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mental vs. physical difficulty. the more in shape you are, the easier it is to get your head in control, on sketchy stuff. but even if you are a zen master like guy lacelle, if you are not strong enough to chuck a 6 foot horizontal dyno off an ice tool, you wont be doin musashi. i also like how on wills gravsports website on the topo for howse of cards, he adopts and one-ups the Backes/House topo style for M16 by noting "NO BOLTS NO AID" probably the first time, such a big route was climbed on a rockies face not using any aid!

I rate tex's post

& this one still up for grabs. a 3 star climb possibly in the gorge at smith the flake at the bottom is a dead giveaway if youve done it

double on that thai guess. phra nang? dont know the names of any routes there.

yeah they have a good deal, $5.99 CDN for 36 slides scanned to disk.

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jordan you will not get the last word ever in this thread so stop trying.

Vomit Launch its already been solved!!!!! read be4 you post!!!

yas when you are 2 days up it sux to drop a tool. not like your belayer can tie you off, go get it and throw it up to you, like happened one time on musashi!! incidentally, you can see in the photo of siguniang, that paul ramsden was using uMBILICALS!!!! negative style points there even if they did just win the piolet d'or for it!

ben firth did the 3rd ascent. leashless wearing carhartts!

when you belay your buddy on windcave for 2 whole hours while he sketches out you tend to remember what the hole looks like.

there have been lots of similar linkups in the past - like weeping pillar, polar circus and curtain call was done in a day in 2001- that actually sounds physically harder but less enduro to me- but many climbers (like sean isaac) refuse to climb under seracs which removes slipstream from their consideration. wheras, when ben firth says musashi is twice as hard as a m11, then DAMN THAT SOUNDS HARD!!!! i would have put howse of cards, and Eric Dumerac's route on Kitchener with 50m of WI7+/8, 30 degree overhanging ice, on contender for both ice and alpine climbs of the year. the latter has a low to non existant spray qquotient tho so i bet the climbing mag did not even hear of it..

windcave!!!

hey joshK i normally use a spoon, rusty shared needle and candle.... oh you mean shoot PICTURES with CAMERA gear... eh a pentax and fuji 100 slide film

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you should say 'which is a more impressive effort on ice tools' cause musashi only has about 10 feet of ice at the end. quite honestly when you look at all the talent that tried musashi and couldnt do it i trhink it is the harder of the 2 to pull off. i have no doubt gadd, house, and lots of others could also do the fast linkup. there are lots of guys in the rockies that can do any one of those routes in under 3 hours so the big deal is getting the rappels and driving fast enough to link them up. i am surprised project mayhem was not nominated in the walls category although i guess he finished it last year if its in this years aaj. and fa quantum mechanic as a trad contender? maybe yuji or alex hubers onsights of it are worthy but i doubt the fa was.

remind me again who invented the chalk bag that went right on the belt so you didnt have to hang it off a heavy oval biner

ok get out the books then. it has 3 stars!

then the answer is maybe if it isnt at tieton river

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No fucking idea. Post something with chipped pockets next time! would it help if i told you ryan whatshisname put it up?

where is pure palm again upper lower or middle gorge.