LostCamKenny

I second that... and my Kong Ghost is pretty good too!

Interesting... and how many times have you washed a rope this way, mito?

right-o! Anything you come back from - alive - is a success!

That's not a bad thing... the passive stuff is the coolest!

Seriously? Someone has scribbled arrows...as in directions of travel? Wow, I didn't realize that route required route finding skills. I'm blaming the detours..... Whenever i see a chalk arrow drawn on a route i usually add as many as three more originating from the same spot as the original arrow - one in each direction especially when i am at smiff...

What ivan and tvash said...

...and the premise was written by John Long.

Oooo, oooo, oooo... i get to be Aragorn!

"Amateurs at 12-o'clock - check yer safety!"

Why, indeed... i've seen another one of those, but its in the gorge - drilled by someone who shall remain nameless!

Kyle sure can take a picture! So can I!

Ascaphus truei - the "tailed" frog. Very kewl!

Sweet!

Looks like beautiful weather up there - good you got some before the curtain drops!

Now why would that be interesting to you, kev?

Sorry to hear about that - gettin yer shit jacked sucks! It happened to me downtown two years ago. Did you make a police report? Do this first, and then start checking craigslist and Next Adventure. Try talking to the people at NA and maybe they can inform you when something like what you had stolen comes in. Criminals are stupid and unless it was a climber without a conscience (read: someone who might keep and use your gear rather than sell it) you could see your gear again. Good luck!

Do you see what happens when you fk and stranger in the ass...!

... near the base of Ground Zero at Beacon Rock. If you lost something like this please contact me and give description of it and maybe I have what you lost!

Love it! Did you sign the register?

Two reasons: 1) the infestation of vermin is very much a reality and any climber BRAVE enough to face a chance encounter with one of the resident rats can achieve a lifelong reservation in the penthouse suite... and 2) Because the 'managers' of the 'motel' charge an absurd fee for absolutely the least service possible! Hell, the water is always cold in the bathroom and it always looks like someone has pissed on the seats...

I was under the impression that rappelling, period, twists the rope... maybe i'm wrong. Not sure I can share any insight into a rappel method that minimizes this, but what i do is after every few climbs I will lay out my rope in the living room of my place in really large loops - like from the bedroom down the hall to the kitchen or about 30 feet - and let it relax(I'll give it a beer too if it asks nicely ) . I also shake it out from my balcony, but this really irritates the old lady below me so I don't do it as often. These two things seem to work for me to get the twists out of my ropes and then when I'm climbing i have fewer twisting issues. Also, rappelling using a munter puts a devastating number of twists in your rope, so that would be something to avoid if you can...

I'm never climbing up to the ledge with you again for a beer, dude!

yeah, yeah... you're in a long list of friends that have suggested that I do so, but i am just too attached to them both to get rid of them, plus I'd never get for them what they are worth to me! I'm very sentimental about them

I own this one too, and watch it whenever i need to see a story about survival in the mountains that is truly miraculous, lucky and legendary. Joe and Simon were definitely at tremendous odds and seriously exposed there, high on Siula Grande, and managed to escape despite conditions and circumstances. To say that they were out of their league is really a matter of opinion unless you actually know them and know what their abilities were at the time of their ascent and epic descent, but the fact is that they both survived to tell the tale. My girlfriend (not a climber) watched this with me one night and asked me, "what would you have done if it had been you in either of their places?" I can't answer with any amount of certainty about this climb because I WAS NOT THERE AND I WAS NOT MAKING THE DECISIONS! It is my own opinion that the only people qualified to talk about this epic-disaster-near-tragedy are Simpson and Yates because they experienced it. Thus, the only people that can truly give an opinion on what they "would have done" are climbers who have been in a similar situation. Since this thread is looking for the hypothetical(I'm guessing) I feel compelled to actually take a stance as to what I think my actions would have been, but this is very subjective to my limited knowledge of what I know about the level of mixed climbing they were doing - which isn't a lot! I have watched it with other climbers of varying experience (and privately chuckled to myself at their talk concerning the events) and my opinion about what I would have done - taking into account that i have never experienced anything that dire - is that i would have cut the rope, too. But, again, I've never been put in that situation and I don't know how I would react - hopefully intelligently and bravely!

Good call dave... The book is much better than the movie and gives a better account of what actually happened.