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Who would have thunk this thread would have degenerated into a 'Yo Mama' thread in less than 5 posts... C'mon,Dru, don't you want to ever climb higher than your post count? What is it? Or you still into 60 year old women?

May your brain explode 5ft below your dream summit...

Here is the scenario: You open a letter and it tells you that you have a year to live...you'll be healthy the whole time but then your brain just will explode(or whatever) in a year. Bummer... The next letter you open has a check for $100,000 to be used for climbing/training expenses til you kick the bucket... So what would your Last Big Climb be?

Not much in the way of good advice there...sorry dude. You should go hiking on AK's tundra(you know... basically treeless/above treeline) and let me know how many grizzly bears you run into...most likely plenty. The PVC idea may work for rodents but bears will be able to chew apart the cap from the tube along the ridge that the cap makes. And most rodents live underground so the dirt won't help and I've watched grizzlies dig deep to eat a burrowed rodent,too. Just buy a new BRFC. They last forever and work GREAT. They are pretty light compared to the older ones now. Plus, you don't have to worry about your food which is worth allot,too. Another thing I've done in bear country when there are not any trees to hang your food from is to hang it off a cliff...not sure of your terrain so that may be useless but a thought none the less. I just saw a garcia machine on ebay for $49...

Stickboy and stavrogin ...you're my bitches again... 44.44 sec. You so suck!

Damn you...damn you to hell,Stickboy...

You're my bitch now too...33.12.

30.54 ,bitch.

I think allot of you are over reacting to this story. The secret service is just doing it's job. If that kid shot the president two weeks later then everyone would be screaming how everyone missed all the tell tale signs... Someone mentioned the Trench Coat mafia/ Columbine HS...exactly. Hind sight is 20/20 and foresight is just guess work and totally uncertain.

Never been bothered by horses but I have had the shit knocked out of me by the out-of-control-idiot faction of mtn bikers... I'm glad they don't have access to NP trails and wilderness areas. There's just too many that don't know or use trail etiquette out there and view hiker's as a pain in the ass to them getting thier adrenaline fix on that "sweet downhill run" they worked so hard for on the way up. eh, fuck'em... til they ALL grow up. Horses give access to places who wouldn't be able to get there and experience the area otherwise. Like people getting up there in age, handicapped,ect...

Hope she pukes in her O's mask...

Fuckin' A and well put, dude! Her stuff reads like the society pages in a crappy magazine... I don't wish death or injury on her but after reading her pathetic tale... I hope that mountain kicks her fucking shallow, name dropping, socialite, poser ass. She doesn't deserve to be there...and needs serious lesson taught to her so she either goes back to her home in Aspen(and stays there) or pulls her head out of her ass before she gets a Darwin Award.

I met a guy who went with that approach my first day there. He soloed from Kahiltna BC to Summit and back to BC in 5-6 days because he wanted to take full advantage of a good weather window. I was so impressed hearing about it that I took his picture when he got back to the Kahiltna... Link to picture Not a great pic but he is the one at the end of the rope.

Actually, she won't have...

Annabelle Bond's Climbing Resume: - First Ascent of "The Stairs" , at Dillard's Grand Opening, NY,NY. USA.1992 -First Ascent of "The Elevator", at Bananna Republic's Grand Opening, LA,CA.USA.1993 -First Ascent of "The Escalator", at Abercrombie and Finch's Grand Opening. Paris,France.1994. -First Ascent of "The Rock Wall" on one of the Carnival Cruise liners,somewhere near the Cayman Islands,1999. -First Hummer Assisted Ascent of Pikes Peak. Colorado.2001. -First Hummer Assisted Ascent of Mt. Evans. Colorado. 2002. -Hummer Assisted Ascent to Paridise on Mt. Rainier. Turned back due lack of road to true summit...someone told me there was one on Mt. Rainier while I was on cc.com. Max elevation reached : 5900ft. Special Skills: -I can suck water from a 80 million year old rock. -I can suck a bowling ball through a garden hose. -I can suck the ice out of an 22 cm ice screw and swallow. -Excellent fashion sense on the mountain. -My nifty Salomon Skis and nifty Ice Axes are color coordinated!!! Soooo...sponsor meeeee!!! I'm blond and I like to drink... -

Yeah, she had better keep those lips nice and soft for earning the other part of her sponsorship cash...

