G-spotter

TODAY, BLATTER DEFLATES!

How can you not take the piss out of a guy named Bladder?

Not on Baker, but I saw quite a bit right at the receding edge of snowline at Punch Bowl Pass on the Whatcom Trail in EC Manning Provincial Park, around 1800 m elevation, on Saturday.

IS THIS THE NEW NODDER THREAD? SURE IS, NODDER.

Bottom Line is the original, Rambles is one of the newer ones. Of course you can also access from the right via the Slab Alley starting pitches (1-2)

Sharma doesn't look like he has any trouble eating. Dude's arms are bigger than my shaved road biker legs.

So you wimped out on another climb attempt huh "Jesse"?

That looks a little too swimpants-wearing to be as gay as you imply

There's a little Tumwater Tower in the soul of every half-great man.

A dude named Kenneth Cole should always be rocking some snazzy alpine footwear but I don't know of any models called the Reaction

So there was an accident at Skaha this weekend where someone (I won't mention his name) was solo-TRing with a single Ushba Basic, no backup, he fell, it didn't stop him, and he went 15 m to the ground and ended up in hospital getting his vertebrae fused. I have used an Ushba Basic for years, no backup. But I think I might stop doing that now.

Anti-drone drone (with net) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-anti-drone-drone/

2 liter soda pop bottles, washed out and left to dry, then filled with white gas. You can crush them or burn them after use.

"looting is part of the natural transition from dictatorship to democracy" - Rumsfeld http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/04/11/Rumsfeld-Looting-is-transition-to-freedom/63821050097983/

Good thing that was well bonded, cause if it had slid you'd both be dead

By late August it's often starting to snow again. Early August is better in every way except crowds.

Federal tax cuts, trickle down effect, reduced municipal budgets. Tax cuts don't kill people, cops and lack of doctors kill people.

Could you hear Shpongle playing?

In the Watts guide to Smith he helpfully grades the individual cruxes. So you can see that To Bolt has six separate cruxes, rated 13-, 13-, 13, 13-, 12 and 11 for a total overall difficulty of 14a. No 14a moves.

There are 5.10 routes where none of the individual moves is harder than 5.8, and there are 5.12 routes where none of the individual moves is harder than V0. It's about sustainedness. Rest assured that the YDS rates the overall difficulty of the climb. If the climb is only difficult because of one hard move, the climb is graded for that, unless it's the first move off the ground. If the climb is difficult because it is sustained and strenuous, then the climb is graded for that, not the difficulty of the hardest individual move.

Your experience is probably limited. There are plenty of hard routes out there with no hard individual moves. If you want a 5.10 example, think of the Split Pillar or Caboose, both of which have no hard individual moves, but get 5.10 for the pump

You are wrong, and this demonstrates that you don't understand the YDS or how it works.

There were parties on p3 and p6 at the time and the p3 party actually got hit with small pieces of debris

If your hardest flash is 11c but your hardest onsight is 10d, for instance, you'll understand the difference that having information about a climb can make. Route grades are nebulously supposed to be "for the onsight". But this seems to lead to soft grades in many cases. The exception, I would think, would be not for sport routes but rather for headpoint style trad routes where the eventual ascent is only ever feasible after a lot of work in order to find and place very specific and unusual removable pro, where the given grade should be for the worked ascent.