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"The best climber is the one having the most fun" - teh interweb

Yeah, but sounds like with all the booze, drugs and sex, you might not get much climbing in. Then again, you might not care.

Not if you're coming to Canada.

Bring healthy food with you. Apples, bananas, oranges etc. for snacks. Water and fruit juice for drinks. Stuff for healthy sandwiches. You get the idea. Also, when you do eat out, scan the menu for healthy options. Like continental breakfast or oatmeal, vegetarian entree for lunch/dinner is usually a healthier choice (not always). At the very least, having fruit for healthy snacks takes the edge of all the other crap you shovel in. And its almost no extra work to throw a bag of apples in the car.

The "I wanna go curling in Canada" troll

I'd say follow your heart. If it were me, I'd move to Seattle. Let me be honest...as a new grad, your so called "dream job" is about half a step up from 'intern'. Entry level jobs are the same everywhere. So unless you are really lucky and this is some one-of-a-kind job that you would have no hope in hell of landing anywhere else, then the choice is obvious.

or C. Expose myself to spray and ridicule by asking for advice from a bunch of interweb wankers

The Canadian authorities will likely have issues with this. Sure, lying will get you in, but what if you get pulled over or otherwise run into the law? Could ruin your summer and put you on immigration's "shit list" for years. Canadians are reasonable people. Call the consulate and find out what you need to do to be here legally all summer. Its probably not that painful or expensive. Probably a one-page form and $50 and you have yourself a 90-day visitor visa.

OK, I changed the thread title so it is obvious which Vancouver I am talking about. But really, if I was talking about Vancouver, WA, I would have just said "Portland"

Vancouver????? WA, or BC? You need to specify these things. Everyone else on this thread seems to have figured it out. Vancouver, BC. Duh.

May 8 sounds good. Is the Waldorf Hotel on Hastings central and divey enough for ya all?

By the time you are back at your car, you GPS battery should be re-charged.

Swiffer = OK Swiffer Wet = Soooo illegal

You need big rocks to be a curler

troll

According to my calculations, assuming 100% efficiency of converting gravitational potential to electrical energy, for a 70kg climber rapping at a speed of 0.5m/s would be 300Watts. In reality you would be doing well to get 10% efficiency, so 30Watts for the 120seconds you are rappeling. With this I am assuming you will be charging some sort of battery. What did you say you wanted to power with this? This doesn't include the extra energy you expend humping some dynamo up a climb. Also, I should point out you could generate more power by burning your turds. 30 W is a fair amount. Even at 10% efficiency then, 30 W at 2 minutes would pull in as much power as a 1W solar panel in full light left out for an hour. I don't have any particular device in mind that I want to power, but presumably a battery charger would be nice. Thanks!, ambys I would expect only on a "seige style" expedition could you justify bringing a dynamo or solar panels (or other battery charger) over a few extra batteries.

Curling Rocks! No pun intended. Curling is alot like baseball, except with more strategy, danger, skill and alcohol involved. I suggest you go rent the movie Men with Brooms starring Leslie Neilson. If you remind me with a PM, I can look up a few places in Vancouver for ya.

I think your engineering prowess might be better spent building one of these that is light weight, so I can enjoy my wilderness camping spot instead of being eaten alive. http://www.northlineexpress.com/images/pdf/2005_SV_brochure.pdf

According to my calculations, assuming 100% efficiency of converting gravitational potential to electrical energy, for a 70kg climber rapping at a speed of 0.5m/s would be 300Watts. In reality you would be doing well to get 10% efficiency, so 30Watts for the 120seconds you are rappeling. With this I am assuming you will be charging some sort of battery. What did you say you wanted to power with this? This doesn't include the extra energy you expend humping some dynamo up a climb. Also, I should point out you could generate more power by burning your turds.

"The looser the waist band, the deeper the quicksand, or so I have read" - Spinal Tap

"Chop! Chop! Chop!..." - Alice Cooper

Oh, I get it....so "fixed" is code for "shitty rusted rap anchors with tatty slings and hand-removable pitons". I laerned something today on teh interwebs.

This guy deserves honorable mention: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/06/1083635253690.html?from=storyrhs

Catbert is the embodiment of everything heinous about HR. http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070413.html

I remember reading somewhere that the rap route follows Reality Check and has bolted anchors the whole way. But not having done it, I can't say for sure. Dru sounds like he knows what he is talking about, so I wouldn't count on it. Regardless, way faster to walk off.