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yes forgot about the webbing. at least 4 0.5 meter locks of braided webbing, braided to a spec of 30 braids/meter. equal amount of perlon, enough to make rope litter and small house to bivy in

glad to see other people found that section difficult, seemed tenuous to me at times

a prerequisite is a kilt of gear hanging off the harness...I'm talking like 30 draws, full set of wired hex, no less than 4 rap rings, maybe a trilink, etc.

wtf is wrong with liebacking anyway? if it gets you up the thing w/o resorting to aid and doesn't wear you out, so be it, I say. I have been considering some patagonia guide pants. They appear to be selling new, beefier ones now, with some kind of stupid built-in gaiter almost weigh as much as my ice nine xcr bibs

Don't you know those passes aren't valid on weekends?

hmm, I guess it's not a dove, but still bizarre:

the most bizarre incarnation of this fee program are the signs they had at the Obsidian TH on the west side of the Three Sisters. They had a cute depiction of a dove, but with "FEE AREA" scribed below it.

There's the classic Matterhorn image of the consequences of unprotected (I assume) simul-climbing (not sure why it says 1965)...

it's almost as if he chooses these folks to tick people off on purpose...

Smith is slowly turning into a limestone crag. I'm sure a future budding archaeologist will base her phd defence on the "ancient tropical reef colonies" of central oregon, where once roamed the mighty herds of subaruis outbackensis, living off macciatos and lasportiva free tibet stickers.

seems more like a stemming operation with some finger cracks for pro.

looks like the infamous overcammed #4 on stuart n.r. but it aint

It makes sense to me that simul-climbing started on snow and ice and then evolved to include rock. I have no evidence to support this, but I suspect that there were people simul-climbing steep snow and ice in the Northwest long before the technique evolved enough to be employed on the rock. Jason That seems pretty likely. I couldn't imagine pitching out routes like most of those on Hood or Rainier, for instance. How else do you climb them efficiently besides roped simul-climbing, or unroped?

looks like he's still got his helmet

...and then fine you for littering with the fee box

ya don't say threat

apparently it's not barbeque, but barbegue

I think it was a lahar milkshake

bah you'll probably die by being sandwiched on one of those multi-level freeways in downtown during an earthquake first.

actually I think both that lycopodophyta are uninspiring climbs but they are easy and take gear whenever. in fact maybe they are bad first leads since you can pick any nut size and drag it down the crack and it will be truck stop.

forget it son, the sheer logistics of the money shot are staggering

this website is hosted in Florida.

I think they have a shopvac attachment for that.

I thought you were not allowed to graduate to a mumu until you fully outgrow the "my tummy stick out farther than my dickie do" t-shirt. no mumu until lettering on said shirt is warped!