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Yes. Good Mornings are dangerous! I had a client that hurt himself pretty good by not doing them properly. NOT under my supervision or suggestion though...he read about them in Arnold's Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. Which by the way is an excellent book as a reference for exercises....however the programsdo not pertin to climbers.
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word. just cause you two share a bed though, doesn't make you one.
OH yeah, I believe strongly that Dan Larson sucks Dan Larson Sucks Dan Larson Sucks...caveman's balls under candlelight.
I can't believe this thread is still going. Shouldn't someone mention aomething about smokin' grass or something though. I mean so it stays on topic and makes it all ethical like?
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assumtions assumptions assumptions. Lambone = Bigot, cause he wouldn't let some drag ass korean team pass him. Screw that man. I wouldn't let any slow ass team get a head of me just cause they wake up at the butt crack of dawn, only to have to deal with them an hour later up on the wall. Regardless of their nationality of course. The only thing Lambone's post showed was that people suck! Americans Europeans Austrialians, we are all rude as fuck and in our own ways. People suck..you all suck, blah blah blah.
Long live me and my shack in the woods. 
>> When soloists come crusing by and act as if no one is as good as them... Yeah, people are going to get pissed. <<
But arn't soloists better than every one else?
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The very same guy who taught me to climb when I was 8 yelled at me 9 years later as I cruised past him and his group on a wall. Said I was setting a bad example. However, when I told him I got wehere I was today becuase of what I learned from him (he didn't recognize me), he didn't know what to say. (I think he was actually kind of proud
) We did whined up having a good laugh about it though. It was cool. The same route he once took me up 9 years ago I was now soloing withe ease. I'm actually suprise about the number of people soloing out there. I thought I was a minority. I don't know anyone that solos personally. From the sounds if it by all the replys, quite a few are into it?
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yeah wide grips do work your lats, I never feel it in my lats either though. I think it's becasue like you said, your arms usually fail first. never the less they are still getting worked.
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You and 5 lonely Koreans on a bivy meant for 3??? Hmmm...I didn't know you were into kinky shit Lambone.
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Lambone did you just sit there silent with your arms folded as that dude clipped to your pieces and passed you or what? I could give a shit if I team passed me, but if the fucker started pushing his way past and clipping into my gear without asking he would be taking a long fall very quickly.
That attitude shouldn't be allowed to fly on a wall. BTW pope I agree with you about climbing with respect to your family. I think it is uncool to be putting yourself out on the edge when you have the responsibilities of a family.
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Listen to Marcus. Putting up some steep walls is a must on a wall that size. You'll get much more out of a step wall than you will with a vertical wall. Oh and litter it with holds (good holds, get a variety of brands as well...I did), so you have plenty of variation. Every companies holds are of a different material and texture, so if you buy from a few it's kkind of like climbing on a variety of rock.
Building a wall is a lot easier than people think, as long as you have the right space. WHen I was 12 I built a monster of a wall in my parents garage. On one side of teh garage the supports were exposed on the main wall and the roof. So all I had to do was just screw a bunch of 3/4" plywood, with plenty of t-nuts allready pounded in, onto the wall and I was set. The wall was a monster for a home gym. The main wall was basically 16x16 and had two roofs, both started at 8 feet, one was completely parallel to the ground and ran out about 15ft and the uper roof went straight to the ceiling at about 120 degrees or something. It was sick. Had it riged with ropes and everything. Living in central Ny at the time it was he only place to climb for hours. To bad the new owners of the house destroyed it
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I argee with pope. However, I don't see any need into get into an ethical "to bolt or not to bolt" debate though. unfortunetly they seem to be here to stay.
Pope did bring back some earlier memories for me though. When I first started to lead and learned how to aid, my mates and I used to go in to the adirondacks and just pick out a cliff and a fun looking route up and just climb. It was the shit. Most of the routes I'm sure had allready been climbed, but to us it was like we were pioneering the whole wall let alone the indvidual route. If we got stuck, either the section was too sketchy or impossible to do without traditional pro, we would retreat. We would retreat and attempt alternative routes or pitches till we made it to the top. Plus that way, if you retreated from a 5.4 you would never know it, and your ego would still be intact.
