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I helped install one of the two pitch routes toward the south end of this crag. We guessed it to be about 10a. The first pitch starts in a corner of sorts and then face climbs up through a slight overhang. The second pitch climbs a face on positive edges to the top. The originator of this route, Eric Hirst, also put in one or two others I never climbed. There were other people developing routes at the time. Susan Bolton knows more, but last I heard, she wasn't talking.

"My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things. Whoops, that's it folks. We are out of time. Sorry. Mahalo." HST

is that Mt Baring? Is there an Arete climb on it? Looks like some slab ice...anyone ever checked it out? Oops, sorry, it's a "prow" Dolomite Tower-Prow Route V, 5.9, A3 or "A new route established by Brian Burdo, at considerable effort and expense, ascending the north arete of Dolomite Tower. 13 pitches."

My cannabis farmer post was legit. In certain places in this country (Humboldt County, CA for example) pot farming is a big part of the local economy and many people use it as their livelihood. Those who choose the crowns of redwood trees as the site of their operation use ropes and jumars for tending to their crops. My post is more on topic than the software developer, used car salesman or climbing gym manager posts.

Cannabis farmer specializing in potted plants nestled in the crown of old growth redwood trees.

Lars forgot the Andy Rooney attribution.

An acquaintance borrowed my ledge and while his belayer sat on it, pulled a flake off Uncle Bens that punched a hole through it, inches from slicing his belayer in two. Not a route you would think of as having a death pitch, but Susan almost got the chop on that one.

Your expert opinion.

I would like to read Pope's essay.

It was a rented tux! YES! I knew it!

What is so secret "for legal reasons" about John Wayne wearing a tux to a Frank Zappa show?

Sister Forcepfingers I presume...

Double shot of Myers on ice with as much juice as I can squeeze out of a lime.

Now THERE'S a resemblance.

John Wayne, in a tux, at a Zappa show?

The similarity is... ...not working for me.

Coincidence? His first name WAS Marion....

Eat the insoles of your partners well-used rock shoes.

It's closer than you think...

Da-Cat for president!