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These are teachings of Yamamoto Jin'emon: · Singlemindedness is all-powerful. · Tether even a roasted chicken. · Continue to spur a running horse. · A man who will criticize you openly carries no connivance. · A man exists for a generation, but his name lasts to the end of time. · Money is a thing that will be there when asked for. A good man is not so easily found. 71 · Walk with a real man one hundred yards and he'll tell you at least seven lies. · To ask when you already know is politeness. To ask when you don't know is the rule. · Wrap your intentions in needles of pine. · One should not open his mouth wide or yawn in front of another. Do this behind your fan or sleeve. · A straw hat or helmet should be worn tilled toward the front.

Maybe the Owls are sisters did you ever think of that smart guy?

Can you redpoint a trail if you pre-place shoes all the way along it and use them as stepping stones?

Don't forget September thru early October is elk rutting season! "Love is in the air!"

According to the article flacco is slang for skinny or weak. I found the article Dwayner is dissing quite inspiring. It reminded me of the article on Kansas climbing. It is good to know that even in areas devoid of climbing those with enough inspiration can find not only climbing, but sufficient material for their ego that the climbing becomes pose-worthy.

flacco

"when the street wars jump off, only one thing to do, grab your gat and squeeze one off."

The way it was reported here earlier was that it was the trail to the base, not the route itself, that is the real issue. Are you saying the trail is outside the wilderness boundary because it is below the contour?

Low grade metamorphism will make gneiss from granite or volcanic rocks, schist shale or slate from mudstone and sandstone and volcanic rocks, marble from limestone etc. If you cook it enough basically anything but a pure quartz sandstone or a limestone will end up becoming a gneiss. This is why all the oldest rocks in the world end up as gneisses. Basically though, none of this is relevant for climbing. All you need to know is that most igneous intrusive rocks ("granites" even though chemically granite is not all that common) are pretty good to climb on, limestone can be good or bad, basalt is often pretty good, sandstone varies from good to bad and everything else sucks! Also you dont get many good cracks except in granites, sandstone and basalt.

Yo justin what about if they only free solo bolted climbs like Alex Huber!

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