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It's an amazingly awesome spot and the pic was pretty. Thought I'd share the pic.

West Side slums: Top now only a secret location:

Must be the guys dad right here helping these ladies with their yoga:

Can't they just move to Canada or Sweden?

Leclerc, if he's not smokin' the wacky tobaccy' there or dreaming , seems to indicate you sent Paisano overhang? Dude, knarly if true. I want to see the blood trail though (if you can't post a pic) before I believe it:-) Plaidman wants to see the picture so he can get his shrinkage on...LOL! Sweet! Gone, maybe, but not forgotten!

Someone probably got laid the night before. Best get a stable of buddies you can auto dial in case one gets a hummer the night before.

WTF is this? Climbers are wearing jerseys now? Whoh!

LOL!

I can't see it

LOL! Very similar, I remember dropping my military ID just as I was entering the post (walking) after dropping some window pane and taking about 5 min to get it picked up.....quite disconcerting then, funny now.

Just a note: these dudes need patients to graduate. The quality of care is excellent. I took Mike Layton up on it when he was in need, and was surprised at how thorough the first exam was. Despite being what I thought was going to be an unnecessary pain in the ass/waste of time as the long initial exam was mandatory, the highlight was that Mike identified 2 serious major issues that needed to be addressed by stretching. Once he identified the weaknesses, it was real obvious they were there and had been there all along, but I'd never noticed them before. Glad I did it, I still do the stretches he recommended back then and it's much better. Furthermore, my regular chiropractor has given me some stretches and advice that I'm convinced fixed a very chronically painful shoulder that climbing kept screwing up, Chrios do a lot more than just align your back bones. I learned about the good work they do originally for my back and became a believer when I'd helped physically-manually lifted 12,000 lbs of bolts off a tractor trailer that were in 200 lb kegs as our forklift was broken that day. Turns out that was a real real real bad and later painful idea LOL! Oh to be young strong and stupid..... So a chance to get some good quality care and help out poor folks, some budding Doctor and yourself is whats being discussed here I think.

I might have forgotten, did I promise you some money for this or sumpthin'? _______________________________________________________ Yeah, ya need to hire out the "How to huff spray paint" thang....jus' sayin'.....on the upside, you can often start confiscating some real good pot when they're @14...."...Hey kid, I told you not to smoke pot till yer 18, gimme dat... ..and gimme back my vodka...18 I tol ya...."

Damn close, love this part: "...I've witnessed Ivan's 'normal day out' and I'm here to tell you there's nothing 'normal' about it. The minute Ivan rolls into the parking lot, 'normal' starts heading for the tourist trail..." LOL! Well spoken JH! Put a smile on my face for sure! Ivans main skill shared by few others is to be able to derail a Jimmy rant and do it in an interesting manner. Much like tuning a herd of stampeding cattle, no easy feat to do at all much less to complete with panache and elan.

Ditto what Wayne said! What are you going to do with all the money you make on it? Maybe buy some beer for us CC.comer barflies? Are you going to do what Pat Ament did and sell some signed copies direct?

This you Jake? LOL! [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nYx8iX9oX8&feature=popular

