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I've never used a Bachar Ladder, but it seems you can get a similar training stimulus using basic nautilus equipment, ie. one armed lat pulldowns, wide grip lat pulldowns, and, my fave, typewriters. These things build power-endurance fast! If you're on the dole, take your pvc back and build a campus board! Prolly cost you $20 for the hardware, if'n you go minimalist. I built one years ago and got alot out of it. BTW, I built a 6' by 8' adjustable woodie for pretty cheap, with much of the savings coming from making the holds myself out of wood. With wood comes another advantage: skin-friendly work-outs. Actually work out until fatigue makes ya quit, not skin pain! Good luck. [ 09-03-2002, 03:23 PM: Message edited by: sexual chocolate ]

How were they rude? I've never had a bad experience while at Feathered Friends, although I've hardly met everyone there. Most seem to be very friendly and cool, including my friends Tracy, Todd, and Jeff. Who was it you had a problem with, and what was the problem?

quote: Originally posted by Retrosaurus: Everything in the Omak area is on Colville Indian Tribal lands and is privately owned. Access is tenuous at best. Please don't go blundering around there and f* things up for the few locals that have acquired permission. Actually, this is not technically true, since the best bouldering is indeed on private land, yet not under Native control. A local climber purchased the prime bouldering area, and wonderful it is, but access is limited, and requests have been made to keep the location off the public airwaves. Sorry for this lack of disclosure. I think that there has been development on the canadian side, though. Ask at the climbing shop in Penticton. Good luck.

How 'bout Graham? Has he had any luck with Realization? I heard he was over there trying it again.... It's funny how a V13 barely raises an eyebrow any more. I'd have to agree with Dwayner's Dwaynerness on this one. Who cares if Sharma added a friggin' V13 sit-start to an old problem in Yosemite, although I hardly think it was a news-flash to the degree which Dwayner presented it to be (thedeadpoint.com? com.on!). Sporties are so....Sensitive! And traddies are so....Dumb! And chocolate is sooooo....Sexy!

So I got a new set of power tools! Don't laugh, but I got the Ryobi 18 volt super combo, with a sawzall, drill, circular saw, and spotlight! All for 169, with Home Depot's REI-style guarantee! Let the house remodel begin, hurray! And the basement gym, hurray! Oh, and I also got a new framing hammer, the Blue Max Pro by Vaughan. Also a cat's claw nail puller. And a miter box and saw. And a 6 yd wheel-barrow. And a barbacoa! (That's Spanish for Barbeque!) And I got some other things too. Hurray hurray!!!!!!!!

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: quote:Originally posted by AlpineK: "Fuck da police coming straight from the underground...." NWA rules Whiter than white guys that love a group with a name like "Niggers With Attitude" crack me up. Why? Kinda ironic, huh? It seems as though the whole point of a black man co-opting a historically derisive term such as "*" is to render the term meaningless. It's kinda like a big "fuck you" to the racists. Maybe other things , too. In NY, there are Jews who call themselves "Jew Boys". Now if the Jew Boys put out a fucking universal album that speaks to sumpthin in ya, would you make fun of a non-Jew who purchased said album and "loved" it? Or how 'bout The Kikes? I hear they fucking rock! See what I mean? But I think I also understand your apprehension, considering I used to have it too, before I got comfortable hanging out on the streets more, and came to understand the "big picture" a little better. BTW, have you listened to Whitey who raps like a muthafucka? He's got this new joint that busts shit up, man, you know who I'm talking about. Everyone's favorite, M muthafuckin M.

Hey I'm sorry Captain. Just fucking around. My bad. Ever have mornings like that? Peace

I think you should quit drinking. Now.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: MInd your own business butt chocolate No, really.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Wanker you obviously never climbed with me and my padnas. We fucking drink and party all night and puke at the base of our climbs and on route. My best climbs are with hangovers I think you have a drinking problem.

And while you're at it, tell Mtngoat to fix his software. It keeps putting these little * things everywhere. I try to read his dang posts, but every third word has this little * on BOTH SIDES! I've heard the latest LibertarianSpeak Software pack has done away with that, because it was deemed an imposition on the will of fellow internet users. And I say good riddance!

