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I bring new climbers (1 at a time) out all of the time...

that's why i said move it out of the way...plus, i don't really give a shit if they have to relead it...they get to practice all of their dogma one more time...

arm each mountie with one large slung hex and blow the whistle...last one standing wins...helmets are on!...hammers are poor form... duhfuckin'duh Porter...how long you been around anyway...tool

The problem with this perspective is that by merely occupying so many routes, you place the burden on the other users to have to go and ask. Most people avoid conflict and I know I would rather just go elsewhere than have to enter a large group, not knowing who is running things and boldly make some request in front of a big group, only to be told that someone is climbing that. Taking up 5 routes is totally unacceptable. 3 should be max and you should rotate through those at that, ensuring they are free later. just move the fuckin' rope out of the way and start climbing if no one is on it...leavin' your rope there is lame...mountie or not... what are they gonna do???? Demand that you come down? bawahahahaha...

Very good read and quite inspirational...the guy is a legend...

I've been lookin' pretty hard at the Nikon and the Cannon...thanks!

dberdinka, it would behoove you to request a hilti catalog and read through the installation section and the design section...there are all sorts of factors that reduce the allowable capacities of the botlts...one that you mentioned was edge distance...while these values given in the catalogue are for competent concrete (3000-4000 psi, if i remember right), the trends are the same in rock...not the values, the trends... the other consideration about overtorquing is that torque, by its nature, induces shearing stress into the bolt. One component of a fall is shear, the other is tension from pullout action. The torque stress and the shear stress are additive, so while you broke your samples in pure torque, they would have failed at a lower, but still overtorqued, value had shear been applied to them as well...ie, the max/devinder example i mentioned earlier... shoot me a pm if you have anymore questions...

well, first pair delammed quickly (1 week), he refused to fix...2nd pair was a pair of futuras that i left a detailed written description to not remove the sole, only the plate and replace that (the shoe was designed to do this)and then had a verbal discussion to make sure he understood what i wanted done. Get the shoe back with the sole removed and the shoe destroyed. They would have lasted damn near forever if resoled the way LaSportiva designed them to be...i was so fuckin' pissed...

id dissagree... was not very impressed with my resole job done there. just my experience tho DO NOT GO TO PAGE...crap

Most of us agree. yepperz...shocker ain't it??

technically speaking, tool, guidebooks use trees, therefore they are aid...get with the program, dumbass...

its only on for everyone but Kevbonehead...he can't read yet, so obviously the guidebook beta is "out" for him... Then again, maybe his girlfriend, pink, can read it to him??

Believe it bitch. You do it all the time. i have to at least try to sound like an idiot...you, on the other hand,...well, you are a natural-born-idiot...

camcorder for an idiot (me)?

i can't believe how kevbone can start a useless drivel post count increaser with such ease... worthless, imo...

on a side note, throw them on the team if they are competent climbers...you'll have plenty of climbing kids for them to hang with... plus, they'll be ropegunning for themselves...

two boys, 9 and 7...shredderz...send a pm for weekends!

sucks when you're a klutz, don't it?

how 'bout squamish instead of 11worthless?

...or you can stick with the tried and true Ramuta...drop offs at any of the vw gyms...pretty quick turnaround, and well, the resoles and/or toe caps are amazing...

RMNCWRTR, get used to it...the staff at our local ER knows our boys on a first name basis...everything from stitches on the back of the head from backflips to close to the diving board, to broken arms, to split chins, to dislocated fingers, etc. etc. etc.. Luckily my boys are jabbermouths spraying about their "war wounds"...otherwise, i'm sure CPS would be calling us... Come to think of it...i was as busted up (arguably, just as much now as then) as they were when i was a kid...live hard, play hard and pass the bandaids!!! BTW: Saw your post on helmets...

props Jens and Sol!!

I'm going to the gym!!! booyah!

Hi Aric, Thanks for posting here... CCH just strikes me as the most amatuerish business i've ever seen...garage tinkerers... great design, but at the end of the day, still homemade...