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Honolua is a powerful place spiritually and allot of people have died surfing there. There is no outer reef and you are surfing right on the brink of the chasm of the deep blue Pacific. so the Landlord is always close by and the wave is very thick and the coast is rugged and wild with Molokai right across the channel from you. Spectacular. Yes, right side of Flemings is da spot. Try surfing/boogie board Kahului harbor which is near the airport. There is a really nice break there. Its a juicy wave, always going off. Drive way out on the west jetty to the end and you'll see it right inside the harbor mouth.

DT Flemings is a great place for body surfing, right on! Ya got to try Baldwins, just walk down the beach about 100 yards to the left from the parking lot, and it is more private and the waves better with a little sandbar under the water you can't see. That little spot at Baldwins is called Boobs Beach, as it is away from the main crowds so the gals stroll down the beach and lay out there topless, so another added benefit to an already amazing spot. Honolua is better for a boogie board or of course surfing. I remember just me and my buddy being the only guys out one special day, small waves, and then it just pumped up. We were the only ones out for about half a hour, just getting ride after ride, so thick and hollow and tube-u-lar,just awesome. I loved that place until a friend of mine died there on a big day. His lease got tangled in the under water cave rocks and they couldn't find him for a few days. It seemed kind of wierd to me to surf there after that, it just felt errie. Great marine park there to snorkel on a calm day.

Did you do any body whomping at Baldwins? its da place mon.

Hey Matt, I remember you guys from back in the day. You and Jamie and Paul were the bad asses, pushing the rad stuff at Index and elsewhere. I used to climb in 1977-78 when i was in E-burg with a guy you were friends with and went to school with in Yakima, I wish I could remember his name(Tim?). He took me to a few places, Painted Rocks by Selah? Scary stuff. Anyway, I am still climbing all these years later, and I think adding a few bolts to belays on this route would be great! Man, I still remember when you dudes did the first winter ascent of Liberty Crack. I did it this last summer and was trying to visualize doing it in winter, no thanks! Kudos! Also, I remember a article by Paul that came out back in the day, where he used lingo like "calcium carbonate stairway to the stars", etc. We used to use that phrase allot after that. You don't by chance have a copy of that article you could post? It was an inspiring article. You guys were really breaking new ground. Whatever you decide on Dragontail, the climbing community is behind you!

Here is where you want to apply. Columbia River Gorge. either Hood River, White Salmon, or The Dalles. 45 minutes to Mt Hood skiing. Minutes to climbing Minutes to kite boarding/windsurfing Awesome mountain, trail, and road biking Sports Cental http://www.providence.org/hoodriver/ or http://www.mcmc.net/ or http://www.skylinehospital.com/

I bought the fiberglass shaft Nanga Parbat because it was the strongest axe on the market, but also the heaviest. but that was when I was still packing in a cast iron skillet to cook breakfast.

I would offer $100- for the "decorative alpenstock" if you're interested in selling it Zalmen.

I will let those guys post up. All i can say is it must have been wild, as they were a little shaky all day. They kept saying, we don't care if there is no ice, we are just happy to be here and breathing. We did about 7 routes, and poor Justin got talked him into leading this crack climb and then old Steve forgot to give him a 2 inch cam for the crux. So he had in this crappy Alien and horrible cam, neither would have held body weight, and he was looking at a bad fall, but he manned up and powered thru it as by that time it was to late to reverse the moves to get the right gear. I was a little upset, as I got all sweaty belaying.

Looks like a 60's ice ax to me. I have a ice ax by Stubai I bought new in 1974. Heres the photo. Bill already taunted me about it in an other thread, which I think means he would like to get his hands on it.Ha!

Speaking of driving in the Gorge, Justin and Kenny did a new route yesterday that they called "Air Bag Deployment".

Was climbing with Kenny and Justin Friday. We tried to find ice and ended up on rock. such is life. it as good to be outside and even the sun came out in the afternoon. Yes Larry, tear it up man! We are all jealous. There is already about 6 inches of new snow at my house this morning, so prospects for more climbing in the near future are out the door.

If you don't buy it, I would buy it! How much?

Quinn Conig

I hear ya man. Like El Potero Chico........in January.

ok, I give 3 votes.

Wow, close call!

Actually its more then a walking stick from the Alps. Hiking sticks(not walking sticks which are canes) from the Alps are a collectible item in their own right and quite different. I have imported and sold many of them in my business. They are not normally outfitted with a head like this, and the shaft has little tin emblems of events or villages or hikes that the hiking stick has been on. This looks like a specialized tool for snow travel and could definitly be called a ice ax, especially if the head is attached in a secure fashion. sometimes a hiking staff may have a ice ax head attached but in such a flimsy or non secure fashion that is it ever was put into use to self arrest it would blow apart. To me this is what truely differeniates the hiking ax from the ice ax, and also the quality of the head casting with the logos show it is a serious alpine tool.

Go for the adventure. You will never regret it.

I called Plaidman on his cell and he was hanging off a microstopper heading up the Flying Dutchman between cloudburts. Wildman.

Sweet!

Sparky the Electrician, a.k.a., AW neener neener! I thought it was BillCoe's alter ego till recently though... I thought King Beatard was the first man ever.

Nice and rad!

Offwhite, Potter may have used tick marks and may have rehearsed moves(why not, hes making a movie), but in my mind he ranks up there with Peter Croft and now Alex Honnold as the top rock soloists the world has ever seen. I'm really not sure how he "inflates his achievements" as you say? Anyone that solos Astroman has balls of steel. Teh Delicate Arch thing was the one lame thing he did i was disappointed in. Everybody makes mistakes though.

I think if you pick and choose, base jumping can be almost as safe as climbing. Chris Mac, Dean Potter, Steph Davis, the list of rad climbers who basejump is growing. Potter's fall off the Eiger which he turned into a base jump was ground breaking if you think about it. We'll be seeing allot more of that kind of thing in the future. I would love to learn to base jump. Time and money and equipment investment is what it takes.