RuMR

OK, so I actually am a newbie and will prove it with a serious question. What should I do when you yell "Falling!" on a sport route? I understand that the quickdraw is holding the fall, but aren't I the belayer still holding the other end of the rope? The idea is on an overhanging or at least vertical route, if you catch a fall too aggressively the climber gets torqued into the wall. I guess someone broke an ankle at VW a few years ago from this. You are supposed to give a "soft" catch, what is called a dynamic belay letting a little rope run through your belya device. Of cours one a low angle wall or if the climber is near a ledge or ground, you are better served to stop them quickly. uhhh...that was me and it was 7 years ago at the seattle vw gym and i collided with the tunnel roof (which has since been filled in)...i completely SHATTERED my foot from a too aggressive catch and lost upwards of 4 months before it was healed... ideally, as steep as that wall was, i should've just dropped into space...kinda shitty, the end result.

oh for sure...i absolutely detest hiking...

having said that, there are some routes that have shitty bolting on them or aren't cleaned up...that sucks...

i dunno...i've pretty much liked every climb i've done...sure, i've been frustrated, but i don't hold that against the routes...

i'll use a bat...

me thinks i better go kick the mailman's ass now...the only indication they are mine is that they are all uniformly tiny little guys (and gal)...they are below the 5 percentile...

no...you can't have my testicles... no matter how much you want 'em!

wow...i'm short and you're testy... sheesh...what got (or didn't get) into your shorts????

explain this: "The wierd width of that climb right in the spots where there is the tiniest bit of overhang makes it uncomfortable for someone who doesn't like ow's to start with--moi." it certainly seems to imply that you encountered offwidth on the route, doesn't it? otherwise, it would be analogous to saying "its a really steep, icy ski trail, especially for someone who doesn't like driving"...

roger's has offwidthing??????? hmmmm...don't recall that...

i think you mean wedding day...or are you trying to *ahem* boast??

They can feel bad about being short longer than I can feel good about being tall. I'm ok with that. But you got a lot of "ugly" to contend with...

no doubt about a bad trip...my cholestral was not good at my physical...pissed me off, but it lit a fire under my ass...

try coming down from 144 to 131, you truly fat canufuck...

keep talkin...i'm approaching 130 from the top...by summer, i aim to be 122 or so... health reasons, this has nothing to do with climbing...

hey peter, are you planning on climbing more this summer????? GET YOUR KIDS CLIMBING!!!!

NO and he probably won't either...see, he was hatched from an egg...

True. To deny the distribution of condoms to African villages being ravaged by AIDS is not a matter of right or wrong. The use of birth control is a sin. To assist in sin would be wrong. And we shouldn't help those homo's who contract AIDS here in this country, either. Nope. My tax dollars shouldn't be spent that way. God damned liberals just want to treat a disease, when we're talking about SIN!

Certainly that is true. We've seen a highly motivated group of conservative Christians gain an extraordinary impact on American politics for the last several years, and a substantial part of their success has been motivated by some very clear expressions of intolerance, but that certainly does not mean that to be Christian is to be intolerant. It means you beleive in right and wrong and some people view that as intolerant. "right" and "wrong" are often perceived through a society's particular lens... ie, nutball islamics feel that it is "right" to stone a young woman to death for her "wrong" act of premarital sex...

dude...keep this kinda crap off a post like this... moderators, please delete my post and the one preceding it...

best sportclimbing in washington?? Oh you must be talking about bolts every 2.5 feet...

"mountaineers"? Most of those "mounties" climb 8a+ at a minimum...

in europe (well, france at least)routes are bolted and cleaned by local clubs and then turned lose for the first ascent... then again, this isn't europe...

not on jap gardens you don't!

hey we should grab lunch sometime...i'm in bellevue for work, that's where yer at, correct?