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granite_grrl
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dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February.
My car barely turned over this morning. Checking the weather at 7am it was -23C (almost -10F).
It's great that there's ice, but I don't want to go climb it.
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granite_grrl
Feb 13, 2015, 8:27 PM
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camhead wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. Fuck you doc. I don't remember the last time I was truly warm.
I remember...it was called France. Le sigh.......
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granite_grrl
Feb 13, 2015, 8:28 PM
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Not that it was THAT warm there, but the night time lows were only -10C. I like that kind of winter.
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snoopy138
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dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February.
try climbing rox.
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snoopy138
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camhead wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. Fuck you doc. I don't remember the last time I was truly warm.
probibly yore last rowt at teh slightly overhanging slabby area.
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snoopy138
Feb 13, 2015, 9:04 PM
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camhead wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. Fuck you doc. I don't remember the last time I was truly warm.
btw, it's going to be high 60s at teh hole tomorrow. perfect temps.
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dr_feelgood
Feb 13, 2015, 9:10 PM
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camhead wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. Fuck you doc. I don't remember the last time I was truly warm.
I'm skiing corn in February... Your disdain is the least of my first-world problems.
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cracklover
Feb 13, 2015, 9:38 PM
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It's 49 in my apartment, and likely to get colder before it gets warmer. The furnace repair guy was here for the fourth time today. Each time he was sure he fixed it (this time included). Still not working. It has been over a week.
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lena_chita
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Feb 13, 2015, 9:57 PM
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camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: It is pretty easy for me to take 3.5-4 weeks off in the dead of winter since the closest outside bouldering is ~8-9 hours drive away, and not feasible for anything other than a 3-day weekend. Coopers is like 3 hrs from you; teh NRG like 4.5! But I see yore point.
closest outside bouldering that is reliably good-weather in winter! if you live at NRG, you can enjoy that occasional crisp Tuesday. But committing to a weekend of driving there in winter is usually dicey. Smae with Coopers.
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camhead wrote: Not sure if y'all heard about it, but a train in NY hit an SUV last week, half dozen people were killed or so. This happened right by the climbing gym we've been going to, and I guess that right after the accident they herded all the (uninjured) passengers into the gym to stay warm. This all happened in a town called Valhala; it's probably tusoon to make fatalistic Norse afterlife jokes, though.
yeah, I've heard. Not the first time the train has derailed there, i think... Wasn't there something withtwo years ago, too?
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lena_chita
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cracklover wrote: It's 49 in my apartment, and likely to get colder before it gets warmer. The furnace repair guy was here for the fourth time today. Each time he was sure he fixed it (this time included). Still not working. It has been over a week. GO
Ouch! Hope it gets fixed soon.
I was just remembering last night, last year around the same time, on the coldest day we had all winter, the power went out in the middle of the night. And my house was in low 40s by the time the power came back on.
This coming sunday, the high is only 6F, with low of -3F... Anyone wants to bet on Murphy's law?
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dr_feelgood
Feb 13, 2015, 10:41 PM
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lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: Not sure if y'all heard about it, but a train in NY hit an SUV last week, half dozen people were killed or so. This happened right by the climbing gym we've been going to, and I guess that right after the accident they herded all the (uninjured) passengers into the gym to stay warm. This all happened in a town called Valhala; it's probably tusoon to make fatalistic Norse afterlife jokes, though. yeah, I've heard. Not the first time the train has derailed there, i think... Wasn't there something withtwo years ago, too?
Train derailment is about the lamest way to enter the halls of honor.
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climbs4fun
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granite_grrl wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. My car barely turned over this morning. Checking the weather at 7am it was -23C (almost -10F). It's great that there's ice, but I don't want to go climb it.
Gross. There's no justifiable reason to be that cold. I'm sitting outside on my patio with no shoes, t shirt and glass of wine. Love it!
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dr_feelgood
Feb 14, 2015, 4:55 AM
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climbs4fun wrote: granite_grrl wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. My car barely turned over this morning. Checking the weather at 7am it was -23C (almost -10F). It's great that there's ice, but I don't want to go climb it. Gross. There's no justifiable reason to be that cold. I'm sitting outside on my patio with no shoes, t shirt and glass of wine. Love it!
I have a metabolism for a goddamned reason.