The earliest I've been in the cirque is mid june and it's fine but you can still get some isolated crazy weather and you'll be on snow in the cirque, for sure. I've done extended hiking in the winds through out may w/o severe winter weather. Nobody is there, for sure. The "crowds" in the Winds is pretty relative too. Even in August it's not that bad... and even in the cirque. People have to work fairly hard to get there so it weeds out most of the goatfuckers. Plus people really spread out too, ya know? You'll see a 70 cars in the Big sandy trailhead lot during peak season but wonder where they all went when you get into the backcountry. If you are climbing then really pay attention to slabs of snow on still hanging on those peaks. They really put on some shows when they finally break free, for sure. It happens day and night. Also, keep in mind just about nobody is in the cirque til after mid july. No reason to hurry. I'd let the snow melt out abit.

dude, how could you miss this gem? April 10th BASECAMP: IM NOW IN MY TENT HAVING PLANNED MY OUTFIT FOR TOMORROW, GOT TO TRY AND BE COLOUR CO ORDINATE EVEN AT THIS ALTITUDE!!! I'm gonna shit if she summits.

dlofgren, you might want to reread the thread. Sounds like you missed the guy's point entirely. He's looking for a very kicked back climb at a slow pace... not doing three rts on one outing.

You CAN help that little kid... by not supporting groups like PETA that lobby against the use of animals for medical research and then making medical researchers jobs even more difficult. If you see a dog,person or kid being abused then call the cops, ya know? And,no, not grumpy... just a topic I have a strong opinion on... I'll take family over bunnies any day. Later...

Good point...I'll be sure to tell the next 6 year old kid dying of leukemia that it's her fault...

PETA goes too far and they live with thier head up thier asses. I'd happily kill a couple thousand cute, fuzzy white rabbits in a lab if it means there is a cure or treatment waiting for my friends or family when they need it. It sucks ,for sure, but that is the bottom line for me. My advice is to go and watch a relative die of cancer and see if your opinion changes. PETA SUCKS.

Sobo, very informative posts and thanks. I do however disagree with the idea of never yelling out "falling!". Falls often come out of the blue and the person didn't have an clue it was going to happen, ya know? i feel it snaps the team into sharp focus into what they should be doing in that situation and that there is a situation. It may not always be useful but I've been in enough situations where it is helpful. One example: I was coming back down on Rainier with a climbing buddy and a friend of his who sucked as a climber(not a newbie,BTW, just a crappy climber). I had not climbed with Suck Climber before this outing. Suck Climber was in the middle of the rope and caught a point in his gaiters and went sliding off and down abit . Suck Climber never said a thing, my buddy dropped and caught him when he saw it from above. Being out in front, I didn't drop until my friend finally yelled out "Falling!" from his arrest position FOR his buddy. Until then I had just thought the slight tension pulling me back was Suck Climber just draggin ass again or stopping for another break... until I heard "falling!". Had my friend been yanked from him his arrest position and not yelled "falling!" then I would have had two climbers sliding off to the side and gaining speed .It probably would have yanked me to my death or injury because nobody clued me in that there was a serious problem brewing behind me. Anyway, my only point is that it can be useful.

She's a looker but I didn't see a single pic of her climbing... did I miss them somewhere? nice shots of her in base camp holding her sponsorship flags up , posing in nice light with her ice axes in soft,fluffy snow and looking like she is giving thought to sucking off her skis though... takes allot of talent to do that, ya know? I'm thinking she gave her Everest sponsor a $65,000 blow job... Anyone else agree?

Cool pics, Chirp. Ever check out the Buckskin Gulch in South Central Utah? Not technical but around 14 amazing miles long...Pretty nuts but frickin' gorgeous, for sure. Several hundred foot high walls and varied from just a few feet wide to maybe twenty feet or so. A real flash flood hell if you got caught deep in cuz the only exits were the beginning, the end and a 4th class scramble out in the middle...that's it...for 14 miles! It's in kelsey's Hiking and exploring the Paria River . Highly reccomended to any slot addicts.