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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.

Bike touring (mostly local, but toured Ireland a few years ago, which worked well with my other hobby - drinking) Wine making Drinking (served best w good company) Jogging/swimming to stay in shape Backcountry skiing, but didn't get out much this year and, of course, spraying.

I can't beleieve you all read that whole friggin article!

does that mean you are offering to be my rope gun??? "will lead for sex" ????? Sounds like a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.

I was thinking something more Canadian....like poutine.

Any interest in this?

Sweet foreplay.

Larry Norman is "The King" of Jesus music

I think Dru was replying to me. I climbed this once a few years ago and walked off, so i don't really remember what the stations look like. I agree it would be faster to walk off.

Plung stepping in your rock shoes?! Nice. I agree it will mostly depend on the actual snow conditions that day and your personal comfort level on snow. Just wanted to make you aware that even if the climb is clean and dry, there will still be snow on the descent, including steep bits. Do with that what you will.

The walk-off descent will likely have snow into mid-summer, steep at the top, if i recall correctly. Probably not something you want to do in runners, er, i mean tennis shoes. Might want to bring an axe, too. Or consider rapping the route. Late summer, it is an easy walk off with no snow.

The moon is cheese. Its true, I saw it on Wallace and Grommit. When the US and A landed on the moon, they brought some back and now the cheese is on display in the window of the Tribune Tower in Chicago. I seen it myself. It must be very expensive cheese.

Whats the big deal with the Metolius PAS? Seems like a waste of $$ to me. I use a clove on the climbing rope on the way up, sling on the way down.

What a crock of shit. Shows the power of the protectionist beef lobby. US beef processing is every bit as dirty (I'd say worse, actually) as Canada or Europe....anyway, probably a topic for another thread. I mean, WTF..are they worried you are going to feed Fred's left-over horse cock to a cow?

And Kevbone is still living in his mother's basement, wanking off to 80's guitar has-beens

From the Climbers Access Society of BC Newsletter dated April 4, 2007:

Arrgh! Spaghetti Monster or Davey Jones? You decide, argh!

hmmmm...