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the issue inflation comes from the fact this route is basically right on ther wilderness boundary or maybe even outside it depending on whose map you believe... maybe they should cut a swathe like the canada-usa border so there is an on the ground line showing on which part of the mountain it is legal to build a trail or place a bolt

A crag where most of the bolts are placed on lead, or were placed on rappel but by trad climbers, silly!

Justifying ones job is a matter of doing something so that one appears to be working. Such as inflating a non-issue like Infinite Choss into a serious issue with closures and such like. I am talking more generally here of things such as the Twin Owls in City of Rocks being closed to all climbing so that tourists can experience the Oregon Trail experience without seeing any intrusive climbers climbing a rock. You can bet some dim bulb with a government job or a position on a NGO thought that one up.

Granitorite????? There are four types of rocks sedimentary (sandstone limestone etc) igneous intrusive (granite, granodiorite, monzonite, gabbro, dunite etc) igneous extrusive (basalt, andesite, ryolite, tuff etc) metamorphic (gneiss, quartzite, shale, schist etc) Sedimentary rocks are sediment (dirt and/or sea floor ooze) that has been hardened and solidified into stone Igneous intrusives are lava that cooled sl;owly below the ground Igneous extrusives are lava that cooled quickly at the surface (plus ash and so on which isnt really lava) Metamorphic rocks are sedimentary or igneous rocks that got altered through heat, pressure and burial over the course of geologic time. There are good and bad rocks to climb on of every type. The Audobon Field Guide to Rocks and minerals is a good book for the non-geologist that will also help you look for gold and gems while bushwacking up a creek bed.

A helmet is usually thought to be very heavy, but when one is attacking a castle or something similar, and arrows, bullets, large rocks, great pieces of wood and the like are coming down, it will not seem the least bit so.

= land managers don't like looking at bolted crags and draws next to trails even though tourists do.

some chick in a prana top stole my heart does that count

Once a group of ten blind masseuses were traveling together in the mountains, and when they began to pass along the top of a precipice, they all became very cautious, their legs shook, and they were in general struck with terror. Just then the leading man stumbled and fell of the cliff. Those that were left all wailed, "Ahh, ahh I How piteous!" But the masseuse who had fallen veiled up from below, "Don't be afraid. Although I fell, it was nothing. I am now rather at ease. Before falling I kept thinking 'What will I do if I fall?' and there was no end to my anxiety. But now I've settled down. If the rest of you want to be at ease, fall quickly!''

Well the unfortunate problem is that land managers aren't tourists, but have to justify their jobs.

In Yui Shosetsu's military instructions, "The Way of the Three Ultimates," there is a passage on the character of karma.' He received an oral teaching of about eighteen chapters concerning the Greater Bravery and the Lesser Bravery. He neither wrote them down nor committed them to memory but rather forgot them completely. Then, in facing real situations, he acted on impulse and the things that he had learned became wisdom of his own. This is the character of karma.

al-Qaeda got their hands on one of the COBRA weather control sattelites..... COOOOOOOOOOOOBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

yeah gee, go figure, dude wants to solo a 14a so he rehearses it first until he has it totally wired, so he doesnt slip off and crater. punter!

i didn't know Prana made bivi sacks!

I figure the Mallards might be some sort of Sandstone only piece. But WTF I have a dozencrack-n-ups, i use those first.

1. Father Figure is 12d nowadays according to der guidebook. 2. No, but the other ones have been kinda bouldery and arguably highballs... 3. No, but see above. The Fly 14d and L'Archipel 14b/c have been soloed but both are very low cruxes. 4. He has never told me

You know something? Tourists like looking at climbers and as far as I can tell they don't seem to mind seeing bolts and draws hanging on trailside climbs.

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no no, take your rock skis and make cracked jealous by screeing 2cm of slush over rubble

dude more like backpacking and SNOW CAMPING in the areas you list. it was a high of +3C in Edmonton today. most of the Rockies except for Banff got snow.

"Any other animal, when you hunt it, will run away and hide. Well, except the dodo, and look what happened to them. But a chicken, once it's hiding behind a bush, will go "Cluck, cluck, cluck" so you know just where it's hiding. I never felt bad about killing and eating something that dumb." - Bob Wilson I say, I say there boy! I'd like to check out Pam's perfect symmetry there!

i have 3 of each but have only placed beaks. they seem to be way better than peckers - less leverage and natural hooking. is this really the case? also wtf is up with pika mallards? have never found a placement they will actually work in.

QC or HG. S?

DOES THE ROCK WARRIORS WAY make you POST LONG SECTIONS IN ALL CAPS too?