thelawgoddess

quote: Originally posted by glacier: Hey, LG, did you make the Spankers show? naw, i wussed out and went to bed early so i could get up at 6am and go climbing. i've seen them the last three times they came to town, though, and have lots of their cd's. they are spankeriffic as all heck. don't ya think? (and do you really kill people for pay?) trask, i do definitely want to learn some aid climbing, but first i want to learn how to solo lead.

can you get juliette lewis to play me?

yeah; after checking the forecast this morning i figured i might as well stay home. seattle has a better chance of being dry sunday/monday ... for once. gotta learn how to aid climb one of these days!

sometimes you can climb pigeon shit on the upper holds at vantage.

i think it was mentioned before, but pulling a v4 in a few seconds up a boulder is different than pulling v4 up a route on a wall. i think there are a lot of boulderers who can climb really hard "route" stuff if they wanted to ... but for some reason or another they just don't.

what about "just do it"?

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Although really a more appropriate name would be Mt. Szechuan Potsticker cause that is what it looks like if you squint. canadians crack me up ... and make me hungry!

Hope this wasn't already posted ... Climbers hit by lightning atop Grand (My apologies if it was!)

quote: Originally posted by b-rock: sometimes this comes easier or harder depending on a lot of factors - how tall you are, how short you are, yeah; a v8 for one guy might feel more like a v14 for another. when you hear about "pro" boulderers being able to pull v10, they might have only pulled 4 or 5 of them; it doesn't necessarily mean they can just walk up to any v10 and send it. aside from trying to conquer very classic problems, their secret is to find the ones they *can* conquer.

thanks for the topo! (i've been wondering about that route!)

quote: Originally posted by iain: Isn't it Ha Ling now for obvious reasons? i really don't see anything wrong with the original name, but yeah; i think it does have a "more pc" name now. after pitch 1 you can combine the rest into 50m pitches (and 19-21 into one 60m pitch). got my own helmet, thank you.

i would like to go do this climb ...

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: You might as well move to Squamish. I think I have been rock climbing there 3 times ever. tell me the way and i'm SOOO there!!! i've been so many times i've lost count ...

the last four times i went to squamish i had at least a couple of people rave to me about this route. apparently it's already a classic!

is that a challenge? i can lead 5.9.

cool. so, who wants to climb this with me sunday or monday?

what's the 5.9 a0 pitch involve? i've yet to do any aid climbing ...

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Squamish is a spring and fall destination...it is primo alpine climbing season right now. thanks for sharing your opinion. when's the primo mixed alpine climbing season? not that i'm done with the sport climbing yet ...

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: Every week? Go find a mountain there's two mountains pretty near there that i'm dying to revisit ... just got to wait for the snow to adorn their flanks. besides, once i've climbed everything up there i'll be ready to go somewhere else.

like cavey said (sort of) ... golite gear is superb for what it's made.

heh, heh. i like the "one biner for pro (squamish mutipitch slab route)" comment.

quote: Originally posted by jkrueger: If you read the fine print on the box, you will see that Chris Sharma is not actually included with the shoes... dammit all to hell!!! and i thought i'd finally found the PERFECT shoe ...

i found the right size anasazi lace-up, but i think i want the velcro. any hints on how much smaller to go? (i'm used to the super-stretchy mythos so i'm nearly clueless here!)

um. yeah. thanks for the words of "wisdom" ...