Alex

Swiftsure on my own boat for the first time.

"..but dont recruit our children!" http://www.komotv.com/stories/36242.htm Here is a proposal for you: -- if we are going to continue to foster the idea that our society can use military force to further our country's agenda on a global scale, I would like to see mandatory military active duty for all young American's, both men and women, for at least one year after high school graduation. (Thereafter the soldiers must remain as reservists for a period of time.) I believe that if parents are confronted with sending their own children, not just the (predominantly poor) children of their neighbors, into the combat zones that are created out of our society's consumer-driven need to drive SUVs and snort some blow, people might start thinking much harder about the officials they elect and the foreign policy decisions those officials make. Until that day that your own children sign up for active duty and go to some place like Iraq, the little yellow ribbons on your trucks are a slap on the face to ever serving member of the armed forces. Peace out

"Mt. Rainier, considered the premier technical ice climb in the Lower 48" Wow, cancel my trip to Cody!!

hmmm, last I heard Seperate Reality was not a sport climb?

Eldo is fairly easy to spot, as are Boston/Sahale and Buckner areas. The thing that seems a little off to me is Logan, and Johannesburg looks weird. Oh I see it now, its looks alot more diminuative than Formidible directly behind it..

whew, now I don't feel as dorky with my walker knowing there are others...

These are all Americans and Brits. No doubt much more talented than I will ever be, however the only candidates you'll throw out there are the climbers you read about in the rags? There are a ton of very hardman slovenian, polish, Euro and non-Euro climbers out there who were (or are) either on par or even light years ahead of the American and Canadian heros. If you look carefully, the "climbing partners" of some of the individuals you've mentioned on most of the recent real notable alpine accomplishments have been Euro or non-North American climbers: Silvo Karo, Marko Preijic (sorry to butcher names), etc. I am surprised no one has mentioned the likes of Fritz Wiessner (clearly one of the all-time greats), Messner, some of the very competant French and german alpinists like Erhard Lorehtan or Christophe Profit, or how about Janez Jeglic, Jerzy Kukucka? All these people are as or more accomplished than Alex Lowe. There are alot of climbers that climb really hard 5.13/5.14, do crazy stuff in the himalayas and patagonia, etc.. but are not featured in Climbing magazine and don't write self-evangelizing pieces in Alpinist and Climbing.

dont forget the pair of Boreal Aces he wore when doing the Nose..I hear that Nose thing is granite too!

last time i did lions chair, it had bolts at the cruxes

wow, that sucks! Vantage is cheap to camp (free) and currently dry dude, go send it

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great link!

Glad to know homie's alright. Getting hurt climbing sucks period, doesnt matter who you are. Sat: Spanked and shut down at Vantage climbing 5.4s. Sun: Took the plunge and ordered my Quark Ergos, watched rain, met a good friend in the PCC parking lot where we chatted it up, went to work for a few hours, mowed lawn, played Thrones and Patriots, ate junk food.

The new snow wont bond up there in April unless it gets baking hot for a couple weeks. If its activly snowing immediately before or while you are on route the slopes above Thumb and the entire nw bail slope below Thumb are big slides waiting to happen. The bail slope has some cracks that you can jump unroped while careening full speed downhill with full pack trying to beat the storm back to the Carbon.

drilling and chipping is aid

yeah but on that note I've seen alot of climbers with "15 years experience" do some really stoopid inexcusable shit, then pull the "I've got the experience card" on questioning comrades just to shut them up, and I've also seen climbers with only 1 or 2 years experience run complete circles around their "elders" in terms of competence, speed, and safety, so the truth is you just never know. Best to watch, learn, stay alive long enough to be able to judge for yourself and tell stories to your grandkids

Yes, they streach alot, and your sizing is right on. I wear a 42.5 and wear a 41 mythos (my first pair was 41.5 but streached too much too fast and became sloppy). At first they will be exceptionally tight, and painful. You will want to get out of them after only one pitch. Get out of them whenever you can, and do not wear them when not climbing to "streach them out", as they will streach on their own very quickly, within 6 months of purchase with weekend use. I am now on my 3rd pair not including resoles. Fantasic all around shoe.

I have only done the route once (in April) but the recent snows we've gotten should help things out some. I don't think its madness to try Sandy Headwall in May. This route regularly gets climbed into the summer.

Thanks. I have not had one either in probably 3 or 4 years, however I saw one last night on a Windows 2000 machine. From what I've seen the code quality has improved vastly over the course of the last several OS releases, using NT4 as a baseline. I still see freaky stuff sometimes on all OS versions, usually when 1) playing DirectX games or 2) using peripherals that have buggy drivers or 3) messing around with not-completely-thought-through C++ code I like Linux though, if you think its for the elite now, you probably didn't try it 5 or 6 years ago. I think companies like RedHat etc have come a long way in making this particular type of OS accessible to normal users.

the odds are actually pretty good, canadian chix are hott! I love the aussie lilt, too

7.5 mm

This sounds very low calorie to me, certainly not 6000. I classically underpack for food, on almost all trips I have to mooch off climbing partners to avoid starving it seems, but even I would be throwing in a couple more items to this list.

2 pounds of GU and cookie dough per day sounds like enough calories to me.

Windows also has problems with strange hardware (like older slide scanners, for example). The issue is often the OEM drivers that come bundled with the OS, not the OS itself.

the fact that it actually might be dry this time of year...