what i learned this weekend...

[sobo]

Learned

 

Woo hoo! 3600 posts!

[still_climbin]

Those Washington Pass mountain goats are damned good climbers.

[archenemy]

I learned that I like the weekend A LOT more than I like the weekday

[RuMR]

you must be stupid if its taken you this long to figger that one out!

[archenemy]

Then I learned two things.

[SmallShoes]

That I can't warm up on an .11b at Index. And that I need to buy a damn guidebook.

[jmace]

That before commiting my climbing partner always asks his non climbing girlfriend first

 

Maybe next weekend I will learn to just ask her

Edited July 21, 2006 by jmace

[sobo]

Maybe next weekend I will learn to just ask her

 

Well, we know who's wearing the pants in that relationship, eh? Wait until he marries her!

[Otto]

Ah, but you will like best of all - climbing on a weekday!

[philfort]

I learned that the washington DOT thinks its ok to cause a 2 hour traffic jam on I-5 at midnight Friday night, on a 2 mile section of road that has no exits.

[Figger_Eight]

The novelty of a mountain goat licking your pee at your feet wears off very quickly once you realize how close those really sharp horns are to your nads.

[JayB]

East Coast white water ratings are as soft as Snuggles the Fabric Softener Bear. And I like Maine way, way more than Massachussetts.

[iain]

There is a direct correlation between ambient air temperature and traffic jams in Portland, Oregon.

[cj001f]

There is a direct correlation between ambient air temperature and traffic jams in Portland, Oregon.

I learned iain is posting from his ex-ex-ex-gf's computer. I thought that avatar was long dead!

[ivan]

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I learned iain is posting from his ex-ex-ex-gf's computer.

that some sorta lesbian thing?

[mshaslam]

A small rock that drops only 30 feet can cut a rope. A brand new, used only 3 times rope.

[brian_m]

Don't play football on the beach drunk in bare feet... it can lead to loads of stitches and a week away from climbing!

[meadlx200]

Watching a intro to ice climbing student last February (but it was on a weekend).

A 250 lb whale, who can't remain vertical in crampons on flat surface, can sever the top rope (using their nondominant hand) with one stroke.

[valleydude]

Summiting Rainier can make you feel pretty damn studly until you find a 12y/o girl and her grandad waiting to sign the summit register behind you!

Edited July 25, 2006 by valleydude

[murraysovereign]

I learned that the washington DOT thinks its ok to cause a 2 hour traffic jam on I-5 at midnight Friday night, on a 2 mile section of road that has no exits.

 

They've got that down to an art. I spent over an hour crawling northbound through Seattle at parade speed, with the express bypass sitting empty next to four solid lanes of backed-up traffic. Turns out there was a crew working on the main highway about a hundred yeards or so before the bypass lane rejoins the main road. If they weren't so unbelievably stupid, they could have opened the bypass and let all that northbound traffic go right by the work site without slowing down. But I guess the rule book says that the bypass is closed at that time of day, so it stayed closed.

[murraysovereign]

And... I learned this weekend that rockfall hurts if you're unable to avoid it.

 

Also, even little rocks, when flying toward you on the highway, aren't good for your windshield. But if it's the last road-trip for that vehicle before it finally gets junked, you don't really care.

[sobo]

That I can indeed rappel using the EDK and not die. Three times, no less!

 

Who sez you can't teach an oldskewl new tricks?

[billcoe]

I learned that sometimes just heading out to cruise some easy stuff with some other old timers is more fun than working some hard route and screwing up your wrist again.

 

Till it hits close to 100 degrees...and then one of those old dudes asks for a belay "over there" to get some gear off the wall... which turns out later to be a FA which you figure out only after an hour or 2 of standing in the same place belaying watching all that hard work, risk, loose moss/dirt and rock raining down, piton wanging and sweat and the friggan thing feels harder to folllow than the 11C you toprope a few days later.

[luwayo]

1. a) a banana slurpee will make me sick.

b) yellow peppers are great on hot cragging days.

c) so is quiche.

2. murin park is a zoo in summertime, even mid-day friday.

3. hot temperatures make termperaments flare.

4. Mountain WOman's poutine rocks but her counterpart to the north is rather pissy with customers - on the soup nazi level.

5. a) Britannia Beach gets a good breeze off the water.

b) them train tracks squeal bad.

c) there is a bad sewage smell in the area when it's hot.

d) Britannia Beach lots are up for resale.

6. a) Garibaldi Park Drive is a raceway for gravel trucks.

b) they find glee in coating mtnb riders in dust.

7. my No.5 BD is more useful than i thought.

8. i have more energy when i'm not mountaineering.

Edited July 25, 2006 by luwayo

[snafflehound]

When 9 friends tell you that you're drunk you should go lay down.