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curt
Feb 14, 2015, 6:21 AM
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climbs4fun wrote: granite_grrl wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. My car barely turned over this morning. Checking the weather at 7am it was -23C (almost -10F). It's great that there's ice, but I don't want to go climb it. Gross. There's no justifiable reason to be that cold. I'm sitting outside on my patio with no shoes, t shirt and glass of wine. Love it!
Quite similar here, 79 today and 84 tomorrow :-)
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camhead
Feb 14, 2015, 2:10 PM
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snoopy138 wrote: camhead wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. Fuck you doc. I don't remember the last time I was truly warm. probibly yore last rowt at teh slightly overhanging slabby area.
As usual, teh sneaky franzis is kerrect.
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macherry
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climbs4fun wrote: granite_grrl wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. My car barely turned over this morning. Checking the weather at 7am it was -23C (almost -10F). It's great that there's ice, but I don't want to go climb it. Gross. There's no justifiable reason to be that cold. I'm sitting outside on my patio with no shoes, t shirt and glass of wine. Love it!
i'd take it kel over crappy spring skiing in feb.
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camhead
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More EC cold tawk. Yesterday, while all teh facespace feeds were blowing up with OG it's so cold here, my crazy ass GF decided to try to kill me by going backcoutnry skiing. There's this cool old run in Northern Mass that was built back in the thirties (by the CCC under the WPA, Gawd bless FDR), which was the site of some of the earliest ski races in the US. Really cool place.
Except that when we woke up at 5am to go do it yesterday, I looked at the weather and saw that it was going to be 25 mph winds and a windchill down to around -30, actual temps around 0 (F, nawt C, Canuckians). GF didn't care, she was just like, "we'll put on an extra layer!"
Bad drive up there, fortunately the roads were deserted, because the wind was throwing us all around on the icy roads. Horizontal snow, bad visibility. It was a Nor-easter, hopefully we got our everything ready. Getting out to rig up was without a doubt the coldest I'd evar been. Got a tiny bit warmer once we got into the trees and got the cardio up on the hike, but my fingers and toes never thawed out on the 2000 foot climb.
The wind had stopped once we got to the top of the mtn, fortunately. But my weakass legs were so trashed from the hike up, and I'd been going so fast because I wanted to stay warm that going down was sketchy; no muscle left to slow me down. I snow plowed a lot, no dignity. The record in the 1930s for the run was 3 mins; it took me about 20 I think.
Got back to the car, the sun was out, and we were in a better mood. Cracked some beers because it had gotten up to a balmy 3 degrees.
But seriously, I'm fucking sick of being cold awl the thyme.
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camhead wrote: More EC cold tawk. Yesterday, while all teh facespace feeds were blowing up with OG it's so cold here, my crazy ass GF decided to try to kill me by going backcoutnry skiing. There's this cool old run in Northern Mass that was built back in the thirties (by the CCC under the WPA, Gawd bless FDR), which was the site of some of the earliest ski races in the US. Really cool place. Except that when we woke up at 5am to go do it yesterday, I looked at the weather and saw that it was going to be 25 mph winds and a windchill down to around -30, actual temps around 0 (F, nawt C, Canuckians). GF didn't care, she was just like, "we'll put on an extra layer!" Bad drive up there, fortunately the roads were deserted, because the wind was throwing us all around on the icy roads. Horizontal snow, bad visibility. It was a Nor-easter, hopefully we got our everything ready. Getting out to rig up was without a doubt the coldest I'd evar been. Got a tiny bit warmer once we got into the trees and got the cardio up on the hike, but my fingers and toes never thawed out on the 2000 foot climb. The wind had stopped once we got to the top of the mtn, fortunately. But my weakass legs were so trashed from the hike up, and I'd been going so fast because I wanted to stay warm that going down was sketchy; no muscle left to slow me down. I snow plowed a lot, no dignity. The record in the 1930s for the run was 3 mins; it took me about 20 I think. Got back to the car, the sun was out, and we were in a better mood. Cracked some beers because it had gotten up to a balmy 3 degrees. But seriously, I'm fucking sick of being cold awl the thyme.
Heheh, I bet that was payback for that portaledge disaster with dripping ice-melt, that you subjected her to... for her birthday!
