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Did the freaky deeky with my woman at the base of the Cerebrus Gendarme in Zion. That was good times.

Yeah the AAJ needs to get on the ball with that. Look at Canada. There hut / hostel system rocks (except for that little prick working at the hostel in Lake Louise who told us to stop sorting our gear because it was too loud and the no nudity policy in the sauna, that one italian hottie was about to strip for me too).

Yeah but atleat Vogue ads have hot chicks in them. They should have a climbing mag that just has Brittany Griffith and Rachel Babkirk and other hotties who crank. To hell with all that other bullshit. I'd subscribe.

probably because its just a big informal party. And of course because MattP said he was going to be there.

I'm not even really into surfing, but the best magazine out there is Surfer's Journal. It has long high-quality articles, unique and amazing photos. Interesting sections on off-beat topics like surfer-art. Not a bunch of spray about what the latest fab surfer idol ate for breakfast. As a whole it skips the hype and offers a true, down-to-earth, content oriented presentation. I think most mags including Climbing and Cock & Lice talk down to the reader assuming you are a follow-the-crowd, worship the climbing idols poser. The mags drop more names than the MTV music awards. They just assume I want to go to the latesy Ouray Ice Fest stand around and socialize bullshit competition gathering. There needs to be a climbing mag that follows the Surfers Journal lead and focuses on content, the soul of the sport and not the hype.

Any of Pete Boardman or Joe Tasker's books are rad. Those dudes were tough. They spent a lot of brutal cold time on steep technical ground in the Himalaya. Changabang anyone? Anyone who wrote a book about that whole dumb-ass tourist death thing on Everest gimme a fuckin break. That whole fiasco, like the scene on Everest, is the antithesis of climbing and isn't even worth the paper its printed on.

Pope you're a stud. 1. Shooting Gallery on Mt. Andromida (as practice for Andromida Strain). 2. Anything else rad in the Canadian Rockies 3. N. Face Nooksak Tower 4. Central Pillar and Central Coliour on Joffre 5. Life on Earth on Habrich 6. Fun cragging with the homies

Everything that is wrong with sport climbing

There's a lot to be learned from sport climbing, but I find that too often those that only "sport-climb" tend to take themselves much too seriously. Flash you are clearly not an exception to this stereotype

Sweet! More well-thought-out wisdom on "how sport climbers do it"! That's what we need more of around here; some solid generalizations about how petty, egotistical, and stupid sport climbers are. Its not overgeneralization, its called the truth. Sport climbers do not have as much experience with the variety of climbing techniques as those who engage in the many other disciplines of climbing. There's a lot to be learned from sport climbing, but I find that too often those that only "sport-climb" tend to take themselves much too seriously. Time for beer

In the dumb-ass gym lead cave you have to stand in the right place and shit so as not to get the rope in the way of the leader. Sport climbers are way serious about their belays because, well, they don't have anything else to worry about and they have to blame someone when they keep falling on the sloper to the monodoit crossover after the fourth bolt.

Yeah its nice. I rarely go to the gym anyhow. Its about a block from school and I go at night sometimes. Daler - I think that's a pretty good point.

I think he tied in with boline around his waist

Underhyped: Index Cascades have the most variety and in every discipline of climbing (except maybe ice) something that's world class.

I agree with you Matt and Lambone (to some extent), except that this gym down here in San Diego is the most ridiculous unsafe ghetto affair ever. They don't even have top-rope belay tests, there's almost more spinning holds than good holds, and I've never seen them change or wash there holds once since I've been here. The employees stand around with their thumbs up there asses and its like pulling teeth to get them to do anything like give you a lead test. The instructor didn't even see if we were doubled back or tied in correctly or were belaying right. With inconsistencies like that how can you expect your customers to take anything seriously? Atleast in the Seattle gyms they're consistently anal. Oh and I skipped the bolt because the first I did clip was at my knee and I could reach beyond the second one to get to the third one. It didn't even occur to me to clip it.

Regardless, the Selkirks and surrounding mountains are fucking big and dangerous. On both of my ice climbing trips to that area I've been avalanched on. My good friend's dad died skiing there last year in a slide in the Kicking Horse backcountry, right in front of my friend and his sister and brother. It doesn't take much for big shit to cut lose there.

My roommate and I failed the lead belay test at the gym last night. Our effort culminated with the nazi gym worker bitch storming off yelling that she'd had enough because we were clowns and not taking it seriously enough. I was skipping bolts on the two foot by two foot grid bolt wall and Matt was using footholds from the red route instead of the white route. Too fuckin funny. We made a big scene in the gym and the gym bitch was crying and getting flustered and shit. She fuckin flipped out when I skipped one bolt. Then I hurt her feelings when I told her it was a hell of a lot more dangerous that the anchor you clip into at the top to lower from is a single bent gate carabiner. She wanted me to wait a day to take the test again since I had failed for skipping clips. I said bullshit we're both here now so I'm going to climb the route again. Holy Shit all this time I actually though I knew how to lead climb. HA!

If you've ever been too drunk to fish you're probably white trash, Also if your home has more miles on it than your car you're definetly livin the WT lifestyle. http://www.mulletsgalore.com/

WT don't climb, they go rappelin'

If "tastelessness" was the standard for being booted off this site, Lamebone should have been gone many times over.

How come no artistic interpretation so us stoopid people can picture it without reading all those words and using our brains to imagine what it looks like?

Most fun climbing memory is the summer-long climbing road trip with my girlfriend after college. It was 105 degrees in Zion and shit inside the truck would melt when we went climbing. And we still managed to do a handful of routes there. Our dog got bit in the nose by a rattlesnake in eastern Washington and the whole front of his body swelled up so much he looked like a fat St. Bernard. We sped around Yakima in the middle of the night panicking the dog would die looking for a vet. When we finally found one he said there wasn't much to do and the dog would be fine in a couple days. After that we just laughed at him because he looked so absurd. Then we went north and spent three weeks in Squamish, climbed in the N Cascades and went to the Bugs. It Also drinking PBR and climbing at the Smoke Bluffs with Erik, TimL, and his buddy who thought we were all a little out of control. Then going to the Squamish pub and hanging out with Dru and having a safety meeting in the van.

Thanks dude, a couple of the triggers on those Aliens I stole from you will need repair soon. You really should take better care of those things.

Anyone know how to get Aliens repaired? I've got an old green alien with a snapped trigger wire. Its in good enough condition to get it repaired and then take big whips on it. Does anyone know if you can send it to CCH for repair and how much it might cost?