David Trippett

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"if you can't make a simple choice without being influenced by advertising, you deserve what you get." -Mark Twight, on criticism regarding his posing for a cigarette ad

i guess that explains Japan's huge porn industry

Leaving around the 15th and gone for three weeks to a month...My truck seats 5, 4 comfortably. There may be quite a caravan of folks from Squamish this year.

We're heading to the Valley and Indian Creek mid October.....Looking for people to share gas etc... PM me

Nice one fellas Eiji....I'm getting you some new tools for x-mas.

how does one go about getting a squirrel authorized?

jesus, that sucks bigtime....get well soon Porter.

I'm not sure why this is so difficult to understand.....there is another pitch/route, (it ends with a step accross from either the Grinning Weasel or To the Hilt, I can't remember which) that crosses the Sword and ends right at that bolt. The bolt is part of the belay to the Underfling, it was not "meant" as a protection bolt for the Sword, although that is it's de-facto use....any questions?

don't worry, I laugh at what you write too I am glad I can help take away some of your pain

the bolt on the Sword above the crux is part of a belay...apparently from genius loci or something like that as it crosses the sword into the underfling/free-grand....the fact that people on the Grand can clip it is a freebie...it is completely unnecessary as protection on the Sword If it didn't serve some purpose the self proclaimed "Squamish experience enhancement unit" would have had it off long ago.....

methinks you have some optimistic religion you subscribe to as the basis for your arguments. Their are many things on this planet that will not exist again in the same form if our current progress is sustained. Judging by biological history they will never exist again Some planet may exist in the future. It might be a nice planet. But it will be a planet altered by mankind. so what? what's the sound of one hand clapping?

Well please do, but not if your looking for a fight. The internet is a poor forum for debate and so often, the nuances of a good conversation are lost ...so, as an aside, I'm not so enamoured with these ideas that I won't listen keenly to others opinions. My questions are honest and posed with the goal of creative free-thinking....with a dash of rascal thrown in for good measure. I am and have always been a believer, games aside, in mankind and that "Eden" is NOW. Mankind must be ruthlessly selfish if it wants to survive, there is no one out there looking out for us. I just find it curious that WE on one hand can talk about saving the planet for the "good" of the earth, when it's neither bad nor good; or talk about the earth not "recovering", when it will at SOME rate... ...These dualistic thought patterns are traps(not that I am, by any means, free of them). I think that sort of thinking is a slippery slope, the same sort that puts animals in zoos, and should be removed from the collective mind. So, why should I lament the loss of the Polar Bear over say that of the Mastodon or the Rugose Coral or the Trilobites? Each species that has lived or will lived has been part of an subtle and intricate tapestry of evolutionary development that has led up to now, just as the things living today will some how be the precursors to some other forms of life. The Universe is a dangerous place, and bad things happen to good critters...the most I can hope is to transcend and free myself from the kinds of thinking that trap me in the cycle. It is easy to change the things you think, but how prepared are we to critically examine the WAY we think? It seems to me that the history of our species can be summed up in a few tired revolving patterns of thinking, that lead to the same dead-ends. As I stated before, my opinion may be confused as fatalistic, it's not. I believe in the power of focused non-effort. Excuse my metaphysical ramblings.

Climbers using helicopters for approaches is a MAJOR source of atmospheric carbon emissions. There are two "classes" of extinctions, intrinsic and extrinsic, at least two of the previous 5 major extinction events have had intrinsic causes and at least one may be a combination of the two. I am just wondering exactly what you mean by the conditions allowing recovery are damaged? What does that mean? The Permian/Triassic extinction, in which 90% of living things on this planet died off at the species level (Kingdom>Phylum>Class>Order>Family>Genus>Species.....as Taxonomic refresher) was a event unparalleled in earth history....a concerted effort would need to be made by humans, such as releasing the global nuclear arsenal at well spaced intervals about the planet, to even come close to the destruction of the P-T extinction. Following this extinction, was one of the largest proliferations and flourishings of new organisms...as there was a sudden vacancy of niches. Extinction, although unsavoury, is a needed and important part of the history and development of all things that have and will live on this particular planet. Without a series of events, which include several extinctions, we would not be here. In terms of the planets ability to recover, certain types of extinctions may require more or less time, depending on the nature of the perturbation....that's all. Given the time scales the planet has to play with....it's all a drop in the bucket. "Anthrochronocentrism", as I have termed this problem, is yet another example of human arrogance.

carry a brain. seriously though, don't get into such a situation. If you start relying on your equipment, you will. anyway, a hand drill and a light wall hammer may be your best bet if there's no gear.

