RuMR

PS...what you really need to crank at squish is a rack of neutrinos and a super fly windshirt!

Carolyn...i hate to say it, but that is bs about the rubber...hell, any rubber (yeah, dru, even shitty boreal) works at squamish...that rock is sticky...much stickier than yos or even index.. or basalt...

BAWAHAHAHAHA!!! hmmm...that kinda sounds like a goat...

yeah, you are right...break it in, wear it out, resole w/ sumpin else and then the shoes ROCK!

rubber is fine...if you fall off cuz of the brand of rubber, go home...(Having said that Boreal rubber does suck...)

ahhh...this is all just funnin'...he's ok...AND he has a knack for setting folks off...

ahhh ok... I feel so much better now...

what? Not good enough for ya?

but wouldn't that make him a plastic sugeon getting a pro-deal not a climber? I look so hot in my prana tawp! Plus i carry my spare neutrino in my cleavage...

I've only gotten one prodeal once, and i used it on one lousy NEUTRINO and then, horror of horrors, i lost it on GIRTH PILLAR...but i'm currently trying to find someone to suck ass too so i can get one of those fancy push-button WINDSHIRT thing-a-ma-bobs on a pro deal...

Nah...that's my ten year anniversary weekend (well, closest weekend to it!)

just get moc's or anazasis...best all around shoes period...

...don't forget your windshirts...

so bring 'em up!

I'm sure you are speaking of Adam...well, my hat's off to him...if he has enough iniative to go out to the mudpile and scrape something fun/interesting/challenging out of it, that's just awesome in my book... I love it when people sit back and bitch about stuff, but don't actually put any elbow grease into developing an area...just gripe and complain and then actually go climb something that was prepped w/ a ton of work...that is LAME and sanctimonius in my book... debasing the rock? the rock doesn't care...now if you were removing challenges for future climbers, i understand that point of view, but no one else is developing anything there and the lines that A has put up, no one else was interested in... granite is clean as is quartzite, but smith is a shitpile of compressed mud and the amount of cleaning and prepping a route requires is just atrocious...have you tried to do any new routing there? you might not make statements like you've made...

Ah, this is not surprising coming from the man who once proclaimed "There are no ethics in climbing." Though I disagree (about the ethics thing), I do respect your consistency. I have yet to encounter the route that was established with such disregard to the established ethics of the area as to dissuade me from stepping up to it. Which isn't to say it isn't out there . . . On the one hand, climbing a chipped route isn't going to change the fact that it is a chipped route. But on the other hand, climbing a chipped route is, in effect, condoning the act of chipping in the first place. It becomes a (difficult) question of the ends justifying the means. well jason...stay away from smith and live in la la land...

ummm...there's no bolts on that line to clip and it was trotter, not caldwell...but still a good try though...

nope...no line whatsoever...if i see something that looks cool, i go for it... So Jason, what's a route that has high star count/popularity/aesthetic appeal that you WON'T climb?

Careful...you're gonna get yerself moderated

FUCK OFF POOP...

interested for index, but not leavy...not enough time...

Hey there...i grew up in Vienna, VA...welcome to the west!!

THAT FREAKIN' ROCKS!!!!! MAN, I MISS OL' JAMES!!!

you need to read the letter .... route in question was bolted on lead as he explains in he's rebuttle to a letter to the editor assuming the rap-bolt I'm not talking about that route or letter...

This is not new...he's rap bolted a ton of stuff a long time ago in owens...