RuMR

do us a favor and start girth hitching your slings to your nuts...and start girth hitching your slings to bolt hangers... just think how many biners you'll save! please report back your findings...better yet, hold that thought...we'll read about it in the newspaper next monday... dumbass...

my biners are fine, some local damage is no big deal, my guess, they'll still rate out 95% of a new one...i just don't run ropes through that side... wires can cut like knives...your point was wrong...you absolutely want hard on hard...fuckin' duh...

none, imo...you warrant a rescue on the freeway from a car crash, you'll get a bill... you warrant a rescue in the hills, you'll get a bill... europe is this way...might encourage a little more caution/get-myself-out-of-this-mess-by-myself-ness...

where is catturdeat with a discussion like this?? WTF...

hence my toking reference...

uhhh yeah...i constantly see bolt hangers shearing biners I also see swaged wires on nuts cutting biners all the time... ...actually, i think a girth hitch works like a knot in that some of the base material is compromised by the knot...i don't have the numbers, but a figure 8 fails a rope at something like 90% (again, i'm pulling out of my ass here)... there is something to be said for the relative melting issues (kevlar/dyneema/nylon) and from absolute melting issues (ie rope running over sling)... My personal opinion...in the middle of a route with a fair bit of gear in, a relatively low fall factor, and a bunch of secondary pieces below the top piece, i wouldn't give it a second thought...right off the anchor, i'd be a little more "judicious"... absolute rules/dogma is for the brainless... Carry on...

Yes...you do get a bill...

oh bullshit jens... "I fell off cuz my gear was too heavy"...I personally only fall off because I'm too fat and heavy...

fuck off, E...i bought a tag...

aren't the Mounties officially in season?? I heard Palin was takin' 'em off the endagered list!! ! W O O HO O!!

That's awesome, bill... on another note, i have to ask "How in the hell did you not notice the weight missing from your pack from offwidth gear and camera stuff not being there?? You tokin' at the office?????"

To me, the absolute most telling thing about McCain is his caving on torture...

"public service announcements" ? WTF EVERYONE, PLEASE BEND OVER AND GRAB YOUR ANKLES EN MASSE

i will beat them worse if they ditch me...just sayin'...

no local guessing allowed...

Damn bill...i get all sad when i think about my kids leaving...i hope they will want to hang with the grumpy old bastard up until they leave for college or other places...i'm scared they won't want anything to do with me when they are teens...

bonus points for guessing route!

I'll one up you...

Cerberus and The Gauntlet. Great picture of under-the-mantle on The Grand, btw. cerebus is sweet... Drew would chimney boogie!!

Both those kids rock...the younger one is kinda intimidated...but the older one was the same when he was 6 too...at 9 he just gets better each and every time we get out... cool thing is that he's game for EVERYTHING...crack, face, overhangs...hell, he was even doing slab boulder problems the last time i was in yosemite (I'm gonna have to talk to him about that)....

yeah...but our fist and hand cracks are offwidths for him!!!!

yeah...pretty stoked would be an understatement...

already beat you to it...

apparently scientists are close to creating self replicating cells...