G-spotter

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G-Spotter, I think that's the whole point of Blake's thread. In Squamish the local crushers are venturing into the hills and putting up sick new alpine lines, and repeating the hard lines that are already up. In WA state, there's chalk all over the test pieces at Index, but phenomenal free climbs like Thin Red Line and Let it Burn get climbed only by a handful of folks. I would indeed agree that the alpine rock scene and the cragging scene are quite disconnected. Why that is, i'm not so sure. I didn't know Squamish wasn't PNW. Other than that it probably has to do with guide exams. You have to do a bunch of alpine stuff to get your ACMG. Yanks don't have the same requirements.

Yeah those guys who climb hard free routes at Squamish, like Kruk and Stanhope and McGee and Furneaux and Trotter and Maddaloni, what have they ever done in the mountains. eh?

There's no membrane in that "moderate air exchange". It's describing the breathability of the two layers. There is no third layer. You are just mistaken, and you are misinterpreting the web page.

There's no membrane in Powershield. What sort of construction is it? Polartec's website calls it a membrane, FWIW. http://www.polartec.com/shelter/polartec-power-shield/how-does-it-work.aspx Not trying to be right, just curious. No, the website does not call it a membrane. It's a stretchy face fabric with fleece backing. No membrane at all.

Too bad about your epic, but you got a great Brockenspectre shot.

There's no membrane in Powershield.

Seems like most physicists designing the problem would assume a fully static rope and a frictionless carabiner and thus approximate the wrong answer

If you are falling and a piece rips there's a chance the next piece won't because you will stop. But if one piece rips in an poorly equalized (and they are almost always poorly equalized if you use a cordelette) anchor it's not a 7kn minus 6 kn = 1 kn left situation. 7kn is applied to the first piece, which can withstand 6, it fails - then 7 kn is applied to the next piece and so on

must be all those fucking food-trucks

Maybe your sense isn't common.

Pendleton vs Filson showdown

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Or you can get a Kong adjustable fifi.

I read in a British climbing magazine that if you place six or seven poor or bomber but weak nuts, like #1 RPs, in a row, and then fall on them, each one absorbs energy in breaking or failing and thus the first 6 may break or rip but the 7th one holds you, whereas if you had only placed the 7th it would fail. I think the point here is that it's best to place several poor pieces "in series" and close together. Two shitty pieces 10m apart aren't going to have much effect.

Go clean-aid solo something easy in the rain or when otherwise unoccupied. Repeat multiple times until your system is dialled. Clean your own routes ground-up rather than on rap to learn aid cleaning. Kangaroo Corner at the Smoke Bluffs and the lines to its right are great for this. Once dialed in on the vert aid something like Zombie Roof to learn techniques fo steep ground.

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I used to be a two jumar (actually old 80s Clog ascenders), two aider guy. I switched to one Petzl jumar with aider for the left hand and one Ushba Basic on the belay loop for cleaning routes from fixed lines. Less shit to get in the way while scrubbing dirt. No need to pull rope through like you have to with a grigri.

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I heard EC is predicting warm and dry for SWBC. I am hoping for a repeat of the glorious winter of 2005 with superhigh snowline and three months of sunny inversion. Alpine nirvana. Skiers can suck it.

I thought this line was more like 5.6, but I must admit the crux pitch was soaking wet and we climbed a flake to the left instead. All the other pitches were overgraded. Speedway, right next door, has way more quality pitches and less roped hiking, but it's harder to top out on that one. Yak Check is really good too. Probably the best route on the peak overall, especially with the belay hardware upgraded since 2007. Hoping to get up there again this year before the snow falls.

I THINK THE X MARKS A BIVY CAVE OR SHELTER. I HAVENT BEEN ON THE ROUTE BUT I BELIEVE THEY WILL BE FOUND THERE.

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