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because the guidebook writer is disrespectful of Eriks style of ascent and proclaims it to be invalid by recording later ascents as the first, thus declaring the earlier ascent to have never occurred - much the way the death squads "disappear" enemies of the state. it is historical revisionism.

i heard the Mountaineers are going to start an Introductory Sprayers class this winter. The class will cover what to wear, safety techniques and history of spray. After completing the course graduates will be allowed to post to cascadeclimbers.com. An intermediate course will cover writing trip reports and posting photos. The advanced course, taught only to the most qualified and talented students by experienced guides, will cover trolling, drinking beer and creating avatars. Beginning students will practice on a keyboard that is not connected to the Internet, for safety reasons. All students must affix a piece of tape with their cascadeclimbers.com user name to their monitor and leave it there at all times in case they need to be rescued.

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Ground up style is totally valid. I know a Quebec dude who makes a point of never reporting first ascents just leaving a sling somewhere on a line so that 20 years from now when the climb is repeated someone will know that it has already been climbed. That said I do believe in reporting of new routes no matter what style they are ascended in, otherwise it can be hard to tell if a dirty crack has been climbed but not cleaned, or not. I have made my share of 2nd ascents believing them to be firsts and only later found out the truth

the long break in for the freneys was due to the rubber rand i think. once i got em good and stinking wet ice climbing in the winter, the leather softened up and they broke in faster

a lot of my cheep score pins have MEC $1.95 price tags still affixed

for stacking pins against

then I would actualy have to WEAR my helmet and color coordinate helmet, shorts and polypro

by the way, if you ever wondered what a snaffle is,

you could write it on a piece of tape and put it on your helmet

I'd walk a mile for a Snaffle.

i have been climbing the hell out of my scarpa freneys for 2 years now and aside from some rand damage they are fine except they took about 6 months to break in. i even walked into prusik twice in them when they werent broken in yet, boy was that dumb. i figure im gonna need to re rand them in about another 6 months to a year.

I think, of the peaks visible here, one or two have actual names.

wow, to think big peaks like these went unclimbed for so long.

Where's The Dru?

the thirst climber would rather be than belayed

there was a wolverine sighted in downtown Squamish this year

pagetop junkie

that's a crack. it may expand but so do large cams.

Steve Harng has the Cumbre and says they are good for everything.

there is a bolted crack on the cover of the new guidebook

i have tulips on my organ frequently

just paste the link

it only takes half an hour to walk down

kinnickinnick but just see www.erowid.org for the whole details on can and can't do .