I remember after the Sword crux looking up at a knife-blade crack, thinking it looked 5.12 or harder. I didn't even know the route was supposed to stray out of the corner, but it goes out left for some very exposed face climbing on hollow blocks/jugs. Best part was getting back into the corner, just before the belay. I remember placing something blindly around the corner and being freaked out by the fact that I couldn't see it. Somebody told me there's now a bolt protecting the corner re-entry move. True? Shame if there is. That was the coolest thing on the Sword. The bolt after the crux on the sword was placed as part of the belay for the Free Grand, it's not a chicken bolt. There is a reason it's right next to a perfect cam placement and has not been chopped...

I still have some questions: Knowing that the earth is by and large indifferent, and will continue on fine long after we are gone, why should I feel any sense of urgency to change the way things are going? For arguments sake, let's say that a massive asteroid killed all us off tomorrow...and in a million years(a flash in the pan) the Earth was an Eden again. What's wrong with that? Is that somehow more natural than the disaster we're meteing out? Why should we cry for the loss of the dodo anymore than we cry over the loss of the ammonite? Could there be another reason we need to act? Because regardless of what we do or don't do, be assurred, things will be fine.

Perhaps I misread you on some way? no, but I maybe wasn't clear enough about the spirit I was arguing in. my questioning is to stimulate a discussion i want to talk about, for my own intellectual and critical interest....not to thump my holy book.

So, you believe that man is a part of nature, but you're a fan of nature, not man. And the rest of us are supposed to think harder on this one? There's a difference between trying to preserve a dynamic system in a static state, and trying to mitigate damage to all species, not just our own, that you know, via the intelligence that nature may or may not have granted you, is both happening and avoidable. Perhaps you should think harder on this one.... Actually, the game as you define it is: Earth-0 The earth has as finite a life as any species, including our own. This is a fatalistic attitude, as you say, and therefore wholly unnatural. Fatalism is the luxury of idle intellect coddled by overabundance. Nature is, by definition, not fatalistic at all. Nature keeps giving everything it's got to keep going. Working actively and, more importantly, collectively, to mitigate damage to the climate that produced every living species today is the most natural thing any of us could strive to do. Your's is the attitude of the wounded herd animal; it is artificially disconnected from nature, not in love with it. Well formulated...And truth told, I am a fan of man, particularly you right now. But please oh please don't throw out the baby with the water... tvashy To your first point: exactly, I'm glad you got it, gold star . To your second: Mitigation is good To your third: What I said was "some may confuse this for a fatalistic attitude" "Working actively and, more importantly, collectively, to mitigate damage to the climate that produced every living species today is the most natural thing any of us could strive to do."......This is a beautiful sentence, may I borrow it? I guess I have failed to impart my message if you really think that what I said is somehow disconnected from nature...that's sure not my intention, are you having a hard time getting past being called a kook? I am satisified to let my actions do my talking (in terms of my relationship with the planet anyway)...are you?

