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hicabanks,

"did you feel lucky you have a buddy next to you?"

Actually, I feel really lucky if I can find anyone to venture out with me! :nod: And of course it's always great to have others...

Cougar Canyon Dec 12, 2015

In the past, Joe and I had discussed descending Cougar Canyon in the Anza Borrego State Park, debating a top down route from the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation per...

Another option is to slap a loose prusik tied back to the anchor on the rap side, lower your partner to your goal,, cinch the prusik and then allow the load to transfer to the prusik. This then...

Many military and civil aviation survival/life boats produced in socialist Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and the SU were also used as pleasure boats and are surprisingly robust, also weighing less...

As I understand it, if you require a weather related rescued from a wall in Yosemite NP and are found to be under-equipped, (down sleeping bag rather than synthetic, for example) then you are subject...

I'd consider my life half full, no matter how ya view this...:naughty:
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So Iceaxe, are you saying that I was immoderate in the presentation of my question and that I'm a drunken religious whore? Jeesh, I don't even know you man

(although i might cop to the drunk part...

You want vicious? Take a look at the years long feud still underway on the 'wings of steel" climbing thread on Supertopo....In fact it gets so bad over there they have a script so you can actually...

Thanks for the feedback.

Guess one thing I didn't mention is I'm driving out from the San Diego, CA area after work on Friday night, and need to be back to work Monday morning. Of course I...

Hi all, need some expert advice.

I have a permit for Zion's Imlay for Sunday, July 31, but NWS forecasts a 40% chance of thundershowers.

I'm thinking I should wait for another day.

Would...

Hey derekholmes,
Just funin wit ya on the spelling thing. Know I sure mess up a bunch, specially when posting from my phone! And thanks for the answer to my helmet question. To each his own. ...

just now had a chance to see your photos. WOW, you really bring these canyons to life....Thank You!

Hey xxntsuaxx,

Did you take Poseidon's panties off before or after that picture of you-all in the pothole?

Does she have a sister?

Are they potty trained?

but seriously, nice photos dholmes, thanks for posting.

can you tell me why you choose not to wear a brain bucket? Or perhaps I'm assuming it was you too when in fact it's your partners who made...

Donde va "Zions?"

Thanks Tom.
A job worth doing is worth doing well.
Got to be clean and strong...

With the tools described it sounds like a "Five Piece Rawl" type expansion bolt?
Depth?

And they are 3/8" bolts? I'll have the hangers w me......

From Tom's July 1 TR and subsequant postings it was noted that some anchors towards the end were blown out. Have they been replaced? Headed in there next weekend (weather permitting, 7/31 & 8/1)...

Tom,
Basically agree with what you said.

When we pulled up on the slab above Mystery Springs, said sling was in place, appeared fresh, and in good condition. Surprising? (or not) since...

Week before that there was no water in the "lake." There was indication that much of whatever bit trail had developed in the canyon below the death slopes has been washed away, and there was plenty...

Went thru a day before you via Das Boot and the pool pictured above was just one of some amazing scenery thru that section. If I remember correctly there was a long swimmer just before it and around...

You can go ahead and say it as, yes, it was rather, well...Rude on our part. The 4 of us were third up, still suited from our run thru Keyhole, and the team of 5 between us and the first team of 7...

No, I mean the initial pot hole and the entire normal first rap were completed from the new anchors, totally bypassing the the normal first set of anchors. (<100')

My small team used these new anchors to bypass two large groups on the 4th that were stalled at the normal first drop. There's a pair of holes that indicate that these new anchors have been set,...

We were in canyons upstream all day and remarked on the swept-aside rock fall and road damage. Quite a difference between what we drove across in the morning v. the afternoon!