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Softshells don't break the wind as well so in windy conditions they will be colder. Otherwise I layer like I would for a hardshell.

The Mars Volta

It's that every guitar related post you make is old stuff. I just want to know if you listen to any new bands, like one that doesn't have any recordings prior to 2000. I play guitar, that's why the only reason I click on these things. I think I've posted this before. I'm the one playing the SG: [video:youtube]6ALLXy6Zd14

Did Lars magically learn how to play the drums? I've heard it's actually pretty good.

That video is from 1995; 17+ years ago. I haven't seen a single music reference from Kevbone that dates any more recent than that. I listen to old stuff too but it's new music that gets me excited. I can't listen to the same old stuff over and over like that. Post something from Chinese Democracy for all I care. At least it's new. Dragonforce has some guitar wanking if that's what you're into.

Do you listen to any music that isn't antiquated?

IMO cars with BC plates are less likely to be broken into in Squamish. The only time I saw a car that had been broken into it had Ontario plates amongst a sea of BC plates.

I've heard more than one story in the mountain biking world about carbon fiber parts not having nearly the durability of aluminum and that the failures are much more spectacular. I wouldn't treat carbon fiber and aluminum tools in the same way like banging your crampons shaft for example.

The OP is just asking about belaying a second off the anchor using a Anchors 1st Ed. fixed master point cordelette setup. No soloing, no leading, pretty simple question.

If you rig an anchor with a cordelette and a master point knot, the shelf is the strands above the knot on the side of the gear. If you properly clip the shelf then you are clipping through the loops so it is redundant. I don't think it's a great idea to belay off the shelf but I don't think it's dangerous if it's clipped properly. As for that supertopo thread, that is a different topic entirely although interesting.

Are you saying if the movie is mainstream and popular it cannot be ahead of its time? Not entirely. There are movies that were ahead of their time because of subject matter and that are accepted now. There are others that pushed cinematic technique and technology in such a way as nobody else could reproduce it for a long time. I guess 'not noticed' was a little strong. Ahead of its time mostly means that it didn't belong at the time it was made. The influence of the movie is felt much later. Many of the movies mentioned in this thread caused an immediate shift in the way things were done. That is more groundbreaking to me.

For me, something was ahead of it's time if it was not noticed when it came out, wasn't appreciated until later and nothing similar was produced until much later. kevbone seems to be mistaking that for groundbreaking or his favourite movies. The Criterion Collection has some good before their time movies.

Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) 1954

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You licker, you broughter.

My first time climbing was in Lake Louise in 1996. A couple of guys that I worked with kindly took a bunch of us top roping at the back of the lake. I thought it was kind of fun but didn't think much of it. Fast forward to 2000. Friends had a 2 for 1 for the intro course at Cliffhanger. I tagged along one day and bluffed my way through the belay test never having belayed before. I stuck with it. Led a couple of sport routes after reading one of Long's climbing books. Took a gear course and assembled a rack. I don't know if AT counts but I invested in the gear last year after snowboarding for the previous 16 (I skied for 12 years before that). I'm looking to do some mountaineering/ alpine climbing and would like to swing some ice tools at some point.

I was impressed that the reporter kept a straight face when asking if children had pet dinosaurs. Real professionals those BBC folk.

I'll give you 2 hints: anagram Canada I've been in Vancouver, BC since 1998.

Good.

Has anyone ever tried to design an ice screw bandelier?

You keep saying that and I've asked for an argument presenting the logistics of a government overthrow in America by an armed but unorganized and untrained public?

The problem with the anarchist ideal is that it assumes that everyone wants to actively protect themselves. How many gun activists say that they are glad that they have one but are afraid to use it? There are many people that are more concerned about hurting someone else accidentally than of protecting themselves. These people's freedoms need to be protected as well. Do they have to hire body guards? The police really get victimized by the gun advocates. Since there are such public cases of police brutality they are really the ones that the 2nd amendment armed militia supporters are really arming themselves against since there is no hope of taking on the army. The same people brush aside the accidental death statistics as meaningless and then say they need to protect themselves from the oppressive police force but I'm willing to bet that those statistics are equally as meaningless in the grand scheme of things. I guess it is nice to see southern white middle class Americans feel concern for inner city Blacks and Hispanics. Besides, pulling a gun on a cop is a sure fire way to get killed. Would you rather get beaten and given a giant cheque in compensation or shot and killed? I have a lot of sympathy for the role that police play in society. It is hard to balance supporting the police with allowing free access to guns. Imagine every domestic dispute call having guns present. How many women are going to pull a gun on their abusive spouse to protect themselves? If they were that empowered they wouldn't be there to begin with. How do you keep the crazy guy from having a gun? In the videos a woman seemed to imply that gun free zones encourage the crazies citing Columbine and Post Office attacks. Those places are gun free zones because historically they have been targets. The nutbars that go on these killing sprees are suicidal. They're not afraid of an armed teacher. They'd have to be more careful in their planning and I'm sure they'd embrace the challenge by going bigger. The real solution is to find these people before they attack. That starts in the home and in the community. I guess I've rambled enough and nobody's going to read this anyway. My point is that Americans are well armed as it is and it's easy for criminals to get guns so the gun control proposals won't help much. If you really want to keep the sane public armed and the crazies without then work on systems for finding the crazies. Propose alternatives that will deal with all the problems that gun control activists are worried about. Drop the 2nd Amendment argument because it is idiotic. I think the keys are in community development, education, easing poverty and eliminating alienation and racism. A healthy society doesn't need guns so healing society will ease the need for guns. The hobbyists get to keep their guns, those who don't want them don't need them and everyone's happy.

Here's some Canadian Road Apples for all y'all: [video:youtube]5s1hySYXWvQ

OK I actually watched the videos and it seems to me the Penn is an anarchist and an idealist. It would have been interesting if they had actually looked into the logistics of an armed public taking on the Government. I don't think it could happen. The government is much more afraid of not getting reelected than of an armed take over. I still maintain that the 2nd Amendment argument is spurious.