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Top of the foot. I kicked a rock really fucking hard while trail running the other day. I think I seriously aggravated a very minor stress fracture I used to have when I ran alot. And now its not so minor.

Unlikely to get the barfies clipping bolts in 75+ degrees at SMiff. But maybe it could be a new ice beer.

I kicked the shit outa that snaffle

Frozen barflies = tavern patrons in Barrow, Alaska

Submersing my broken? foot in ice water for 20 minutes then taking out again for 20, then repeating hurts like hell. Its the frozen barfies and I'm not even ice climbing. Fuckin-A.

mountainmagic.com has Canadian prices and good sales and still ships to the U.S.

Free Soloing at a challenging level is a mind game. Its beyond words. I don't think you can make any generalizations about it. Even though I enjoy soloing at a certain level, I wouldn't attempt to figure out what goes through Dean Potter's or Peter Croft's head when they soloed Astroman or Twight when he did the FA solo of Virtual Reality. The amount of focus and mind control is beyond my comprehension. Some climbers like Bachar and Henry Barber soloed for an audience and were motivated by competition. Yabo was more like an out of control dare devil. Is that different? I don't know. It pisses me off when people try to say soloing is this or soloing is that. You can't fuck up, you'll die blah blah. No shit. It is what it is. Leave it alone.

Man I almost got gored by a buffallo in yellowstone when I was there skiing once. Everyone says don't worry about the bison in the winter it takes to much energy for them to chase you, blah, blah. I was out skating on this snowmachine track (don't ask me why) and came across two huge motherfucking bison playing? or fighting? maybe but they were jumping around and butting heads right in the middle of the track. Finally they chill and this dude in a snowmachine tries to pass them, and I decide to go behind him. Then at the last minute I decided just to let the dude go. And he gets up to the bison and the buffallo chases his ass. Dude revs the machine and bairly manages to escape the fuckers horns. I'm like oh fuck standing there in my lycra and shit. But I'm getting cold as hell so I just ski by and the buffallo is eyeing me and grunting the whole time. I don't think I've ever felt as vulnerable. Except for when that one chick put rufis in my drink, but thats another story.

I like the life-size snaffle. But a picture of your Aunt Tina would be cool too.

You can climb so much shit with a set of cams, some nuts, and 4-5 tricams. They're good to place right off the belay so you can get something in even if the placement is a parralell crack and don't have to burn a cam. Downside it they're hard to place, but I think you have to be good at it, which I'm not.

Sick technique. You must be a guide. Do you BASE?

The only reason you don't have a Venereal World belay card is because you failed the test

black bears will always run away, there more scared of you. I'd like to see someone try that shit with a Grizzly or Alaska brown bear.

good call

Both styles are cool or somewhere in the middle. As long as your outside enjoying the mountains. I prefer going fast and shit but that's just because I'm high.

Some people pack sleeping bag and bivy sack I pack a half rack PLC takes an extra set of cams and thinks its the shit Fuck that I got my Rasta bivy kit

What happened to E-Rock's poignant observation?

Fern's right. The best "Style" is the best and funnest way for you and most conducive to the route. Sometimes that involves taking it easy and setting up a sweet basecamp at an alpine lake. Sometimes that involves challenging youself to see if you can do a certain route in a day car-to-car. And more to your point, Juan, about in-a-day's being more dangerous - on hard alpine routes its much safer. You wouldn't want to take three days to do Slipstream. You want to get in up and off as quick as possible. Personally I like to do most routes in a day if I think I can. Its not about spending less time in the mountains but about the challenge. Then I can spend the next day lounging around the alpine lake if I want - or I'll just pick a route with a long approach that requires the full two or three days.

Who?

Oh right, I think I misread it the first time. My bad.

Well, Realization at the Ceuse was hard and all, but I found Action Direct much harder. Though some of those gritstone E10s were a bit more scary. Its a tough call but I'd have to say 5.10 mossy choss on Bridge Creek Butt was hardest.

If "they" find receding hairlines and beer guts attractive.

Wait till you're older. Then you'll be looking forward to that "special annual event." Get some! Feels just like pussy juice! And I thought JB was the SEX MACHINE!!

Birthdays only come once a year. Thank god I don't

you're older than I thought.