marc_leclerc

If he sent Chair then VP is obviously too chickenshit for him.

Tis the season... climbing up in canada I just got three bites in a one day

I didnt notice at first... wow!

I agree with what Don said and I would like to add something. I see a lot of climbers build V-Threads, thread their cord and rappel without sawing the cord against the back of the V-Thread to dull the corner of the tunnel the cord runs over. This is really sharp when the V-Thread is built, I think if someone built an 'A' Thread and didn't take any time to dull the corner of the tunnel and rapped with all the pressure pulling a 5/6mm cord againt that edge bad things could happen.

After a hike at the Harrison Bluffs today I pulled two out of my back and one out of my foot. Take all the cautionary steps when heading out into the woods right now, and check yourself when you get back. Watch out for those areas with dry deadfall that you have to walk through.... check this out for more info: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tickbites.html

Curtain call looks SICK!

One time I lost an ice tool on a trip up to the Icefields. We had some paranoid delusion that some kid whom we had given a ride into Canmore stole it, but I think it just fell out of the car. I've taken off on lead a few times and gotten pretty far up the pitch before I realized I forgot the rack. Brilliant. Biggest mistake I once made was starting a pitch and then realizing I hadn't removed the caps off my screws. I had to pull them all off with my teeth.

Yes, I left a tool at a rap station. Plenty of people have made that mistake, Robert Nugent did that a couple years ago, try to tell me that he isn't experienced, Geez. Experience and 'knowig what you are doing' are not the same thing. When I was retrieving my tool did I not see you place like 14 screws in a pitch on the WI3- pitch BTW? After you drew a picture of a dude fucking a sheep on the back of our truck? Not to confuse age with maturity.....

Fred and Helmy Beckey spent a month in the Waddington range, ending with the second ascent of Waddington via the South Face when they were 19 and 16 respectively.

In your opinion. why don't you think a 16 year old climber can know what they're doing? Why don't you come up here, climb with me for a couple days and then tell me that to my face.

she is hot

sorry, I will stop being the idiot

yep...the two most juvenile posters had to post... kev and his bitch, pink What RuMR lacks in stature he obvious;y makes up with maturity

That sounded dirty

I pretty much work full time....

I've helped adults climbers off mountains quickly when they otherwise would have been benighted, I always help make key decisions as well as adults... I don't feel like a less valuable person on the team when I am with adults. They do tend to make me lead all the dangerous pitches though b/c I don't have a wife and kids to take care of....

Its tricky because on bigger stuff the adult will not always be in direct contact with the minor at all times. Lets say me and an adult are rapping off V-Threads and he goes first being the heavier of the two of us. I clean the backup and go to rap but don't pay attention and set up wrong. The adult isn't there to check me to make sure I haven't f&*ked up and I end up hurtling down 300m of ice to my death. Whose fault would that be? I would say that is my fault because I have climbed a fair bit and 'know what I'm doing' in my opinion and its my resposibility to make sure i rappel properly, but the average joe off the street may hear about it and say that me adult partner should have somehow made sure I was setup properly.... its hard to say much on the topic and I don't think a defined rule for climbing with minors can be devised. When Don S and I climbed Landmark a couple weeks ago we got to the base, looked at the first three pitches and soloed them. We both knew we were capable of soloing these easy pitches and were not concerned. If I had done something retarded and fallen off however some mat say that Don should have made us rope up b/c Im a minor. IMO we BOTH decided to solo it, I never asked for a rope and I assumed all the risk of doing so. Even when I take the sharp end when climbing with an adult If I fell and got hurt some may say that being a minor I shouldnt have been leading although I assumed all the risk of doing so. I honestly don't feel I should be treated any differently than an adult climber by my partners.

You don't truly know the meaning of running out of gear until you start placing spare biners like stoppers in finger cracks...

depends on the minor and the family amd the situation. My family would be extremely unlikely to sueif I got hurt. Say my partner just untied from me and ditched me on a big mountain and I fell in a crevasse and barely survived they might do something against the person. If I just ran it WAY out fell and got myself screwed up they would just say that I learned a lesson.

Have you forgotten about your Canadian cohort??? Too bad I'm pretty much only available Weekends. Then again you should come out for a week or two again this summer.

Nice looking climb!

haha... thats exactly what I tell my Mom all the time....

I don't seek any fame for being the youngest Canadian at 7000m, I just want to go there and climb. The 'young' thing is what might help us get there, the 'catch' as some call it. Just so that you dont get the wrong idea, Im really not a fan of blowing my own horn and attracting attention to myself, I just enjoy climbing. I'll make a statement about being the youngest to help attract a sponsor or two but my intention is not to go down in a record book, my intention is for an amazing and beatiful climb to go down in my internal memory book.

Will it hamper you flow of movement on the overhangs when it is cliped to your gearloop? Just a small concern of mine before I pick one up?

Off-Chimneys are scary without, duh...