rob

climbing typically gives you a better-looking body than drinking does.

except when it doesnt. The deader, the better!

Why not just have a single "adult" age? I hate this 16/18/21 bullshit. Either you're an adult or you're not.

So you can buy shotguns, ammunition and whiskey before you can buy a Ford? Not currently. Nice dodge!

So you can buy shotguns, ammunition and whiskey before you can buy a Ford?

that's how they do it in Euroland, and aren't all libtards supposed to love everything about Euroland, Robbie? I thought you couldn't buy guns in Euroland, just speedos. OMG HAVE I BEEN LIED TO????

It would be awesome if we let people get drunk and buy guns but not drive a car sober. GOOD THINKING!

Drinking rum and discussing politics with my girlfriend's soviet-era Romanian father.

Watcha doin' in PR, rob? You gonna be able to hit the most awesome BVI? Nah, it's a short trip so basically I'm just sitting in the sun and drinking rum. Thx for the book reco, Ivan. It's a great read.

thanks ivan, I just downloaded it for my flight to PUERTO RICO, bitches! what's your problem with guns, nancy? I like guns -- I own a few. I just don't love em like Bill and the tea party love em.

Oh, and that smell on the summit is not farts, but if there are other people up there it's fun to blame them anyway

seems more an example of crazy people creating a church then a church creating crazy people - i'll grant you there's a chicken n' egg argument to be made there - my main point at least on mcveigh was that he doesn't appear to have been raised in a psycho-religious context, going to public schools, for example, or sitting a pew twice a week to have fire n' brimstone rained down upon him. true that, but I suppose that books like the turner diaries and programs like beck and rush serve as the new pulpit for extreme right-wing religion-based politics: anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-minority, tea party & guns, etc. Almost all of these positions are really just loosely couched forms of a new kind of theocracy.

I assume you mean the south spur? Super non-technical. A strong climber can go car to car in a day, but some people like to camp at lunch counter to "acclimate," but personally I find that spending an extra 12 hours at altitude doesn't seem to help, it seems to make it worse -- so I'm more of a "get it over with quick" kind of guy. I hear lunch counter is the place to stay, so expect crowds. I brought a puffy but didn't use it. That's probably what everyone does. That stuff always depends on the weather. But in July with good weather don't expect to be wearing anything warm on the ascent. Wear sunscreen and bring shorts if the weather is nice. Obviously, I have no idea how much water you drink. I like to drink a lot. Luckily, snow is made of water. Remember not to wear crampons when you glissade back down. Also, it's easy to miss the trail back to the parking lot on the way down if you don't pay attention, especially when the trail is under snow. If you do that, you'll end up wandering around the woods. It happens. Just go back up if it does, and get back on the right path.

also a good reminder that crazies are almost always the product of religion. mcveigh's bio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh) doesn't show him as being a church-grown crazy though - shiiiit, when you're from the south, you don't need much help at all to be pissed off all the goddamn time McVeigh was a huge fan of The Turner Diaries, basically the bible for the Christian Identity Movement.

also a good reminder that crazies are almost always the product of religion.

They can't be that bad, plenty of routes have been put up in similar shoes.

NOT IN MY NAME

They need a honey in the middle

lol, you're obviously not in the service anymore.

I have some spare keds I can send them. I want to see more kids outside.

ditto, my renter's insurance from state farm is DIRT CHEAP and covers full replacement value. $500 deductible is not bad when you're talking about thousands of dollars worth of shit with a super low premium

Goddamn you need more material, Raindawg. You're like an old man who just discovered the internet and keeps sending the same chain letter to his grandchildren over and over. Did you know they have LOTS more stuff out there?

Or for the price of 2 link cams you could probably buy 4 regular cams

That's cool, I used to do this stuff all the time. I'm assuming you're talking about actually rigging the anchor, not setting the pro, right? For practice setting protection, you should actually go find some rock. For practice with the ropecraft part and equalizing, etc. I found the best thing was to just walk around the house and use whatever I found -- this was most like real-life where sometimes things are not in optimum positions. For example, create a 3-point anchor using a couch-leg, the lamp post and the cat (or whatever). Creating a peg board is an interesting idea; I was way too lazy for anything like that. Are you tying knots in the dark with your gloves on yet? That's fun.