TrogdortheBurninator

Olyclimber is god. It is no wonder his intials are OC, just like me other favorite deity.

I am watching the X games and thought I'd rant. I know its been around a while now, but freestyle motocross has to be the most boring "extreme" sport ever. It makes figure skating seem exciting. There is one trick, a back flip. Every single person does it. The only difference is how far you stretch your arm or where you move your leg. Jerking off in the middle of the flip would probably be the most exciting trick of the year to these douchebags. That is how lame this sport is. The trick never changes. I cant beleive this "sport" is still around. Watching the old Crusty Demons of Dirt videos was cool, but these stupid best trick contests seem to eliminate about 99% of what could possibly make motocross cool.

Alpental was awesome. I90 closure must have detered a lot of folks. Snow conditions were as good as I ever remember up there.

This is insane, but how is it any different than jumping off the same cliff in sneakers or any other mode of transportation. More of a daredevil stunt than a display of skill IMO. The most impressive part of it is the patience and intelligence to wait for adequate conditions.

cut and paste the whole line. It is in french, so you need to translate probably. Sounds like it may be a battery issue. Hopefully it is nothing tragic. His story in Alpinist is amazing.

I saw it at feathered friends last night. It definitely looks like a well layed out book. The banks lake climbing looks really really fun. I had no idea the area would look like that.

Snowlerblades offer the poosibility for entire mountain ranges of first frozen fruit boot descents.

Bruce Cockburn Tillicum middle school in bellevue had a principal Jack Hoffman IIRC

I dont understand. So you are supposed to pay for music?

This thread is like an episode of the Surreal Life. Celebs everywhere.

Their cams are probably the worst current generation cams I have used. Narrow, uncomfortable, springs too stiff.

While I dont make a habbit of double clipping, intuitively it seems fairly unlikely that both ropes would be played out so evenly that the fall force would ever reach the theoetical 2X single rope limit. I would imagine that typically one rope still handles much of the initial deceleration.

I think living in Pullman has given Kurt a warped perception of reasonable weekend drive times.

Whenever I check it always seems to say it will be cold in 4-5 days, but it never happens

A comparison of burninatability of east vs west coast peasants

Hasnt the forecast been showing low temps a week out for the entire winter pretty much? They never seem to come and its always near record highs.

Worked 11-12 hour days at U Delaware all weekend. Up at 4AM ET this morning and flew back to seattle. Back in the lab at 1:00PM for TAing duties. Now doing some experiments. Day feels very long.

New Addition Rocks! Congrats on the baby too!

Super secret chat was cooler. Especially since no one seemed to ever use it.

Sounds like you've never put skis on, or else you'd know you can use them to side-step, or perhaps herringbone, uphill. Also, whether you're the rescuer, or the victim trying to self-rescue, it helps to have ski poles in hand (as opposed to strapped to yer backpack). Its been a long time since I skied, but it seems that side stepping deep unconsolidated snow is still slower than popping out and walking. Maybe I've forgotten what its like in the last 12 years.

I fell in a well maybe 10 years ago snowboarding at ski acres. It was on a ski bus and I thought the bus would leave without me. I eventually was able to pop my bindings off and haul myself out. I was exhausted afterward and made it down just as they were finishing rolecall. I dont think skis or snowboards make a big difference. If you are below the faller, either way the board(s) is/are coming off and you are hiking up to find your friend. If you dont know where they are and they dont have a beacon, they are probably on their own. Not a bad idea to wear a beacon all the time if you have one.

I plan to keep saving up and taking trips to the rockies. All the while I'm crossing my fingers that we get one more cold snap.

Check the travelocity last minute packages. prices with hotel start around $250 (from seattle, not sure about portland) to canmore and go up depending on length of stay and travel dates. They also have Bozeman. Northwest seems to have some cheap fares to new england right now as well.

Nice Kurt. We rapped Louise Falls instead of walking off to avoid any extra avy hazard. We thought about hitting up haffner, but figured it'd be pretty busy and we wanted to climb something a little longer. Evan-thomas was pretty awesome, I'd highly recommend the area if you get out there soon while it is still in fat. I agree, there is always something fun to climb up there, even if weather/avy/ice conditions arent perfect.