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true but this is no easy hand crack... it's all fingers such a dirty girl. hey i was actualy making a climbing reference you dirty minded cad What the hell is climbing? Isn't this spray?

true but this is no easy hand crack... it's all fingers such a dirty girl.

Good for you! How many days so far?

My thoughts exactly Inexpensive, very solid (full strength to the smallest size), nice and light, can clip short (either the stem, or the extended sling which can save you a draw on occasion). #1-#4 are fantastic! I don't care too much for the sizes smaller than #1 though, the action isn't quite stiff enough for my taste. All in all, DMM Shit

If you ever get to Spokane check out Mountain Gear. Great selection of technical gear, and cool people who know their shit and have personally abused most of the gear.

I've got a great grandfather who's 97 right now, and in the hospital On the upside he's smoked cigars and eaten raw sausage for 90 of those years And he's sicilian so he likes his wine and beer My great grandma is 94 and somehow still thinks that he doesn't know that she's smoked for the last 20 years If I can keep up with my great grandparents I'll be a seriously happy camper! (Actually had 5 at one point, and 40 of them lived well into their 90's ) One even punched a car salesman when he was 92

The nuts on the ends of the axles are a very nice touch. I wander if they are at least the type with the plastic core that don't wiggle themselves loose over time?

Will add another voice to the Metolius TCU's, but the rest of my rack are DMM's. Handle well, place nice, light weight, durable, and reasonably priced. If you pick up the 1/2 sizes then the range argument for the C-4's kind of get's diminshed. I tend to take cams based on the number of pieces I'll need for a pitch more than to simply cover a fixed range.

"scooted up a ladder he left leaning against the roof." Now that is truly frightening! Once they go airborne you never know where they might strike from!

The top 4 size of the WC's are sweet. I always seem to find a good place for the yellow one (#7 ?) and the others (6, 8, and 9) almost always find their way onto my rack and end up being useful. The smaller sizes are good, but not quite a useful IMHO.

In that case you must be 1 fat fucker My technique doesn't suck, and any time I start jamming forearms and throwing in arm-bars, it aint' no f-ing hand crack. I distinctly remember the topsection where I whish I knew how stack hands/fits, and throwing in a nice knee lock to rest on. I'll make you a deal... I'll belay you and you can take anything up to a 3.5 friend, which should be more than sufficient for "hands" I'd be fun to watch you try and stack cams or hexes to protect the top Mushmaker is perfect hands the whole way though!

I've only drytooled and been on ice a handful of times, but managed to lead M-4 on them, and they dragged my ass up Chair Peak this winter. They pretty much rock unless you are talking really technical stuff when you start to want mono-points. The nice aggressive 2nd points are good for steep stuff as you don't have to droop your heels as far to get the 2nd points in contact with the ice as you do with many others.

You should also check the school districts in the burbs. Shoreline, Lynwood, Everett. Anywhere but Seattle Proper. Or possibly look at private schools in the area?

First Blood, hand crack? A good joke perpetrated by the guidebook authors. No "hand crack" requires a #3 or larger camalot.

Dude i've got friends on Colorado! What the hell they were thinking when they moved there i'll never know. It's fun listening to the one who hate's snow bitch though. Prior to that he lived in Jackson hole Actually saw the aftermath of the lowering accident. Good to hear your mending. Did anyone ever figure out what actually happened? That's the 2nd gri-gri accident i've heard of this spring. A friend was learning to aid climb and nearly decked from 30ft when her top piece popped, and her belayer somehow managed to get the gri-gri fouled with her tag-line. She stopped all of 2 ft off ground

That said, I'd take the #4 camalot and the Shovel

I've had and Edelweiss Laser (9.8mm) for a couple of years and been pretty pleased with it, though the hand is definitely stiffer than most other ropes, hasn't seemed to cause me any real problems though. PMS carries them so you might talk to the folks there?

Sweet, congratulations Luke . Too bad about the wait for the visa. Had some friend get married in Hungary and even after the wedding it still took 3 or 4 months

I'll take that challenge! For the Biners go to Pro Mountain Sports, Jim carries Mammut Wiregate carabiners for $5.25, and if you buy 10 you get one free. The action is sweet, and their about 25% lighter than the Trango's for the same cost. Get a 5-pack of alpine draws at PMS for $82.50 Gear Express has the Huevos for $50 As for the Cam's check out pagangear.com. I'm personally a big fan of the DMM's cams and they're at $38.40 piece right now get sizes (0.75, 1, 2, 3, 4 up to camalot size 3 equivalent) So... Cordollette $15 Webbing $15 Huevos $50 a 5 pack of alpine draws at PMS (10 biners, 5singles)$83 2 double 7mm $20 11 lightweight Biners$52 DMM Cams (5 cams) $192 Total: 1 set nuts, 5 cams, 7 draws, 7 spare biners, cordollette, and webbing for $427.

Any thoughts on whether or not the NW Gully on Guye will be in? And if so does anyone know roughly what the grade is? I'd hate to get in too far over my head.

Was any up in the area over the weekend? How's the Snow/Ice? Is there any ice left to be found?

Why? That takes way more fuel, and time. Last time I was out the time to melt a pot of water was probably 15 min? Added time to boil was maybe 4. I guess a filter might pay for itself in weight if your out for a several days in the snow and need to melt a great deal, but for an overnight trip for 2-4 people I'd leave it at home. Not to mention if the snow isn't yellow or brown, exactly how critical do you think filtering / boiling is?

Water filters are great for backpacking trips, or large group multi-day trips with water available, then just volunteer to bring a tent or stove instead. You can always get around having a filter. If your just doing single day alpine stuff though just get a little bottle of Iodine tablets 90% of the time you'll carry enough water anyway, and on glaciers if your going to melt snow you might as well just boil the water.

Any thoughts on Weather Hubba Hubba is still in? Or is it likely gone until the next cold snap?

Close, but College Prof's came in damn near last