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AMEN Brutha

I KNEW being "involved" would do that to you. you are going to have your dirt bag card revoked

if you give an ETA I will have the fire works and band ready to go as soon as you are safely on the ground

and I thought you were so hard core

does this mean you will be at the ski in?

I saw that you posted on this thread and that was going to be my response: You don't have any gear to mark!

I don't have any so I don't mark it

i totsaly agree smith feels like my home crag and I will be out there a ton until it gets too hot and still then even

where are all the gapers??

that is suck dude sorry to hear it F&*king thieves

fucking theives bummer dude, i hope it turns up

Albeit a highly skewed TR. Muffy, perhaps I was being oversensitive. But I thought Jake's post needed to called out for what is was, and it was a good opportunity to set the record straight. And sorry, dear, you weren't there. You might have enjoyed our social situation. While our student group is large overall (about 35 students), everything is broken down into smaller groups of 3-4. Instructor to student ratio is 1:2 or less, and instruction is highly individualized, as climbing instruction should be. Minne is a large place, and we were in a couple of the prime bouldering areas. But there was much more out there for anyone to boulder, lead, or TR today. As far as noise and commotion is concerned, it's there, but not from the climbers, as we climbers aren't running around screaming our heads off. The noise and commotion is from this being an urban climbing area: sounds of helicopters and vintage biplanes buzzing overhead from nearby Felts Field, gunshots from an even closer law enforcement shooting range, noise from traffic on the adjacent road. COOL let me know when you want to teach a leader class for free I will be alll over it

because driving the BIG TRUCK IS FUN

hey it's a trip report. he went he watched he decided to not climb... me thinks thou are a bit over sensative so it's a newbie class. so what. sure people need to learn to climb. so. I learned you learned we all learned. I have yet to take a class although I am considering one. but I would not take a climbing class with more than 10 people MAX. for me the noise and comotion of more people than that in a group gets distracting becuase I am so social. Honestly I would be better off learning one on one.

I was suposed to climb at the collums this morning. I debated and fought with myself becuase I realy had a shit ton to do arround the house and needed to get to it, so I left the house to go to the bank and meet my friends at the collums any way as I was just about at the bank I gott a call from mustang sally. "this sucks, just go home. I don't want to climb today" turns out there was a CLASS of aprox. 25 students at the COLLUMS. Shit man there are only about 10 realy decent routes there. plus there were som random other climbers trying to get routes in. the only climbs available were the two hardest ones. ah well, I guess to get any climbing done there I will have to get up earlier than the other climbers

I am already there Damn you woman i was reminded of what my dad told me once when I was a teen and I asked him why he was so closed minded "if you keep an open mind people throw a bunch of shit into it" Dad is quite a character

I was inspired by the lovely TLG to expand my knowledge and googled rock climbing. My brain now hurts from the sheer amount of information available on line.

I am still lobeying for Smith May 22nd for aour spring rope up have several maybes

perhaps we should start calling a pink point a euro point all the american dictionareys I found and quoted still distingushed between the two except the smith guide book. Smith is notoriously Eropean in climbing ethics. I still stand by my defintions.

that's what you said the book said. i was just sharing what i found to highlight the original difference between pink and red. "Redpoint" Originally there was a distinction between a redpoint style of ascent, and a pinkpoint. The former was used where the leader placed any protection (such as the clips) whilst leading, and the latter was reserved for ascents where all the protection was in place. The latter style became the norm, and became known as a redpoint. will you site your resource here? and who decides anyway? is there some ssummit confrence of climbers that decide "oh we are going to change the rules now cuz climbing is too hard"? I still think that calling a pink point a redpoint is pussy

yep the definition in the smith guide is pussy

isn't that what I said? Pink point To red-point a climb where the pro and runners have been pre-placed. (d) Rotpunkt mit eingehängten Schlingen (Rotkreuz ??? Redpoint To lead a climb without falling or dogging after a number of attempts. This is different from onsight, where the climb is lead without falling or dogging on its first attempt.

all in all sound like a good rescue on both parts. Hope the guy with the head injury is okay. could have been way worse. nice work resuce people

you have to be registerd to read that, can your post the article? Hope to god it is no one we know. peace