Hugh Conway

Some sweet canyoning there if you are looking to cool off: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dnoble/canyoning.html "Canyons near Sydney" is the guidebook if I remember the title correctly

take it from me - that's a sure sign you've moved well past delusional and are straight on the way to Munchausen land

Random other suggestions: -Madagascar -Sri Lanka (some climbing in the Knuckles range, great food) -Southern India (Hampi bouldering, other random bits) great food -Southern China (Yunnan/Sichuan) Patagonia has the same shitty weather, much bigger distances, much much much much crappier roads and airlines. So yes, you may not be able to pick up and go climbing in NZ, but you can pick up and go surfing, in to a town, taste wine, etc. do something with your day, which if you are in Patagonia is pretty much impossible because going somewhere will take fucking forever. New Zealand also has far more variety in food than Argentina (where if you don't want cheap excellent steak and wine, the food pretty much sucks ass) And yes NZ has got to many fucking Americans/Poms/Eurofaggots thinking it's a great place.

They are the core of the attraction to "climbing"

It's a good thing BD and Charlet have never, ever, had to recall Ice Tools for material failures

trick question, the answer is always ewe

so catch one of the dozen flights a day across the Tasman and go Alpine in New Zealand. Patagonia's great and all but the shit weather coupled with the shit infrastructure can lead to alot of time sipping mate with your thumb up your ass. At least if the weather sucks in New Zealand you can drive to the beach for the day or go bouldering at Castle Hill, then go back to the Alpine.

what do you want to do

"pro form" gear and free gear is a statistically significant category and constitutes minor level sponsorship - the distortion of the retail market being especially irritating

needs more slutty victorian girls

Depends on how fat the chic that popped it is.

You are actually arguing that the advertising and promotion budget is small?

Miraculously they spend the money from thin air! Of course it comes out of the bottom line and costs more because of it dolt.

YOU and me, and every member of the gear buying public are that stupid SOB bill. From the climber paid cash (very rare) to the climber paid in gear (less rare) to the climber who gets proform (fairly common) there's tons of people getting money or discounts for doing jack shit. Why? If they've got interesting stories to tell and pictures to show why not give them money or kudos directly at a slide show, by buying a book or other means? Do you go out and buy a guitar to support a good artist?

B and D makes custom ski crampons to whatever width you want. 130mm+ http://www.bndskigear.com/

Hard boot type snowboard bindings. very similar to Lowells model if not identical.One of them was this "figl" model from www.Kohla.at I think (picture of one with embedded below): I don't own a pair - I'm trying to find the information it might be a little bit I'm in Kyrgystan atm and don't have access to my notes or the internet often.

Similar are still sold in Austria. Most have non releasable snowboard type plate bindings. ~100-200 euro at the shops in Innsbruck - I can try and dig up whichever ones; I remember the small light ones being an off brand I'd never heard of. The Hagan Nanook is 1390g pair with bindings.

You were dropped on your head? that explains much pink

That's I-P-C-C, genius boy. Couldn't you have found some Dentists expounding?

Gary's got a PHD he's set

Ok, I just bought those at REI. See how shiny they look? I'm ready to chop down the tree! REI + PHD what more do you need!

Ever had beef penis stir fried with Lemon Grass and Chili? Tastes damn good

yes. slow and boring. It's Pulp Fiction on a shitload of ludes

Fucking dry pussy isn't something that should be done.

So you buy a MacBook Pro with non-user replaceable battery? Genius! I love how everyone who'd laugh in the BestBuy salesmans face when he trys to sell them the extended warranty buys into the AppleCare extended warranty scam.