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What's up with tapping high pressure water on ice routes. When is this a danger? or how can you know if it is a potential hazard on a route. I can't find anything about this in any books...other than an accident report of some dude getting blown off a route in the Adirondacks on a 15'x15' piece of ice, cause he tapped into some high pressure water lurking under the route.
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Is Masters of Stone 5 worth checkin out? I normally don't watch climbing videos. Mainly cause I'm not willing to throw down 30 bucks to buy one, and neither are any of my mates...so we never get to set our eyes on any. The content looks sick though. I really want to check out the dean potter footage. Are there better things to be spending the money on or what? or better yet, anyone know where to get a copy cheap or want to dub me a copy
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The Cheam Range in BC? Naah I've only been to BC once and that was on a ski holiday to Whistler.
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Yeah I hear ya trask...however you forgot to add one of these to your last post
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Yeah I guess it all depends on the climb. I admit it though...I'm a hazard
Oh well. Next topic.
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BTW I did pass when they were breaking, or when all of them were at one belay that is. In a gulley like pinacle it isn't that safe to have people climbing above you, I agree. However we were all stuck up there (my fault I guess, cause I didn't see them on the climb before I started), but I sure as hell didn't want to be climbing under these 3 yahoos. Fuck em. Whatever.
>>but would hang back on say Liberty Ridge on Rainier or the North Ridge on Baker, unless I took a totally different line, or passed them at a break<<
Even if you pass them at a break...isn't the hazard though just being above them? I guess that is what I'm trying to get at, since I did pass them accordingly. However they seemed to be pissed at me just climbing above them.
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It does have to be kind of embarassing when you have enough gear around your shoulder to climb el cap, and a kid flys past you and your buddies with nothing but a pair of running shoes clipped to his drawers.
I'm not a big fan of corwding anyone in teh backcoutry though, where there is the possiblity of avalaches or ice falls. Hell I didn't want to be climbing under those idiots as much as they didn't want to be climbing under me. It just happened. I was just wondering if there is some ethics I should be following, cause I'm going back this winter and don't want to step on anyone's shit as I weave my way up and down the ravine.
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yeah, just make sure your "honey" doesn't see this....
http://www.lexicomm.com/whites/ice/pic34.html
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I do a decent amount of soloing, both rock and ice. Mostly long classics that I have done a good amount of times before. However, since most routes I solo are classics there are usually hoards of people and rope teams on them. On rock it's usually not a problem passing groups, and no one seems to care about my presence on the wall. However, on alpine/ice routes it seems to be a bit different. Last year I was soloing the pinnacle gulley in huntington ravine on Mt. Washington. Half way up I came across a group of three climbers. Had I seen them on the route before I started climbing I probally would have chosing a different route, but I didn't see them. They made quite a fuss when I wanted to pass them. They claimed I was a hazard to them. Regardless, I passed them anyways. They were pissed, seriously pissed....we got in a pretty good sized confrontation down at the base of the ravine later on. It wasn't cool. So is this different than any rope team following or passing another team? Thinking back though...I can't remember ever passing any teams or being on the same route as any rope teams while I was roped up before, at least on such a confined route like those at Huntingtons Ravine. So what's up here? Is climbing up on a team in an alpine setting crazy wrong or what? (BTW avalanche conditions were extremely low that day).
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BTW that is intresting about Sir Edmond Hillary.
I read a quote from Messner some where as well, that went something like "if I can't plan it on a piece of paper, I don't want to climb it." This was referring to all the major contemporary expeditions on everest (and teh use of labtops). This goes more with what I was getting at above though...about all the fuss on expeditions and what not.
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>>Big deal...I went to the Aerosmith concert, got invited to a private party, and had me wanker abused muchly by many groopie chicks.<<
Trask your my hero! Too bad they were washed up aerosmith groupies though...probally had cobwebs between their legs and wiskers on their chins. Whatever though, you still got a rub and a tug.
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beats me man, it was a while ago. I'm not too good with names but it was pretty wicked though.
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Is there really no difference between an animal carrying your shit or some poor porter shleping it?
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Message for Dwayner
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yeah I want to hear the filth that came out Kathy's mouth that got that post pulled. All the guys are always bitching about the lack of females we see on this board...that's because they all have potty mounths like Kathy here and get their posts pulled.