Now who's getting defensive helicopter breath? Are you a static preservationalist? Do you really have any idea how I live and what I do? No you don't....and people who would use my argument as a justification for excess are just as lost as the rest. I never said "I don't care" and perhaps I have not been lucid enough in my reasoning. I care quite a bit. Unfortunately for the followers of the newfound religion of the environmental church, a typical rebuttal is to call it just that " a timescale argument" and dismiss it with a broad stroke, but it deserves more careful examination than that.... perhaps you are just unwilling to hear what I said, or maybe I'm not articulate enough to communicate it. You should hear this, it's good: If you can't care beyond your own tiny bubble then think how it will effect your bubble good discussion. thanks.

i like the Daily Planet better and Cruel Shoes - Grand Wall - Upper Black Dyke is probably one of the best long climbs in Squamish. the Planet is ok , Freeway's better..... Cruel Shoes to the Grand to The Roman Chimneys is the way to go

Helicopters are aid.... so? if you choose to make the argument that you make your decisions based on some far reaching altruism for planet saving, then I would argue you need to learn more about earth history and evolutionary biology. since this conversation seems to have civilized a bit, let's take this down a critical path........my question is: Why should I give a rat's ass about the current state of the earth? Before you even attempt to respond, really try to think about how much you actually know about the answer and how much is garbage you've been fed without examining critically. This is a serious question....those of you who honestly believe that you have some role in saving the the universe please feel free to respond. To me it seems that humans have some how become so completely alienated from the same process that made them and every other living thing as well, that we somehow think that the way we act is unnatural. The same process that made every living thing on this planet made us and it's primary goal seems to be the diversification and spread of DNA. We are astonishingly good at that apparently.Perhaps too good. I know I've been working vigourously at spreading mine. The history of the planet is filled with the stories of countless terminal lineages, why should I really care if we as a species live or die? I can tell all of you that the Earth has gone through events violent and unparalleled in modern history, and will again.... and comes out the other end in fine shape. The Earth is DYNAMIC, that means always changing. Get your head out of your own time-scale. The survival of a species has always been largely based upon its ability to innovate survival mechanisms and propegate faster than the species is terminated by various environmental factors. Many humans seem to think that they are no longer part of this system. We are right in the thick of it. Only this time termination may come at our own hands, a relatively novel idea in earth history, although not unique. So, what it comes down to is that I am a fan of nature, not man. I personally, am rooting for the process that made us, not us...because it is so infinitely beautiful, ruthless and economical that I must delight. You, Mr. Human, are a slimy, large-lobed bottom feeder that lives at the depths of an ocean of nitrogen on a sand grain floating through a sea of cosmos... a better version of the DNA spreader is already in the works at some deep oceanic vent or other such cess-pool and is just waiting in queue for it's chance to fuck itself into oblivion like you are. I hold some vague hope that our species will hold it together, and things like jazz, art and (most) climbers give me hope. Ultimately, I find "environmentalists" are the most selfish becuase they seek to preserve the earth in some arbitrary state that they have deemed satisfactory....and for what? To save the planet? The planet is fine....you just want to save yourself and preserve things as they are so you can go climb some route or look at a glacier.....well, dude I want Gondwana back so I can walk to Africa....but it's gone man, let it go. I think a better term for the "environmentalist" movement is the "static preservationalist" movement as it so much better describes what you kooks are up to. (movement is such a good word, like a bowel movement) The game was over before it started: Earth-1 Humans-0 ...Some may confuse this as fatalist and laissez faire, but it's not. I love my home and all it's wonders, particularly Brazilian women, that's why I take care of it.

An AStar in one hour can go 200km or more. So that's 1 km per liter . Now a big pickup truck gets about 6 km per liter and a loaded Subaru gets about 12 km per liter. So in terms of efficiency, you spend 12 hours driving 1000km to Robson, 1/2 hour flying in - which one burned more fuel in total? Oh yeah good job driving at 0.5 km/h too hahhahaha... thanks for coming out. Let me do your math for you. 12 hours of driving to Robson from Vancouver, it's only 660km's??? So 660 km's in a car would use about 55 liters of fuel. To shuttle a car load of people into Robson isn't 1/2 hour heli flight, They have to bring the chopper in from Jasper and then shuttle you in, so it's a 1.5 - 2 hour round trip, even though you're only in the chopper for 1/2 hour. It burns about 200 liters per hour so it'd be 300-400 liters or 7 times the fuel you burned driving all day from Vancouver to Robson. If you used a B212 it'd be around 14 times the fuel. Choppers burn a ton of fuel, people don't realise this. Avitipp I'm not a scientist and I can't provide you with a new profound thesis and I'm having a really hard time following your psychosis. Fortunately for you there are many out there that can and have provided hard scientific data about emissions. If you're arguing that burning fuel doesn't harm the enviroment, then maybe you should read some of their studies. Taking a run in China is a simple way for someone of limited intelligence, to discover the effects of fuel burn, that is why I suggested you to do that. If you want scientific method then pull out a book, I'm not a scientist. Yes I'll use a chopper when logical but to save a day or two on approach is not a logical use and using it to avoid the technical difficulties of a climb is just pathetic. My pschosis is a big problem, next you'll be making fun of my goiter and hunchback....can't you play nice? To answer your question....I have read "their" studies. Have you? But, here's MY thesis: chill out.

