RuMR

bullshit...leg wraps rule...its basically a prussik around the thigh and is very secure...

you can adjust the lengths of ropes while on rappel quite easily by locking one strand and rapping the other... also, two wraps around a leg with a hitch on the weighted strand will lock one off... FWIW i don't rap with prussiks or autoblocks and haven't gotten into trouble yet...who just raps down the rope without looking below???????

i routinely push myself in both environments and fall often on gear and bolts... if the gear is adequate and you've placed it properly than bombs away...if there is no gear (or it sucks), don't get in over your head and downclimb... once again, it boils down to the grey matter that's driving the whole system... dogma this and dogma that is just flat stupid...you got a number 2 cam buried in competent granite with no possible ledge smacks? Well, what's the difference between that and a bolt???? maybe you are unsure of you gear skillz?

I don't turn off my brain in either case...

no D... one should have the exact same approach whether sport climbing or trad climbing as they will both kill your ass dead if you fuck up...

you know, this is going to sound callous, and i've been hemming and hawing all day about whether to say this... BUT SHIT HAPPENS and if you can't use the number one piece of gear you have (your brain) then you really shouldn't be a climber...maybe a librarian or sumpin' like that, but goddammit, there is a lot of potential energy when you are up in the air and if you fuck up it will kill you flat out... I don't care whether or not you take a course or read some stupid book or have your "rad climbing buddy" tell you, any idiot ought to be able to equalize their ropes before rapping off... do you really really think that it isn't painfully obvious that if you don't even the ropes, or you rap off the end, there is no good ending?????????? DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO "INSTRUCT" YOU?????? PAY THE FUCK ATTENTION...its really that simple...and having said that shit still happens and gravity is always there...and if you get enough people involved in this activity there will be deaths and injuries...

...you can rap uncoiling your rope as you go...

sheesh matt...little bit of hyperbole there, eh?

thanks mom...

drew says he's ready to "crush you, punk"... better stock up on the dogs and slurpee's...yer goin down!!!

I use 2 3/8" diameter steel cables with a 35 lb midget not anchored and rubber band bungie cord quickdraws to catch myself... guaranteed to never break!

sounds like rad sex!!

my six year old kid will thrash you on routes...hahahaha

Ahhh man, speedy recovery Kurt...your humor will go a looooong ways towards a full recovery... Again, best wishes man!

especially with faulty gear...like helmets

and remember, GIRLS ROCK YOUR BOYS!

yer mommy's lettin' you out for the weekend? I thought you was grounded!

simulthongin'! COOL!

for you or her?

more sport bras and capilene thongs at the cliff is all that si needs! Man, that would ROCK!!!!!

izzat dru comin in for the score??? what a dog!

hey, shoot me a pm sometime...i drag my kids all over the place!

It's really amazing how many chick buy into that bullshit "lifestyle" crap. ...and exactly what are we (all of us wank-posters) pretending to not buy into????? "WE SO BAD WE SO HARD"