billcoe

Minimally better. I think you still need work on these trolls. Google "Jeff Batten" if you want to learn from the (late) master. Really.

Need an extra chair here:-)

Sweet. You might consider doing a new TR for Ben, this is loading slow with all the pictures:-) Looking forward to it.

Sean O'Connor excellent photos of Plaidman doing the route "Into the Mystic" are for sale. Or you can perv out for free and scroll through them. http://freesolophotography.photoshelter.com/gallery/100-climbs-100-miles-100-days-Project/G0000rziAYQEYxvI/C0000jJAmfFIWsTY Enjoy!

LOL! Thanks and you're welcome. Hope to see a Trip report of how Ben likes the route when you lap it today.

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Interesting that 5.10 doesn't list them on their site. Wonder if they didn't really crank them out, or 1/2 way in chose to stop production and discontinue them...hmmmm I was waiting for someone to post, I've never seen a pair in the wild.

It's bullshit to post some unknown douches summation of a single point of another's opinion and then discuss that. (not that anyone cares what my opinion on an opinion of an opinion is....) Put the whole thing out there. Read the whole thing first. Cusak is interviewing a law Professor about the degradation via fiat big goverment mandates of our Constitution. Are you disagreeing with this Scott? Anyone else? Read it all. Here it is:

Lets all pass on a single spray post here to add a comment that counts on Trout Creek. Even you Washington sprayers will sooner or later be lapping down here. Toss a comment in the ring please.

That it is, that it is. Now we need to get some folks on it to confirm that rating and have fun at the same time. We should do an office pool on when the 2nd ascent is ......like I'm talking guess the year :-) Congrats Scott, Rick and Rhonda!!!

Hi Dave, At Smith Rock, you or someone needs to be with your dog at all times. You can't tie your dog up and do a multi-pitch lap. Which means you aren't getting much climbing in. Otherwise, dogs are OK. Don't know much of other places. As far as I know for PDX dogs 100% good no restrictions no leashs no worries at Farside, Ozone, Coethedral, Broughtons, Rock Creek/Cliff Cliff. I think leashed dogs OK at Beacon. Sorry if those may not be local to you, someone will post up shortly on Washingtons crags. Welcome to the area. Bad dog, bad dog, no bisquit!

NOPE. Only after you've bitch slapped that Adam Ondra kid and lectured the hell out of him for sticking in bolts closer than 10 feet on a clean overhang with ZERO RISK -especially in a easy access well trafficked area like the Elbe, not out on the middle of the forsaken Oregon wilderness where Mountain Lions will hump your dog and there is not even cell coverage and a man still stands alone. Click Nates link above "ADAM" and the last 2 bolts the lad places are maybe 3 feet apart, and he's hanging to drill them. Based on Nates post above explaining to you, PLAIDMAN, that 10 feet is CLEARLY too close to put bolts. I'm sure he has already scolded the lad about his poor style. If you do it or confirm that Nate already did, then you can change the thread title back. Sorry dude, there's rules ya know. And I should get my hand drill back too. There is a daily charge for late gear. $0.10/cents a day in fact. At this point, you owe me a Terminator Porter and if the hand drill doesn't show up it might soon be a full dinner and drunken binge..... Until then, we will continue to have an excessive inventory of shit rock as the title suggests. Hopefully Dave Sowerby fully recovers too so his fingers are fully functional and he can swear online at least at the loose shit around here. Until that cast gets off I can almost say I'm finally outclimbing the guy:-) As long as it's not a slab I'd bet. Hola Dave! heal up man.

OMG, I just ate over half a box of Duncan Hines yellow cake mix right out of the box. I just pop open the box and eat the powder with a soup spoon. I've told my wife not to buy the stuff but she doesn't listen. She gets upset that I always nosh it right out of the box, and cakes never get made. Anyway, everyfuckingtime I eat a box of this shit, in addition to my manboobs growing an inch I feel like puking. Can anyone advise what can mitigate the puking feeling? I can't stop eating it and she won't stop buying it. Seriously. I might head down to finish off the box right now. Holy shit that's good stuff. I can't even imagine how bad that crap is for me, so I'll avoid reading the lack of nutrition labeling for now. Help?

[video:youtube] Boom boom, out go the lights. 1:40 in. Like that only faster. No lives lost, no lights no power no mo. Boom boom, out go the lights. October they say. I've got an ounce of gold bet on it happening before end of year. Something new is about to hit.....soon. In Iran. The battlefield is moving into the realm of the ephemeral non-corporeal via Jewish drive, smarts and fear. Lights go out. Everything stops. Magic. No "genocide" bone. Pay the man. I called it a year and a half back.

