selkirk

What happened to her foot? Gawd i'm out of the loop

There's also some good top-robable climbs that wouldn't require leading Take a look at Clamshell Cave, or some of the other single pitch things up the icicle

Anybody interested in aiding in the rain at Index tomorrow? I haven't done much aid, don't have a gri-gri or set of ascenders, but I've got lots of nuts

Yesterday it was 20% and partly cloudy!! What the heck?!?! I'm so blaming you for the forecast!!!

Anybody want to go to Index tomorrow? The only thing I'm against is an alpine start

Holy shit! Women can parallel park!!! When did this happen?

I talked to a Petzl rep last year who said they actually did a bunch of test drops and catchs on the Reverso's with a sharp edge and never saw any sheath damage (most likely due toe continuous feed direction). I still retire mine when they get sharp though

It's a sight easier than Karate Crack (10a). It's just more burly than technical.

First Blood is not a fist crack contrary to what the guidebook says. I should not be able to get knee locks in a fist crack!!

Outdoors everything is fair game

Both times i've been up I actually split the difference and mantle at about the 1/2 or 2/3 point. Worked hands to about the 1/2 way point and then hook a heel/knee to get in a piece of gear, then finish it out. The pro in the crack is really pretty good Sherri! Just make sure you have 2 blue TCU's when you start the traverse and you should be golden The second pitch is also a nice get

Besides, she likes to suffer. Why else would she have run the Seattle in the snow? Pneumonia sucks big time though, definitely don't want to go there. The one time I had it, one hard weekend migrated me from ambulatory but feeling OK except for a bad persistant cough to bed ridden.

So how's the pooch working out?

Anybody driving out tomorrow? I'd love to get out the but usual crew is busy or injured I come with my own rope and aluminum tutu of course!

Has any body else seen the juice-box sized wine boxes? Have become a new favorite for lots of skiing friends

Supposed to be Kevlar. I've got a Max Cam that uses the same cord (I think!) and after about 1/2 seasons worth of use show's no wear at all.

that's not true. I was a coach's kid. God did that suck. I had to work twice as hard for the same amount of playing time and still got looked at crosseyed . . . I suppose it was good for me though.

Actually after looking at Summit Post I think it might have been Criminally Insane. I always had the impression Suites was quite a bit further than whatever I was on. 6 clips, significantly overhanging at the top, with an interesting mantel where it goes from very overhanging to the flat pillar top. Two short chains set way back (10+ ft from the edge).

I went to the same school, and you could get out in 4 years with an engineering degree, but only if everything went to spec. Fail a class, decide you want a minor, decide to do something out of order, or an extended internship and it almost immediately added either a semester or year. On the flip side Mrs. Selkirk came out in 4 years with BA's in Poli. Sci. and Philosophy and a minor in French mostly because she'd damn smart, but partially because a great deal of her coursework did double duty.

Says the single girl (I'm not quite sure that dogs count )

i'm in a teacher's union and it isn't anathema to me to see higher pay for jobs that are actually harder to fill - that seems like straight market economics to me - if you wanna reduce my pay so you can pay a math teacher more though that will be pissing me off, as well as insinuating that what i teach (social studies) is less valuable that math/science in the grand scheme of things. Seems like that's what would have to happen eventually if supply and demand ever factored into teacher salaries. Maybe not straight off the bat, but when you are taking the funds out of the same pot - eventually someone with a BA in English is going to top out at a lower comp level, or get a smaller merit increase - and that money will be landing in the hands of the folks with the more valuable (in the strict economic sense) qualifications. Knowing what I do about the respective difficulties associated with securing a degree in the hard sciences, versus securing a degree in the humanities (did both), I think I'd be pissed off if the guy with the degree in English was making the same amount of money that I was. Is there even such a thing as a "weed-out" course in English programs? Seems like taking the money out of administrator pay, or cutting the number of administrator's would be a politically acceptable way to get beyond the "fairness" impasse.... All this "English Major" bashing is starting to piss me off...so of course you know now what I studied! There were PLENTY of "weed-out" courses...ever taken a course in Post-Modern American Poetry? A little Ezra Pound? Read much Thomas Pynchon or DeLillo? Writing critical theory abstracts?! Puh-lease! Though I will grant you that most of those were electives, not required, so I guess one could get an English degree without going taking courses like "Chaos Theory in Literature" like I did. My only point is, please stop bashing the English Majors! Some of them (like me) are really good at math/physics too!! I would agree with your point about administrators however... No bashing intended. However, the reality is that it'll take the average person far more time and effort to get a degree in the hard sciences or engineering than it will for them to get a degree in either the social sciences or the humanities. Getting out in 4 years with an engineering degree is getting harder and harder. When I went through (close to 10 years ago) I took 1 upper division humanities elective too early (sophomore year instead of senior) and that alone nearly screwed up my coursework schedule enough so that it could have taken me 5 years. Had to get special permission to ignore pre-requisites on a few classes I never remember hearing about issues like that outside of engineering/sciences. and by "not having weed out classes" I don't think he meant not having hard classes, but not having classes where 30% of the students fail every semester.

Was out at the Feathers over the weekend and made a run up a 5.10ish climb that wasn't in the guide book and was wondering if anyone had a name/grade for it? It felt 10a-ish, or maybe soft 10b, and was about 100ft uphill and to climbers left from the pillar with Satan's Wagon and Blood Blister on it. TIA

you sometimes spend a long time hanging from pins and hooks

1. You spend a lot of time alternating between adrenaline highs and wanting to wet yourself. 2...