marc_leclerc

wow.. I didn't know a rick roll could piss someone off this bad! I got rid of it... but id be careful cuz i might just pop a zit in your face..

Tamara is 17... I like em older chicks...

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Sweet, where can I buy it? Sounds like a river crossing...

Can you tell me where you are going to be parked, and how much valuable stuff you plan on leaving in your car? I'll pay your gas if we can split the booty!

Lucky... that looks like lots of fun... all the talk of 5.12's gives me an itchin to send my project..

seeing as I dont have cable you should just post more pics

G-Spotter is a pretty dope name.. took me a while to get it though..

I use protection 8D Theres many different types of varying effectiveness... theres an interesting study on it here..

never happened to me....

sadly I don't find them boring...

Im not gonna mention any names or what trip this was b/c I think some of the climbers on that trip may use this site. One time, I got invited to go with a group of people (one of which is a regular partner of mine and I have climbed with before) to do a grade IV alpine route. On the approach I listened to many stories of climbing long alpine routes... I eventually went up ahead and reached the bivi sites quickly. I then waited for an hour for my partners to arrive b/c a couple members decided to have a 1/2 hour 'decision making' time. They then persuaded the others to climb a different route to the bivi site up a long krumholtz slope insted of easy 3rd class rock. We bivied for the night and got up early for the climb. For some reason every small choice required a long 'decision making' time. It took forever to reach the base of the climb and I led the first pitch. It was fairly steep and you had to hang on your arms a bit but it was no more than 5.7. After spending 5 minutes on this short pitch I belayed the first person who tried it in mt boots, lowered off, changed to rock shoes, then re-climbed the pitch. Somehow the rope got put on the wrong side of some blocks and trees and the rope drag got terrible. After an hour of sorting out rope drag I just unclipped from the belay and started soloing up the next pitch (hauling a rope) and set up the next belay. I slept on my belay ledge for another hour while my team all changed shoes, repacked, sorted out the drag and climbed to me. I walked up the next easy (5.5) pitch without placing gear to save time and belayed another guy up, he told me how hard he was finding this climbing, then we belayed everyone else up. I soon realized that everyone was expecting me to lead everything and a couple members were not confident doing any leading or simul climbing one this long route... I suggested we go down after taking 10 hours (seriously!!) to get from camp to the top of Pitch 3.. after an hour 'decision making' time we started rapping down. I set up and found all the stations, went first and fixed the ropes ect.. Once off the rock I walked to camp... an hour later my partners show up by headlamp... These people were all really nice but were not prepared (except for a couple) to do this route, they asked me to go so I could ropegun (without being told).... I would climb with them again on easy routes but not on anything big again.

Good question... why didn't you? dont laugh now.. the anchor had a fixed line he had been using for cleaning earlier and I didn't see that my partner had set up the rope to have a 'powerpoint' to belay from.. so I just clipped to the shelf..

Oooooooooooo, just wait until the purple hippo reads this one. It's all good... Theres no other girls around here that will put up with him.lol very true... they stop wanting me when I won't stop boring them with climbing stories.....

So the approach is good right now???

ANybody been up there in the last few days? How much snow on the approach to Colfax?

Im sorry but bolts in alpine setting take away from the experience... Fixed pins here and there and slings for rap anchors are fine but bolts!!?! NO! I heard some guy say something about bolting belay and rap stations of the NEB of Slesse being a good idea and I was like NO! That would entirely ruin the routes appeal (big, remote) Im a firm believer in No Bolts in the alpine unless placed on lead by the FA Party... On unfamous peaks where nobody would put a route up the traditional way (ie.. infinite bliss) i guess its not the end of the world....

Yep, she was wearing one of those slutty plaid miniskirts too. I think she wanted me... like most other girls on the planet... 8D

Tvash is in Red..

With or with out a BC and Fins? With the BC.. I only use fins on crack climbs.. they torque well

Weren't you supposed to have a pull-up contest with fattrash, with a 40lb weight tied to you waste? Whatever happened to that? i'm still game for that...although the funnier one would be pope's sending trash's hardest boulder problem with a watermelon strapped to his ass... Thats Weak! I lead 5.12 with a full scuba tank on my back...

Ha...you're still at school at 2:30 Ya but I wake up at 7:45 in the morning

I did it once... my partner fell and didnt die... I don't think its a big deal as long as you clip trough both loop.. but why wouldn't you just clip through the powerpoint?

Braydon, you should stay up here for a while again... theres lots of easier winter climbs up here (Blanshard, Rexford, Needle...) that you would like.

Im hoping to climb one of the ice couloirs on the Sumallo Headwall (Mt Rideout) near Hope B.C on Sunday, weather looks pretty good.I live in Agassiz and could be picked up if your coming from anywhere west of chilliwack... PM me if your interested. TR from last year...http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=737847 Other pics of area: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=8&Number=423803&Searchpage=12&Main=30430&Words=PaulB&topic=0&Search=true#Post423803