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I did that two summers ago. I kicked my toe real hard on a rock. Like yours, it wasn't noticeably swollen, but it hurt pretty bad and I was favoring it all week. About a week later, it was sunny outside and I convinced myself it was the LAST SUNNY DAY OF THE SEASON (even though it was only September), so I headed out to Little Big Chief Mountain. The approach starts with like 6 miles on the Dutch Miller trail and I didn't leave town until like 9am 'cause it was a spur of the moment bag out of work deal. So, the point of this is, I had to go fast, so I was trail running and f**K if I was gonna wear big heavy toe-protective boots. Of course, I stubbed my toe on roots and shit real bad about 3 or 4 times. A couple of times I had to sit down it hurt so bad. Fast forward ....moral of the story, the toe felt better the next day than it had the entire week before!!! Go figure. Just thought you'd like to know Oh, yeah, that big toe doesn't have full range of motion anymore (but I think it was like that before I mashed it) .

From the website it looks like they aren't even meeting at the upper Alpental parking lot until 6AM . So all you need to do is be walking by 6am and you'll probably beat them there. Leaving at 5pm might work too.

Kiss those lucrative climbing mag editor jobs goodbye

AlpineK had the BEST party-stopping story about that kind of thing. Put a fitting cap on the removing your arm from under a boulder conversation. Ask him about it at your next social gathering .

What loose block?

It's much more difficult to create a makeshift stickclip device with an old stick and a pair of handjammies! Handjammies don't work as well to attach a water bottle or disposable camera to a biner or sling. And BTW, I don't know about handjammies, but you're even if you tape your hands, you're still gonna get gobies on your knuckles and elsewhere.

I have some old bieners with sticky gates I found in the weeds. Dave, the point of this gear swap thing is to get rid of old stuff you no longer use, not to trade away the best part of your rack.

lighter works pretty well

I REALLY hate this one: "Better to retreat and live to climb another day!" almost as much as "I'd rather not push myself, as long as I get to spend a beautful day in the mountains with good friends, I'm happy."

For this very reason, it helps to round up at least two CC.com posters for these climbing blind dates.

BRING YOUR OLD GEAR FOR SWAPPING!!!

Bring your kid's rock shoes (and other tradeable items) to the BBQ tonight!

RIGHT ON TEX!!!!! MORE CLIMBING TALK. DO YOU ALL YOU NON-CLIMBING PEOPLES WANT TO GROW UP TO BE TRASK OR SOMETHING. thankyouverymuch hope to see y'all at the BBQ tomorrow.

Did you fall off the edge? Climbed on Friday at Exfoliation Dome. Warm in the sun, cccccold in the shade

Yeah it's like watching that "Classic Trainwrecks" video.

chalk is for pussies

Yeah keeping the heels down is good. Yes getting more of your foot to support the weight is key too. But this is basically just a key of climbing in general. Find ways to stick there without taxing yourself.

Can you play pool while metatarsally disabled? That's what I'd do, if my feet were broken. I'd play a buncha pool. It would probably be a good hustling ploy, to be hobbling around on crutches. Pool. yeah Like jordop said, the projects will wait. Think about it. A fine schooling in the art of billiards could serve you well in your later years. Think of it as training. Or darts. Darts. yeah

CBS, The best way is to keep shifting your weight back and forth and climbing up and down. If you can get the weight totally off of it and stretch it, it helps. Also important is to breath and GET A F8&*IN' grip. That is, calm down. It seems like just being able to focus a few seconds on the shaking limb is enough to calm down and stop the shaking. It is a hard thing to do when you're wanting that stopper in RIGHT NOW, but you're not going to be placing a stopper either if you're using the alternate strategy of shifting your weight around.

Carolyn, Just make sure you clip a part of the rope that is between you and the last clip. Draw orientation doesn't really matter as long as you're not using those deadly dogbone draws. If you're really concerned about the rope unclipping, then just clip with gate-opening down, then flip over the 'biner to be gate-opening up. Of course, this would be difficult if you were using those stupid stiffy dogbone draws that hold the biners tightly in their little dogbone jaws of death . Norman, Elvis Syndrome is explained in the attachment above. You should just buy your kids more flavored sugar water and learn something.

Special Ed correct on both counts . Tecate's even worse than Guiness.

That might be "Fee Demo Wall". 4 or 5 1-2 pitch slab routes just put up last year (5.9-11, I think). Others on this board would be able to tell you more.

That's right. Just ask me Hang out with Crusty and broken bones are in your future.