RMI Guides

[scottgg]

I ran into some old co-workers last week, and I was wondering what the consensous was on these chaps. Most of them are great people, and a few of them are great climbers, but what say you pundits?

Quick story to get the ball rolling:

Two fellow guides showed up to work monday morning chatting about their weekend "private climb". Most of the guides head out to Tieton for their days off, but these two studs had their collective eyes on snow creek wall, specifically the classic outer space !! Anyway, they had an epic, and though I am sure they had a good reason, it currently escapes me.

Thoughts and or/similar experiences?

[KFed]

yo! the consensous iz that this be DA THREAD to bust a nut all over yourself if you is a guide. you seem to be hatin' on outer space, but I've been in plenty a black hole out there son! (don't tell britney!)

 

but KFed ain't got to advertise. jealous?

[cj001f]

I prefer a 6m short rope as a nice compromise between safety and aid. The choads at RMI refuse to use anything longer than 4m.

[slothrop]

All RMI guides do all week is slog up and down the DC, of course they're not going to be good rock climbers.

[Alpinfox]

I'm sure some of them are and some of them aren't.

 

 

 

Thank you for allow Fox to make insightful post on poopy thread.

[slothrop]

I thought this was the idle speculation and slander thread.

[cj001f]

I thought this was the idle speculation and slander thread.

I'm pretty sure my RMI guide is gay. Either that or he's a cleptomaniac - I ended up missing a packet of GU on our ascent of Tahoma.

[Alpinfox]

 

I speculate that KFed is an incontinent pickle sniffer.

[cj001f]

I speculate that KFed is an incontinent pickle sniffer.

 

I wanted a HotCarl, not a Golden Shower

[lI1|1!]

the following is stuff i heard from this guy who tried out for RMI a few years ago:

 

all they care about is physical fitness and how interpersonally outgoing you are. they don't care about climbing experience or ability because they will teach you how to slog tourons up the dog routes in a few days anyway, it's pretty basic stuff. it may be better for RMI if you are inexperienced because some of their ways are different from most alpiners and they won't have to unteach you.

 

physical fitness is measured by a race from paradise to camp muir - they rank order.

 

my friend probably didn't get the job for his lack of charisma - he's a cynical sarcastic sob much like myself. you have to be able to say ~dude~ and wasabe! with conviction.

 

ergo many RMI guides are hardasses, many are not, many are somewhere in between, and that's just a guess.

[slothrop]

WTF is wasabe?

[cj001f]

WTF is wasabe?

a rhizome

[slothrop]

You are a Zen master of annoying sarcasm.

 

Since when did "wasabi" become a catch-phrase?

[cj001f]

Since when did "wasabi" become a catch-phrase?

i dunno, but you may want to research sarcasm at the same time

[Alpinfox]

Since when did "wasabi" become a catch-phrase?

 

2000

[lI1|1!]

 

Since when did "wasabi" become a catch-phrase?

 

see urban dictionary mister spellmiester:

 

 

4. Wasabi

 

A greeting, similar to Wassup or What's Up, that can be used between friends

 

Bill: Wasabi, George?

George: oh not too much, just finished my homework, you?

tags what's up hows it going what are you doing? hello

 

 

 

5. wasabi

 

(wa-sa-BEEEEE) greeting to a stranger to show you think they're hot, without having to say "i think you are hot."

alternative to wassup

(wa-SA-be) greeting to a friend who's looking hot.

 

out at a bar with friends: "Wasabi, girl/boy"

getting ready to go out: "wasabi, girlfriend"

tags wasabee wasahbe on fire hi

 

 

[jmace]

that shit's banana's..get up to date in your lingo

[slothrop]

Thanks for hippin' me to the new lingo, cheif.

 

I knew a deadpan pedant like you, cj, couldn't resist correcting my mischaracterization.

[cj001f]

Thanks for hippin' me to the new lingo, cheif.

 

I knew a deadpan pedant like you, cj, couldn't resist correcting my mischaracterization.

 

I'd thought you a malapropiste.

 

I always say better a deadpan pedant than a dead pedophile.

[slothrop]

Look at how we've destroyed this thread. It's breathtaking.

 

I'm disappointed that the only dirt on RMI we'll get is scottgg's lackluster half-remembered hint of a story, though.

 

Outer Space rulz, by the way.

[cj001f]

Look at how we've destroyed this thread. It's breathtaking.

William Tecumseh Sherman at your service sir.

[Alpinfox]

 

Outer Space rulz, by the way.

 

You ever done the Asgard Pass approach?

[scottgg]

I'm disappointed that the only dirt on RMI we'll get is scottgg's lackluster half-remembered hint of a story, though.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him

Common, lets hear some stories

[olyclimber]

This one time, at band camp...

[Alpinfox]

AlpineDingleberryDave and I climbed the fake ice wall thing out in front of the RMI office once.

 

There were hilarious results.