Gunkiemike

Anything left?

Your CL ad is no longer available. Do you have any 10 cm screws to sell?

Oo, sorry I didn't see this sooner. YES, I still have it. I'm sending you a PM with my Paypal ID.

You can blend it off in your car's gasoline tank. Just pour in a pint or so then fill with gasoline as usual. It won't hurt anything (Source - I was Texaco's Mgr of Fuel Tech Support). In the winter you can up that to a quart per tankful. If you'd rather use it in something like a lawn mover, you can go as high as 1:4 Coleman:gasoline.

New in the original package. Cascade B rated pick for the first gen. Quarks and Ergo Quarks. Does NOT fit Nomic or new Quark. Hard to find any more, but here's one for less than original retail. Only regret is I don't have a pair to sell you. $35 + 5 for US shipping. Canadian shipping by quote.

Hey, on the off chance there's anyone still using first generation Quarks (or the Ergo Quarks) and needs new picks - you know that none of the Petzl tools use the same pick and that the original (Cascade) picks are all but unavailable anywhere. Well with a bit of work (one hole to drill and 2 minutes with a hacksaw) you can fit CAMP Awax picks to the Quark. They are a perfect match for pick length and angle and, being a smaller cross section, they penetrate ice "like buttah". I removed the hammer from my Quark, and don't miss it, but if you're a machinist I imagine you could mill out the Awax pick to allow the hammer/adze to stay in place. Best part - the Awax picks are still in stock at CAMP/Cassin and are selling for $15. At that price how can you not give it a try?

As others have said, for freeheel skiing in Silvretta just don't lock the heel down. But I took it one step further - since I basically only need a nordic-style ski for fire road approaches to ice climbs, I didn't even mount the heel pieces. There's your weight savings!

Partner left it on the roof of the car. It's an Elph in a ratty black case. Modest reward. Pls reply to this same post on mountainproject if you find it, as I don't come to this site as often. Hell, I don't go to ANY site as often as I'm on mtproj!

Thread Revival... are you still looking for Woodpeckers? I know someone who will be looking to sell his pair fairly soon (i.e. as soon as he decides what his next tool will be).

Maybe it's too long because you tend to repeat yourself. (Sorry, trying to be funny. Sux that you can't post it)

Just to update - the ice season is DONE in the NE.

The Ice Hawk, perhaps? http://www.cascadedesigns.com/msr/history

First legal climb perhaps. But it has been climbed before by people I know.

I think Smiley's got bought out by Omega Pacific. OP made screws for a while that looked a lot like the old Smiley's screws. Just to keep this history going... those older OPs had the worst plating I've ever seen. It would flake off and the roughness if left behind made the screws signif. more difficult to screw in. No amount of emery cloth polishing seemed to fix it. Then they switched to the gold hanger design, and the problem went away. This was about the time that folks were ditching their BD screws for the faster-starting Grivel 360s so the gold OPs went unloved. They left the market at $30 a piece which was a screaming good deal because they were every bit as good as the BDs. Better in fact that the BD Turbos. And then along came the silver hanger BDs and the pendulum swung back.

Given your oh-so-certain but 100% INCORRECT response, your sig line is particularly appropriate.

Never saw a hanger that shape on any BD screw. Smileys and the early Omegas look exactly like that, and they were widely sold.

There's only 1 bolt holding the pick on the old Fusions. Same as every other BD ice tool for the last 10+ years.

yes, jest only. I have no problem with who's pokin' who, as long as they make the world a better place. sickie Humor or not, that use of the word "gay" has become the epitome of low-level gay-bashing. It is seriously demeaning to the gay population. Please be more considerate. (Can you tell I'm fresh out of Diversity Training Class at work?)

A professional guide has to have some kind of credentials, AMGA is just the most common system. If you're in the game long-term, you'll be expected to progress through the cert. ranks, and if you're paying for the training/exams/dues/recerts/first aid cert/etc yourself, it can get quite expensive (five figures). The pay isn't good, as others have mentioned. It can pay the bills for a single in their 20's, but it simply will not cover a mortgage and living expenses for a family of 4, with a bit to set aside for the kids' college and your eventual retirement. Finally, guiding is about sharing your love and enthusiasm for what you do with others, more than it is about actual climbing. If you think your head would explode if you had to spend 3-5 days a week watching Boy Scouts badly belay each other (while you explain how to do it for the upteenth time), then guiding isn't for you. Fortunately, it's not that hard to break into and try it for a couple years, assuming you have a suitable climbing background and a cordial personality.

I've caught some pretty high factor leader falls on my belay device (that I picked up on the ground under a popular gumbie-thon multipitch route). Not disasters so far.

I have a couple large wiregate Wild Country biners on my harness. A rubber band from the broccoli and some lashing with thick nylon cord and they've been great. Large enough to hang my Quarks off even with a screw or two in there. I've seen too many broken BD clippers to trust them for much.