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Please don't use this forum as a chat room. Thanks

if you are just going to follow some ropegun why would you not just top-rope at the 'next' level, bring your same plateaued friends and get everyone out of the rut.

I am sorry your cat is so unwell Carolyn.

print screen (button on top row of keyboard), copy to paint, save as jpg, upload picture. HINT: hide all porn windows on desktop before print screen, or crop out of jpg before saving.

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for full disclosure the uppermost pillar was brittle and insubstantial dry icicles. We were scared off and bailed from the high tree out right. We should have brought more rock gear. I am optimistic about the quantity of ice remaining in shady and high locations around and about. I spotted someone climbing The Groke on Saturday too ... I hope they thought they were making an FA, because I can't imagine being enticed by the guidebook description to bother wading the river and hiking up there.

good job Don! Here's some pictures from Duffey's Delight, same day.

I think the movie was actually based on the play

we aren't in the habit of creating special forums to cater to the idiosyncrasies of individuals - except pirates. If there's something seriously dysfunctional with the geographic organization and ease of browsing through and finding info you want we are open to discussions of other ways of setting things up. So far I haven't heard any complaints that people don't know where to look to find info on conditions in Canada ... It's just a forum title, is it really such an important thing that someone should take it personally?

and banned. armchair quarterbacking, anonymous judgementalising, jerk with superiority complex. You fail to convince me that the new member "unethicalhiker" is going to contribute anything of lasting substance or value to this bulletin board. So either re-think your motivations for wanting to participate here and register a new ID with a better attitude, or just piss off forever.

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you mean the title of the forum? it is already British Columbia/Canada ... it's not British Columbia, Canada. It's not Western Canada, because this is the forum for Eastern Canada too ...

if you are trying out Superfeet, try a bunch of different sizes, not just the ones that are "your" size. I ended up getting the best support and comfort out of a pair of size 9Mens trimmed down to fit my size 5M ski boots.

Penny Lane requires a gear belay, it is one of the few that does. Med to Large stoppers, various sizes of cams all work. There are options. Traverse left 25' on the top slab to the rap chains. 2 raps on a single to the ground. Neat and Cool cliff may have more options in your range, slightly less sunny, more bolted top anchors.

well, if you think you might have herniated or slipped a disk then you should probably see a medical professional. If you never do these lifts except every few weeks when Coach says go heavy then it's not surprising if you wreck yourself on them. Injurious shearing forces at the knee joint and lower back might come as a consequence of loss of engagement of posterior musculature (Glutes and Hamstrings). Not having seen you perform the lifts I can't say whether your form is good or not ... but if you are wrecking your body, then your form is perhaps not as good as it ought to be for lifting those weights. And your "strength" in these areas is not real if a test of it is followed by days of crippling pain, so you aren't losing anything. IMO fitness and strength are lifetime goals, 2 weeks rest dropping my 1RM by 15% doesn't mean a hell of a lot if it is the difference between independence and mobility for the rest of my life versus the wheelchair and nursing home. I have more thoughts, but perhaps I will leave it at that ... I hope your pain is just a temporary post-workout thing and you feel better soon

Moderator note to smartasses: not every thread needs to be made into a joke. This post is a reasonable topic for discussion.

are you one of those people who only squats to parallel? What's heavy? like 1RM-heavy-cannot-possibly-move-more-than-this, or heavy multiple reps? how often do you lift the "Big Weight"? What's wrong with complete rest?

Are any of those ice routes that are way to far away for me to ever get out there to climb anyways forming up this year? Any pretty pictures to fuel my disappointment?

can someone (mod/admin) go add some line breaks between Trogdor's pictures so this thread is not a horizontal scrollfest????

I followed their measurement guidelines and was generous with the sleeve length, and when I got it the sleeves were 2" short of my needs. I sent it back, they fixed it per their right-fit guarantee. I think it is good value in a softshell jacket if you are a build that does not fit the typical ready-to-wear shapes and sizes. It is not my ideal jacket in terms of small details, but so far I have been happy with it and I like it better than what I could have bought for the same price at MEC (eg. the Hijinx softshell jacket)

I just got a Beyond Fleece softshell hoody. It is nice, but has several features that indicate to me it was not designed by a climber. I had to return mine to get the sleeves lengthened, because when I raised my arms up they pulled about 2" down my wrists (despite adding some extra length to the measurements I provided them), even with the extra length now, they are 'just' long enough, and there is still a bit of 'stretchy' type resistance when I reach up to make a high swing with my ice tools. The front handwarmer pockets are situated such that my harness blocks them. And there are barrel locks sewn into the bottom hem on either side - which are going to be painful and probably wear holes in the fabric if I do any climbing where I scum my hip against the wall, or fall over on ice or whatever.

The couple that tried for Hell Creek got turned around at the first rock pools, and went to Marble instead. Rambles Left lower is very thin. Use your rock picks, and watch for dinner plates at the top of the rolls (I popped both tools and fell 15 feet into a snowbank ). We went up the left line mixed gully thing which was good, but also thin. There is lots of ice in the Upper Right cirque, at least on the wall - the rock slab 'floor' is just thin snow and kinda sketchy to approach. The Column is in well, though aerated at the bottom, and dry yesterday, Not the Ben looked like a recipe for blunt picks. White Room is thin icicles and drools which looked fun. The Curtain wasn't touching down but was wet and forming still. The Dihedral has lots of ice from the corner extending way out right across the slab, though some looked like snow-included crap down low. The very top of the Dihedral was blue and wet. The Tube is not continuous ice to the top, it has melted back to rock and detached. Storm Brewing and Mumu Man have the most ice I have seen since the FAs but Small Creep is a gushing stream ??? ... it is a weird season for sure.

1) the ROM in the shoulder of a kipping pullup is actually greater than a static pullup, due to the extension of the shoulder as you swing forward. 2) it requires more coordination, and involves more muscles to be activated. Neurologically it is more challenging. 3) you can do more reps in less time = more power output. Which essentially means you can get a "cardio" workout from an upper-body dominated movement pattern. Doing high rep sets of kipping pu's is akin to sprinting. 4) at the bottom of the movement, due to the swinging motion, the force on your hands is actually slightly more than body-weight, so it trains your grip more than a static pullup. it's not a replacement for static pullups, it's a different exercise.

caught on film yo ... someone is slipping in keeping spray up to date with the IMPORTANT news ....