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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/fashion/16cougar.html

paging Bill Simpkins, he had invented one of these things years ago and was keeping it hush-hush till he patented it

I think you got the wrong tool for the job. Shotcrete is the only thing thats gonna keep that choss together.

Talk about limp wrists... other than that he looks just like Willem Dafoe, with a mullet

Mostly in summer I don't even take an insulated jacket, I find the lightweight ones don't give enough warmth vs weight saving compared to a softshell which I am already taking.

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OMG ITS CHEMTRAILS THAT FELL IN THE WATER

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I have had about 4 pairs of Aces in 20 years including one pair that's on it's 7th resole now but the big disadvantage of the design is the heel cup and the symmetrical shape. Heel cup has given me bone spurs on both feet right where the seam crosses it, and symmetrical shape has deformed both my big toes. Both of these must be considered big design flaws. On the other hand the best shoe I ever wore, that climbed absolutely everything, was the Vector. Fucking awesome shoe. I have heard that there are both Evolv and Acopa shoes that are designed a lot like the Vector but I can't remember what they are. Third favorite, hands down the Mocassym. Only 5.10 shoe that has ever fit my feet. Have had 1 pair go through 3 or 4 resoles in 10 yrs, just started using the second pair I bought originally to replace these ones 10 years ago! My only complaints are that they are just too tight to wear as an all day shoe, and too painful to wear in wide cracks.

If you were that far off route, did you really do the route?

Pre-masticated/pre-processed I can believe, like those birds that puke into their babies mouths. But digestion is the process of extracting nutrients from food and turning it into feces. If it was really "pre-digested" I would expect it to taste a lot like shit.

There are a couple on Habrich disguised as drilled #3 rock placements

that doesn't look much like a Point Source to me

I think they'd need DMM on board with those Dragon Cams for that

well shit go back to arguing over whether thinfingers is 10d+ or 11a- then

Another reasonable cause would be, as Mark mentions, dead roots in the base crack over time, progressively decaying and reducing root cohesion, resulting in progressive long term loss of strength.

1) vegetation cannot be ruled out because you don't know what moss, dead wood etc was down the crack out of sight 2) clay minerals are a secondary product of feldspar weathering; feldspar is a major component of granites; many clay minerals shrink and swell when wetted as does dead wood, while living wood (roots etc.) continuously increases in size and provides progressivbe pressure over time. 3) dirt and water in cracks both lubricate and increase capillary pressure making for drastically reduced friction and increased driving force to failure 4) pressure differential front/back of block from gust eddying along cliff face (rotors) during the severe windstorm last week by itself probably would not cause blockfall but when combined with intense convective precipitation providing water for mechanisms 1-3 above, is a plausible failure mechanism.

You sound like you need to look for some refresher hours, here's a good link http://books.google.ca/books?id=yF0IeLRKjDMC&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&dq=block+topple&source=bl&ots=2PXTV-Qsxf&sig=f72mO0lhxkoYokJWlZCFdNcoBqQ&hl=en&ei=uoToS5qbIIj-tQOLyOnJBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=block%20topple&f=false

that's only about the 4th time someone posted that today

I doubt you need frost, besides it wasn't cold enough for that to be the primary mechanism although it likely produced widening over time. Wind, together with water acting on dirt and vegetation inside the crack, are sufficient.

Nothing like quickly jumping to conclusions. The top would have to move less than an inch with the bottom staying relatively still to get a toppling motion, which you are completely overlooking as a failure mechanism.

What beach can you go to that doesn't have any water? The Aral!

There are other things than frost, climbers with jacks, or rocks from above, that can move rocks, including dirt, water, and vegetation, or a combination of the three. Also the ledge may be flat but the block is the same size as the ledge - wouldn't need to move the top out far at all to unbalance it.

If those mountains are that full of coal how come they haven't burned down yet?