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ahhh not anymore my dear friend...

you should talk to that Mountain Dew clown...

I'm not interested in that shit pile over index...and certainly not for an extended trip... Joseph, regarding what you are saying, that is what is so special about SE sandstone...it has it all...roofs, tech slabs, vertical crimpfests, overhangs, cracks, yada yada yada...

uhhhmmmm offwidths are not boring!...

well said...it is the absolute best cragging in the us, hands down... although granite with splitters is a ton of fun too...

part of me wants to take my boys back to where i learned to climb though and i can't very well take them out of school in the fall or spring...and with summersville lake, shoot, summer's fine at the gorge...

yeah...i keep telling my self that too...i believe Trash has bought into that line of thinking as well...

if i did, he'd pick european limestone...all he does when he's not actually climbing or at the gym is salivate over youtube videos of the latest limestone mega-proj going down to some hip hop shit music...

beacon climbing ==> does not equal quality climbing... maybe entertaining, but hardly a destination... next...

i'd have to argue that drew would do absolutely fine at the buttermilks...the kid is turning into a complete climbing freak... hadn't thought of boulder, truth be told, although there's lots of climbing there (i've spent a bit of time), i wasn't too impressed...eldo was cool, rifle blows goats compared to the New or the Red for steep stuff, plus i fucking hate bouldtards...

there's deepwater soloing at the new, and morning and evenings are fine with me... squamish is definitely in the running...but the NRG would be very cheap...

i'm leaning towards (a)...time to go home for a long visit and take my little ropeguns with me...

would you rather spend a month next summer in a. New River Gorge b. Bishop c. Squamish

Best ever post send spray quote (from Bob Rogoz aka crazypolishedknob aka agent pink) "I am so hawt right now, if i was in antartiiiika, i vood melt right throuuuugh" Followed up by: "They should install mirror at top of churning so i can see how avsoluuuutely vripppped i am!!! you like?" [as he's flexing his mighty biceps] man, i think we, collectively, got several hernia's laughing ourselves silly at bob... good memories!

Advice from a friend of mine who was climbing 8b today, 13d. "I go to the climbing gym, but nothing serious." basques and spaniards don't count as they train on real stuff all the time...

i wore mine through and Ramuta resoled them...seem totally fine right now...

yeah...i'm more fuel efficient now for sure...hell, i look at a cheeseburger and i gain five pounds!!

afterburning does that...the modern tvash is quite a bit bigger than the younger one too!!

kevboned is my teacher!

Maybe if they are transporting from the USA....but arent they transporting from where they make the shit? yer a moron...i don't recall reading about refineries or drilling in afghanistan... now...if you were talking the unburdened cost of dope and opium, ok, then you are onto something...

you're the one adding bolts for safety...

one must wonder what the fully burdened cost of transporting a slew of brand new Petzl QD's to an A0 boltline in central oregon is to a yuppie climber... It must surely be more than the $22.95 cost per draw that the Evil Empire (aka REI) charges at the checkout counter!

I don't think $400 is exhorbitant for transporting fuel to the front...think about it, its either in convoy or in airlift...its not rocket science... now if the base price was $400, then there'd be some serious issues... is the war worth it? that's another debate...

Brrr....humbug. Advertising does not "establish" communities. Advertising promotes awareness of climbing. Climbing gyms then act as the economic engines allowing folks to act on that awareness and sustain a relatively steady-state annual tidal flow of new bodies. Some of those new 'climbers' join or form 'communities', both real and virtual. Me? Being totally misanthropic, I'd be all for about an 85% overnight slash in the demographic, but that is never going to happen so long as the gyms and drills are powering the whole affair. but we gotta keep a route safe for novices that might stray on to them because of a misleading guidebook write up, right?

yeah marc twight...he doesn't know anything about selfpromotion/bullshit...