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From where are you driving? Where will you enter Washington, if you aren't already living here?

It means that you can, with the proper vehicle, drive to the summit. Hence, no hiking approach whatsoever.

I stand humbly corrected. I wasn't aware that newer Bods came w/belay loops. Now I am. Carry on.

"Surf's up. I'm brown-capping."

Mountain bike: Road racer: Croozer:

So, is there a Peak Krawarik out there somewhere?

See this map. You will have to approach Darland Mtn. from the north, as the road to the southerly aspect is on the reservation. Note that the elevation is just shy of 7,000 feet, if that is of concern to you. You can drive a 4WD/high ground clearance vehicle to the summit. No hiking approach whatsoever. Have at Grant's Pub in downtown Yakivegas afterwards. They allow minors up until 9:00p pm.

Darland Mountain is not technically on the YIR, AFAIK. There is a jeep trail up to the summit, which is what our SAR outfit uses to access our repeater up there. You should not have any worries about an 8-hour round trip. I can provide more beta, but just not right now as I'm at work and without my reference materials.

Another nice thing about the Bods is they make it pretty easy to take a dump en route. Just undo the Fastex buckles on the leg loops, drop trou, and fire away. No undoing the waistbelt/crotch loop, and definitely no dropping the entire harness to get the leg loops down around your knees or ankles like some other harnesses require you to do.

JayB, Well, not exactly. My wife got pregnant twice (yes, by me, trask ), but she miscarried twice as well. We adopted our little baby boy from Vietnam after all the miscarriage shenanigans had settled down. But I would guess that I'm still "walking proof" even if my wife didn't carry to full term.

Jeezus, Doug, that's funny! And with respect to your digression... ever hear of brown-capping? Turtling?

mvs, None of the Bods have a belay loop. None of them ever did. Use the locking biner to hold the crotch loop to the waistbelt as you currently must do, but stop right there. Insert your belay device/rappel device into the solo locking biner and... voila'! Good to go. I'm curious. Why would you add the second biner to your set-up? Are you trying to achieve a 90* rotation to your device(s) for some reason?

A buddy of mine told me that he was getting a blow-job by this Asian hottie at college years ago. He had chowed down on a bunch of onion rings earlier in the day, and he was "straining the mighty strain" to keep the farts in. She was going down on with so much gusto and doing such a great job, that he finally couldn't stand it any longer, and a huge gas cloud exploded out of his ass while she was polishing his knob. "Knocked her clear across the room!" he said. She yelled a bunch of shit at him in Thai, Korean, Japanese, or sump'in, and got dressed and stormed out, with him 9/10's finished. He never got her to come back again.

Ya know, I just don't know where people come up with this crap. I have three climbing harnesses (I had four, but I gave the "size Small" to the wife - I'm getting old and fat). All are BD Bods of one variation or another, to wit: 1. Medium BD Bod with padded waistbelt for sport and summer trad climbing (when you aren't wearing a shirt or jacket - keeps the belt from chafing). 2. Large (unpadded) Alpine Bod (so it fits over extra clothing layers) for alpine climbing and glacier slogs. Stripped down to just the harness itself and the gear loops. 3. Large (unpadded) Alpine Bod for ice climbing (so you can put it on over jackets, shells, bibs, etc.). I added ice tool holsters and Trango spring-clippy-thingies for racking screws. I leave this one "as-is" because it just became too much of a PITA to remove and put back on the holsters and screw racks between climbing seasons. So I bought #2, above. ANYWAY, I have never had the problem that so many folks infer by their stated fears about the Bod. That's just all BS. Mebbe if you hang-dog on sport routes all day it could become, shall we say, unpleasant. But if you climb decently, and when you fall you get back on the rock instead of resting on the rope, there is no problem with these harnesses. It won't squash your balls unless you're seriously weighting it, so just don't weight it heavily, at least not for long periods of time. Oh, and BTW, SOMEBODY must be doing something right with these harnesses because Yvon seems to keep on making them! Now, if you wanna talk about a real ball-crusher, try out a Whillans Sit Harness (if you can still find one). That was my first harness years ago, and I used it for all of about 2 climbs before switching to the Bods. Never looked back.

And then there was this one from a thread back around last Thanksgiving...

Years ago. I had been climbing about 2 months at the time. Partner and I were climbing the granite slabs at Stone Mountain, NC over Thanksgiving break. It was getting dark, and we needed to get out of the park before the rangers locked the gates. My partner asked if I was ok to descend from the Big Ledge (about a pitch off the deck) on my own, and he was gonna hoof it on over to the car to put it on the other side of the gate. What did I know? I had easily soloed up to the big ledge earlier that day (it's about 5.4). How hard could it be to solo down? I told him I would be just fine, and asked him to take the rope with him so it wouldn't be dangling all over me on the downclimb. Well, I found out about how hard it was. After several false starts, slipping on pine needles on the descent slab, grasping desparately at meager slab holds, panting heavily, fear welling up in my guts, darkness falling rapidly and getting colder, and clutching my asshole up into my colon several times, I decided to just wait it out until Frank came back for me and led a rope back up... Frank didn't come back, but the rangers did. I ended up getting bull-horned to death by the ranger, until he shut up long enough to understand that I couldn't climb down. They finally let Frank back into the park, and he soloed up to me and we rapped off. Then I got the Lecture from the rangers. Thus ended my first solo. Never soloed again until I'd been climbing about another 10 years after that.

D'oh! Attack of the brainfarts! I remember now. Gawd, do I feel stoopid. Re: Idaho Rock, check your PMs.

Tell me how far away "on a mountain" is from Yakivegas and I'll let you know.

Yes. Never hurts, especially once you get deeper into the Selkirks where the climbs aren't visited as much as, say, Chimney Rock.

If memory serves, methinks its about 60 pages or so, if you don't want the appendices/index.

Saber, I see you've upped the ante $10, eh? As I said in my PM back to you a coupla days ago, I'd let you borrow mine, but I'd definitely want it back. You could copy it (insert copyright graemlin here) and return it, or I could arrange to have a copy of it find its way to you.

I witnessed a friend of mine do this in the field before. I tried it. I need to be more flexible than I am. If you have a bad back, don't try it. 1. Stick tip of ski into ground with bottom of ski facing out and away behind you. 2. Twist around in order to clip rear of skin to heel of ski. 3. Slide hand down ski with skin in palm, sticking skin to ski as you progress toward center of ski. 4. Bring ski up and around to front, with bottom facing out and away, and stick heel of ski into ground. 5. Starting at center of ski where you left off, lean forward and continue pressing skin to ski until you reach the top keeper. This is where it gets difficult. 6. Figure out how to get the top keeper over the tip of the ski without falling down or wrenching your back out of joint. 7. Repeat with other ski. 8. Huff it uphill to earn your turns.

Why do tornadoes always touch down in trailer parks? Why do school buses always stall out on railroad tracks?

Bummer about your car, allison. Did you all know that you can go down to your local PD and ask to go for a "ride-along" with an officer on duty? I did that a few times. The best one was when I selected southeast Yakima (local drugs/gangland sector) as the target cruise area for the Saturday night/Sunday morning shift. Lots of COPS action that night, lemme tell ya'!! Bad boys, bad boys. Watcha gonna do?

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