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- Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:32 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: that time of the YEAR!!! MEC Redemption Cheques!!!
- Replies: 8
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re: mec dividend cheques
i think the idea is that since MEC is a not-for-profit company, once they've used their sales money to cover their overhead costs, they allocate the remainder of the money to the shareholders based on how much each person has spent. so to join MEC you buy one share and then at the end of the year, t...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:19 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: ice climbing courses
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3667
you can find courses here: http://www.themountainschool.com/ their office is right by MEC in vancouver. otherwise, you can try and contact some ACMG-certified guides yourself. i did an ice course with Geoff Creighton and he's pretty good (i'm sure most of the guides around here are top notch). you c...
- Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:46 am
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: what is the name of this route?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4168
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:30 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Looking for good access to the snow
- Replies: 6
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if you go to joffre lakes, i guess you could go up to the matier glacier by heading up beside the icefall (on the left), but it's kinda a pain in the a$%. alternatively, you could go up cerise creek and go play on the anniversary glacier. but at this time of year, a lot of stuff is pretty icy.... :s...
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:56 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: The lost dynamic lead belay
- Replies: 17
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If their egos get in their way, well that's their problem, at least we've done our job i agree. i mean, all you can do is try and help people out, but it's up to them to listen. i also think that sometimes people try and brush you off immediately cause their ego's hurt, but afterwards they actually...
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:29 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: issues with gripped
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5423
Alpinist has missed an issue with me though, that hurts, and Its always late. :cry: ditto, "something" happened to my issue 15 of Alpinist and it never got to me... thankfully, i asked them to send a replacement and they got me a new copy pronto.... but yeah, sucks when the issues are late since th...
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:57 am
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Left Gear on Calculus Crack
- Replies: 19
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Or maybe they couldn't get a jammed piece out and decided to move on. The way I look at that is; I have a job. My time is worth money. I will only waste so much time (money) on trying to retrieve a $10 piece. If some jobless hippie wants to spend 2 hours (and cut the sh*t out of there hands) to rem...
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:18 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Warning for Smoke bluff climbers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5226
i was up at burgers and fries a couple years ago when someone lobbed three or four beer bottles (empty of course!) down from the top of the cliff... someone could've gotten hurt pretty bad if they'd been hit. i lowered off my friend whom i was belaying and ran up to the top with a friend, but the pu...