COL._Von_Spanker

Sounds like a monday climber would have been excited to see that much'booty' gear . Your crag plans turned into more of an alpine experience. So the wall is totally drenched huh? I wonder if the surrounding hills it will be melted out by next weekend (causing less meltwater on route)?

Pint Glass Guiness Glass

That place up on like 95th and Aurora has the specialty glasses for all the corresponding beers. Plus they have the motherload of beers (but I prefer Ballard market cause it's local). BTW: A guiness glass and a true pint glass are different.

I'll climb with ya some time if ya want...

It is true. I would have gone if I knew the Col. was going to be there. No you wouldn't have. It wasn't prettiest display of aid climbing. I'll be up there again this weekend, though not on city park.

Yeah, uh I climb a few times a week and every weekend. Just don't feel the need to post a city park TR.

I think some people have jobs, but I could be wrong.

Use it as a keychain so everyone knows you are a climber.

Irregardless is not a word unless you are a slackjawed yokel. "Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so." ------------------------------------------------------------------------

SCI: Sux LOS: SUX Right now it's the new Supergrass.

PM me if you wanna watch the Fred Beckey show at my place in Ballard. Space is limited cause my house is f'ing small. Bring some snax, I'll supply the OLY. oh but it's sunday, oh well

Its snowing/raining in woodinville right now.

That's great about your kid climbing. I work with the 8-14 year old climbing class at stone gardens. It's pretty much the same kids every week, so I really enjoy watching them progress as climbers. I think their technique progresses really fast at that age because they are forced to use it to reach holds that ar typically within a average persons reach. Good work, I hope the young one sticks to it.

He's shootin' all digital and has a sat-phone. All the big newspapers are shootin' digital these days. He also has a flak jacket, bullet-proof jacket, chemical warfare suit, BDU's, a helmet, and an armed body guard.

I'll prolly show, but I'm fighting the plague so I prolly won't be drinking that much. While in the area it would be worth a side expedition to the broiler with a digital cam to add to the pub crawl reviews. On that note, should we add a pub club/crawl/review forum?

My brother the photojournalist for the LA Times is stationed in Kuwait with the troops right now. Here a story about it on CNN.COM. Note the photo with MY tattoo (I got it first). Let's hope he stays safe. Kevin In Kuwait

I have brought this up in conversation with people in the past: Why is it that people get all up in arms when some climbers die on rainier and hood and just climbing in general when 13 people die skiing in colorado and there doesn't seem to be a big uproar. It seems climbing gets all this attention as an extremely dangerous sport; now I know there are probably more skiers and there are certain ratios of participants to deaths, but remember the climbing season is all year round. Maybe it does get a lot of attention, and I just don't know it.

Careful asking for 'special' beads...

Why don't we have pub club at ... It's 12:00; See y'all at the D and H

I say nyet to your facist pub club regime. Let the proletariat have their say, and abondon your bourgeois attitude.

Exactly SC. If you feel gracful you will climb graceful; this will use less energy. Try climbing something that you are super comfortable on and do it slowly, but so that there is always a limb moving to the next feature, consciously think about trying to look and feel smooth on the rock. I've hear people say "climb like a girl" when trying to help with fluidity on the rock cause girlies tend to use their balance, legs and technique rather than just crankin' on holds with their arm. Guys on the other hand that are in the beginner stage tend to just just yard on holds with a big show of power, thinking they are the bomb, as their legs flail around like wet noodles underneath them.

I was gonna ask the same thing. I went for coffee once and they had poetry night. As I walked up, I noticed this and thought shit, it's peotry night but I was already half way in the door and it was too late to just turn around w/o looking like a jerk since all eyes were on me. So I got my coffee and had to stand there while this guy went on forever and since people were sitting on the floor and everywhere else massaging their intellectual egos I could not get out; trapped like a dimwitted rat. So I grabbed a garbage can, an apron and some mentos and made my way out the back. I would have stayed longer if your machine gun friend was there.

You can't use the OP's in a biner brake? If you use the three biner version can you use them?

You said in an ealier post that harry pi is your american climbing friend. Getting through the route: Visualize the sequence before you do it. Even if you don't memorize the whole route from the ground, you should know the next couple of moves. Like our russian/canadian friend said, it's like chess. The sequence is very important for feet and hands. The less you have to match the better, cause that's just extra moves. When i'm working with the juniors at the gym they have this problem a lot, often it's because they grab a hold with their dominant hand w/o thinking of the next. The same thing can be said for feet. The less moves you have to make to get up the wall the better, cause you will exert less energy. And practice of course. All of this applies to climbing trad and sport outside too, it's just not spelled out for you with brightly colored tape.

Yes, but I think it would be safe to assume that there are a few more eyes and ears tuned into the evening news than cascadeclimbers.com. Hopefully this will start opening more people eyes to the problem and the exposure might help lead to a solution. As an aside, what this problem needs is a few dedicated vigilantes (sp?); as it has been proven that the fuzz won't respond even when people call and say they are watching the people commit the crime and gave a description of the perps vehicle.