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As someone said, "Necessity is the invention of all mothers"!

Work sucks donkey balls . Good job fellas . I'll have to try it some time.. getting hold of a boat might be an issue though. Oh well.. I'll wade across.

Crazy shit .

Damn.. Thats not you Steve?! I thought it was you , though the "smellz" part was suspicious .

Post deleted.. sorry for the confusion .

What is your favorite place to get your rock shoes resoled? I live in Pullman, and the local option (in Mos-Cow) didn't do a good job last time. I sent another pair of shoes to Portland a couple of years back (forgot the name of the place, but they did an awesome job). But it also took quite a while. What are the options in/around Seattle? Anything in Spokane? I'm looking to resole a pair of La Sportiva Cliffs. Has anybody tried putting Five-Ten (Stealth ?) soles on a La Sportiva (or for that matter, any other brand) shoes? I heard that those (5.10s) have the most sticky rubber.

I got it (along with other medicines) in India. It came in handy when my partner got sick due to altitude, but we did manage to get back down quickly though.

I don't have an answer to your question, but thought I'd bring up a related point. You should be able to get most common drugs (like ibuprofen), and many not-so-common ones, for dirt cheap over there. When I went to India in May, I gladly forgot all my prescriptions at home . Luckily, I knew all the medicines, and managed to get them (well, the Indian brands) for all of Rs 87/- (~ $2)!! This was in Leh, and from what I've heard, Kathmandu is a much bigger place than Leh. And yes, you can just walk into most drug stores and get what you want (without a prescription) -- as long as you know what you want .

Beautiful pictures from both trips!! Keep it coming Pat.

You could've made those pictures a tad smaller . Good ones! Martin's SP link has the pictures as well.

What a shitty TR . Awful pictures as well! My brains ached reading it. Of course I'm being sarcastic .

i'd be frightened of any procedure that yields not a single google-hit Its extracorporeal lithotripsy . Edited to add: Shit.. but then there is no connection to foot . May be it was Layton joke..

Great read John!! Thanks for posting. Here is to team Harro .

Wow Arc, take it easy dude!! Several of us here follow the conditions in Canada. Thanks for posting Joe. Keep it coming .

Here are the pictures (links fixed) .

Awesome job. Thanks and keep it up!!

Thanks for all the info .

Awesome job!!

Really sad ... . Thanks for posting though .

Sounds cool and tempting . I might be up for it.. lets keep in touch regarding the same Matt.

Holy Molly!!! F'n awesome job! Can't wait for the rest of the TR.

No. We were a team of two climbing further left of those guys when you were attempting that stiff roof move on TR. Yeah.. small world! It was hard to miss when you were talking about that naked dude though . PS: You've got some cool pictures on your web page!.

Were you at Post Falls after that? I think I heard you mention about this naked guy when you were down there. Strange indeed!

As far as cleaning the shitty rope goes, treating the poop as "dirt" will make it mentally amenable. Or, convince yourselves that it was your own poop (if it wasn't in the first place). Damn.. may be I should change my user name to poop_on_the_mountain after all!!

My buddies Marc and Willow were there at the scene. Here's what Willow had written about the slide. Back in India, we have a saying that a man is very lucky if he has a mole on his John Thomas. Looks like this dude had plenty. ====================================================== Marc is on his way back to Pullman now, but we had a couple of adventures in RMNP while he was here. The last being less our adventure as it was the poor guy who slid 800 feet down Lambs Slide on Longs Peak. Marc and I were going to do a route called Kor's Door (looks awesome) but the weather wasn't very good. We were just hanging out and exploring the area. We had met this party of 5 who said they were doing Keiners or something standard (Marc and fill you in on details). Anyway, we were on the opposide side of the cirque, walking up to the cables route to spy out our future descent, when we saw this huge rock fall down Lambs slide, then I realized it wasn't all rock, but mostly human. The guy slid down and then over a small cliff, ~10ft, and didn't move. Marc and I went as fast as we could to him, but it took us probably 20 minutes or more. He finally sat up after a few minutes and I stopped choking on my heart in my throat. His partners (they were all unroped), carried him out of the rock fall zone. He was in pretty good shape considering his fall. He probably had a mild concusion, lacerations to the face and a couple of bumps on the head (thank god he was wearing a helmet), a dislocated shoulder, a badly bruised hip (maybe more than just a bruise, but it didn't seem broken at least), and a broken ankle. He was in good spirits and told the best jokes and funniest stories while we waited for someone to go get a Park Ranger. There was another party that was doing the same as Marc and I - not wanting to commit to climbing with so much moisure and clouds around - and they were very competant about rescue. We got him in a sleeping bag and splinted his ankle. A park service EMT finally showed up at 1pm (the accident occured at 8:20am) and after getting him into a litter and carrying him maybe 500ft through a big boulder field we got him to a big flat rock that a helicopter could land on - a little helicopter mind you. The gods were with the fellow (his name was Ben), and the clouds parted (it had hailed and rained on us the previous hour) just long enough for a helicopter to come in. He was so lucky, I wouldn't not have put money on there being a good enough break in the weather for him to get flown out. He got flown out at 3:30pm. By 4pm it was lightening all around us! Also, not enough Mnt rescue personal had shown up by then, so if all of us good samaritans hadn't been there, there wouldn't have been enough people to carry him to the LZ in time. I guess he just lost his footing near the top of Lamb's Slide, but the conditions were terrible, really icy and LOTS of rock fall coming down there. He was really really really lucky - wonder if he'll make some a blurb in the magazines, it was an impressive fall. ======================================================