Harry Daley was the other one I did with both knees gimped up in June Geoff. This trip was right after your brother destroyed me as the pic below indicates - LOL I'd had the bad idea of stretching out my ONE good leg, and popped a tendon in the knee. OMG - now I'm old, out of shape and injured! I was seriously hobbling down there this trip. Such pain. Adam showed up @mid day, after riding the bus in, without a partner, and as everyone was out climbing and it was his very first trip to the ditch I took pity on him and took him up Harry Daley. Thinking it was close. And easy. Of course, I'd forgot about the step up on the second pitch, and as both knees were tweaked, it was excruciating. Last route of the trip. As you know since you were sometimes in our campsite watching this show weren't you? Geoff and Miker at an obvious gear sale. Yeah Will, you must be thinking Green Dragon (friction/bolts), Dr Feelgood is a gear route. I did Apron Jam ONE time. This was one of those, work in a cubical had head down trips and figure you get in shape down there (bad idea!) That was with a single 4" friend just like you mention as well. I later read a John Long story where he shows up in the valley, after having climbed the Green Arch and Valhalla at Taquitz, routes that may have been as hard as about anything in the country then, and he gets on the Apron Jam thinking "OH, it's ONLY 5.9"... (you know where this is going LOL) feels like he's gonna die as he thrashes his way up it, not having worked on his thin chimney/strange sized stuff before and only having a single #4 piece. I didn't have it as bad as him, but I have felt no need to go back and do the route again either:-) Galen Rowell was once up this way, wish I asked him if he was using Pitons on the FA of that one...never thought to ask and now he's gone. Could you imagine trying to nail in that thing? Holy crap, that would be insane. Dudes were amazing back then, probably wearing those Blue Robbins boots too.

Soft rock Off. Or plates like JH says, but for me, plates were so last year. This year is soft rock. I fished that old steel stuff out of the basement thinking I might have needed to hand drill a bolt. Figured I might need to remove and redrill later with a big one but as it turned out, didn't need any bolts, even the rap point was a horn. These have been hanging around since back in the day, but I quickly learned about stainless steel back when. I haven't placed steel for years. Glad I had it with me, equally glad I didn't have to drill as well, what a pain in the ass.

Thanks 5 K. BTW, even when I post non-climbing pics of weapons, they are usually at a climbing area being shot after we are done for the day. (although I've ceased doing this, partially cause I can't shoot well when exhausted and partially as I'd rather toss lead into a berm that will have the lead mined and recycled like at the range). Like this. I described my Trip report in spray that we climbed all day and then did target practice.

ps: lets review your pictures - here's a sampling of those you post, often repeatedly, and you are saying that Ivan's climbing pictures should be in these threads in spray. What kind of pro is this picture you posted? What did these yahoos climb? Whats she climb? Wheres the routes here? Climbing partner? Don't have any idea what this has to do with climbing.... Don't have any idea what this has to do with climbing.... Don't have any idea what this has to do with climbing.... Don't have any idea what this has to do with climbing.... Don't have any idea what this has to do with climbing.... and lest we forget... Don't have any idea what any of this has to do with climbing.... Do you want to review the route pictures Ivan has been taking? His are different than yours...oh yes they are! Big time!!! You want his climbing pictures to be in the same areas as these is what you are saying. Right?

BTW Kevin, you have 11761 posts and ONLY 259 photos. Ivan has 7568 and over 500 great climbing photos. Whats that tell ya?

When you consider all of the non-climbing related material (ie, bullshit) you post in non-spray forums (don't make me go drag some rants about Beacon into this:-) Then it's a bullshit claim you make Kev. fixed that quote off,..we're here for that and the pictures:-)

Looks like a significantly interesting choss pile. BTW, I bet Dwayner - Raindawg would care, just because it's there and it violates what he "thinks" is morally right, not that he will ever go there, climb or even see it. He's still working on his Elmer Gantry merit badge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gantry

3/8 5 steel piece, 1/2" x 7" wedge anchor SS, 3/8 steel wedge anchor. This picture needed a home. Good luck!

Cell phone beta is amazing! Fixed that part of it. BTW, nice story. This might get moved to spray real soon, but I have to add that I think (you know what they say about Opinions) that the best route on the Apron isn't Grack center. Center is great, no doubt, probably the best 5.6 in the world. The best route on the Apron (if you like cracks) is Mr Natural. I've accessed that route via 3 ways, and the best is via Dr Feelgood. The Yellow Meyers listed Feelgood as 5.11C, but they've dropped it to 10c now with an 11a move to get on the route that can be bypassed if you are feeling old. However, Grack Center is certainly the best route NOT in the middle of the current rockfall death zone. Some buddies did it last trip down, but I don't have those kinds of stones knowing that not long ago rockfall, which is still coming down on occasion, killed a guy right there.