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They sell lots of trucks.

I love the part in Touching the Void where he proudly states that he never once thought of God when trying to get out of there alive. I think God would be proud.

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 have to take the part after jpg out of the url for it to work.

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?