billcoe

Their 15 min of fame was up 10 min ago. They ran over time.

"small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female nicknamed "Ardi." I think I may have climbed with her on a road trip when I was young...did she smell like patchuli oil and pot and have a great smile?

I heard that edgeworksclimbing.com in tacoma already has sport climbing:-) They'll save a fortune on gas.

....pffft: closet right winger...not that I disagree, but that's what these wanks always say when I have an anti-government intervention sentence and they don't know what else to say. So you happen to be right....THIS time! here's a cartoon for you.

Was the truck marked "CAN'T BEAT OUR MEAT ™ ". ? At least we now know where all the Hari krishnas who use to sell hand out "free" incense at the airports have gone. Hari Krishna meat sales. Now that I think of it, don't see many Moonies these days either, maybe they are doing the butchering for the Krishnas....?

...exactly on the money what Don said: and Smith is a good place for them to keep going. Really really good.

I've free soloed with a couple of pieces and a sling....just in case. Haven't ever used the pro yet, and now I'm probably too old to be carrying on like that anyway. As much as aging, seeing some top notch free soloists like Bachar dieing, along with the great climber Dwight Bishop, really changed my mindset. I was in the valley when Derek Hershy fell off the Steck-Salethe while free soloing, but attributed that to the rain that afternoon.

As I understand it, Chouinard learn to drill them from climbers who were drilling the early ones. They use to make a template for climbers to do this themselves. Then Chouinard started drilling them out at the factory. Then they got tired of drilling and just lightened the material. If you have the new hexes, then drilling them may be unnecessary and weaken them as the weight of the early ones was engineered out. Depends which generation of hexes you have....

Blue Steel!

I'm counting that out Prole. Too wing nut even for me. Even if I'm not a rightwinger.

Ouch. How much does just the bar weigh...cause I can get that one up and down like 10 times....in a row!!!

El Cap has been soloed more than once, successfully, with this staying clipped into a piece or 2 as you go system. I think an early speed ascent on Zodiac, but my memory is vague, maybe someone with some brain cells can recall this. Thinking of it makes my nads shoot towards my throat however. I like JH's response, go free solo or full rope solo. I recently used the "Healy method", last Saturday in fact, and found it more reliable than the "Rhythm method": having survived it.

..one Finn, Simo Hayha, measuring in at 5 ft 3" and nicknamed "White Death" by those he hunted, in particular defied belief... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

opps, poll, wacked out assassination poll: not assassination Prole. What the hell is up with people? Do they want our system torn down? Cause this is how it starts. I'm with jb on this one. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090929/ts_alt_afp/usitinternetpoliticscrimefacebookobama;_ylt=AimjAnMXPQxdd0rInngTneOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNwYzE3cmFpBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDkyOS91c2l0aW50ZXJuZXRwb2xpdGljc2NyaW1lZmFjZWJvb2tvYmFtYQRjcG9zAzkEcG9zAzYEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNzZWNyZXRzZXJ2aWM- "Tue Sep 29, 4:08 am ET SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The US Secret Service is trying to identify the people who launched an online poll at Facebook asking whether US President Barack Obama should be assassinated. Facebook on Monday shut down the user-generated poll, which was titled "Should Obama be killed?" and offered answer choices of yes, no, maybe, and "If he cuts my health care."........"

OMG, a Moonbat sighting! Nice find.

Fu*kem "Many middle-grade climbers probably enjoy the challenge of protecting routes almost as much as the climbing. There is a great deal of satisfaction in managing cunning placements on a tricky pitch. Top climbers, on the other hand, focus on the ultimate problems of movement on rock. In practice this means that many crags are worked over and pre-protected. At Buoux, the famous limestone area in the South of France, most climbs are bolt protected. As Bart Cannon reported in Climbing after a visit to Buoux: Not only did bolts dot the entire wall, but I realised that many of them were big cemented-in eyebolts... In true sportclimbing fashion, both these eyebolts and the standard Petzls are placed on rappel after top roping to determine their ‘natural’ place for clipping and falling. While some English climbers I met muttered about the climbs being too safe, I never saw them skip a clip, nor felt compelled to myself." -Steve Craddock, 1991 If one doesn't like Buoux, then one should not go there. For myself, I haven't gone there as clipping bolts is way down the list of things I enjoy. However, I quite readily do clip those I come across and in my mind, there is room for both styles and attitudes I note above.

I'm sorry, don't be showing up here with facts and other real bullshit: only UNINFORMED OPINIONS are welcome in spray...LOL, at least that's what it seems like to me from some of these other posts, including mine. ___________________________________________________________ Once possible solution, it seems to me, is large diameter 1/2" x 4" stainless wedge anchors that are Red loctited in. Sure, they can be removed, but it will be a slow, difficult process, allowing locals time to catch the SOB who unbolted the earlier ones when he comes back to screw with the not so easy to pull ones. Then they can process the scene via the classic baseball bats to the fuc*ers knees, take all his gear and goods on him as payment for the bolts as he cry's and whimpers in pain laying in the dirt, begging for his very life and apologizing profusely for the errors of his ways, and reduce the shitheads car to something resembling this. There are times where violence can be a productive tool. Like when some thieving SOB breaks into your car, or trashes a climbing area for whatever reason. Payback can be a bitch.

Waht? I want wheatever yur smokin"

you wake up 300 feet off the deck hungover? hey, what were the results? Or is this one of those does it really matter things?

Was this the year you scored 128 days of ice climbing or some bodacious thing? BTW, check your email within the next day. ps, don't stick your thumb into a Munter Hitch rap.

about time....

...is that known as the "single payer system"? ps, to follow up on what jb is saying Ivan: I don't think that the Pentagon had 28,000 people hired with the sole duty of sending out positive public relations releases about the US and our glorious military back when Jefferson was President like they do now. Nice quote too. That's Twenty Eight Thousand...hmmmm lets say average cost is $50,000 per employee for that PR "group", "Swarm" or "gaggle" That's $1,400,000,000 a year in cost to you. Are you getting your moneys worth for this?

Actually Miss M, I do agree with what you say....our overuse of raw materials for non-important things is a huge issue for our society with a bill we have yet to start paying, however, globalism is a force which will rickroll us as well. I was looking for a place to put my thumb picture. My earlier point remains...do not place your thumb into a Munter while rapping, and you can't argue me out of that position.

Ivan got there first Ivan got there first Ivan got there first Ivan got there first!!!! ps, don't stick your thumb into a munter while rapping with one.