J_Kirby

Bump . . . Anyone been up this week? Is it dry? I'm thinking it should be snow free already and might dry out by Saturday, but I'd like to know for sure before making the drive.

Holy crap. That's cat looks exactly like mine.

Leaves of three, let it be Leaves of four, eat some more.

Prolly not as colorfull as the half fifth of Jose and gatorade mix, pound of red vines, and Mountain House Lasagna I once saw for a second time . . . Brought new meaning to "technicolor yodel"

Way to go I may make fun, but I seem to remember having trouble with that one myself. Didn't help my state of mind either when I got to the anchors and found both were spinnin free.

Watch out for that tricky route finding above the fifth bolt(!), you can really get into trouble there. Last time I checked, Dancer was a .7. Now get out there and send that cruxy nubbin pullin.

As said before, its all semantics. Given that, I'd call it pink because the route will be attempted on preplaced gear and brown because this must be a really pants filling route to not even attempt the onsight or redpoint.

No, no and pink/brownpoint.

Batfink:

Used to. When I had cable channels.

It was a nice diversion for us on our way to the Tetons.

I'm with Dru on this one. My current lead line is a 60m 10.2 Mammut Supersafe Dry. Best rope I've ever used and it only cost $157. I've had other Mammut cords and I'll continue to buy them. In this case it was quality (and closeout pricing) over country of origin.

As an added plus, when you get done at the end of the day you can drive back down the canyon a ways and do some cliff diving right off the road. Went with some locals a few years back and it

Man I wish the emergencyrappel.com site was still up. That site was hilarious.

I've lurked on wreckdot for the better part of eight years. There was a noticeable dropoff in traffic when the newbie hoardes over at RC.com started gaining in numbers and momentum. Like Thinker and some others, I only posted there infrequently over the years and never attempted to make posting there a pastime. I remember reading a lot of posts from Cairns, RBW and the others from usenet and even tried to climb with RBW a number of times (failed miserably due to school intrusion into climbing time). Nowadays, the more prolific posters have moved to RC.com and local boards like this one, leaving the infamous Batten a larger piece of the bandwidth pie. Wreckdot is a different place, doomed to be a public forum for members of the old group trying to catch up with each other from time to time. Now I must go rope solo Tahquitz with my UCLA coeds. Is the rock dry? Please Advise.

Yet another unfortunate death in the NW climber's family. Details are still sketchy at best, but this one is a bit too close to home: Broughton Bluff Death Be carefull out there.

I also like the Trunk Monkey. That little chimp

I must've got really lucky on that HWY 97 bit between Biggs and Morrow. I was working for about a month last summer out in the Condon/Wasco area and regularly used that chunk of road on 97 to test the limits of my Sooby. Never did see a cop except down in Biggs at the Quik-Mart.

Well put Josh.

Its not even really proposed for anywhere yet. The N.S.F. is still considering formal proposals from a number of states for where to put the thing. There are folks in Western South Dakota that are falling all over themselves to site the lab in a mine there. I say let 'em have the stupid thing and leave the Icicle alone. 8 years of deep tunneling in Mt. Cashmere?

Yeah, me too. I guess there are a few of us here that supported Karl (of recdot fame) by buying a Climer shirt.

Yeah, I've got to throw out my opinion on this too: Dixon Rec Center Gym TR: There will always be a special place in my climber’s heart for the original OSU gym. Six years ago my roommate at the time and I first learned about climbing there. Under Tom B’s watchful eye, we mock aided the greasy cracks and led miniscule sport routes until we finally had gained the skills and the huevos to safely take our new craft outside. We where hooked. We went back to that gym during the week to pull more plastic and do our best to develop that tendon popping grip strength we knew was just one more lock-off away. It was OUR place, the Parker gym. Away from the DRC and for the most part, off their radar. The staff was mellow (mostly climbers) and the tunes were eclectic enough to catch you off guard. If you left your card at home or needed a spot they were usually willing to help you out. Just like a small local climbing gym should be. Now, I'm not a local any more, but after the good reviews and positive comments here, I drove back down to give the new gym a shot. I planned on climbing with my brother who teaches high school in town. I picked him up and we zipped over to the gym. Walking in the back door, it looks like the main DRC remodel is still a work in progress. Lots of bare stud walls and general finishing work left, but the climbing gym is just inside, so we ignore all that. The new gym walls looked interesting with some nice features and cracks that could have probably kept us entertained for a while. The place was packed though. Like Morning Glory on a warm-Saturday-morning-in-May packed. OK, no biggie, the place just opened and its very visible. The musclebound crowd deserves to get a good flash pump right along with the climbers? Uhhh, yeah. Then the bureaucracy of the DRC reared its ugly head. We head over to the desk to pay our community fee and get some waivers. I ask the desk guy for the paperwork and he forks over a glazed look. Apparently this is his first McJob and he’s a bit low on the learning curve. Huh? He calls in his manager from the front desk. The manager calls in another manager. This guy finally gets it. We start talking about what it’ll take to even get us in the door and apparently along with the change in walls came a big change in policy. Gone is the mellow walk-in belay test, replaced by scheduled orientation classes on the hour, every hour. We ask to “book” one for that day and are told we’ll have to wait three weeks and even then, we’re still only on a waiting list to take a damn belay test. We nodded, smiled, and took a walk. After checking out what was going down I'm not so sure I'll be back. That really was not my scene. The nice mellow climber vibe that was there in the old Parker gym has been "updated" to the cafeteria style rec services vibe. I didn't like to spend much time in the main gym when I was a student because of that, and I'm sorry to say it seems like they've now brought the climbing gym down to that level too. The old astroturfed floor, drafty cracks, and sloper fests will be missed. I'll be kickin one back tonight. RIP Parker Hole, hello brave new management.

Did ya build a couple of cairns at least?

Use the links located off to the right side of the main pane. They seem to work even though the text links do not.

My next turn . . .