It is really freaking cold here. And of course, I HAD to leave my thick insulated gloves at the gym last thursday... I checked this weekend, but they weren't in the lost and found. So sad.  I got them for free, but still...
So, today I wore two pairs of gloves for my walk to work.
Of course, my car radiator HAD to pick today to act up again. No leak, I stopped at the car shop on my way... but the antifreeze amount was low somehow. Hopefully it was just a bad seal on the cap. Still, driving this morning, without being able to turn the heat on... ugh! (I tried turning the heat on... what's how I realized that the radiator was probably empty... because the air was coming out icy-cold.) Fortunately it was cold enough (-4F) that the engine didn't really overheat, it was just going towards the red zone when I pulled into the auto shop.
My toes took several hours to thaw, after the ride and then the walk to work.
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caughtinside
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Damn. The winter crags are all too hot here. Greased off the proj Saturday. Spent the next couple days in the gold country. Wine tasting in short sleeves and a mellow camp.
I think the only good climbing in the us might be Smith right now.
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dr_feelgood
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caughtinside wrote: Damn. The winter crags are all too hot here. Greased off the proj Saturday. Spent the next couple days in the gold country. Wine tasting in short sleeves and a mellow camp. I think the only good climbing in the us might be Smith right now.
It seems like this winter has been universally disappointing. Everyone who wants snow and cool temps: denied. Everyone who hates winter: bukkaked with Old Man Winter's gigantic load.
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I think the Creek might be prime right now too.
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dr_feelgood
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caughtinside wrote: I think the Creek might be prime right now too.
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granite_grrl
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climbs4fun wrote: granite_grrl wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: Sunny and 60. I'm wearing shorts and chacos. Fuck you, February. My car barely turned over this morning. Checking the weather at 7am it was -23C (almost -10F). It's great that there's ice, but I don't want to go climb it. Gross. There's no justifiable reason to be that cold. I'm sitting outside on my patio with no shoes, t shirt and glass of wine. Love it!
Gross is also the word I choose to use to describe this weather. Supposed to be cold all this week and warm up a tiny bit this weekend.
Going from gross to unpleasant....whooo!
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granite_grrl
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camhead wrote: More EC cold tawk. Yesterday, while all teh facespace feeds were blowing up with OG it's so cold here, my crazy ass GF decided to try to kill me by going backcoutnry skiing. There's this cool old run in Northern Mass that was built back in the thirties (by the CCC under the WPA, Gawd bless FDR), which was the site of some of the earliest ski races in the US. Really cool place. Except that when we woke up at 5am to go do it yesterday, I looked at the weather and saw that it was going to be 25 mph winds and a windchill down to around -30, actual temps around 0 (F, nawt C, Canuckians). GF didn't care, she was just like, "we'll put on an extra layer!" Bad drive up there, fortunately the roads were deserted, because the wind was throwing us all around on the icy roads. Horizontal snow, bad visibility. It was a Nor-easter, hopefully we got our everything ready. Getting out to rig up was without a doubt the coldest I'd evar been. Got a tiny bit warmer once we got into the trees and got the cardio up on the hike, but my fingers and toes never thawed out on the 2000 foot climb. The wind had stopped once we got to the top of the mtn, fortunately. But my weakass legs were so trashed from the hike up, and I'd been going so fast because I wanted to stay warm that going down was sketchy; no muscle left to slow me down. I snow plowed a lot, no dignity. The record in the 1930s for the run was 3 mins; it took me about 20 I think. Got back to the car, the sun was out, and we were in a better mood. Cracked some beers because it had gotten up to a balmy 3 degrees. But seriously, I'm fucking sick of being cold awl the thyme.
Yore gf needs to understand that sometimes it's just too fucking cold to play outside.
Nathan and I did get a bit of climbing in on Sat and Mon (long weekend in Canada). Nathan trained on Sunday, and went outside briefly in a t-shirt so we could get a couple of photos of him being outside in the gross cold in a t-shirt, but that was it. I got on the hangboard briefly to try to get my tendons used to hanging onto anything other than icetool jugs again.
Even though Saturday and Monday were just unpleasantly cold instead of gross cold (well, Monday was borderline) we were still fucking cold. Only went out for half days in the afternoon. Layered like crazy (puffy pants ftw!). We're not used to this shit right now.
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