "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

Gotta be the "Darwin Award Without Death" winner of the century if he lives through it.

Happy B-day. I never thought that I would live to see 30, but that has passed me by and I too am mostly alive. Now you need to set new goals, like trying to keep your teeth past 50 or to retain the naive optimism of a 20 year old.

Great deal on Alphas. They have the older liner (non-thermofit). Sierra Trading Post.

Did anyone see the video footage of that that plane wreck in Afghanistan? It sort of reminded me of that movie/book "Alive"....but I don't think anyone survived this one. I saw a shot of just a plane tail on a snowy ridge top (at about 11,000 ft).

Ya....but what about windsuits?