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At first I thought climbing was boring. My best friend in college got into it, and I'd tag along to the UW rock and try clambering around barefoot, not really getting what the fun was. After I got my first pair of shoes and learned how to use them, I was able to do the things he did. Then we started making up harder problems, and that's what hooked me: having a vision for the seemingly impossible, and then through effort and inspiration, actually doing it! It's the same thing that still is the biggest intrigue for me about climbing: Vision, inspiration, effort. Doesn't matter if it's bouldering, sport, or trad; the appeal lies in the inspiration provided by vision.

Dru, the world gets a little too complicated if one takes their cultural blinders off.

Ummm, I think Feathered Friends sells such gear.

Oh crap, we blew it on Sunday. Olympia beat it though. Oh well, maybe we started another run Monday, and now we only have 29 days to go!

Hey didn't we break the record for consecutive rain days today? Isn't that reason to celebrate?

Ahhh and the irony is that Ronnie died years ago, whilst Daniel Ortega is poised to take leadership of Nicaragua next year. How quaint. And now Mexico might follow suit with the real revolution. That which one forcibly tries to eradicate just has a way of popping right back, doesn't it? Maybe because so many zealots here refuse to understand reality, locked only in their ideological dreams?

yer always so picky. what's up with that? btw, happy two year anniversary.

three to six moves is plenty if you're focusing on power, which is prolly what the book is talking about with this routine. i would imagine the book recommends those moves to all be near your strength limit? if yer wanting 5.11 trad stamina, i'd focus on 6-10 move V1's 2's and 3's, running timed laps on them, and doing it a few times a week. i think your book might talk about it.

It seems he doesn't need much money or anything at all. Just, as you said, he wants to be left alone in his room. Scary. The main problem though is not just the lack of interests and poor grades, but never ending lies. What is he lying about? Is he feeling like you're on his back all the time? Maybe he never feels like he's listened to (some things you've said make me think that this might be the case). I really think a good family therapist might help, someone who can help everyone, including your kid, get a voice. It seems from your posts that right now things are really tense, and I don't think anything positive will come out of that, if things aren't calmed down a bit with the aid of a third party. And the tough love stuff people are preaching? I think it'll breed more resentment; I know it would (and did) in me, especially if it's just a continual effort on your part to impose your will on him (which it often seems be all about, gaining control over another.) But then again, trying to get him to go to a family therapist with y'all might be something he's not into, and not ready to open up to at all. In which case you and your wife should go.

I think it depends on what you're aiming for in your climbing. What are your goals? If you want to have the endurance for longer moderates, 5.9 stuff in the hills, then the above suggestions should help.

Mostly nudie pictures of your mom and girlfriend from back in the day... The upper crust has a finely tuned sense of aesthetics, as I suspected... They aren't something to appreciate, I take it?

Sean Kemp is supposedly in shape, and putting the word out that he wants back in the NBA. I think the sonics should pick him up and see what happens. Go pittsburgh.

I would never trust my life to a product with an unknown production methodology and a history of failure. Here we have a product where TWO production failures (brazing failure is an assumption of production failure, and will continue as such until evidence suggests otherwise), and no(?) public statement? I can't say I have any confidence (as of now) in their product, and cannot trust my life with them.

Do you really think "bounce testing" is a strict enough procedure to assure the integrity of a cam? I highly doubt it. I've always been nervous about the integrity of brazed stem connections. I wonder if any other manufacturer has had brazing failure....

yes and doesn't that change the emotional tenor entirely? like the difference between Bach and Satie.

It is true though that the phrase "93 days of rain" is more oppressive emotionally than "93 days with rain". Try it out! Experiment!

Dru that's a really good point and i thank you for clearing up any misconceptions. people were getting pretty confused.

Yeah article is wrong. Google it. I missed most of the rain while in Thailand. People were pretty grumpy when we got back.

November '98 to March '99, 93 days of rain in a row. We've got a long way to go....

I think climb some routes well within your ability, ones you might even consider soloing, while placing much gear; then have an experienced climber follow and give you feedback. If you have a mind that sees these placement situations clearly, just a couple of hours or less might be enough to get you started. If you don't, then take as long as is required, and be honest with yourself; it is your life after all. Also, I think aiding some easy free lines can help to give you both familiarity with placements and confidence in the holding power of the gear. Actually, with my present hindsight, I believe that hanging on your gear (aiding) for a few days would be an immeasurable asset in developing the confidence needed in one's gear to enable one to climb in a relaxed and enjoyable manner.

And i've also got this stuff for sale, it's called Dr. STFU, and when any so-called Doctors come blabbing around, you spray it on them, and then it like makes them shut the fuck up and shit. it's pretty good and cheap too hahahaha i just kill me man!

What? Last time i checked it was 33 and snowing!

do what they say above. if there is any pain, don't use it. after a couple of weeks, some light climbing, if it's pain-free, can aid recovery. you simply must use restraint, and not pull past pain point. also, deep friction massage can really help. if it's not a passing thing and it's still bugging you in a couple of weeks, it might be worth it to get some treatment. pm me if you want a referral (yeah yeah she's my wife, but she's a hell of a therapist and she climbs (boo hoo not as much as she used to )). good luck! PS. any of you other wankers with injuries should seek her wise counsel and treatment also.

Perhaps gary is simply regurgitating the hurt he suffered as a youth growing up in an overly controlling environment that only rewarded him for his academic accomplishments.

man you are an embarrassmnet. And you know what makes it worse is your seemingly genetic inability to acknowledge your idiocy, displaying instead your ignorance cloaked as a strange arrogance. perhaps that's what you get when you take a socially disabled buffoon compensating for his inadequacies with his "intellect". And for you all joining in his shit? I can't believe your callousness. From gary I expect it, since he has shown his deformity over and over, but you guys? fuck off knocking some deceased miners' families vocabulary skills, as if education is the end-all.