Choada_Boy

Warning: You might want to check the U.B.C.s "V.O.C." (Varsity Outdoor Club) schedule before heading up to Squish. We got unlucky and shared the day with all 200 of them. As we drove into town early and came around the corner into Murrin, expecting to see no one, they were massed at the Bog Wall, filling the parking lot. Needless to say, the crags were crawling with people all day. If you're at UBC, you might want to think about joining the Junior Varsity Outdoor Center. The two VOC "guides" next to us spent two hours spraying to a captive audience of noobs about useless shit they really didn't need to know until anyone actually got tied in and climbed. Perhaps the JVOC is smaller and staffed by less awesome climbers, leading to more actual climbing for trip participants.

Looks more like a paraglider than a parachute, so probably not a BASE jump, IMHO.

I thought you'd be talking about THIS.

Right. Does he even include descriptions for climbs like "Clean Crack"?

I don't have the guide in front of me, but I don't think that that is the case.

Looks like it's going to get COLD!!! -30000F will put us well below absolute zero, so you'd better add a layer to your action suit.

My point.

1)An entire chicken has more surface area than a single chicken nugget. 2)It takes less energy to cook a single chicken nugget than it takes to cook an entire chicken. Therefore it takes less energy to keep a chicken nugget warm while it climbs in the winter than it would for an entire chicken. 3) Woolly mammoth tusks turned inward, indicating that woolly mammoths were in fact introverts. Question: Why are small dogs preferred over large dogs on dog sled teams?

Wrong. Larger people have a larger surface area, and therefore lose more heat through convection than smaller people. Think again. Volume increases as the cube whereas surface area increases as the square. I did not state the function of Surface Area v. Volume. Larger people have larger surface area. What is there to think again about? Additionally, because larger people have a larger volume, as you correctly stated, they have higher energy requirements and need more food to maintain homeostasis.

Wrong. Larger people have a larger surface area, and therefore lose more heat through convection than smaller people.

It took you 11 hours to climb 7 pitches. You dropped gear. You are proud of the fact that you didn't pull gear on a 5.7 handcrack in a face covered with huge chicken heads. People behind you had to "join forces" to get off of the face becuase you were so slow. You find it unreasonable for someone to show up at the base of the climb that should take 2-3 hours at 9:30 a.m. without a headlamp. You climbed so slow that it made people hate you and want to beat you up. Yes. You are clearly an experienced climber.

"Speed is Safety." Should new climbers be encouraged to go as slow as they want? Does this not needlessly endanger those behind them? Because you "got there first", does that give you the right to "hog" a finite resource while delaying, and thereby endangering, other climbers? People have died on that wall, perhaps because the sport contains some element of danger. The less time you spend doing dangerous things, the less likely you are to get hurt. People that do not climb do not die climbing. If you make a person spend an extra 7 hours doing something dangerous against there will because you are inexperienced, underskilled, underprepared, or "enjoying the views", that person would have a right to be pissed. Having said that, slower parties should have no right to be pissed because they should have either: 1) Asked to pass. 2) Passed safely without permission. (Just pass them.) 3) Bailed. 4) Kept their mouth shut. 5) Not climbed Outer Space on a Saturday. If you didn't do one of the five, perhaps it's you who lack experience.

Be sure to write the date on your helmet so that your partners can tell what month and year it is at a glance. Otherwise, it just isn't safe.

Isn't "great view of Darrington" an oxymoron?

Dont' forget the floor and ceiling.

I face my biners the same way so that they can stare each other down, then I discard the loser. I only want the best gear on my rack.

Daler: How'd that approach work for you? More or less time/complexity than the "traverse from high camp" approach? I'm assuming you dropped all the way below Mirkwood in the woods, to the toes of the glacier, then up.

Not a single article about mixed climbing in Vail??? What gives?? Great job guys, way to carry the torch!!!

What if I own both a Subaru wagon and a Toyota pickup with a canopy?

Perhaps we can remain Bear "Shart Peak" as in "Fred must have shart his pants when he climbed Bear."

CHECK OUT THIS SHIT!

"T-SHIRTS! GET YOUR T-SHIRTS!!!! "

Could someone please moderate all of this spray? The thread has lost the spirit of the original TR, man struggling against nature in an epic battle, yadda yadda...

...and then once, like, i went to an REI store, and like, got all ferocious-looking-like and scared the employees into giving me another helmet...it was RAD geer notes: one helmet, freshly sat upon two beerz, for liquid courage one puny employee keyboard for chestbeat spray fest tr Approach notes: -go up the stairs to the customer service dep't -locate most-frightened looking employee -start hyperventilation and foaming at the mouth to more closely approximate a rabid tool -quickly locate nearest cybercafe to spray while the adrenaline is flowin' 1) My local REI has only ONE floor. 2) I got my money back. 3) You remember my TR about going to a store. AWESOME!!

Why post a TR at all? It's just a waste of 1's and 0's, unless it's an FA, FWA, FS, FFS, FWS, or a second ascent (to confirm the rating). Should I post a TR every time I do a climb that's already been done a hundred times? LAME... "We climbed [insert name of trade route HERE] and I'd like the whole world to read about my experience." Save it for your diary.