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I read in a medical book if that you use it for a week before going into wet places it should last for a month and prevent your feet from sweating.

Has anyone ever sprayed antipersperent on your feet, or hands to keep them from sweating in your boots and gloves. Any ideas on the subject? Bad or good?

Guye Peak : Eastern Washington :: Whiskey Dick Mountain : Alpine Lakes

So you jacked my biner and slings? Good work. I wish I could have been up there.

Screw you. I'm jealous. You couldn't have done it if it were not for my pictures though, right?

I admit it, I forgot to take my vitamins in the morning, thus, I didn't keep my core temperature warm enough. It fell down 371 Kelvins. I am a fat kid and I sweat a lot. Are some of you guys really bored or something? I am, thats why I keep responding to your whacky comments. Some of you guys make me laugh. Yeah Ade, your right, it is a very light boot and it only takes strap crampons. But, plastics sure sound nice right now. Thanks for the suggestions.

Yeah Ade, those are the ones I own right now.

Yeah, I have been eyeing those. I bitch when I have to pay 99 cents for a sniker bar, but I have no problem throwing down money for climbing. When it comes to climbing, cost is no object.

Hey, I like how you took apart certain words I said and reagranged them to make it sound like I said something different. There is a name for that. It's done in politics a lot. You should run for president of CC.COM, I'll vote for you! I dont know why they why ask. I ask because I was just looking for good recomendations. Just like the majority of you guys, I climb as well. I know the basics that fit is the most important element of boots, etc, etc, etc. I was just hoping somebody could throw down some good suggestions as to brands or particular boots that I might want to check out, or warn me of some that just suck. The synthetic boots I have now are these really light red La Sportiva's, not sure what model they are off the top of my head.

Regardless of what you guys think, we do get really cold weather here. Frost nip on the end of my pinky toe from last weekend proves this. And waking up to wet frozen boots in the morning for 2 days, taking 20 min or more to get them on just sucks. (even when I put them next to my chest to try to keep them warm durning the night), thats my reason for wanting plastics. Also, when I was ice climbing at banks and it was 3 degrees out, not including wind chill, ect...My synthetic boots didn't seem to do the trick. I don't just sit and wait for good weather like a lot of people and I don't have the money to travel to the good weather, in fact, I don't even have a car, yet I still manage to climb 4 - 5 days a week. I climb in all conditions, I just need something nice and warm for my feet. But, I'll admit, maybe you guys are all badasses and I am just a wimp.

Can anyone recomend a good plastic climbing boot for alpine stuff?

Yeah, I am cool aren't I?!

Climb: Mount Stuart-Ice Cliff Glacier attempt Date of Climb: 2/11/2005 Trip Report: First sights of Stuart and the Ice Cliff Glacier's massive wall. My first impressions. Our route up the wall. An icy pitch. Red arrow shows the hidden shrund, blue arrow shows the upper route. We bailed right here. North Ridge, Ice Cliff Glacier, Sherpa Glacier.

Climbed the Ice Cliff Glacier to the shrund, right before the upper gulley before a storm came in and massive amounts of spin drift forced us back down.

You can thank me for the broken trail.

Why? Was I crying like a baby? In the future you can bum a belay anytime, I do it all the time! Let me know next time you come without a partner, chances are that I'll be there.

I go to vantage about 4 times a week...I was there today...Where were you?...We only had three and would have liked to have had another person...Were you the guy who walked by as I was going up Stems and Seeds? Yeah, I am a fat ass and a little out of shape at the moment and that thing whooped me. Nice day, wasent it! Can I ask you a somewhat personal question? Lucky, why do you sign all your bolts with the name LUCKY? Silly you.

Don't buy used tools, its just a waste of money. You will spend a couple hundred on used tools only to findout you want new ones, so it costs more in the long run. Plus there is a good chance you will get some pretty crappy picks with your used tools, which is 90 something dollars right there to replace them. Someone once told me "your tools are like your arm, there a part of you." You will want nice ones. If you get bent or straight tools, it wont make a difference because you will learn to use them the way they are. I just started ice climbing this year and use the BD Rage. They are very, very, nice and not to spendy eaither.

Those sound like women sizes to me? Tell your friend I'll sell you my 11's or for $35 and you can just have him wear lots of socks. Plus shipping would be cheap.

There sure ain't any face features on Blue Autumn, its one fatty crack with one blank face. I think I was staying outside of the crack cause im used to haning by my hands. Arm bars just get me pumped, but I can see how sticking a leg in the crack thing could be good.

All this offwidth talk has got me thinking. Every offwidth that I have climbed has turned me into one pumped out little kid. I am ok with leading 5.11+ cracks as long as they are no wider then a fist jam. You can just lock in and feel totaly secure. But I flail and ultimatly fail on 5.10 offwidths. Whats the deal? Whats the technique?

Point well taken. I am an idiot. Thats why I climb. (note: Went back 2 days later to get cam, cam gone. It probably floated off to hell, where all metoluis cams belong.) Maybe I will see you at Vantage sometime and we can discuss the finer points of climbing.

I did it yesterday,...well at least half of it before I ran out of big gear and lowered. The smallest pieces it takes is around 3 inches. I found it surprisingly hard. Much harder then Bob's Your Uncle, Shrinking Ball Disease, and Stems and Seeds on lead. Hell, it even seemed harder then Red M&M...but maybe I am not an offwidth kind of guy.

I assume the mobs came last weekend to Vantage...Whoever left the number 6 (green) Met. cam half way up a popular climb on Sunshine is an idiot. I was soloing, worked on it for about a minute, then decided I had more important things to worry about. That sucker could easily come out with a little nut tool action. I don't need any more cams, but if you want it back I will trade you for a number 1 or 2 nut, which I lost. Or should I say broke...