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Anybody been following Doonesbury the last few days... No helmet, first time in 30 years.

But if the sandbagged party makes a successful ascent/onsight of said problem (i.e. the '5.9+' was actually 11b), then they sent it as the coveted 'Sandbag flash,' perhaps one of the most honorable ascent styles (with bad info/beta being of less value thant good beta), even if the beta provider was dishonorable in his/her information.

I admire his focus - he is a machine, but one does have to question the logic of progressing through the grades by doing one climb of each, e.g. Propaganda (one summer), Californicator (the next summer), Chronic (ongoing)...

I know, I'm so ashamed.

Georgie gave me back $870 of deficit-spent dough. Was a bad 'merican and put it into savings rather than consuming it to death.

Is he up to 200 attempts on Chronic, yet? I'll have to hit the after work sessions to follow the epic.

And a photo montage of the nation's top cop... John, we hardly knew ye

Peeps... better than Gu.

Her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...

Daddy, why did we attack Iraq?

... besides, you totally left out of the story "Polypro-and-Shorts Man soon realized that if he was going to continue to get it on with her, that he was going to need to add a couple of items to his '10 Essentials', after she mentioned Low-Angle-Slab Man's '10-inch Essential'..."

Wow, the Tori Allen of 8k meters....

I think I saw parts of the movie several years back - in that vein, I have read Alas, Babylon, and Warday.

I was just going to post that, too. That would be a ghostly ride.

5.9+ or possibly 12a, either or.

Here's a primer on the French Bowline ... of course, the context for use is a slightly different 'sport.'

I took a couple of t.r. runs on it on Sunday - it had been several years since I was on it last - I think that the slab moves past the last bolt are a bit stiff for 11c- I found nothing but a pair of terribly thin crimps while I did the Roadrunner with my feet until I could get them up to decent smears. But it is an Index 11c, after all. I actually had much more trouble on the final thin crack move exiting the slab. And this may start some terse discussions, but I think of Index's grades as 'redpoint' grades, i.e. it's 11c if you have worked it out and know exactly how to do the moves, rather than an 'on-sight' grade, which I consider a bit softer.

to the dog or the owner?

I cut a notch into it, too.

There are a good handful of slots in the Escalante area - I explored a few back in college. I don't remember the names of the canyons right now - some are in the guidebooks, but many are left for adventurous souls to find on their own.

I just file a couple of deep notches into all my metal gear.

and the flowers in 'The Wall'...

Alright - the best, true story I have is of a friend (fellow occasional poster here) and my buddy Jesse going up to do Liberty Crack, essentially as their 1st climb together (other than a day at 32). They are a few pitches up, and as Jesse starts to lead out on the free cracks above the roof, my friend looks up and says, "Hey, you ever notice on the big 'biners if you turn this collar, the gate doesn't open?" Took him totally by surprise.

Smiffy!