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Thought about a couple of token ice screws?
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Thought about a couple of token ice screws?
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Oh, sorry. I saw the posts at the top of the page, and remembered that she talked about meeting you and atmas. Thinking aloud.
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I saw K-2 once.
It was cool.
(That's all. I have nothing on climbing. Other than a former soldier invited me to climb Mt. Logan when I got out of the army and I never called him.)
It was cool.
(That's all. I have nothing on climbing. Other than a former soldier invited me to climb Mt. Logan when I got out of the army and I never called him.)
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Yup. Two and one picket each for the glacier probably. We won't be climbing any ice, but we need to make anchors if one of us falls in a crevasse.
Oh. It's cool. Yup, we all met a few weeks ago. She rocks as much irl as she does here. Great lady.
I'd love to hike into Concordia Glacier and just let my jaw drop at the stuff all around me. I dunno if I ever want to attempt K2. That's a high and technical ad very dangerous place.
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I like the cold. Though I have to say that I'm a lot less tolerant of it these days. I don't know if my metabolism has slowed or if it's a perception thing, but I used to enjoy it more than I do now. Where's my down jacket?
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Probably next the bear suit they issued me in the army..
Fuck the cold. I want beaches with scantily clad women with big breasts bouncing up and down and alcohol and a joint while feasting on lobster.
Oh yeah..that's the life.
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Probably next the bear suit they issued me in the army..
Fuck the cold. I want beaches with scantily clad women with big breasts bouncing up and down and alcohol and a joint while feasting on lobster.
Oh yeah..that's the life.
Those things always sucked. I got one in my first unit, and I haven't seen one since, thank god.
That's what you do after a long cold alpine climb, man. You fly to Hawaii to unwind. The lobster sucks there, though.
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lol you KNOW what a bear suit is. LOL.
(not smiling at the lobster part. I LOVE lobster (especially Rock, I have this recipe...omg..it's better than Red Lobsters).
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Yup. Among the dumbest and least effective bullshit I came across in 7 years. Lousy design, lousy execution. It was SF guys that got the black fleece version first, and it filtered down to the rest of the force before too long.
The only real lobster is in Maine. Everything else is second rate. Sorry; it's one of very few things I'm a New England snob about.
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I have no idea what the black fleece version is. Mine was brown hairy huge and disgusting.
Thank god for Gortex and Matterhorn boots.
(Rock rules, accept it)
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They replaced that nonsense with more civilian style black pile jacket and bibs.
Yup. Warm dry feet are God.
(Nonsense. You need to come to Maine some time.)
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But it's cold there. My balls might crawl back into my ass.
(same reason I haven't been home to Michigan in years)
You shouldda seen what you'd consider the 'old' style bear suit. It was pretty close to actually wearing a bear's skin.
Me caveman ARG!!! *beats chest*
and all that.
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Then come in August, when the gulf stream brings the water up to almost swimmable temps. And the sun bakes the amazing rock formations all up the coast...and the lobster is fresh and delicious.
I do remember the old school ones. They were awful.
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Christ you made my mouth water more than a perfectly trimmed red pubed pussy....
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There you go! The Maine coast is the place to be in the height of summer.
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mind your own business
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I still ain't going into the water.
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Neither is any sensible human being.
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Wow, what an incredibly stupid post.
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Well, for a moment there, it sounded like you wanted me to.
I have to learn to surf in a month in NC and I'm scared about the water temp there.
(I used to jump out of airplanes, and I feel that's more rational than learning to surf in NC in early October. Prove me wrong.)
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Someone asked me recently about the word "belay" as used in climbing. Essentially it has two or three definitions, all related.
1) When someone else is climbing and you're in charge of the rope, you are belaying the climber. This means that if the climber falls, you'll lock the rope off by use of a belay device, so the climber only falls a short distance before being caught by the rope. Here's someone belaying a climber inside someplace:
http://www.uc.edu/reccenter/images/facilities/Climbing_Wall/Web%20Belay%201.JPG
She has good form; she's watching the climber carefully, and her hands are placed properly. If that climber falls, the belayer will bring the rope in her right hand down to her right hip, causing so much friction in the belay device at the front of her harness that the rope will lock and no more will slide through. The climber will likely fall just a couple feet. Also note that the person in the picture is attached to the floor with a piece of red webbing; that way when she locks off the rope, even if the climber is a huge heavy person, the belayer will stay on the floor.
2) When you finish climbing a section of a cliff, or reach the top of a short climb, and clip yourself into an anchor so that you no longer need someone else to manage the rope for you, you are said to be "off belay." But confusingly for the novice, the place you clip into is also called a "belay." So you can arrive at the belay, clip in, and yell, "Off belay!" to your partner. These folks are at a belay:
http://the-summit.net/newsimages/2006LeaningTower/3HappyBelay.jpg
The word is also used by naval folks to mean "disregard" as in "belay that order, Lieutenant."
1) When someone else is climbing and you're in charge of the rope, you are belaying the climber. This means that if the climber falls, you'll lock the rope off by use of a belay device, so the climber only falls a short distance before being caught by the rope. Here's someone belaying a climber inside someplace:
http://www.uc.edu/reccenter/images/facilities/Climbing_Wall/Web%20Belay%201.JPG
She has good form; she's watching the climber carefully, and her hands are placed properly. If that climber falls, the belayer will bring the rope in her right hand down to her right hip, causing so much friction in the belay device at the front of her harness that the rope will lock and no more will slide through. The climber will likely fall just a couple feet. Also note that the person in the picture is attached to the floor with a piece of red webbing; that way when she locks off the rope, even if the climber is a huge heavy person, the belayer will stay on the floor.
2) When you finish climbing a section of a cliff, or reach the top of a short climb, and clip yourself into an anchor so that you no longer need someone else to manage the rope for you, you are said to be "off belay." But confusingly for the novice, the place you clip into is also called a "belay." So you can arrive at the belay, clip in, and yell, "Off belay!" to your partner. These folks are at a belay:
http://the-summit.net/newsimages/2006LeaningTower/3HappyBelay.jpg
The word is also used by naval folks to mean "disregard" as in "belay that order, Lieutenant."
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Woman in photo looks like a gal I climbed Annapurna I with back in the day.
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