dalius

Hump de hump hump hump.

Bitches ain't nuthin' but bitches!

Good times were had last night. Hey, MattP, whatever happened to you last night? I thought you never missed a night of drinking with hapless climbing fools! Gotta love them personal pitchers.

Ha! That's a funny story. I can totally picture it. What shall we drink to, I know, this litho guy on this crazy chatboard in seattle! Hahahah! Dar po 100 gramu! Dalius is pretty common in Lietuva, but is totally UNcommon. ie non-existent, amongst Lithuanian-Americans. Go figure. dalius

Sorry man. shouldn't have said nuthin. pizdec!

Pizdec! Good one

Gapertimmy has gotta get the award for PowderHound of the year. Day after day after day all we read is how this dude is out getting in some sweet turns while the rest of us suckahs are busy thinking of wet rock and drier times ahead. Here's to getting more turns than anyone else in the PNW! You !

Is it still snowing on the Sandy headwall?

glad to hear you finally got it in the bag, stebbi. solid work.

For $30 I'll make a rug out of it for ya. Makes a great doormat.

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Cheater's stick on Liberty Crack!?! No way! I second Erik and say go out there and discover. I don't think the crux is at the roof though, isn't it more like the aiding between the 2 cracks on the pitch after the roof? Anybody know how often those bashies are known to come out? It seems like it would be a good idea to take a bashie or two and throw a hammer in the bag just in case you get there are they're gone or you rip one out.

Was looking to get on this route soon and was wondering what conditions were like. A quick search 'round here didn't reveal anything.

Here are some hilarious links for you slackers... POO ART Exploding cans of Poo (artist quoted: "I hope these cans explode in the vitrines of the collectors.") and Children's art critique Back to work.

I say ship that shit to New York ASAP!! I'm sure those suckers will totally eat it up. I can just see it... ...My, what a brilliant work of art by that Soandso artist. It so well represents man's struggle on this planet and his quest for the true meaning of life. We New Yorkers are so fortunate to have this blessed installation grace our park, the best park in the world, in the best city in the world. We are number one, nothing is better than New York, we are the center of the universe!!!...

I think the key word here is supposed

Preparation for some sort of Burning Man gig?

Climbed the NBC Sat, 5/3. The weather was perfect. Forcast called for rain/snow and thunderstorms, but ended up being a pretty damn fine day, with lots of sunshine. You could see the clouds/storms breaking up to the west of Stuart. The hike in was over solid hard snow. I was surprised to see that even Colchuck Lake was still frozen over and completely walkable. Don't know exacly when we started going up the NBC, but topped between 10 & 11? The NBC proper was pretty rock solid snow and ice in the lower half, with softer, but till hard snow in the upper half. The rock step 1/3 way up couloir that could be a problem later in the season is still cover in snow and ice, so you don't have to go over rock (yet). Conditions were completely different once on the north face section. There was lots of fresh unconsolidated snow, don't know from when. I imagine that snow takes a long time to age up there. I think the sketchiest part of the climb was right after starting across and up this face, you had to step across some exposed sloping rock with little ice, snow for purchase, directly above some cliffs. You'd be so fucked if you slipped. Was surprised to find the little bit of rock climbing at the very top. Made the route a little more interesting. All in all a great alpine experience, in one of the coolest settings in the cascades. The views from all parts of this climb are amazing. This was my first time on snow/ice that steep, and I had a blast. I highly recommend it for novice snow/ice folks. The descent wasn't that great. I was expecting a long stellar glissade back down to the lake, but the snow was a weak crust over soft snow. All glissading effort was stopped by constant punching through the crust. Closer to the lake every step was a posthole and is very slow going. The hike out was definitely harder in softer conditions. We were punching through things left and right that we walked right over in the frozen morning. Start and finish as early as possible.

Today's story Climber to get prosthetic arm Monday, May 5, 2003 Posted: 10:21 AM EDT (1421 GMT) MOAB, Utah (AP) -- Thirteen park rangers lugged equipment into Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah and lifted an 800-pound boulder that had trapped a mountain climber until he amputated his arm with a pocketknife. After hiking three miles to the remote canyon Sunday, the crew was able to lift the egg-shaped boulder and push it into a space where it fit securely. The rangers also recovered the arm of Aron Ralston, who was pinned for five nights before cutting off his arm below the elbow with a pocketknife on Thursday. Ralston, 27, hiked out of the canyon for help and remained hospitalized in fair condition in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was to undergo surgery Monday to close the wound in preparation for a prosthetic arm. His parents say his spirits remain high. On Sunday, the rangers slung the chalkstone rock with 2-inch webbing and moved it up about 11/2 feet until they found a spot where it could fit, said river ranger Steve Young. A grip hoist, a type of strong winch that uses half-inch steel cable, was used to pull the boulder up. Hydraulic jacks were placed on top of wooden cribbing on the floor of the narrow canyon. The jacks were used to push the boulder up and keep it from getting caught on the craggy canyon wall. The rock apparently had fallen about 2 feet when it trapped Ralston, Young said. The lower portion of Ralston's right arm was recovered Sunday and taken to a mortuary, said Young, who helped move the boulder. It took about two hours to lift the rock and push it into a new spot. It is still possible the boulder will move again, Young said. The narrow canyon is prone to flash flooding whenever it rains, and the water could sweep it away. Sunday was the second time rangers attempted to recover the arm; a previous attempt Friday was unsuccessful.

Don't mess around with anything but Old Style. Simply the best...

No, not something you'd ever expect. I've never ever heard of such a thing. Sounds like some sort of freak accident for sure. Sorry to hear about your friend TTT. Damn.

Last I checked, bouldering doesn't require setting up anchors and rapping off. Sounds like he was climbing.

Just go to any drugstore in Canada and ask the Pharmacist. When I bought 'em they weren't on the main shelves probably because of theft from addcits I'm guessing. My only gripe about those T3's is that while they've got the codein, they've also got CAFFEINE in them to offset that great drowsey opiate feeling you get from codein. Bastards! You have to be careful with that stuff though, because although the codein isn't dangerous (pretty hard to OD on that stuff), the Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is pretty toxic and you can destroy your liver pretty easily. Same deal with Percocet. That shit rocks this world, but can't take too much because of the Tylenol it's got in it.

Ever here of the English chap who tried to climb the north side of Everest back in the 30's(??), with nothing but "God's Will" on his side? I read about this in some book of short essays about soloing. He showed up with nothing but his boots and maybe an ice axe, some wool knickers, not much else. He brought NO FOOD or DRINK!!! This guy thought that he could survive on air alone, and if it was God's Will then he's make it to the summit. Can you say Looney Tunes? Needless to say, the guy went up and never returned. Supposedly his body was found and thrown in a crevasse, but even the mountain doesn't want his sorry ass! The crevasses keep spitting him out and I guess he's been thrown and rethrown into many crevasses over the years. Mountain Gods don't want that shit though. True story. Sometimes Darwinism does indeed work.