G-spotter

Yes, you have to hang on your gear to be Bigwall climbing. Using a stick helps too Speaking of which, here's Tommy with his line of preplaced gear and preplaced film crew ropes.

I wouldn't be so sure. Natural gas combustion produces 2/3 the CO2 of coal, and has many fewer other pollutants as well, but fracking uses a lot of energy (often coal generated electricity) to put fluids under pressure and pump it into rock formations so the energy return isn't very good. Fracking also requires lots of water and causes much pollution both at the surface and in ground water. To your first point, that's a matter of energy economics. As with any commodity, if the economics favor it's extraction, it will be done. You seriously think that the energy required to install and frack a horizontal well is more than the energy needed for mountain top removal? To your second point, fracking in the northeast is occurring in a water rich part of the world. We can spare a little. To your third: Pollution with what? The frack fluids are contained, treated, and shipped offsite. In New York, this procedure will be the most heavily regulated in the country, if not the world. So the surface water issue, if it is one, will be isolated, the same way TCE, PCE, PCBs, Chromium VI, BTEX, Fuel Oil are. As far as groundwater contamination is concerned, I have yet to hear an argument from anyone except hysterical hippies that their drinking water is going to be contaminated. The shale formations where gas is being extracted have extremely low primary and secondary porosities (hence the need for fracking) and no groundwater content (hence the ability to extract natural gas and not a bunch of water). The stories of private well contamination are anecdotal at best, are usually related to historical wells dating to the early 20th century, and are always the result of an improperly installed casing seal rather than direct contamination of a drinking water aquifer by an underlying natural gas formation. You sure come down hard on other people for talking out there asses, but your last post was nothing more than intellectual flatulence. Hey, look at the hysterical hippies [sic] at Scientific American this month: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-truth-about-fracking

No such thing.

A strong team!

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/police-dog-given-lsd-1213744.html?cxtype=rss_news

I heard Hosni Mubarak is looking for a job. Dude's in a coma, but that didn't stop Reagan.

Did he buy a box 6 months past best by date at Grocery Outlet or something? On the plus side, if mealworms will eat it, it must be tasty stuff. I can't believe that even maggots would enjoy eating a PowerBar.

Lait de poule has been in Canadian grocery stores for a month now

I'm not going to dress up as a cross until Halloween. Then some dudes in white sheets will probably try to burn me.

Sound Machine Groove

Imagine what evolution would be like if some organisms were "too big for extinction".

I saw RL at the Yale in 1994? and many free drinks later there was a fight in the parking lot between two cougars over who was going to take me home. Rawr.

Anybody else remember that awesome Corey Rich Climbing mag article from around 2001 about hopping trains to get to J Tree?

this one is just too deep for me this one is not deep enough for me. we need to go deeper.

Looks very Scottish, except for the length that is.

They'd call it a snake market instead of a bear market.

If we used hamsters for money instead of dollar bills, it'd be possible to put your money in a cage and have more money in the morning. Now THAT'S WHAT I CALL INVESTMENT!

I like to use those Russian Irbis style titanium ice screws.

Story's from the Torygraph, pretty damning lack of credibility right there.

And that's why the north ridge of Latok 1 has been climbed so many times, because people threw enough resources together to guarantee 100% successful outcome EVERY DAY I AM SPENDING ENOUGH MONEY TO BE MOST SUCCESSFUL CLIMBER

The climber not having fun is having the most fun and therefore the best climber

Next they will demonstrate that this process, if allowed to continue, would lead to the development of sidehill gougers, with one long and one short leg. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/animals/comments/4357/

EVERY DAY I AM TRAINING TO BE STRONGEST CLIMBER

Astroglide might help?