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Bad start at the Vic-Maui...?

THE BEST PART OF YOU RAN DOWN THE CRACK OF YOUR MOMMA'S ASS AND ENDED UP AS A BROWN SPOT ON THE MATTRESS!!!! FIVE NINE??!! I DIDN'T KNOW THEY STACKED SHIT THAT HIGH!! YOU TRYING TO SQUEEZE AN INCH IN ON ME, BOY??!! YOU'RE THE KIND THAT WOULD FUCK A GUY IN THE ASS AND NOT EVEN HAVE THE GODDAMN COMMON COURTESY TO GIVE THAT GUY A REACH-AROUND!! I'LL BE WATCHIN' YOU!! GAWD, that scene is just plain hilarious!!

Shit, we all know Kurt's popular, but hey...

with that mentality would lead to banning that famous SNL skit with Eddie Murphy... ...I C I L L my landlord... Or that other famous SNL skit from an earlier time, with Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase... CC: Jungle Bunny... RP: Cracker! CC: Nig-ger... RP: White Trash!!

arch, We used the following outfit for getting our VN VISAs: Travel Document Systems, Inc. One Embarcadero Center, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94111 888-874-5100 415-773-2829 We FedEx-ed them our passports, the fee, with pre-paid return FedEx, and they were back in about 10 days or so.

AH! Motorcycle bandits and passport wallets! Carry your passport inside your shirt, not on the outside! My wife almost had hers ripped off her neck by a passing motorcycle bandit. They're very skilled at this. Beware! Other than that isolated instance, we hever had a worry about crime while there.

Don't miss Ha Long Bay. You'll never forget it. Don't miss Quan 1 of Saigon, You'll never forget it. Don't miss the beaches around Phan Tiet. You'll regret it. Cuchi tunnels are cool, too (Viet Nam War stuff). I'm sure Angkor Wat is on your list for Cambodia...? Suggested reading before departure: Catfish and Mandala, Andrew X. Pham, 2000 Survival in the Killing Fields, Hang S. Ngor/Roger Warner, 2003 (very sad epilogue...) And of course, the Lonely Planet guides... All available at fine bookstores near you... PM me for add'l info, or ask here. I've "favorite"-ed this thread. We were there for about a month, so I'm sure I'll remember other bits and pieces as time allows.

Begin thread drift There is some pretty good climbing around Ha Long Bay, and possibly other places, but it never panned out for us on either trip, as "family building" was the primary purpose and the paper-chase with that effort proved too difficult and time-consuming to ever separate from it long enough for climbing to become an option. The Skinner website would probably be your best bet for info, cuz I can't speak from personal experience here. Linky End thread drift We now return this thread to archenemy.

Arch, We adopted our first kid from Viet Nam, and made two trips there. You can get a VISA without a guarantee letter. Send your passport to the San Francisco passport agency office with your VISA application to get an in-country VISA before you leave. It won't take more than a month, but get on it now. I can get you contact info if you need it. FYI, if you get to Tan Son Nhut (if you're flying into Saigon/HCMC and not Hanoi) and you need to change your VISA for some reason, don't stand around in the airport looking st00pid, because no one's going to help you, and unless you speak Vietnamese, you're gonna be there for awhile. There is a small office off to the right of the entry/check-in lines, where for $10-$20 US you can get your VISA changed, modified, or amended. Trust me on this, I know... BTW, why the trip? Climbing? Beach lounging? Conversion to Buddhism?

Very good news, indeed. Carry on, Kurt!

I first met Kurt last fall at Rope-Up. I have to say, he and I had a laughing-our-asses-off-rolling-in-the-dirt good time setting up for the slideshow and getting the fires going. We never shared a brew we didn't like. Here's to you, Kurt, and a very speedy full recovery.

I have done both at various times in the past, and I did both once in the same month of the same year (June 1991), so I would expect snow conditions to be similar that year for the two mountains. I found Adams Glacier to be a straight-forward, casual climb at that time, with one other partner. We did not take a second tool, but we used running belays (2 points per lead) and simul-ed the steep parts. We only stopped to hand off pickets to each other/swing the lead. It seemed to me like it was never steeper than 45 degrees. There was no schrund in June of 1991. We did not bivy. Earlier that same month, I, with the same partner and another, did LR as a team of three. We shared a second tool (whoever was in the lead got the ice axe), and bivied at Thumb Rock. There was a schrund. This trip seemed harder, most likely because our team ended up short-roping a couple of Coloradoans and a Californian to the LC summit. They had overestimated themselves, and underestimated the route. We picked them up just below the Black Pyramid and escorted them the rest of the way up. Summary: Adams Glacier was easier. YMMV. And every descent I have made from the north side of Adams has been down the NR. I would never want to have to ascend it, though...

I'm plenty into joking. Here, see fer yerself... I'll grant your prayer, Marty, but then I'm gonna make it rain for a month and a half. Smite all of you mofos. Oh yeah, and them fuckin' unicorns, too. WTF was I thinking when I created them... Oh, and I raised my mama from the dead, too.

Where'd that come from? And just so you don't feast on your foot again, my mother is dead, asshole.

Hi, Kurt. Mine wasn't a comment about style. It was a comment about how nearly every thread on this board ultimately descends into name-calling, parentage slander, and a questioning of one's anscestry. Steve was making an attempt to reverse the trend. IMHO, reasonable.

And there you have it, folks... pindude, the Voice of Reason in the cacaphony that is cc.com. Steve, I take it you're back home in Mead again? Sorry we couldn't hook up when you were in Yakivegas. Carry on!

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He's planning on rapping with it. A sheet bend, double or not, employed as a rap knot would be suicide, IMHO. WTF is wrong with a good ol' double fisherman's? I've been using it for over 20 years, I never back it up with extra frilly things on the tails, and I'm not dead. Werx 4 me.

No, that's the Cabella's version you're thinking of...

Several years ago, I think I may have come across your friend, andy. He/she was coiled up in the mottled shade at the base of the Nick Cave Variations. A h-u-g-e sucker of a rattler! I was already on route by the time he started buzzing at my belayer, and she was understandably "annoyed" at the presence of such a beast... Nevertheless, she was true to climbing tradition and stuck it out until I completed the route, but I fear she paid a lot more attention to that snake than to me...

Now I have to wonder, how does a horse farmer know so much about how dynamite explosions sound one kilometer distant? Put a microphone in front of someone, and all of a sudden, everybody's a fuggin' expert, eh?

Tiblocs are designed for cords of 8 mm to 11 mm (inclusive) in diameter, according to the literature included with the device. It is also inscribed upon the device itself (at least mine is). According to the source linked in my previous post, Jumars are designed to operate on cords of between 6 mm and 14 mm (inclusive) in diameter. This could explain why your Jumars hold better on thinner ropes.

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Years ago in college, when it didn't matter what I looked like cuz I didn't have a job anyway , I got my beard caught in my Sticht plate. That was the end of my "Z Z Top" beardage...

IG, That is so damn funny I almost filled my trowzerz! Is it really true, or is that a joke someone told you on the plane?