Mr_Phil

** You are ignoring this insensitive, cruel bastard ***

Tie those bungy cords to a tree and slingshot your haulbag to the base. Works for me.

Thanks! Wait. There's a Climbing Forum?!?

I was clicking on mortgage brokers today and noted that now a 40 year loan is an option. WTF? Stupid loans helped drive up housing prices.

Aren't you the pink ass sprayer.

This doesn't add up once you consider the top secret information that the rescuers are withholding from us.

I feel the same way, I just phrase it a little differently. When talking about something like this with a person of faith, I can't help but say that my own faith is utterly unaffected by what anyone else says (especially in Spray). And if it were, I would spend my time and effort looking for the reason why; and spend none of my effort on being offended or bothering other people with what is a deeply personal issue. Thanks folks....I was worried that newcomers wouldn't be able to grasp what I meant by echo chamber....nice illustration I'm deeply offended. oh piss off... hello!!!! Look how funny the quote embeded within quotes looks. Anyone wanna ride bikes? Yeah. Let's find some nice street with downed trees and power lines. KK is such a tool. He could fuck up a wet dream.

That better not be real fur he's wearing. FUR IS MURDER!

I am a walking

Now the Mounties, of course, are fair game.

Rocky Balboa!

And I am stunned how incredulous you are that anyone suggests not taking a beacon while climbing. You start off asking the question, but followup that anything less than doing as you do is stupid. Try rereading a little more carefully. My position is this. Beacons aren't always necessary for winter mountaineering. Climbers should make an informed choice before heading out.

I don't think the Mark VII is E911/diffGPS/PLAB enabled.

This, we knew.

Actually death is 100% fatal.

I'll assume that they're just going to modify the 'L' that's already there.

See?!? See what happens when you don't mitigate lunch?!? Luckily GIBob was there to save the day.

I know nothing about climbing, but it seems to me that you are suicidal and endangering the populace of Dafur with your negligence.

Do what I do. Get drunk and chat on the phone while commuting.

It's still Fall, folks.

Oops, small typo there. I meant 'asscertion', which short for 'Shoved up your ass.'

I knew something smelled fishy.

Proof by assertion doesn't work. All of the folks I climb with do things to mitigate the danger. But it cannot be eliminated. Are you saying that live should be lead only without risk?

Maintain? How hard is it to replace the batteries now and then? Maintain is short hand for practice as well.

Oh come on people... you all know as well as I do that every year a number of climbers get killed by avalanches. The table in the back of Accidents in NA Mountaineering shows 278 ave deaths in the US from 1951-04 and another 125 in Canada in that same time. In 2005 there were 8 avalanche deaths. Granted the table does not differentiate between ski mountaineering and say, an ice route - but plenty of climbers out for a day of "real climbing" have been killed by avalanches. You bet. Climbers can make the same mistakes as skiers. There has already been one avy death this ice season near Canmore, as the bowl above released, swept over the upper climber, and buried the lower climber. A beacon was unnecessary, as the rope trailed to the victim. Again, two years ago three Seattle area climbers were killed on Mt Wilson as bowls above released. Again, beacons would not have helped as all three climbers were buried and there was no one else around. Of course, if you're going to carry a beacon, then each party member should be carrying a probe and shovel as well.