texplorer

Greetings hardboys/girls, I am looking for a solid partner to get on the Yoakum ridge this next winter. If your into climbing frozen choss then give me a pm or reply here.

I place biners on all my cams despite having to sometimes clip long runners in quite regularly. My reason is simple. If your on a 5.9 or easier where you can stand there all day and fiddle with your placement things are fine. Hell, I guess you coud even girth-hitch slings together and use only one biner per piece. However, if I'm climbing something at the upper end of my abilities I don't always have the strength to hand out on a pinkie jam and smeared feet and place gear. By having biners on the cams already you can eliminate one or sometimes two steps and in the process save lots of energy. I also found that when I put runners over my shoulder inevitably that hand was in the crack and I would have to find some way to switch hands to remove a runner.

I am Ray Borbon!

Saw a guy at Smiff this last weekend with a "moondance expeditions" hat on. Hmmm......

Greg Crouch puts a pretty picture on the last page of the new rock and ice and now even boulderers wil be hikin pads up there.

quote: Originally posted by scot'teryx: quote:Originally posted by Dru: I thought you downclimbed N side, what is rappel route, optional or what? Downclimbing the North Side would suck, and we had to do that inbetween one rap station but that was it. There were a few goat trails but I think they were for goats only I guess going up and down the "sucky North Side" in running shoes would be kinda stupid then .

Yea, but do your classmates fuckin riot in the streets?

Jens, is there anything you haven't done?

There will most definetely be alot of chossy rock at the top. When I did it in late summer a few years back we were able to traverse right to a snow slope to the summit. Oh and watch out for Cougars.

All of a sudden a flurry of lcyra and antipersperant chalk flew in my face and I was taken down. Not since the snaffles back at the farm rioted on me had I been subject to such raw brutality. The events of the next couple of hours are blurry. I seem to remember clinging to micro edges, climbing faces with not a trace of a crack, and connecting into the rock by these silvery bent washer-looking thingies. Just as the sun was setting I managed to crawl back up the trail back to the Outback parking lot. I attribute my being alive to my trusty Carharts and a bit of sheer luck. Later in the evening my spirits returned and I was even visited by some crack fairies from yosemite by the light of the campfire. My spirits were up but my body was still week. Luckily I dug through my pack and discovered the delicacy of the gods-Yes, I had brought horsecock (or DD to you old schoolers). With each bite I felt stonger and stonger. I knew the next day I would be back on the cracks of the lower gorge. At first the jams hard but by the end of the day that familiar Marley tune was in my head and I was sending. It was a momentous day. Other CC.comers were there to support me. There was quite a show of the north people. Though I have had few experiences with these hard and mysterious people I think through careful negotiations we will have many partnerships. They lived up to their noble image and the peace pipe was passed many times that day. My southern folk also displayed fine character. yes, it was a good weekend despite my abduction by the sporto horde. We had a bast and all you gapers who missed it . . well so what if granite is better. Adieu

Well, another outstanding show of wankism this weekend at sporto land. Raw tips, crowds, cc.com groupies- yes we had it all. Still a tad bit warm but some were baked all day.

What has happened to the term once used as fluently as snafflehound and horsecock?

the worst partner I ever had was a Iranian dude from florida. You think I might have known better.

I think I used to be a bold trad leader really running it out. It allowed me to climber harder grades but at the expense of safety. Now I still run it out but I'm a much better climber so the risk is more reasonable now. In another note: Some of my first "climbing" experiences were as an adventurous backpacker soloing up short sections of rock probably even as hard as 5.9. After I started climbing I became more conservative and would always rope up for such climbing but now I seem to have come full circle and am drawn to solo things now that I wouldn't have dreamed of before. Go figure?

It's the cougars you need to watch out for dude.

Hmmmmm it seems someone has penetrated the my alais and posted some crap for me. Let me expound on this post. I do not even own a tent, I never want to do the south side of hood ever again and I eat horsecock, not beanie-weanies. But, if any little hottie wants to climb some sick trad alpine I'm your snafflehound.

Where are all of you guys going to be climbing? I want to head out to the marsupials as it's the only place I haven't climbed everything 6 times or more. (under 5.11) But. .. . if I have to get on magic light for the 20th time I guess I'll just have to do it.

I would say most climbers forget to include opposing muscle group exercises in their routines. Everyone seems to want to do more pullups and work the flexors of the hand and fingers. More emphasis should be given to opposing groups to balance your body and help prevent injury. On the other hand most of climbing is technique and not power. I just got back from a trip in which I was climbing harder than I ever have to find that my overall strength in the weightroom was down by about 1/2 from 6months before when I was lifting regularly. As far as cardiovascular training goes; the more you do the greater the benefit you will see. However, your body can only take so much and your performance will start to drop if you do not allow for ample rest time. A typical program is to train every other day or train six days a week alternating intense session with easy sessions. Texplorer - not a CSCS

-you pretend to attend college to get student loans to fund your next climbing trip out of the country -you laugh at those people who have jobs and have to get all their climbing in on weekends or in that one week a year -you can easily find the "obvious descent gully" -you own a burgerking cup that has seen 100's of refills at more than a few different locations -if everything on your rack should be replaced and your pack has numberous duct-taped snaffle-holes in it -the girls in camp 4 actually start to look good -you start talking about "easy" .14's -you count on snafflehound filets as an alpine meal

- your so accustom to powdered milk you drink now even when you have access to a fridge - you rarely surf this site and then only at public internet facilities on the road -your name is fred beckey -more to come -I've got to go to class

Yep, the O crew (Oregonians for you wankers) will be at smiff rocks where despite highlanders remarks also has some fine basalt cracks to flail on and yes the wonderful tuft. It's been awhile since I clipped bolts so I figure I'll give it the old college try again and dawn the lycra for some gay sport action this weekend. (ride depending)

Yos the shit. Fun climbs, cool people, and the beer is cheaper than water.

Chepe has is on post #69

Dear mr. Shredder The National Carhart Wearers Association cordially requests permission to use pics from the CC.com website in a new ad campaign promoting our organization to the climbing community. We recently noticed two studly gentlemen in a photo posted on the site. We are willing to pay you 10,000 dollars for your photo which we believe captures the essence of which Carhart stands. We would also like to use the people in your photo in another shoot we are doing with a group of supermodels in Thailand. Thanks again, Billy Carhart

Yea, and RGH neon is so out this year. It's all about earthtones this season.