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summitting Hood is hiking, not "climbing"

are they letting skiiers post in the rock forum now to make up for rudy posting drivel in the freshie forum?

of course it happens. sport and trad climbers coexist nowadays, and sometimes even interbreed

The evidence for Neandertals and Cro-Mags coexisting for a long period of time is rather contentious though, right? The DNA studies imply one thing, there are some hybrid fossils that imply another, and no one can agree so everyone stakes out a position based on a personal opinion

Yes, Vancouver's Rastafarian

Oh and 4) Scott and NOLSe get a room

Seems like there are 3 camps here. I summarize. 1) Bolts are a defilement of Prussik Peak. There should be no bolts on Prussik (except maybe the rap anchors for the standard route). Placing bolts on this trad alpine crag filled with crack systems is just wrong. 2) There may or may not be something wrong with these bolts. For instance, if they were placed with a power drill, or they are next to protectable cracks. But if that is not the case, and these bolts are out on an otherwise unprotectable face or arete, then there is no problem. 3) Bolts are good. Bolts on Prussik are fine even if they were rap bolted with a gas power drill right into a crack filled with helpless baby snaffles. I guess there are some nuances... like if you think rap bolting is wrong and that if the bolts are placed on rappel, even if by hand and not near any cracks, then they have to go...call this position #1.5

Not just hobbits but oliphants (pygmy elephants anyways) and Smaug (Komodo dragons) too

People are so hyped because Homo Erectus, in the Flores version and H sap coexisted for hundreds of thousands of years. This totally overturns the rapid replacement hypothesis and the Out of Africa dogma. It's not any different than finding a live Sasquatch - this is one of the most interesting and paradigm-shifting discoveries in anthropology in the last 100 years. Also finding out that these "hobbits" had a chimp-sized brain but made tools and fire expands the boundaries of our knowledge of what is possible.

You must have missed where JoJo was all Canada Shmanada the other day

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m511.gif

it stands for Ex-Lax

what a great non sequiter i gues the chalk quote is from a photo that wasnt included in your cut and paste?

He traded in his checkered tablecloth for a tuque... eh!

Giant squid eat manatees. They mistake them for baby sperm whales. You can't have both!

This is the only first hand info in the whole thread. It seems like some other people, who have not been there, are trying to discredit this information based on their own opinions.

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Monkeys climb MUCH harder than you do. Johnny Dawes bribed some Indian monkeys in Hampi (banana) to get beta for the local boulder problems, but he didn't have the power to weight ratio to pull like they did.

Even a bad hobbit is better than no bit at all.

maybe you've been steaksauce'd

Don't worry, Florida will be inundated by sea level rise within the next 100 years anyways. Unless they go Dutch and build a huge dyke, and what will the manatees do then?

There are some cool articles about this find here: http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html

If I want that type of thing I can look in the Gear Guide or whatever. Even though it, like the UK "reviews" is full of untested, manufacturer-supplied bogus weights etc. My point is that UK reviews, like Gripped mag reviews, will never say anything bad about a product even if its a bullshit PoS, because they depend on ad revenue. So you can't trust what they say, and have to assume everything sold is crap, even if some of it might be good.

Bozeman, Shmozeman

Its pretty good in Chilliwack ---> man in the moon gone red in the face