RuMR

#7 or #8 HB aluminum offset and #4 HB brass offset... i use these ALL the time...

and the funny thing about those fat kids back then is that they were usually pretty damn active playing sports...so their "problem" really was genetic...fit fat kids...one of my best friends was pretty damn tubby but was decent on the soccer field and basketball court and was a pretty good swimmer to boot...i'd say they were healthier then the ones these days are inactive, mashed potato brained nintendo playin' tv-watchin' turds...like their folks... Fat kids were a rarity when I was a kid. There might have been one, MAYBE two per class. They were different. Now they are the norm.

anyone notice how diving boards (and particularly the high dives) have all but disappeared from newer public pools and the ones that have them have severely restricted their use? Man, no more backslaps and bellyflops for botched gainers/flips...damn it was fun bein' a kid years ago...

call the ghostbusters...

torMENTOR

??? Why would it walk if you placed it correctly and slung it correctly?? If you "have no problem climbing on gear or falling on gear" then why do you maintain that one is scarier/more difficult than the other? I can buy that you need more stamina to simply place it as opposed to clipping a hanger, but that is the only difference. If one were pinkpointing on gear or bolts, it would be IDENTICAL...

sounds like you may have mental issues trusting/placing gear? If you know the gear is good, it might as well be a bolt, right? Plus, you yourself placed it, and its your piece...this means you have intimate knowledge of that piece of gear and its position, so you should have decent confidence in it, right?

how is the planet after the first pitch? that is all we did...it was ok...certainly not 3 or 4 stars though... I honestly thought that little 12a crack to the left of the planet was a better pitch...but whatever...

whatever...a cam in solid rock is FINE...same thing as a bolt, IMO (or as you prefer END OF STORY)...just ask JH, he'll tell you he doesn't trust bolts!

or the karate wall routes...there is some big air on those with a decent run on pumped arms to the top...wussy routes for sure!

i go with large hexes...min. of two...that way, you get the visual AS WELL AS the audio effect!

satellite phone and MLU...duh!

no. what and where? monkey face...12c

balance balance balance...

i don't know personally anyone that has besides Alan...Did you do it, Peter? Man, i'd love too, but too spooky for me...according to AW its actually not so bad... Man, he was incredible in his day...the quintessential/penultimate sport climber that goes down to the valley and kicked their asses at their own game...

all of the hard routes there have some commitment to them...that's why i laugh when the clowns on this board start sprayin' shit...hahahaha

yes...very well bolted start (courtesy of Mr. Burdo) into endurance climbing with a smattering of bolts...

pretty clean falls cuz its so damn steep...they would be absolutely enormous if you blew it though, plus factoring in rope stretch and what not...i think you could potentially go for 80+ feet...

only 1/8th actually... gee, i guess that leaves you with what? like 2 brain cells?

never climbed in the black...spent a lot of time at eldo though...eldo is all face/pebbles/pinches...train hard sport and you'll do fine at eldo...

hahahaha...you like my bolting on Lizard King???? Hahahaha...DoctorK wouldn't let me stick another bolt in...got a bloody nose bolting that thing...

notice that i have never said TRAD climbing...only CRACK climbing...

By definition, if they elevated their technical ability, they wouldn't be considered moderate... honestly, how do you fall off a 5.10 handcrack??????? Do you let go, turn around and then jump????

good point...

probably not as he was hatched from an egg as a full blown adult buttmunchin' tool...