Dru

In many cases the only way you can get to the anchor is by leading, especially when the route is steep. In these cases you just can't toprope it! Also toproping is for Mountaineers and gumbies.

Knotted slings as quickdraws is like shorts over polypro.

Prusik in a day Sunday. That way you can hang out with the cool cats at RopeUp on Saturday night!

This Brian Blair is a gay WWE wrestler

Or the Blair Witch?

Ignore all those cautious people advising you and jump into leading as quickly as you can. Darwin will apply and either you will 1) die or 2) become a good trad leader.

tree killer!

knotted - length can be changed, and can be tied around things sewn - length cannot be changed and can only be put around trees, chockstones, etc by girthhitching which uses 2x as much sling as a knotted sling would. try equalizing two bolts and a rap ring using a sewn sling... but i agree, making runners out of knoted slings is like writing a tr in cuineform on clay tablets. there is a better technology.

knotted slings are way better than sewn slings for rapping off things, sporto not every climb comes with a convenient set of chains at 30m

See here for the same phenomenon in biology: Intelligent design given equal time with evolution

http://www.peak-berlin.com/index/ueb/i_klemmkeile.html they suire sell a lot of trad gear here!

BAN ME BEFORE I SPRAY AGAIN!!!!1 oops sorry. OK for reals now. I think moderators should be the users with the highest post counts. At the moment this would be: Dru Iain [Cpt Caveman would be here if not banned] Greg_W catbirdseat muffy DFA One could hardly imagine a more diverse group than that.

rack of equalized s holding nuts

Boykoff, M.T. and J.M. Boykoff. 2004. Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press. Global Env Change 14: 125-136. In this article, researchers did a content analysis of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal for the period 1988-2002, and found that adherence to journalistic balance leads to biased coverage of both anthropogenic contributions to climate change and resultant actions. They found that the majority of coverage (53%) gave roughly equal attention to the view that humans were contributing to global warming, and that other view that exclusively natural fluctuations could explain the earth's temperature increase. They also found that this trend towards informational bias has increased with time. By looking at the year-to-year distribution of coverage of anthropogenic contributions, they found that while in 1988 and 1989 the focus was on the anthropogenic contribution, by the release of the IPCC's First Assessment Report in 1990 the emphasis was moving towards balanced accounts. From 1990 forward, authors explain this shift by the politicization of the issue and the coalescence of a small group of influential spokespeople and scientists that emerged in the news to refute these findings. These "skeptics" have been very influential in the climate change debate in emphasizing uncertainty and delays in action. Boykoff and Boykoff conclude that there is a significant difference between the scientific community discourse and that of the press regarding both anthropogenic contributions to climate change and decisions regarding action. Discuss

Yeah, if being restricted to 25mph didn't piss him off then the guy tailgating sure did!

isn't that rock super super soft? ihear it makes Peshastin seem like granite.

w00t

no one who can afford a full rack of cams needs to ask what they should buy.

There were a couple of hordes... Genghis split up the original horde amongst his sons.

you need - a set of nuts. get whatevers cheapest. mod to large hex sized thingys. you can't afford a full rack of cams. whatever brand is cheapest. red pink and brown tri cam. this is also cheap. a couple of cams - to supplement hex and tricam placements. get whatever cams you can afford. you can never have too many cams. when you buy a full set of nice cams later you can keep your first cheap cams as supplemental pieces. i still use the #2.5 rigid friend i bought 13 years ago!

you think Genghis only had 60 guys in that Horde? Pshaw

THE NODDDER OH MY GOD!

Prussiks on rope in event of fall can slip and melt.

Here is a photo of the Oregon supercrack. The only granite in central Oregon!

Pinky is the best