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I also own only self-loaders. The cheaper and some of the older ones jam easily. When that happens, they hang. Lowering and cycling the action may clear the jam. Then you can send the target. Better-quality self-loaders have 2-stage triggers that can be adjusted to respond to very light inputs, so light that extensive practice under controlled "gym" conditions are required before you can release them under field conditions with any chance of sending the target. However, with careful, intentional practice, it may be possible to send a single 3,000 foot pitch with one pull. In the range of devices less than 5/10", some have sent pitches 3,600' but that's very rare. At 5/10", pitches more than 5,000' can go in one pull, but those SL'ers are inconvenient to rack.

Oooo, I got a good one. Pos. 4th Street in the Valley. Especially the 2nd (3rd?) pitch 5.7 roof with no feet. Definitely solid 5.7

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Olive oil. The new Gu?

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I can smell the Jack on yer breath from up here

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help is aid

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Don't think anybody's mentioned Stone Groove at Reed's. Awesome 10b finger locks

Photo of Stump is of a 1983 attempt on the west face of GIV. I think Alpinist rox, perfect mix of loony alpinist tales for shitter reading, insipiring trad tales evoking the spirit of the valley (see Cedar Wright's blissful capturing of the limbo of valley life), and fragments of climbing life which, although atmospheric, seem like a bit of a ripoff of a standard technique of sampling a la Harpers.

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Beat me to it! Hah, ha just thought of the same thing on my run! Not that my mental idle time is concerned with the matters on this board

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Hey good job! Do you figure you guys were the first attempt on that route?

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Shitters! Who got the FD? How'd he approach, up the route or up around to the east side?

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