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the jumpers knee info i've read online sounds about right i reckon - but why does my calf hurt? thought it was supposed to be the quads that were tweaked by this injury?

name the route yourself - more fun that way - the alternative is some gay oregon high option like reid headwall option 2a or some such shit i like "mr clams clusterfuck meself"

looks awwwful

nice

is running on it going to make it worse? should i abstain until i get a brace?

you are now part of a large and growing fraternity of folks who've climbed the reid by mistake

since i'm a genius, i get all my medical advice from teh interwebs so what the hell have i done to myself? after 3 decades of living a pretty active life, i can't recall an injury like this - my right lower leg is fawked - i feel it when climbing and i try pivoting all my weight onto the leg when the knee is bent - it's not the knee that hurts, but just below it where the bones plug in - it doesn't hurt when just walking around, but whenver climbing, as soon as i try doing the oh-so-sporto movement where i'm moving all my wieght from one side of my body to the other, it sings - it's made me a more intelligent climber lately as i've had to figure out ways to avoid being in that position - at any rate, the upper calf is so tweaked now b/c of the bones hurting that its becoming like a permanent charlie horse and pissing me off it's clearly not a major medical disaster, but is there anything i should be doing beyond the simple ice n' advil thing? i'd try not to climb on it, but it's like a drug no? at any rate, i'm wondering if running and stair-climbing aren't helping aggravate the situation anyhow. should i just get meself a shiny new bionic leg? anyone hurt their leg like this before? its a new one for me...

is this a comedy routine? his last line answered your question?

what about my sunday of climbing slick rock in the cloud murk through thickets of dense poison oak?

denalidave took this pic of me doing it again 2day - fantastic day at beacon - cloud-murk n' mist n' portland but the big B was in a fine way, n side dank if full effect - this pitch was much easier the 2nd time, knowing where i'd get in trouble unless i changed my approach - low tech solution worked best - jammed my prusik cord into the constriction to keep the rope out - much easier to top out when the upper slab ain't soaked as an encore, geoff and i waltzed up the old original ascent line of the, climbing the pitches that have the 100 year old via ferrata set up - chilled at the homeless camp aka rancho relaxo - saw more poison oak than will allow me to sleep sans nightmare tonight

need more info - how many days? where do you ahve to be at the end? what kind of climbs?

looks like they were interrupted while playing some primitive form of checkers

uh, so how would roosevelt gone about getting us control of central and eastern europe? the russian army was ginormous and they were thoroughly pissed after 2 world wars had raped the shit out of them - no way would stalin have accepted anything less than he got w/o more war. i guess we coulda nuked em into oblivion, but roosevelt didn't even know the bomb would work before he died.

i don't see how this is much different from what lbj did in '65 - misrepresenting, obfuscating, exagerating - i like that mcclellan's at least being honest about it all, but is any of this really a ground-breaking revelation?

i've only gotten through the first few pages so far - where will the whiskey n' smokes fit into the whole regime i wonder?

shouldn't this chick be climbing a hotel room wall?

woulda been funnier if she'd said no and bolted and you had to do the descent solo! congrats. next time you go up there she gets to tell you you're having a kid.

poaching another man's line is like stealing another man's girl after he done spent all his money getting'er liqueored up enough to accept his gumbly advances, no?

Absolutely nothing is more important than me. and my machete...

no shit - i think i've met at least 3 people on the board who've gotten seriously mangled on bikes

shit, for a twist on this, why can't we make soylent green power our cars too? i doubt charlton woulda got much attention that way - i'm totally willing to power my hummer on grandma's ashes!

enjoying seeing the young kids getting into shit, especially in blue jeans

weather might not have been perfect but for my memday 4 day weekend i played sport-climber boy one day, took the family camping one day, hiking hte next, plus slogged up to 10k on the cooper spur in the middle of a thunderstorm - i'll take it...

did most of this route today - approached in foul weather y-day and bivied in the stone shelter at 6700 - cleaned all the snow out of the shelter and cut in a sweet bench - the continous sound of pounding rain on the metal roof all night made me happy not to have wandered up to the tie-in rock area to spend the night in a snow cave in the cloud murk - great booting conditions on the upper spur - some slide activity, made much more intimidating when climbing in the total white-out above 9k. nobody on the mtn on the n side on memorial day! i'd say bivyign in the tilly jane hut is practically worthless - you've only gained 2k and 2.5 miles from the p-lot? why not just do a light weight bivy at the stone shelter or in a cave higher up? or just do the whole thing in a day? snowshoes are pointless currently and no doubt will be for folks interested in the spur for the rest of the season - really interesting part sand/part snow fields in the meadows around 6k

i've never met the guy - does he truly have no sense of humor? if so, would that still reduce the coolness factor of having rowed across most of the largest damn ocean on earth in a cracker-box?