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Right on, thanks for clearing that up.

I was leaning towards brakes for my bindings but I can't seem to find any for sale for the "speed" dynafits. They all seem to be for the comfort or vertical models. Is there actually a difference in the heel piece which would mean I couldn't mount it? Wildsnow refers to the speed brakes as just screwing onto the baseplate where with the vertical/comfort you have to fiddle around with the heel unit. However neither REI or MEC or teh google seem to list brakes specifically for the "speed" bindings...nor does dynafits website...so back to leashes eh?

Also: The Bug Zoo The Wax Museum Miniature World

That's a fine toque...looks like you had some serious hair under there at the time!

I think Dave Roberts is a bit more expressive & revealing about motivations, about his failures & fears. I also got the Boardman-Tasker omnibus recently & that writing also seemed to have more depth... however both of those can be a bit wordy at times, I like how House's writing is fairly lean & straightforward. I think it's maybe just the author's different styles. Beyond the Mountain is, I think, a really excellent description of the actual climbing but it doesn't feel so much a story as a bunch of separate stories. Worth picking up though and everybody has different tastes.

I was into it at first but then after about a dozen chapters just got bored. It reads like a shopping list of climbs he did & I couldn't tell whether he was on North Twin, Nanga Parbat or wherever after a while. Also it borrows a bit too heavily from the agonized, Mark Twight-esque existential style of climbing writing for my taste. anyway flame on

Ahh my favorite LP from jr high days. I think this Rush may have to be 100 years early. Unless scientists hurry up and allow you to download your brain onto a chip then buy a new body. You must have read this? If not you should!

Scott Semple needs a better sponsor so I know who he is.

The PG alpine club has a good guide on their website as well.

Shit I own 400 acres near the South pole, they better not have f$*&ed it up.

Hello?? [img:center]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/JamesTKirk.jpg[/img] Oops, sorry wrong thread.

It's cooler if you stop to blow chalk off your fingers right before the crux move.

That is possibly the gayest selection of cars I have ever seen; station wagons? hacky-sack hippy vans? Does lululemon sell cars now?

Nice to see a TR for a route that I think we all would like to do. Neat that it has the history behind it...1909!

Nice Seems like it all went smoothly, gotta love that.

Two bivi's, although that Haberl hut sure looks nice. That old red tit hut looks like it has some character!

I'd definitely recommend the trip. It covers a lot of interesting ground, particularly on the way out. This shot from Dione shows the route on the Dione glacier to the col which provides the exit down to Lake Lovely water. I really liked the sort of 'classic' mountaineering feel; lots of 4th class, snow, glaciers, routefinding, judging weather and conditions.

Your pictures are better than mine... I'm still haunted by the smell of 3 cheese lasagna farts

Trip: Tantalus/Dione - Tantalus - N. Ridge/Dione - Standard route Date: 8/1/2009 Trip Report: Dropped off at the col on Friday night...staggered out to the road on Sunday. In hindsight a heli pickup may not have been a bad idea.... Pretty straightforward scrambling on Tantalus plus a little roped stuff when the exposure got too much. Found the descent on Tantalus a bit convuluted. Stayed too high & we were level with the Witch's Tooth, then rapped down a gully all the way to ledges at the bottom which were full of rocks. Had to climb heinous gully and loose rock then traverse all the way out the base of Dione before getting on snow. Did Dione and walked out on Sunday...that sucked. My knees still hurt. Gear Notes: One axe, we brought two but didn't use the second. The pickets were handy. Approach Notes: Heli - $195 all in for drop off at col on North ridge.

I thought this was a pretty cool ski trip report from the Lions: Scrambles BC

I'm no ice climber but November in Whistler you're probably not going to find anything unfortunately.

What are you guys mormons or something? This is a bunch of teenagers.

How's the snow coverage on the other side of the ridge? Enough for a couple of turns anyway?

Her accent is freakin' terrible, I can't listen to that for more than about 20 seconds

I'm tired of these mexicans taking wrestling jobs away from good, honest all American folk: