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Handbrake worked fine for me. Stuck all my kids Diego videos on an ipod to keep them happy while camping. Once you install Handbrake though you also have to install a seperate de-encrypting application. You sorta have to read between the lines to figure this out. Reason being it's illegal to burn DVDs even if you actually purchased the DVD. Handbrake gets around this somehow by offering only part of the process. Sounds sketchy but it works fine and seem legit.

Scottsdale? Like in Phoenix? Look for the guys in pink panties. They might be able to help you But if you run across Sheriff Joe you should probably just keep your mouth shut.

Thats a lot of hand drilling for one day! Nice work.

It's called a cooler

Just turned my 4 used offset aliens into 6 brand new offset Master Cams and a Link Cam to boot. Works for me! I was never fully convinced of the superiority of Aliens so we'll see how many of these "10%" placements I run into. Guess that's what my z-tons and sawed-offs are for!

New to most everyone I bet, me included. Freakin Scary. Interesting hypothesis made elswhere was that the victim potentially clip the biner through the middle of the sling to help bunch it up a bit on the side of the harness, hence the reason they both failed.

I'm sure by most measures she is a very skilled sailor with a level head but 16 yrs old is 16 yrs old. Much like the 13 yr old off to do the seven summits, there is the intractable reality of time such the the rush to be "the youngest person ever to" coorelates somewhat with "the least experienced person ever to". I hope she's ok. I can't imagine how helpless and awful her parents must feel. Certainly I can't imagine why you would ever allow someone so young to do something so committing and dangerous.

But a Master Cam is substantially narrower than an Alien in the sizes that matter. My set of 4 alien offsets is your's for $420. Apparently I just never got it.

:lmao: Frequently it seems like they believe their job is to keep you from enjoying the park at all...

I've always been amused (appalled?) by how many alpine trips the local guiding outfit would book for the month of June in the Cascades. How many of those clients sold on beautiful blue sky pics of Mount Baker flew all the way out here knowing just how miserable the weather would in all likelyhood be?

I've got a set of Offset Aliens I'm thinking of selling so I just looked at completed listings on Ebay WHOAAA!!! 3 aliens for $420 (140! each) 5 aliens for 610 (122 each) 3 for $300 1 black for 98.50 So basically a 100+ each. Might just post them up.

Jesus still loves you Rob.

What I found interesting was how... 1) a very factual account of what happened was posted on the internet. 2) family members came online looking for information 3) family members found information, then asked for it to be removed because it wasn't the sort of information they wanted to hear. The internet if anything is a vast bastion of unfiltered information. Seems like a lot of people struggle with that.

Now of course there are also three dead bears....

WTF is up with those bears in Yosemite? Not enough berries or something?

If you dig around the TR section for a really old report from Forrest Murphy he apparently climbed the n ridge of the n peak from the west side at 5.8ish. He seemed unimpressed but maybe that was because his ambitions fir the west face were thwarted.

The Skoog Route is gone. A big white scar remains. I thought the SW Face/Buttress of the Main Peak looked beautiful even if it's only 5.6. I know a guy who climbed it and raved about it. The north ridge of the North Peak is really spectacular as well. (I rappelled it) 5.8? maybe a pendulum move? Not sure how you'd get on it. But definitely worth investigating. South Ridge of South Peak is ok and something to do if you're in there. Couple short high quality sections, one scary-ass step across and a bunch of mediocre looseness.

It's reminiscent of when the Adventure Race came to Darrington and they placed a shit ton of bolts on Blueberry Hill to rig jumar/rappel lines. Presumable these people are not "evil" or callous or totally indifferent. I'd guess the perspective is probably something like "well climbers need their bolts for climbing and movie producers need there bolts for movie producing and adventure racers need their bolts for adventure racing"

The website Rat posted is real interesting shit http://hunzalandslide.blogspot.com/ BIG landslide damned river. BIG lake has now formed behind the dam. A hastily excavated spillway was dug. Today is the day that the newly formed lake rises high enough to drain down the spillway. As it drains it's going to dig the spillway deeper. The question is will it be a steady and somewhat controlled process or will there be a catastrophic blowout.

I think if you go to rcnw.net you'll be able to find the entire mini-guide to Spring Mountain. Nice place.

I love hating on that guy.

All hail the great TheOatmeal

I don't know much about the Alaska Range but 12 hours up an apparently technical route on Mount Bradley sounds like some..."MAJOR HAULING FUCKING ASS!!!" Am I mistaken? How many pitches are thrown in there? Then to turn it around a day later and climb Ham & Eggs in a huge day! Wow! Thats some serious instant recovery! WTF are you eatin up there?

The Supertopo suggestion is probably more or less right on with the exception of recommending camhooks. I brought them and never used them and never felt the need to. There are many long, thin aid pitches on the Muir Wall section along with the Great Roof Pitch where a triple set of small cams and a double set of nuts would not go unused (though the triples in small cams might be a bit overkill). Above the Great Roof there are many long pitches that eat up larger cams, in particular the pitch before and the two pitches above Camp 6. A triple set of #2 and #3 Camalots would not go unused here at all. As well a single #4 C4. So at most triples of cams and at least doubles if you're comfortable backcleaning A LOT! I would highly recommend leaving Stoppers at home and bringing just DMM Offset nuts. Maybe from a #3 Brassie up to the #11 Al. Bring a double set, particularly of the Al if you've got them. Offset Aliens or MasterCams in the smallest 3 or 4 sizes are very useful as well, though I doubt it would be a show stopper without them. We had most of a set of Link Cams which I gorw more and more fond of for easy aid. They really allow you to punch it and spend less time worrying about running out of the right size gear. Piles of draws and some new tieoff webbing and you'll be good to go. Youths????? If we're young you must be in the old folks home!

A bunch of my coworkers like to gather round and ogle cigar catalogs. It always weirds me out. Road-trippin to Europe looks so sweet!