Hey, I heard someone say bolts are the work of Satan. Is this true? If so, this truly concerns me. What is your opinion?

quote: Originally posted by offwidthclimber: oh. i've always been curious... what are the general ratings for some of the classics at the UW rock? coach's crack? off fists crack right of coach's crack? finger crack on the east end slab? any of the other cracks at the rock? Coach Crack: 5.10? Off-width: 5.10? Finger crack: 5.10+? Most others between 5.9 and 5.11, with the short overhanging finger-crack by the water-side slab definitely 5.12?

quote: Originally posted by pope: Most impressive high-ball I've seen: on the Stadium side of the tower, the left side of this face (between widening crack and left edge), no rocks for the feet! 24 Hour Tobacconeer. Only hard at the start (hard is a relative term...). A new one's being worked on that eliminates about half the rocks. Truly frightening with potentially serious consequences!

Does everyone know Coach Crack? It's the good hand crack on the water side, furthest east wall. Layback the left side, features only for feet, no crack for feet. A good one! V4?

How could I forget?!?! 12 Gauge IQ at Rhythm and Blues cliff! Would anyone argue if I called it THE BEST sport line at Index? Also, Dwarf Toss is pretty damn good. It's the free version of Snow White, just left of Princely Ambitions.

I think what happens often is that violence becomes institutionalized, ie. violence is inherent within the structures of a particular society/culture, and because it has become "part of the scenery", many are oblivious to it and its effects. Then when opposition occurs, violence becomes much more apparent to the oblivious bystander, yet the mechanisms of the institutionalized violence have a self-protective mechanism built in (denial), much as what happens in the smoothest running dysfunctional family (everything is blamed on the individual who points out the dysfunctionality).

Oh my gawd! Did I just sort of call you a right wing fanatic? [ 08-26-2002, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: sexual chocolate ]

"I do not agree with these protesters on nearly anything they say, I agree they have the right to protests, but when I see people *stay* at a barrier and *intentionally* face cops for long periods of time, they're not choosing the peaceful route IMO." I suppose you would have been opposed to many of the tactics of the civil rights movements, such as sitting in the front of the bus, ala Rosa Parks, because it's "confrontational". I personally don't like the idea of protesters being herded into smaller and smaller "containment" areas; wtf, last time I checked, a protest usually occurs in the vicinity of that which is being protested! The peremptory tactics being employed by the ones making the policy decisions are, I believe, just adding fuel to the fire, further drowning out the voices of opposition. When a segment of the population feels itself to be voiceless, unheard, ignored by the corporate-owned media, and then pushed even further by COPS WITH GUNS, aka stooges for power-brokers (left or right), then yes, we will, predictably, have violence. Check:civil rights movement, War of Independence, Boston Tea Party, Romero in El Salvador (assassinated by US cronies), Daniel Ortega, etc.... For a "libertarian", you sound dangerously close to an ultra right-wing fanatic....?

quote: Originally posted by slothrop: Whoa, is this "Coach" guy the same dude I've been calling Captain Aggro? He looks like he's about 40 and deep in midlife crisis, wears shades and has a sort of fledgling mullet. I saw him race a dude on a bike across the grass behind the UW rock once, grunting and screaming like a wounded wildebeest and running a lot like one, too. Yes, that certainly sounds like the traveling side-show. He may assume the characteristics of a raving madman, which he is, but I believe him to be quite harmless, and a warm human being to boot! BTW, a classic: as you face the wall from the parking lot, it's on the slightly overhanging face right of the tallest middle wall. Texture only for feet, dyno from the huge block head high just right of the crack, to the big block in the middle of the face, and then to the top! (Scary!) Remember: no rocks for feet, so no fair mantling the starting block!

Sheeesh! What's with all the hate? Coach is a fixture, a one-man carnival, a traveling freak-show, there for our amusement! Appreciate him, before they get him. Shhhhh, keep it secret!

quote: Originally posted by Off White: quote:Originally posted by Fairweather:

The Razor is ok.

Is there a new Leavenworth guide coming out? And if so, who's putting it out? I've got an old route from years ago we never reported, and it's always been misnamed and misrepresented in all the guidebooks. I'd kinda like to get our version in the book, finally.

I know you got 'em.... Which ones are memorable to you, and why? I'd pick something called Nothing Dies on the very back wall facing the water. Sit-start on the lowest jug on the right, texture only for feet. Straight up to Marx, left hand out left to texture, move feet up and left, bump left to Double Crimp. Hard match here. Once matched, move right foot to good texture just right of the crack, and throw right hand to Stalin, definitely the crux, by far! Took me a long time to finally stick this move (body tension). Feet up, layback and reach Jaundice side-pull with left, right foot up, match on Jaundice, dyno left to Hatchet (easy), match, throw to Big Block, and say "Right on!" Also, 24 Hour Tobacconeer.