crackers

ow. best wishes for a complication free recovery. congrats to all involved for such a skillful work.

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I don't really climb cracks (don't have any in the gunks and turkey is bolted limestone). with that caveat, 5.10 T-Rocks are great. They're super good for gunks style trad, and i've used them happily for longer days on Cannon in New Hampshire.

There is no way you're going to get a whole goat for that little in Istanbul. I doubt you could get that pricing anywhere in Turkey really. Last time I sacrificed, i think a sheep was about $130 or so...but I'm probably way off because it was three years ago.

i briefly used a prototype of the Exped Polaris tent in turkey(2 nights). It was really nice for me because i could actually fit inside of it in my winter sleeping bag--I'm 6'5"--without having the condensation crush thing go on... I'd be really interested in hearing how it works over more than 2 nights. edited for clarity...

f*ckers clearly DON'T have a trademark on stickers or any other printed materials! quick, trademark dirtbag on printed material and sue them!

go talk to a lawyer. did they send you a cease and desist? and btw, you could use the word 'dirtbagS'... their claim that the word was first used in 1995 is ridiculous, and that the word was first used commercially in 1997 is almost impossible to believe. I highly recommend that you mention this at that slide show and get some lawyer type to kick some ass for you pro bono. The abandoned claim for 'dirtbags' clothing says the first use of the marwas 1989...

Edelweiss makes ropes? I thought they made cables... A friend of mine who lives for epicing on desert towers swears by them. I can't stand them. The hand on all the edelweiss ropes i've ever seen or used is so stiff that you really have to see them to understand.

At least this crap is better than this sht. Turks make excellent turkish coffee. It's a real pity that they were ever allowed to think that nescafe is coffee though. btw luke, you made me coffee out my nose with your reference to the good old 3in1...

I can't get decent bacon in istanbul, but i can get great steak cut exactly how i want for like $4 a pound. The coffee is crapola too.

crackers: 50% Turkey (i know, i know, you thought i was a turkey...)

They are considerably more sophisticated, but I'm not sure how. I ordered a few to see if they'll work for a project,and when they show up i'll post photos and details.

For the past four years I've been doing a lot of new route activity in Turkey. I use a cheap $100 spotting scope to decide whether to walk over to a wall or not. To determine if a wall is decent rock, a spotting scope is great. I am told that you want binoculars for viewing things in stereo--like a tank when you're deciding whether or not to blow it up. I have a 60x spotting scope that I can see the glint of a bolt on limestone from about two kilometers on a clear dry day. That said, for "hitting the right spot" on a wall from miles away, I use a pair of cheap 'waterproof + fogproof' bushnells (bushnells) that I got at B&H. For this kind of thing, i like 8x30 or 8x42. Any higher than 10 hurts my eyes and takes me longer to acquire my target. Any more than $80 is imho way too much money. I figure that $10 per walk is well worth the money to avoid tramping down a wall for a kilometer in the sun when I'd rather be climbing. That means I have to make the binoculars last 8 trips to pay themselves off, which is pretty hard. I've wrecked two pairs, lost one in the past four years. (When I am in NYC, I live literally above B&H, so it's the easiest store to go to.)

backcountry.com is selling them. 40 Liter and 50 liter volumes, with the 40L weighing 3lbs 12 oz with frame & pad. They say the 50L is one ounce heavier.

Joe has a great memory. Ask him what their names were and post them. How about instead of the money, get them to do tic tocs for ten hours straight?

The car my fiance and I are giving ourselves when we get married.

damn, somebody stole my copy and i've been trying to find one since the late 1990s.

yeah, but oly, do you have that album? best one spacemen3 made!

You don't have dreamweapon, an evening of contemporary sitar music, do you?

Any lit on wobble boards? I live with one of the worst ankles in the USA--you can check out the photo here. Not an allograft candidate right now, the joints are too screwed up, but we're hoping that she can do an external radial fixator to regrow the ankle. MaryLou you should try Symtech liquid gluc/chon/msm. It works far better for my fiance than anything else ever has. Also, a good medical supply company should have a blue kind of ankle brace that's not neoprene. I'll see if i can find out the name.

oh, they sent me the X-Ray or whatever it was with the thing...the impact just mussed the epoxy!

i feel 35 feet or so and grounded on my carbon fibre HB El Cap helmet. I walked away, sent the helmet in and they were like "eh, cosmetic blemish, no problem."

I've been looking at a some studies done over in Italy in the last year or so that present some interesting perspectives on this. I'll see if i can find them when I get home. Basically, it appears that the standard idea of how dynamic forces are generated in a climbing system is not too good. Have you seen the 14 bazillion pieces of gear in 21 feet paper? As i recall, that paper basically posits that you need a piece of gear every half: ie: place gear at 1', 3', 6', 12',24'. But that's insane at first glance. Then again, the same paper says that if you do that you can run it out the last 60' of a 200' pitch. The italians have been working on the effects of friction on the system through both rock rubbing and through inefficient and efficient rope systems. Their work seems more grounded in reality than the other and they've been doing some interesting empirical tests with load meters and different length slings. of course, ymmv, and she gathers herself after falling. She leads the pitch and you guys get down okay after that. That's when the problems start. Taking the advice of cc.com, you plant one on her before you remember she plays winger for wazzu's rugby team. She slaps you down and then reports you to your fiance. I wish i had my bookmarks...argh.

bomber bindings rule. I've been really impressed by the ones i've used and they really hold up.

I think it's AT all the way...