General Climbing Discussion

Author	Havachatwithhexy...
Sabu 12-Sep-2005 9:40:29 PM	On 12/09/2005 mockmockmock wrote: > The only good thing about the last >game was Wendel Sailor wasn't on the field otherwise we would have lost >by a lot more. AHHAHHAAHAHAHA best thing about the springboks is Brian Habana, he rules the wings!!
PN 13-Sep-2005 1:57:41 PM	On 22/06/2005 JCP wrote: >ADIOS HEXY! I think JCP aka Mousey holds the key to the hexy's whereabouts. JCP wrote "ADIOS HEXY" and the Hex was gone..........
mockmockmock 13-Sep-2005 2:36:50 PM	NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO say it isn't so! that sounds like a good line for a song! If that is true I'll have to request a refund of membership fees to this board. Ralph
Sabu 13-Sep-2005 5:41:15 PM	On 13/09/2005 P.N. wrote: >On 22/06/2005 JCP wrote: >>ADIOS HEXY! > >I think JCP aka Mousey holds the key to the hexy's whereabouts. JCP wrote >"ADIOS HEXY" and the Hex was gone.......... ok spill it JCP!!!!
alrob 24-Sep-2005 2:07:16 AM	Its moi loif...amnd its now ore neverrrrrr
alrob 24-Sep-2005 2:07:49 AM	yeah this is jkust blatant post num,ber raising, blamne little johnny
alrob 24-Sep-2005 2:09:57 AM
alrob 24-Sep-2005 2:15:44 AM	GO SWANNIEEEEEESSSS~!!!!!!!
Sabu 24-Sep-2005 9:36:22 AM	pffft football!!
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 10:42:10 PM	*************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** ... mysteriousfingersgropetheremote ... ****** *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************************************************BUMP !!! the comes The HEX ... the comes the HEX ... HEYYY !!! there baybarbayBEEEAAAARRRR !!! I am ur guru now Ur guru now ! DON'T !!! say maybarmayBEEEAAARRR !!! I'm supernatural !! Ur gunna come around ... ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 10:47:32 PM	-------------------------------------- Topic Date User Be careful out on the roads Friday, 23 September 2005, kieranl >Paulie, sounds like Ti has talked to police, could hardly have avoided it after stopping >to assist other people at the accident scene. >I was dropping Meg off at Tullamarine at 5:30 this morning and the radio was just full of >this accident. Thinking of it helped me focus and pull off for a sleep... Hehehe !!! --- very good advice, Kieran ! --- KP & Damo use this same method to get to sleep too :P ----------------------------------------------------
Onsight 4-Oct-2005 10:50:38 PM	Impostor? Impersonator? Gotta do better than that if you're THE Hex.
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 10:52:16 PM	---------------------------------------------------- Awww, welcome back H-T awwwww awwwww snip awwww awwww The grasshoppers .... awwwww awwww snip? awwww any post will do to make my quota today , as long as I'm not as blatant as Alrob, but just as long as I stay ahead of Dalai... awwww snip...awwww ... uuuugggghhhh !!!! ---------------------------------------------------------- SPA-PARTY-BUFFER-ZONE ---------------------------------------------------
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 11:08:34 PM	---------------------------------------- " C'mon Mousey!!! --- ur nearly there dude !!! --- The1000club is ETC ETC ETC !!! Go the Philby ! , who is pioneering the way on Chockstone-associated-site, RC.com, with 6000+ post !!! --- go the XXXXcane-toad !!! " ---------------------------------------
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 11:24:44 PM	---------------------------------- Adskithemanski enjoying life in the supp-ohz-add-ly post-hexy-world ... " Dumb-dee-dumb .... la-la-laaa !! " ... " SAY-WHA ??? !!! --- HEXY'z BACK ??? !!! --- AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH !!!! " -----------------------------------------
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 11:41:29 PM	Relax Simey#1 --- it IS me ... -------------------------------------------- An excellent (true) short story ... Details Emerge on Rupal Face Steve House has sent an email from Pakistan describing his and Vince Anderson’s alpine-style ascent of the central pillar on the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat, sure to go down as one of the great climbs in modern Himalayan history. The two men summited after six days of climbing on September 6. House and Bruce Miller nearly climbed the Rupal Face in 2004, turning back at around 24,500 feet when House got ill. This year, Anderson and House chose to climb late in the