Are you suggesting that we cave on sanctions because the Iranian government wants a bomb more than they want Pharmaceuticals? From your link inc. misspellings: Let me see, Iran just hosted the 120 nation non-aligned countries in Iran, including the UN chair and they forgot to ask anyone for these critical medicines? What genocide? You want to see real genocide, let them have a few bombs. They hate "zionists" (ie, jews in Israel), and want them all to just swim peacefully into the med. Won't happen. The pacifistic Jews in Europe were generally killed, and what is left are more warriors as a percentage who don't feel that some asswipes can just kill them just because they feel like it for no reason. If someone has to die, it won't be them.

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Meh. The old guy noted that (cause his shoes are already slippery I'd imagine.) Then he sat to cleaning it up. It's mostly cleaned off. I use to bring a can of Smoked Oysters packed in oil for snow caves or winter ascents so that I could first eat the stuff but then use the empty can for a candle holder after burning the oil for light if I wasn't hungry. The can acts as both a wind shield if you prop it up, a reflector (so you get more light), and a drip catcher if you don't have dripless candles. Up on Beacon it might also act to shield the direct light a bit from prying eyes below. Good night to be sleeping out I'd bet.

General note: I think we can all have this discourse without the swear words at each other. My opinions only to follow. Next, to address Bills point: I disagree in general terms. My thoughts are that we have little solid rock to climb in this area especially when Beacon closes for most of the best part of the climbing season. People should share their cliff discovery's with the bros for several huge reasons: 1st) It spreads out the climbers a bit more. 2nd) It helps keep cliffs and routes clean. Everyone knows I've done a lot of bolted routes last couple years, but I didn't do those for me but for the rest of the community. I happen to have the time and extra money to do it and do it right. I personally like climbing cracks. So on cracks (or any route in this area I suppose) if no one climbs them they literally turn to shit. Beacon, for instance, has the best cracks and gets more laps and climber action than most other spots but it still gets overgrown during the closure. Witness the discussion of climbers communicating on CC.com that they will be caretaking and literally chiseling roots out of cracks and protection spots a specific Beacon route which became overgrown and too dirty to get up. Pete's Pile never was in a guidebook and every damned year I'd go up there I wind up cleaning dirt off perfect splitter cracks. Bravo that it's finally in the guidebook. Routes which don't get climbed soon become unclimbable. 3rd) It's nice to share. We like it when folks share with us and we should reciprocate. We should treat each other the way we want to be treated ourselves. New places and new discovers are fun, they are few and far apart and should be shared cause it's the right thing to do. You're not holding out on us with your own Private Idaho cliff? Lastly: Nope Nate. You're wrong. Go do the route then check back in with your opinion. Really.

If it's yours any chance you can clean up all the candle wax that got left behind:-) Little slick in those spots.

LOL. I won't tell you when that discussion should occur but it surprised me when it came. My own kid knew a hell of a lot more than me when I finally got around to it. My answer to my daughter would be: climbed first with no bolts and you can plan on the "protection" failing should you use it:-) Didn't see you out there DD. Did a lap up the corner with Jim and Amit, a new guy.

Well spoken Don. It's always been local (crag) ethics and tradition, with a nod to the dude or dudette who climbed it first, trump all. This can clearly be seen as differentiated at Yosemite (attempt to climb with as little bolts as the FA can get away with) and Smith Rocks (which has runout routes and closely bolted face climbs depending on who FA'ed it mixed in with some sweet gear only cracks). TRADition can include HOW it's bolted as well. http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=492354&tn=0&mr=0

LOL here too. Took a while, see the tracks wuz laid down almost a month back! Woot!

Damn, that's a story! We should have a contest to count the remaining loose refrigerator blocks in your picture:-) Your photo reminds me a lot of the East Side of Beacon. I have a pretty good Steve Strauch near death moment story about Danny Gates and him climbing on those East face blocks out there. Not as near death but pretty dramatic with a long 30 foot runout over the overhang, unable to stop and put in pro, not that there was any, then a long screamer fall due a block popping. A single knifeblade driven up into some blocks the only remaining thing keeping Steve swinging in space and from death in the dirt below. It's the reason I've always avoided that face. With one exception in the 80's where the siren song lured me in. How do you get to Yrnameer Crag?

LOL. You're still climbing hard but most importantly raising a family Bryan: few things in life are as much of a priority or as rewarding as that IMO. Congrats.