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Idle conjecture is the hamster that makes this website spin!

It isnt going to rain or snow, it's gonna be daytime high of -2c with clear blue skies and FAT ALPINE ICE

Also if you implement user pay and fee demo type stuff then the impetus is on managers to maximize user numbers in order to maximize revenue, which is a recipie for overcrowding.

Maybe if they closed the valley off to car traffic at the tunnel and made you walk in there would be less tourists and hence more space for climbers.

PiYP doesnt require you to belay with anchor below you though does it?

Green flash? You bastard! I've been looking for that for years!

I have taken a 4 foot static fall on a daisy chain while aid climbing. The anchor was not a pair of fat bolts - it was a piton stack consisting of a Z-ton and two baby angles. I did not break my back or rupture any organs, or even bruise my side. I wouldn't recommend it though.

Maybe it was the official 3rd party verifiers for Dan -.

Dude that's alpine rock climbing in SW BC. Well, mostly. None of those things need get in the way of a good climb... mosquitoes die, wet rock dries, vegetation can be removed... By the by the 10th anniversary of the Edwards-Spagnut ascent is this month if I'm not mistaken.

Hotter = dryer= more frequent fires = the time between burn cycles gets shorter. Until the trees don't regrow and we are left wiuth cactus anyways I guess. Can you get a cactus fire?

I think Muff ywon the contist becuase of her increddibly ideo sin cratic spelinng style! Although I bet if cuteness wasn't a factor Fejas would have won, that guy could misspell "cat"

Ok, what about climate change? Important to ice and alpine climbers maybe more than bolt clipping crag monkeys. But are forest fires increasing in frequency? Smith, Skaha, Peshastin, Icicle have all been burnt recently...

So you don't think Fee Demo is in the top 10 Matt?

Saw on ukclimbing.com Sounds so typically British, Oh I say let's sit around and listen to leading climbers debate the issues.... and charge admission... What are the biggest issues with the "State of PNW climbing?" Bolts next to gear? Loss of access? Dangerous trad routes stopping the development of sport climbing? Prana tops? Dwayner's silly Yakov Smirnov pictures?

Magic X vs. magic

I bet they'd love that if you posted it here

i think the shockload would partially compensate for the lower distance... but I think you are correct. When RP's came out they recommended using them in series as a shock absorber... sew a crack up with 6 of them, when you fell, the force would pull or break the first 4 or 5, then the force would be low enough that the 6th one would hold you

Don't go ruining my good hypothetical situation with some sort of weasel logic here!

Midway is a sport climb? Anyhow I seem to recall you can get a gear belay in the top of Damnation or something...

I bet DFA is sooo jealous he doesn't have sexy scars from his GriGri.

...and when you have a climber hanging on the rope with an ATC or Pyramid, and you are trying to feed rope to/from the other climber?....

If you are sitting on ledge with bolts at your feet - blame the dumbass who put up the route. Can you name a real live, actual example of such a route to support your hypothetical what-if?

RIP Rodchester

if you can call the Scots painting their asses blue and raising their kilts "resisting" Gowans?

Muffy won! :-X