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  1. but to see it at a website devoted to the climbing culture (maybe I misunderstood this website's mission?) makes it harder to stomach.

     

     

     

     

    Your a cry baby! As if Climbing is the most selfless act of human purpose. What mission?

     

    I suppose we should all go have a latte, climb at the uw rock, then listen to depeche mode and date some skinny crack head chick from capital hill now too.

  2. A friend of mine asked this question after he had taken a 12 foot whipper. I have heard that 10 falls of 4 feet or greater will completely stretch out the core of the rope, but I am not really sure.

     

    Ah bull! I have had the same rope for sport climbing for 7 years. Works great! lol :grin:

  3. I'll do it. (if you guys are footing the bill for me to go climbing) My main goal right now is to FINALLY after four seasons of trying complete the bunny face/nine gallon buckets linkup. I've been training pretty hard and should be ready to go in a couple months. Let me know.

     

    Don't pick this guy he is really ted haggard. hehe. In all honesty pick Colin.

  4. No!!! but on a positive note I have seen quite a few cuties at REI compared to the other climbing shops :grin:

     

    Hotties, too ;) My first time in the REI climbing section, I was trying to figure out what some of the gear on my list was when a guy asked me if I was a climber. I looked over the display to see this really hot guy. So hot I looked around to make sure he was talking to me. We had a nice chat, then I went home and told all my single girlfriends to head to REI's climbing section if they wanted to meet some hotties :)

     

    Aren't you married? haha, btw thats a gross pic above. Those guys need to hit the gym a little more.

  5. filled with a bunch of left wing wackos who...listen to depeche mode...

     

    What's with Depeche Mode? Was 1988 an atavistic low-water point for you? It's a stupid and much too personally obscure reference. Spit your self-dramatizing bile on something contemporary.

     

    You must be one of the wackos I was speaking about. hehe

  6. Yes, boys and girls, the inevitable has finally occured. The new Fall REI catalog DOESN"T HAVE A SINGLE PIECE OF HARDWARE ANYWHERE IN IT! The transformation to Eddie-Bauer-yuppie-GoreTex-yoga-grrll-style emporium is now complete. I want my freakin' membership fee back.

     

     

    Figures REI is just filled with a bunch of left wing wackos who think its cool to wear North face, vote for obama, shop at whole foods, listen to depeche mode (sp) and date gay looking guys with tight pants and spiky hair.

     

     

     

    so true

     

    Yes of course its true!! :cry:

  7. Yes, boys and girls, the inevitable has finally occured. The new Fall REI catalog DOESN"T HAVE A SINGLE PIECE OF HARDWARE ANYWHERE IN IT! The transformation to Eddie-Bauer-yuppie-GoreTex-yoga-grrll-style emporium is now complete. I want my freakin' membership fee back.

     

     

    Figures REI is just filled with a bunch of left wing wackos who think its cool to wear North face, vote for obama, shop at whole foods, listen to depeche mode (sp) and date gay looking guys with tight pants and spiky hair.

  8. I believe they are inquiring about the short moderate alpine ice face that gets done as a fall/late summer ice climb.

     

    Loved the Patton video, and I found this great quote on your site for all the people on CC.com lol

     

    Hey! If you're one of those tug-job liberals who linked in here from Cascadeclimbers, I just wanted to remind you that you are a worthless slag, and you should probably throw yourself off a mountain.

     

    I know, I know. You guys all think you're so elevated in your thinking processes, and you have it all figured out, and you're soooooo much better than everyone. Well, here's a newsflash. You're not. You routinely sound like a bunch of petulant idiot children, and you demonstrate it by making complete fools out of yourself online everyday.

     

    Your politics, especially your's Doug_The_TugJob, sound so far to the left that it's as stupid as the Neocons. Maybe even worse, because you're all just ineffectual nothings, who count for nothing. Maybe you could all just stay stoned, marginally employed, and drift around in the woods out of sight? That would be good.

     

    I'm sure that girl on youtube probably just got nervous as hell, and totally choked. Yeah, it was one of the worst demonstrations of idiocy I have ever seen. So what? In all honesty I think it's entertainment for your retards (especially MaryLou) to pass judgment on everyone, and everything, from your self righteous perch.

     

    Anyway, I know that in reality it's probably something like 25 folks over there who are just 180 degrees sideways mental, so I'm not trying to paint the lot, just those tourons who continue to propagate over there in a circle jerk of champions.

  9. Legal action is not always the answer.

     

    XXX, I couldn't agree more. I would however have appreciated more accurate/meaningful reporting so as to emphasize how stupid it is to do this sort of thing - it could have your head or mine the rock connected with.

     

    I agree the media and the outdoors community as a whole should take more responsibility, but sending this young man to jail will serve no purpose. If anything he should be sentenced to community service and trail work for his negligent acts.

  10. Picking up a 20 lb rock and lobbing it over the edge of a cliff isn't "trundling". Its many other things, but it isn't trundling which conotes a rather innocent series of events, as in "my boot inadvertently loosened a rock which rolled down the cliff and whacked someone on the head".

     

    I think a more apt description in this case is "involuntary manslaughter".

     

    Just my two cents.

     

    Legal action is not always the answer. If this young man were to be charged I do not see what the value of bringing a conviction would be. He was truly sorry, and it is a complete waste of resources and time of the legal system. Otherwise its a terrible accident.

  11. I worked with the Blackfeet traditionalists for a little while. We were trying (successfully) to keep the Forest Service from opening up a Blackfeet sacred area (mountainous) to oil and gas development. Their views on things mountainous and/or spiritual are quite different from our western way of percieving our world. Science is a great thing but to set it in opposition to religion or spirituality is as ignorant as setting religion or spirituality in oposition to science.

    Our society is based onthe Judeo/Christian Bible. Like it or not, if you were to get into a political or social discussion with someone from another culture, they would recognize you as Christian and American right away. We are so shallow as a people. We are so self centered and arrogant. We have more power than most peoples and act as though that gives us the right to use it in other countries and other cultures.

    Disaster lurks around the corner for the US. Our policies of late make the likelyhood of another terrorist strike on our soil MORE likely.

    We breed contempt amoungst the largest populace on earth, Islam.

    This says nothing about the good works accomplished by the armed forces. They are following orders and working for the best possible outcome. But my words would infuriate the likes of Rudolf Guliani or Rumsfield etc.

    Climb on.

    But keep looking over your shoulder. This is not over.

     

    This is probably one of the more intelligent things I have read on this board lately. Excellent points.

  12. John Muir once said "I would rather be in the mountains thinking about God, then in church thinking about the mountains"

     

    I actually think God and climbing is an excellent combination for me. When I am in the mountains I feel closer to God. I enjoy basking in his creation while I ponder the meaning of life and what a huge beautiful amazing world we live in.

     

    Pretty much every religious tradition has some connection between nature and God. Afterall Moses went up Sinai, John the baptist went to the wilderness. For me nature is one of God's ultimate tools for reaching humans.

     

    "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." Romans 1:20

  13. At the risk of kicking off some yuppie bashing....

     

    I'm a member there and while their climbing wall is not the greatest, it's never crowded, free for members, and close to home. Hoping to find a couple folks that might want to trade belays on the occasional weeknight. I'm trying to get my strength back after an knee injury induced long climbing hiatus.

     

    I met a chick from Sammaish club, to bad she had a boyfriend :cry:

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