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how did this site come into existence? I've always wondered...

I haven't sent it to my friends at dartmouth, I think they already know, also I still remember when I was a little kid and for some reason or other my cousin told me and my friends that we were "just stupid public school kids". They're from a super rich suburb of minneapolis. My friend next door in the dorms here worked at their country club last summer and had to lie because they don't allow jews or black people. I'm not saying that my cousins are horrible stuck up rich fucks, because they are not. However they come from a very different background and have some of those airs about them.

I may come off as a douche (hell, I may be a douche!) but I'm nothing compared to some of the frat guys I know. I have one buddy here who I think is hilarious and love hanging out with but he is the definition of "bro". Last week he told me about the previous nights party. he and one of his friends wanted to see which one could get a girl to scream loudest so they both grabbed a chick (his was the hotter one) and took them into rooms opposite each other in the hallway. His brothers stood outside as judges and listened to them have sex. He assured me that he won this "competition". I had no response other than "nice bro!". I would never put my testicles on one of my friends, although I do on occasion play the penis showing game (watch the movie "waiting" for the rules on that one).

Give this article a read, I have a cousin and a couple friends from highschool at dartmouth and this honestly worries me. Why anyone would submit to stuff like this is completely and totally beyond me, even if they were shit wasted. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/confessions-of-an-ivy-league-frat-boy-inside-dartmouths-hazing-abuses-20120328?print=true

I was bummed that thread got deleted, I posted inflammatory stuff, went to class, and when I logged back it had all vanished. Come on guys, this stuff is all I have to live for during midterms.

http://nobolts.blogspot.com/2012/02/home-training-center.html You're in a frat too? come on dude! watch out, that crack might have to be cleaned periodically of errent ejaculate after those circle jerk hazing "cerimonies" you undoubtably do every weekend.

come off it man, no one is buying your bullshit. either be a more believable dumbass so we can rip you apart or join us in belittling others.

pretty obvious he's trolling... Although if any beginning climber was pretentious enough to write off clipping bolts entirely they'd have to be from the east coast. No where else breeds douchebags in such a high concentration.

snow starting low isn't necessary a bad thing though, I've made the mistake of climbing in the olympics in late july, enough scree to last a lifetime.

jesus christ. as hayden kennedy would say, RESPECT! She must've really wanted to go

What's the snowpack looking like in the olympics this year? I'm taking some friends up rainier and want to do olympus first as I've never climbed it before and it'd be a good one to work out traveling in a rope team and practicing glacier travel with limited danger. I'm thinking mid june-early july.

got a pair of size 49s with your name on them, pm me if you're interested.

The connecting bar is not where the sabertooths have been breaking, I can totally see what you're describing there, but are there any instances of aluminum crampons breaking under the ball of the foot? The bar broke due to metal fatigue, not microfractures. If you bend a part of the aluminum crampons they are liable to break if that part is repeatedly stressed.

key word bend, not break.

I'm not a metallurgist and I've never broken a set of crampons, ss or otherwise. Still I feel like weighing in on this one. If aluminum did crack like stainless steel there would be many reports of it happening in crampons. typically when I wear my aluminum 'pons it is with a pair of lightweight and very flexible set of boots, ss 'pons I wear with baturas or some old plastics I have that are totally rigid underfoot. Even with more flexible center bars on the aluminum campons I think this speaks for itself, there is a lot more repeated stress on lightweight crampons and they never break like the stainless ones. Micro fracturing in aluminum just does not happen.

you don't actually ever fall ice climbing, the quality of screws doesn't matter.

climbed it in middle school when I was 13. After all these years I mostly just remember being really tired and in pain. Planning another trip this summer and bringing along a couple non climbing friends so they can share in the suffering. If I don't spend a day at 10k I will puke around 12, after I puke I turn around. It's just not worth going higher.

puking out yer guts and feeling like a ball peen hammer is pounding away at the back of your skull is for dumbasses.

spend a day at 10k and take the time to brush up on your glacier skills. You're out in the mountains to have fun and enjoy the experience, why not spend more time out and not risk vomiting on summit day?

reminds me of the people who have shot themselves with a glock and then blame the gun. If you depress the trigger they will fire. Bentgates are easier to clip but are also easier to come unclipped. you decide if the risk is worth the reward.

montypiton has his way of doing things and has been climbing for (far) longer then I've been alive. he's had a few fuckups along the way but is still kicking. Even though I climb with bentgates and don't use lockers on my draws I still respect how he goes about things and keep my mouth shut climbing with him. Take his advice or don't. If one of my bentgates comes unclipped and I survive the ordeal I might adopt lockers on the rope end of my draws. It hasn't happened to me yet in the 7 years I've been climbing but I have heard of it. Just be careful out there and figure out what works for you.

you can't

PM sent.

static point rocks, as does darrington. The hike into static point takes maybe a hour and a half if the road isn't gated, with the washout on the darrington road I think the approach there will be longer then that.

my lips are sealed. if you want to get out mixed groveling send me a PM. secrecy is key bro. don't want to offend any purists...