Actually, I am retarded, and hugely fat....so, that's not very nice mister AND... In general, helicopters are poor style. ...but I have a feeling that when you or your buddies are lying broken in the mousetrap after getting hit by the quickly disappearing ice....that you won't refuse a chopper ride out. This topic obviously is quite an emotionally charged issue for you and I am sorry that you seem to suffer so much from it...you must be very precious. Just wondering....What do you actually know of the science? What exactly is your background regarding the actual science and history of this planet? Since you seem to know so much about everything, can you supply us with some research references? I'd like to have a look at your data. You've made some big claims... I bet I can find a lead-free fish! What exactly is your thesis? I can't figure it out... It is either "Why I am better than all of you" or " Hey look everyone! Why is my cock so durned pretty?" seriously though.... that's how science works....people make claims based on fact, not emotional arm-waving. Once they make a claim they then offer up that claim to the scrutiny of their scientific peers. I have a keen sense though that other than your dirtbag friend you are without peer. I've also no doubt in my own mind that some of the things happening to the earth are, in fact, related to human impact. But, before I make claims I try to have done some work to support my argument in a coherent and methodical manner. "Taking a run in China" somehow doesn't strike me as much of a way to do the science, call me justplanecrazy. I am upset that our routes and glaciers are disappearing, but I'm a selfish bastard and I'd like to keep things the way they were so that I can climb the Diamond Couloir. But, I'm also not so worried about the planet, as it seems to chug along fine without my assistance...and unfortunately, the more I interact with my fellow man, particularly lately:laf:, the more difficult it is for me to have much sympathy regarding his plight. My point here is not to discuss the science with you...I'd be wasting my time and that doesn't really seem to be your point. You reborn evanglical envirodoomsayers don't seem to have the time to for such trifling items like the Scientific Method. Fortunately, the ice will be back someday....and there will be new mountain ranges with new peaks and new routes.... I guarantee it, just not in our lifetime...nor maybe even in the time of humans...but in the mean time how about we fly a chinook over to the junk yard and burn some tires? I'll bring some bacon.

I guess you don't climb much alpine ice. Snowladder is no longer climbeable as an ice climb except in early and late season, Athabasca N Face is quickly dissapearing, The Lyells have become a difficult choss pile rather than an easy ice ridge and Robson is changing quickly. Whistler is nearing an end and the glaciers have receded so quickly in Europe that they are predicting they'll have completely vanish this century. I'm a bit of a critic when it comes to us being the sole reason for the climate change... a little thing called the ice age ending before cars, seems to contradict that we did this, but I also know that heli's put enormous amounts of pollutants in the air. Whether that just makes the air more polluted or if it also contributes to warming, I really don't care. Either way, I'll do the one day approach and continue to make fun of the pussy, city slickers that love to land next to a summit and claim to have climbed something. I guess you buy too much enviroganda...man, that shit makes for good drama doesn't it?! To be honest, I always take a peek when I'm in the check out line too....teehee! ..but I digress, since I actually don't climb at all....I just post here to try and be cool and stir shit like you bro, anyhoo.... I'm way too morbidly obese to be extreme, I need a chopper cause I can't walk. Don't discriminate. Not nice. I'm just sure glad there's guys out there like you to keep the dream alive, thanks.