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You might ask them, but I'm pretty sure that when Matt did Golden Gate with Chris Van Lueven and Tim Kemple, they did it without pre-placing anything. Matt on Pitch 40 something, Golden Gate 5.13b

I like Canadians...especially that nice chap Marc Emery, he's a good fella.

That's Matanuska Dru, and it's overrated. Blue Rhino is pretty nice though. Jay-Z is USPS gets the When I get home I'll see how big the file is if I compress it. May be able to e-mail it or something. Worst case, I'll have some more blank CDRs sometime next week and mail another one...in a Cliff Claven-proof package.

That's an insult to the Samurai.

I would have guessed pork. Cook the shit out of it.

I don't know that the families would respond well to your flag waving, as they bury the children killed with your tax dollars. Don't fuck with my posts assface. That's not what I said you spineless canker crust. Don't make me Quit your bitchin and start campaigning for your candidate of choice snapperhead.

I like hunting bear...bare ass! When I hiked the AT, the most bears I saw were in NJ, and there aren't even many miles of trail there. The bear population is too big. Whatcha gonna do? Kill a few, only stands to reason. Bear hunting is cool, especially with a bow and if you eat the meat and make a rug...no wasted parts, that's the best respect you can give to the bear. Without a hunting season for them you're only going to have problem bears getting killed by govt personnel because they have to kill them. I'd rather Billy Bob and Joe Bob go kill them for free, than have my tax dollars pay a govt employee to kill them and waste the meat/hide/etc. Let one of those nancy-boy protestors face down a bluff charge when the sucker is rampaging his car in the driveway, or ransacking the garbage can because the population is too big for the habitat. See how suzie feels then.

I don't like BushCo policies either, but I am damn proud to be an American We can always get rid of the junior Bush by this little thing we call democracy. A bloodless coup. Vote!

Don't know why the image didn't display, but check out this site...it's on there with some basic info Enchanted Rock

Enchanted Rock is probably your best bet. It's close to Austin, over in Fredericksburg. It's a Texas State Park. Granite, but there are sport climbs too. here's a pic There should be plenty of info on the web, search for E Rock or Enchanted Rock.

Nice pics. Nothin like a little ice dancin!!

Right on Carolyn! Like Erik said:

I always wondered about you Parker.

Get that dick outta your mouth and speak son. That old "how did this jizz get in my mouth" face ain't cuttin' it.

I see he just donated some loot to the cause and got his SHOCKER!!! Or maybe it was a bribe to keep him from getting banned?

Thanks for the opinion, fundamentalist. Tell Jerry Falwell I said hello. I like the religion

The movie Crumb rules. That family is freeeeeky And HOLY shit!!! His buddy that was chillin' on the seat of nails eating that long-ass piece of fabric ribbon that would be intact through his digestive system. New kind of flossing, that is.

Hell yeah! WAY MOTIVATED. Too bad it's too cold to even ice climb here. I can't imagine how bad the dinner plating gets at -25F. Did a whole load of sets of 12 pullups yesterday. Some sets with a towel thrown over the bar...hanging on like ice tools. Some sets using the close-handed row attachment for the seated cable row thrown over the bar. Some regular palms away sets, some palms facing each other on parallel bars sets. Something like 9 sets total. Some jackasses in the military gym I work out in like to play the one-upsmanship game. I'd complete a set of 12...after having already done a bunch of sets, and some dude who just walked in would walk up and do 14 or 15. "You wanna play suzie? Let's PLAY!" So I knocked out a couple of one arms just to piss them off. GRRRRR!!!!! Testosterone battle. How big's your dick now suzie? MOTIVATED. Six espresso shots RRRRRRRRR!!!! MOOOOOTTTTIVATTTTEEEEDDD!!!!!

I saw a documentary on Crumb not too long ago...the guy is way talented, but he and his family and friends are waaaayyyy out there. Straight up, mama dropped you on your head and fed you pesticide laced baby forumla kind of out there. From what I remember he was living in NorCal or OR and moved to France.

Hello Communist. Your presence is hereby requested at the US Senate, hearing room 141 at 9:00am. You will be participating in a lynch..I mean hearing concerning possible un-american activities under the new Patriot Act. Your failure to appear will be construed as an admission of guilt. Please be on time as the gestap...umm, FBI does not like being kept waiting. Sincerely, Sen Joseph McC...ahh, I mean Atty Gen John Ashcroft

Here's a tidbit for ya: Flagstaff, Arizona based (formerly Boone, NC based) climber Matt Childers has also done Golden Gate, FreeRider, and some .13R trad pitches in the Sedona area. He's also done 5.hard FAs in the Vampire spires, the NC mountains, and other places. Matt's background? A NRG trad climber, Boone boulderer, and Yosemite lodge employee/trad climber during the summers while in college. It's apples and oranges. It's easy to get strong clippin' because you can get in way over your head and get spanked with no consequences in order to get stronger. That's not always a good idea on trad routes. You could make the argument that a 100' indoor gym would be superior to sport climbing because you can totally control the workout and optimize your strength training. After all, look at that Nels Roaassen pig farmer kid from Canyukada....I think he'd only climbed outside a few times and was sending extra hard the few times he got on real rock because he was so strong from pulling plastic. This is

Lots of good advice so far. Personally, I'd never do a wall without kneepads. I prefer the ones WITHOUT the plastic caps because the plastic tends to slide around. I've used the cheap "Bike" brand volleyball type knee pads and they are superlight and cheap enough to be considered disposable, which is good because the foam in these will be shot after one wall. The gel filled neoprene ones are nice, but get slimy when it's hot. They don't lose their resiliency though. My $0.02 on the rack: In Yos, a double set of offset aliens RULEZ! Hopefully your parter has a set to add to your set. Cam hooks, with doubles in the medium. HB offsets in the full range of sizes. Get more biners, you never have enough on a wall. Double gear sling is nice (I like the BD one). Get a good hauler. I use the ProTraxion, but the wheel could be bigger, I'd investigate the Kong that 'Bone mentioned. Gri-gri is always on the wall with me. If you're taking a hammer, take a funkness too. This has all been said before, but a chant speaks louder than a single voice.

He's the world's forgotten boy, searchin to destroy

Not quite that hard, couple letters easier. Seriously though, it's just mindless crimping, one pretty techie move on it about 1/3 of the way up (and it's way confusing in that cave with routes crisscrossing everywhere). I remember before I started working it I spent close to an hour comparing the guidebook and the cave to figure out what went where. I've heard people say Malvado is soft too, it seems to be the first route at it's grade the people tick there. The K-I was a much bigger breakthrough for me, falling a few feet onto a bomber bolt 100 yards from the road ain't no thang.