monkeyboy Posted December 16, 2001 Posted December 16, 2001 Remember McGuiver? He could make crampons from toothpicks and bubble gum. Whats your best? Quote
Copperhead Posted December 16, 2001 Posted December 16, 2001 Many, Many years ago when the coffee trend was just beginning, and REI was a gear store, I fashioned a french press out of existing plunger and a nalgene bottle with top cut off - still in use today. Too bad we were so busy getting out there, we could of made thou$ands! Quote
Drederek Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 Made a singleuse poop tube out of a gatorade bottle and some duct tape. The wife hasn't shit on a multipitch climb since I started carrying it! Quote
Rodchester Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 Cut 36 inch SMC pickets in half...so now I have two 18 in pickets. Work GREAT on spring and summer snow routes. Quote
willstrickland Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 Nut tool as a sort of horizontal cam hook/piton...worked, but bent the hell out of the nut tool. Brass micronuts as copperheads,antenna off the radio for a cheater stick, and all the normal stuff like wired nuts as rivet hangers, knotted webbing as chocks, Old E cans for a pipe. Quote
philfort Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 gregm made a functional pipe out of one of those little aluminum candle holders (for candle lanterns) last New Years in the Cariboo mtns. Quote
Dru Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 MSR stove blowtorch like the infamous XGK does work real well for heating up the hot knife. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by gregm: got philfort high too. Skills like these will surely find you a spot on the next Everest Expedition Quote
headmasterjon_dup1 Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 With help from my retired Boeing engineer neighbor I made a quality snow saw out of plane fuselage aluminum (perfect strength, thickness...). I cut a pattern in the blade as serrations and heat-molded a piece of PVC pipe over he handle and molded it to my hand. It has been used as a saw in Yellowstone NP and the Tatoosh. It also makes for some bad-ass samurai photos in the snow. Quote
Dennis_the_Menace Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 nalgene bottles with layers of duct tape and keeping loop Quote
allthumbs Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 A hole in a slippery elm log when I was really horny one time. Quote
philfort Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by trask: A hole in a slippery elm log when I was really horny one time. That's hilarious, and at the same time, really really disgusting. I wonder what the chipmunk family living in the log thought. Quote
allthumbs Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by philfort: That's hilarious, and at the same time, really really disgusting. I wonder what the chipmunk family living in the log thought. They thought it was nuts Quote
Crack Posted December 17, 2001 Posted December 17, 2001 *i get out of the van up at hatcher's, realizing i had forgotten my boots. i suffered up bootpack, then duct-taped a bath towel around each one of my sneakers...not a lot of support, and quite a cushy ride down. *waiting out the rain in a cave with two french girls and bag of opium-sprayed-laotian weed with nothing but matches...we poked around the bushes and found an old cigarette pack. one of the girls carefully peeled apart the paper-thin plastic foil and backing, then rolled up the goodies in the backing -them euro's will smoke just about ANYTHING... Quote
chucK Posted December 18, 2001 Posted December 18, 2001 Not as good as some of these others, but a buddy jammed a roll of tape under undercling on Dreamer [pictured above] to keep the rope from getting caught in the constriction. It worked too!On my first trip up to Squamish, I found a bag of weed lying on the ground just across the street from the McDonald's. Later that day at the Smoke Bluffs we found a pack of licorice-flavored rolling papers abandoned below Flying Circus. Climbed the Smoke Bluffs Connection hoping to complete the trifecta and find an implement of fire somewhere up there. No such luck. Then when we returned to the base, all three of our packs were stolen That really sucked. Quote
Matt_Anderson Posted December 18, 2001 Posted December 18, 2001 Will's got me beat. But I did use my nut tool as an ordinary hook once. And it never got bent. Matt Quote
dr._jay Posted December 18, 2001 Posted December 18, 2001 ahh yes, nothing like jonesing to get high to bring out the true creativity in a person. either that or an injury, but that's no fun to talk about. guess there's just something about earth bong hits out in the wilderness when nothing else will work. Quote
ScottP Posted December 18, 2001 Posted December 18, 2001 quote: Originally posted by philfort: gregm made a functional pipe out of one of those little aluminum candle holders (for candle lanterns) last New Years in the Cariboo mtns. Found a really stinky roach in the summit register of Guye Peak a few years back. Found a rusty tin can stuffed in a crack down a ways from the summit. A knife for poking holes and some matches I had. It was a really stinky roach. Quote
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