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alright sorry i thought you were being mean. but about the difficulty of a route: often the problem with one crux move versus the same grade problem with no distinct crux but many similarly difficult moves gives me more problems, but I guess it's all subjective, isn't it? it's all climbing!

You don't make sense, kid: Since when did a one move V7 become easier than a five move V7? and don't bitch-talk either, punter. if someone's climbing V2, bfd. i don't think your in a position to be smacking on anyone for their lack of climbing ability.

Chavez brought it on himself.

Reagan and Bush weren't in the loop.

Nixon was framed.

I forgot to mention that the happies and sads are usually climbable, regardless of the weather. they are more protected from the wind, and lower, hence warmer. i find both places to be super fun, with steep and athletic climbing on pockets and edges at all grades.

that bad, eh? can't wait to see the new you....

Check the extended forecast; usually the weather is pretty stable down there. If it snowed that much and it remains cold, you might not be topping out problems in the buttermilks....

Ahhh top secret, yet right under your nose, pope. As a matter of fact, I'll guarantee that you've walked within twenty feet of the big line, and within fifty of the shorty. And MisterE, different cave at a different locale! Although yes indeedy the one you show is super fun too....

Oh pope you poor puppy you. you don't have a clue as to the beauty of how well those lines climb. absolutely the best steep sickness that i've come across in this state. the big cave above is looooooong and oh so full body, and the shorter one is really just an extended boulder problem at twenty moves long, but what twenty moves! you see, i get the best of both worlds: alpine AND super-delish sporto overhanging happiness!

everyone got issues, and yeah they probably did.

What, your goals? I recommend you start here: hey that might be fun too, although i don't think i'll put it on the goal list. so what are your goals poop?

Ugh! How do I resize??????????? (Whew!)

I think 2006 deserves its own thread. My goals: Redpoint this: And this: And a couple of things at Index. Oh and hang a 1/2" edge one-handed for 5 seconds.

Is climbing an activity that is borne of love, or a need to prove one's self-worth? I see both motives at work within myself, and perhaps everyone I have ever climbed with. When it becomes more of the latter, my climbing goes to pot. I become more competitive with others, I don't wish for their success, I harbor resentment and crappy feelings about myself, and all I can dwell on are the "failures". It seems pretty funny when I'm out of that cycle, but during it, it sucks!

poor editing, page top fool!

Hitler's arms must have been tree-trunks from carrying all the jews to the ovens, and mao's trigger finger got so big he had to have a specially made pistol. and don't even mention pol pot. and when the frame of reference is reoriented, bush is pretty burly too from hoisting all those bunker busters and cluster bombs and napalm and phosphorous bombs on all those iraqis.

Yeah boy the guys you all speak of were a pretty busy group to have killed as many as you are saying they did!

comparisons are odious. avoid them by all means. let them lose all significance.

Perhaps I misinterpreted your intent. I was very tired. perhaps. you had posted at a previous time about one's inability to improve after a certain age, and it seemed to me that implicit within this sentiment was the feeling that this applied to you. don't get me wrong: i don't think "improvement" is the only axis which climbing revolves around; but, if one does wish to reach for a more esoteric level of climbing, then i do think that the opportunity is there for anyone who chooses to do so. i think it takes some willingness to believe that this is possible, and then inspired hard work (and fun).

why? i'd have to say i agree with what dwayner says above.

damn man, rough. tryin' to psych you up and gettin' the slapdown.... I guess I'll stick to posting about knots and shit like that.

Check out this news from across the pond, ya stinkin' thinker.... wadda ya say now, mr.?

I've had a lot of fun at a place called Zipolite, north of puerto escondido, way south on the pacific side. it was a cool mellow relatively unknown international counterculture hippie hangout in the early nineties, but was definitely getting more popular, sadly but understandably. Lived in a hammock under a palapa for three weeks or so (how quickly time went by there!), bodysurfing and diving and relaxing and eating awesome local seafood, all for a few bucks a day. Worth a visit I think, if you're in the area.

that's fucked up. my dad was a scientist, and he was kidnapped by a dinosaur. you suck. i can't talk to you anymore. your a very bad person. whatever.