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Wow! I need to build an airplane!!

It has to get pretty cold to wear anything more than a longsleeve polypro. Gloves and earprotection do go a long way though. And keep a towel or spare change of clothes if you drive out to your trailhead.

BTW, while you were busy taking people to task, I spent two days bouldering and a day skiing. WTF have you done with your spare time?

You wouldn't see many youths out here dressing up East Coast Poser... that stuff stops in the midWest. Yea, last year in Boulder (youth nationals), I saw all the posers with their badazz gangsta wear. The east coast kids stopped dressing like that in, oh, 2000-2001. Wait a couple years. It'll make it's way out there too. Get fuckin over yourself dude. Climbers + fashion?! This is dirtbag city. And even my friends living in Boulder that are sponsored make fun of the Pataguchi crowd. Those cotton rags will last a whole fuckin long time on Flagstaff sandstone or Squamish granite. Get back on your big wheel and tell the Mouseketeers to STFU!

I thought spinless is the qualifications of a bad election campaign manager??

Been checking out Long Beach's web cam and you guys are getting pounded. The parking lot is one big puddle. The main reason I fled to Colo is because of the seasonal monsoon season. To put salt in the wound, we got out and bouldered at Flagstaff and Morrison yesterday and I'm skiing this afternoon.

That's pretty clean granite there. Mox Spires? =) I'm saying someplace in the Sierras.

After the big Glacier National Park hub-bub, I'm surprised nobody did an article like this sooner. For the past four years I've been reading comments here about how much thinner/smaller/broken up the glaciers are during summertime TRs.

Are you guys talking about sumthin like the Ice Flow gloves?

Let's pray it never gets to be like Colorado. I've lived in Colo for three years now and I have yet to go to a resort (although I am heading to A Basin on Wednesday). The main reason I try to avoid the dumbing down factor and the hoards of people that you find at the big resorts. I search out backcountry and get my turns in that way. It would be sick to see a mini-Whistler at any of the Washington Ski Areas. You think traffic is bad now on Hwy 2, imagine if Stevens was able to build a village there. Sure it would be a boost to local economies en route to the resorts. But do you want to sacrifice the summer terrain around these areas? I never liked seeing/hiking past the cabins and old private ski area on Alpental when going to climb Guye or Snoqualmie or Red Mtn. Also a lot of the resorts in Colorado are based where sleepy old mining towns used to be. The only ones I can think off the top of my head that are solely skiing are Winter Park and Copper Mtn. And I cringe every single time the Vail Resorts conglomerate gets the OK from the "World's most un-environmental friendly" Forest service here.

Wow!! That brought back memories. My dad taught me to rock climbing in the Sandias back when I was 10. I haven't been back there for 18 years. I spent a good chunk of my childhood climbing, scrambling and hiking in those mountains. I remember hiking from the base up to the top and it being the hardest thing I ever did when I was 12. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I'm getting in a couloir in the Rockies on Sunday and then hitting A Basin next Wednesday!! One of the great things out here is you can go mountain biking and skiing on the same weekend, in January!!!

SoIll holds are the best on my wall. They're also really cool dudes that called me when I had problems ordering through their Web site. I also like my Atomik mondo sloper brain and limstone sloper.

I can't speak from experience but I've heard durability issues with the Pure's. Also you should know now that you have entered this discussion, I've learned that Dynafit users are fiercely loyal. It might have something to do with the gear. I know if I hadn't already plunked a lot of change down on a pair of AT boots that aren't Dynafit compatable, I would probably go that route. However I can't complain about my used pair of Fritschis with my limited experience on them.

The best climbing in the San Juans is in the SW corner of Colorado!!!

First off it's very sad news about Todd. I think one way or another, from personal contact to the myriad of media out there with him or that he wrote to just being inspirational by his ascents, Todd is a legend in climbing. The timing is odd in that I just read an article on Mick Fairchild in this weekend's Rocky Mountain News. Fairchild has been an installation at Eldorado here for 30 years free soloing. I couldn't help but think of Hersey and how the odds will sometimes catch up with. The clock is ticking on all of us. What have you done today?

Tore tendon in forarm in March. Accomplished no climbing goals. Got my first trad lead of the year two weeks ago!! Did a helluva lot of mtn biking, running and drinking of beer though and still had a good summer.

If your friend pitched, and that pieced failed and he wounded up cratering, could the other party be charged?

Eiger Station is a classic. Also Touching the Void is inspirational. You almost feel guilty watching the two climbers revisit the scene of the whole episode; it's like you're looking in on a conversation you're not supposed.

Rad, I've scrolled through two pages of terrible spelling to find out what pic that was. Still don't know. I'll let you work monkeys figure it out, I'm going mtn biking.

The second picture almost looks like a Photoshop altered pic of Cutthroat to me.

Forgot to add, this is still the best thing out there in cyberspace, dancing Hello Kitties and all!! =)

You can try to have as enlightened of a crowd as you could want, but CC.com utopia will still not exist. People know stupid comments when they see them. And if they get worked up about it, then they choose to.

I got two of those PAS for my wife and myself after reading about how using a daisy can make you push up the daisies!!!

Please somebody explain to me how somebody gets a cam stuck on the Tooth?! Why does one even need cams on the Tooth?! I must admit though I did loose a curved nut on that climb, have no idea how it didn't come out. My partner tried it and couldn't get it out and I tried to free it for 15 minutes when we were downclimbing/rappelling. It was like the rock somehow shrunk after it was placed. To this day, that is the only piece of gear I ever got "fixed".