Choada_Boy

Although the stupidity of the man with 3rd degree burns on his face is impressive, Darwin Award candidates can only be considered if they have successfully removed their genes from the gene pool.

Nobody is saying that all Aliens are unsafe I am saying that all Aliens are unsafe.

Hey eldumbass: it doesn't matter what you think about your gear, or how hard you climb, or who uses Aliens or how willing they are to run it out on the smallest cam, or your brand loyalty. What matters is the fact that these things have been shown to fail repeatedly and catastrophically below their rated strength both in testing and in use. You're still cool with climbing on them? Good for you. I wish I were that dumb. I'd be saving myself some cash by not having to replace gear that has been shown that it cannot be trusted to work as it should or as claimed. Gary: I see your point but I would hope that a piece of climbing gear could be expected to consistently fail above it's rated strength by some factor of safety.

It's pretty clear that CCH has either never heard of 6 sigma quality control or they have and they don't give a shit, or can't give a shit, because they don't know what they are doing. The problem is that they have a nice design that keeps people using them despite the clearly demonstrated risk to life and limb. And to the fool that thinks a cam rated to 12kn is OK if it breaks at 5kn: are you fucking retarded????? It should break at 24kn or even 48kn if it's rated to 12kn. That's called a "Factor of Safety". If you're OK with an FoS on a piece of safety equipment of less than .5, you're a blithering idiot.

Officially off the rack. Cannot be trusted. I've been having that nagging thought in the back of my mind every time I've placed them in the past couple years. Not a good thing to have when you're on lead. Fuck all y'all running CCH, you're putting lives at risk with your shitty products! Someone should sue your ass and put you out of business or rat you out to the local DA and get you shut down. I challenge any Aliens supporters to provide any information regarding any other brand of cam failing in such frequent and various manners. I also love the "I'm not a metallurgist but..." comments. Great to see so many non-metallurgists offering to discuss metallurgy. Speaks of a great future for applied materials science.

They dress the gumbies in colorful down suits at all times for a number of reasons: 1) So that they overheat and under perform, making the climb artificially harder than it needs to be, so that the guides, appropriately dressed, can retain their demigod uber-human status. 2) So that guides can simply zip up a collapsed client within a down "body abandonment bag" and leave them for dead. 3) So that other climbers can easily see and walk past/around/ over dead and dying climbers. Less colorful body abandonment bags would be dangerous.

If the second cannot remove a piece the leader placed, they both are retarded. Whoever owns the gear must pay the Stupid Tax. If I let you place my gear and you get it stuck and I can't get it out, I'm retarded for picking a shitty partner who got my gear stuck. Stupid Tax. The reverse is true as well. If you leave your cam on the top of Silverhorn, you can blame it on me for two years before someone finds it and gets it back too you. Alternately, you could get a real job and quit whining and getting pissy over money. Poor people suck.

Mmmm....looks like they need to cut down on the yak-b-ques up there. Quite a mess.

Man, that bolt really ruins the scenery. But at least I found my red plastic end table.

Sounds perfect. Take your time to work things out, then go for the top.

Let me know how that works out.

Paint, rust, and scale off of a metal railing with intricate detail. Lots of tight radii.

You should measure your VO2 max.

I have at least one full day of sand blasting on a pretty intricate railing project. I need a full-sized booth.

Anyone have any ideas on where/how I could rent a sandblasting booth? I'd like to rent the gear and space and do the blasting myself.

Thank you for cleaning up someone's trash.

War is the natural state of man, no denying that. Might as well be good at it. But perhaps immoral acts performed in the name of "good" will only serve to make more enemies for ourselves.

I pay my taxes, commie. Just because I'm not the one bitch slapping a detainee wearing a shitty adult diaper doesn't mean I'm not responsible.

Double posting to a year old thread. Awesome!

If you're going to slap a detainee in the face, it's perfectly legal as long you spread your fingers, according to the Bush Justice Department. You may also place a detainee who is afraid of insects in a confined box with insects. Also, when water boarding, only pour water over the face for 20 seconds at a time at most.

Anyone else reading the "Torture Memos" released the other day? Great torture porn! I had no idea that you should, in order not to humiliate a person, under interrogation for up to 20 hours straight , who you should keep awake for no more than 180 hours straight, standing naked in a three foot circle with their hands shackled under their chin, who may shit and piss themselves during this time, make them wear an adult diaper. No wonder my Gimp feels so degraded.

Hi Bret Johnston! Gear left on a climb is trash. Someone was kind enough to, hopefully, recycle your trash for you. Litterbug. My favorite post above was the "Duuude! Climbing 5.19N is so frickin' hard it's like climbing in another DIMENSION! It's like you're breaking free of the laws of physics and becoming pure ENERGY! These mere Earthlings won't understand" Well played!

Poor humans! Contrived danger limitations! Regardless, I think we should be proactive in spreading the word as best as possible to keep people off all the routes in the area until the end of July. There's plenty of other shit to climb. If you think otherwise, you're a dick head.

It was up on Sunday as well. I think it has something to do with the Canucks being in the playoffs, or it was a super-ghetto bivy on Uncle Bens.

My bad. Falcons scare me.