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Come on Garry. Obviously everything's been rigged in the photo. She has perfect hair, no sign of sweat, and her gear is totally unused. Like duh My only interest is in the quality of the photo of the hot chick with gear. If your ever over at my place I'll show you my Stihl calender. Hot chicks with chainsaws...now we're really talking. Annabelle eat your heart out.

Norman, All of the first year Tri-steps were recalled. Look into it. If they give you grief talk to Scott at Pro Ski.

You'll drive right to the camping area, which is in pine trees. There's a 99.99% chance you will be camping on dirt and pine needles. ****************** BEER ALERT!!!!! There will be beer provided as part of the function. More details later ****************** note: A smart camper always brings their own beer in case of an emergency.

This one is my favorite so far.

Thank you Cracked. I take back all the bad things I've said about you...till next time...

Hey, Mayor McCheese, the link was added simply to underscore the source, and help people poke around if they wanted to. DFA bought the mag, and assumed that if other people did so, they'd comment. You can either be a whiny cheapskate and be shut out of this grand thread, or pony up six bucks for a choice ish of the RandI. Or, shit, go down to your local big box bookseller and lurk in an uncomfortable chair while you read it for free. For an alpinista, you're not very resourceful. Shit. Let me rephrase: While the one article might be worth reading. The economics of spending my money or wasting my valuable time are not worth the negative aspects that exude like a black aura from each copy of R&I.

That's my only interest in her . Can someone please post some more pictures of her fondling gear.

You have to subscribe to read the article I'm not going to subscribe to that piece of shit mag for one article.

In 1971 I believe GW was snorting coke, evading real military service, going AWOL from the National Gaurd, and living off his daddy's name and money. I think I'll vote for Kerry.

I suggest bringing your own supply of ethanol, just to be prepared, however some of the evil moderators are working on a sponsored supply of ethanol. The event will start friday evening and continue through sunday. Our host, David Parker, will post some directions to the spot and the basic ground rules for hanging out on his property. I'll post more info by the begining of next week.

OMFG if you go on like this at Pub Club you'll either make people or want to you.

I think tying into the waist and leg loops is safe enough for anyone... loved or unloved. The person you ran into at the crag was either an instructor or a recent grad of the mounties or some equivalent group. I run into folks like that now and again. It's best to either ignore them and make fun of them later or else make fun of them to their face if the mood strikes you.

So where is the Two Bells?

Chuck...you don't have to be on drugs to appreciate cool looking trees. Poop. You've missed my point which is that destruction of vegetation is in many cases worse for the overall environment than bolting. It takes hundreds of years for soil to form and build up on ledges and cracks, and it takes longer for bonsai trees to grow. In the same time period I bet the natural weathering processes that effect rock will remove most if not all traces of bolting.

I kind of think that the damage bolts do to rock has a minimal environmental impact compared to the damage climbers do to cliffside vegitation. I know we've discussed this before, and I know that vegitation moves back into an areas on the west side that climbers neglect, but an old stunted tree like the one I'm talking about would take hundereds of years to regrow and get all funky and cool looking.

So we did some climbing at Mt Erie today. I lead a pitch that ended up at a ledge with this cool half dead juniper. Instead of tying off the tree I clipped a nice new set of bolts. In my view the bolted station is reducing the impact of humans on this tree. There's such a big deal placed on how bolts screw up the rock, but all things considered these bolts are actually improving the environment.

I can see where Bob's coming from. Take thin fingers. On top rope Thin Fingers seems pretty easy, yet it's much harder on lead. The main point that I would disagree with you Bob is that the learning curve clipping bolts is much gentler than the learning curve placing gear on a trad route. If you're good at placing anchors on a trad climb then grades may very well be a wash between trad and sport.

As far as Trad climbing goes. Chimney Rock is fairly close by and that's crack central. Day skiing around Schwitzer and White Water are super duper. I've never been to 49 degrees N, but I bet that could be fun. There's bc skiing around. I would agree that the urban scene probably sucks, but I'm sure you could find some fun in town stuff.

So you're saying it's too advanced for you.

I'm afraid I forgot about the show till shitacowski ask me if I was going there. It was too late by then as I'd made other plans. Plus all these UW shows always sound like they're for students and if you ain't one your chances of getting in are slim.

You guys want to see some fucked up shit I'll show you my big toenail sometime. I've also got bald spots on my shins that never grow hair. What's up Paul!

I have a double rack of camalots, and I see a lot of other folks with camalots.

This morning I made a bulk download into my toilet.

There's no I in team but there is an m e

So don't buy em if you don't like them.