Karakoram season, arriving in basecamp just as Tomaž Humar was about to launch his attempt on the same line—a climb eventually aborted with a helicopter rescue at 19,400 feet. After acclimatizing in late August on the Schell Route, Anderson and House started up the main face on September 1 in excellent weather. The “highlight” of that day was being forced to race across deep channels in a large snow couloir that was regularly running with avalanches. The technical crux of the route came on the second day, as the two men took turns leading a snow-filled, ice-glazed rock corner with very poor protection. This pitch took several hours to lead, with insecure drytooling on loose 5.9 holds and rock fall occasionally pounding the belayer. On the third day, the two diverged from House’s 2004 line, as the heavy snowfall this year had loaded up snowfields that House and Miller climbed last year. In any case, House wrote, the “direct pillar is a more aesthetic and difficult line. The excitement of trying a new line that had some serious question marks about it won out.” The two climbed a long stretch of ice runnels and then traversed right to reach a hanging glacier in the middle of the face after 18 hours of climbing. They bivied here at about 20,300 feet. Worried about the exit from this glacier, the two were delighted to discover a moderate ice ramp the next day that led to snow slopes above a huge rock buttress. After a precarious bivy, their fourth on the wall, they climbed slowly to a high camp at around 24,250 feet, very near House and Miller’s high point last year. On September 6, they headed for the top in perfect weather. Two pitches of mixed climbing and some deep, unconsolidated snow made for a slow and discouraging start, but soon the snow strengthened, and at midday they joined the upper Messner Route at nearly 26,000 feet. They were carrying only five liters of fluid, a bit of food and 50 meters of 5mm rope. In late afternoon, they reached Nanga Parbat’s foresummit and took a short break while House dried his socks in the warm sun and Anderson took a quick nap. They summited at 5:45 p.m. in warm, clear weather. Darkness caught them as they descended the summit snowfields, and it was 3 a.m., 24 hours after starting, before they returned to their tent. It took another day and a half to descend the rest of the face via the Messner Route. At their last bivy, at around 18,000 feet, they could see bonfires below and hear the celebratory drumming of villagers who had watched their progress through binoculars. House wrote: “Exhausted from eight days on the go and precious little sleep, we arrived in camp around 2:00 in the afternoon [on September 8] to the great excitement of our LO and other locals.” The two are now in Islamabad, ready to head home. Proudly brought to you by www.onsight.luuuuvyphotos.com.au :-)) -------------------------------------------------- I'm The HEX ! I'm for rear-eal !! An' my best mate's name is Neil !!! Ima cyber-freak by daaaaay ... I piss-up all me pay !! AnyaWOULDN'THAVMEANYOTHAWAAAAYYYYY !!!!!!!! ---------------------------------------------------
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 11:48:23 PM	------------------------------ simey#2 Online Now 4/10/2005 11:42:54 PM >If it is a naturally-protected route and I blow ... Yes --- apparently Napoleon was into naturally-protected routes too ... legend has it that he used pig-intestines as condoms ! -------------------------------------- blah-blah-mod-deleted-awwww-not-climbing-related-etc-etc-etc...
The HEX 4-Oct-2005 11:52:26 PM	uh-oh --- Kent's on-line again ... BUMP!!!*************************************************************** ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ********************************************************************* ... fibs 7/10/2005 >There's something special about climbing a pillar of fine waterfall ice... Banff national >park and around there is just awesome. >I think of climbing that kind of ice as similar to watching a bird up close - something >you don't get to do very often, and reveals so much more detail... >
Onsight 5-Oct-2005 12:06:04 AM	> Relax Simey#1 --- it IS me ... LOL... Yes, I'm convinced already. Welcome back Hex! Your cynical witticisms have been missed.
jmgh 5-Oct-2005 12:22:55 AM	On 5/10/2005 Onsight wrote: > >Yes, I'm convinced already. Welcome back Hex! I'm not at all convinced.

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