G-spotter

Chicks dig coloured feet.

Red Rocks to J Tree = 2 hours via Cima/Kelso/Amboy

Good points - near PSU. I can use Google Maps to find Stumptown. What is there climbable in March? Is Beacon open or closed.

Dude, that got covered by condos.

That's right y'all I'm going to be hanging out in PDX from March 10 to 14 at a conference. What are the chances that if I brought a harness and shoes down I could find people to climb with? Also where is the uber-hippest coffee place near the university? I have a soulpatch and like shade-grown fairtrade organic dark roasts from small nations no one has ever heard of. Final question: where is the Lair? I have not seen Cobra Commander for several years. I'd kinda like to meet DFA too although I understand if the two of you can't appear in the same place at the same time.

I'm not willing to pay a red cent until I see some examples. What have you designed before? What's your track record? Domestically made gear from techy fabrics wth useful features sounds appealing but design is where products succeed or fail. If your design skills aren't up to snuff and you make a pack that doesn't fit, rides like a wooden box, or gets in the way of my harness, I'm not buying it.

What is your background in design? Show us something you've already made. If you are using this project to teach yourself to sew vs. if you are experienced in making packs makes a big difference.

posts in the Climbing Forum, and the 150,000th one is spray

I'll make sure to take a shopping cart next time I'm in the backcountry so's I can pull a couple dozen out.

I think that back in the day it was more often approached direct via the Capilano River. That's the way the Latta bros went in 1903 with rope, lantern and lard pail to bag the FRA of the East Lion.

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and your a nerd And I accept it, but you're still in the furry closet. sickie baa

Didn't Basil Darling climb the Lions in winter way back like 100 years ago?

The S was for Sandbag.

You can infer it from the tech. grade. Like E4 5b will be loose, scary and poor pro but E4 6b will be one hard move with bomber gear at your waist. For instance I've apparently climbed E3 5b (according to the 3rd ascentionist) but failed on E2 5c which suggests I am OK with scary runouts but weak.

Andy Burham once told me (right after leading it) that p1 of Japanese gardens was E4 6a. hardly bad pro on that rig... My understanding of the mirky english system is that the E rating can reflect EITHER the sustainedness or the quality of the gear...the second number is the actual technical level of the hardest move...how to understand which thing the E represents is a mystery to me... The idea is that it requires the same difficulty overall to lead a well protected climb at a harder grade as it does to lead an easier but scary climb so they get the same E grade. Like it's as hard to climb an unprotected 5.10 as it is to lead a well-protected 11. You can see this in practice when people say they climb 5.12 on bolts but 5.10 trad.

You have a parasitic nose leech.

5.11 with poor pro is bread and butter E4.

Older editions did not have contours so make sure you get the newest edition.

Warm and mostly dry in the bluffs. Cold and damp at BOTG

Is this the "a whole party was partially buried off the Duffy" incident that was mentioned on avvy.ca?

Beacon is sooooooo representative of hard trad climbing The hardest climbs there are probably E4 or E5 on a scale that goes to E11... Tricams and nuts (and hooks for that matter) are placed regularly on the world's hardest trad routes. The pro for Master's Edge is one Friend and one Tricam.

Google "Backroads Mapbook"

I keep hoping those fixed lines will be removed. Good work getting up there. It's a longer approach for a shorter climb than Harvey.

Didn't JayB and partner climb that ice route at WI3+ about 4 years ago?