archenemy

I retire a climbing rope after two years and any haul line, cleaning rope, whatever, after four. This is no magic number, it is just what I feel comfortable with. I suppose ropes fail occasionally, but that danger is considerably smaller than others you face while climbing. Nonetheless, I know that I don't want thoughts of rope failure on my mind, so I change out ropes pretty frequently. I have also retired a rope just because it was looking frayed after only a few uses. I know that is was only superficial and didn't affect the core or the overall integrity of the rope in a substantial way, but it gave me the willies and distracted me. It was a Beal, and I will not buy another one--even though other folks have had Beals and liked them just fine. that's my thoughts on that even though I have nothing scientific to back it up with.

I *have* wanted this climb for years. How flexible is flexible? Do you live in Vegas? How are you at chimney climbing? Do you have good beta for the top-out after the 18th pitch and the stagger downhill?

and this concludes our botany lesson for today. thanks for coming, bye bye.

Now that's funny.

Yeah, especially after seeing how they get produced!

I don't understand this viewpoint. "Supremacy of a particular group" has not, historically, been detirmined by who has the most members in that group. There were more Carthiniagins than Romans. More Africans than Afrikaners, more Indians than Britons, and more Natives than Pilgrims. also, I don't get where the speaker thinks "Muslim fundamentalists" (by this I assume he is refering to Islamic fundamentalists) are the ones who first thought that they could become more powerful, or at least survive, by producing more young. Islamic funamentalism hasn't really been around all that long in the overall picture of things. Of course the two quotes from opposite sides sound "Strangely alike", that call has gone on for millenia among many groups. What is the rub?

"If I stopped to complain about every barking dog, I'd never get to where I'm going" --FloJo

The Latin version leaves out all the juicy parts. I much prefer the Navaho translation. Well, technically the Latin work is not a "version" because it is the original. But Navaho is cool--smoke signals and stuff, right?

I hope to be at the meeting as well--see you there.

Toilet + Orange Juice = Thank goodness that her VAGINA is blurred out--that would have just been gross if we'd seen it.

that's fresh

Yeah, the last one is the eye in "I hate you", right?

Are you allowed to piggyback on someone else's TR?

I think it might take two people...

With a name like Dick Bain, I can only imagine what he imagines the marmots are doing to his pussy cat.

so I take it you didn't have the 100 points to spare. Just kidding, lighten up--this isn't a serious site.

You will pay for your sins.

you?

Um yeah, the smithsonian is cool

i would be sure to always head downhill. And put a bumper sticker that says "NEVER NEVER NEVER get caught behind a VW" on the back window. then, I would extend my itinerary to include Yosemite. You have 45 stinken days man!

the word itself makes some men uncomfortable.

So there you have it Plark42: Windowlicking is the BEST form of alpine climbing. Any more questions?

Slayer is thrash metal. And for the record, Norwegian Black metal beats out Death metal any day --but last years NW DeathFest was a blast!

Your avatar is dumbass too. so nhya nhya nhya there

The fastest Denali descent was made by me four years ago. After I saw the sixth griz on the way, I turned around and made what took us 4 days to get in an overnite run. It just didn't make the papers b/c I didn't have an independent party recording my fear-trek.