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I'll bet you got one of those micromanaging S.O.B's!

Now they are in college and they are still into bouldering. They are all tatooed and pierced now.

"I'm all ears"

Nope.

You are hearby granted a special variance. Start cutting.

I'm not going to comment any further. I've been beaten down too many times.

There aren't enough people able to overcome their conditioning (I mean with bad enough manners), to comment on such a scurrilous topic as this. I mean it would be just plain WRONG.

For our protection, no doubt.

Hmmm... Gary_Yngve's party was just up thata way...

You are one perceptive guy.

Hey, don't make fun of composting. It's the wave of the future. You'll be doing it some day too.

Pope, I challenge you to be other than the one-dimensional bore that you have been. If you could expound on other facets of climbing than this one issue, people might take you more seriously. The fact is that you take the most extreme view possible. The one that there is no place for any bolts, ever. You are just telling everybody that sport climbs that they shouldn't enjoy their sport and that they are destroying the environment. That's like trying to tell all the snowmobiliers they should stop because they are polluting or telling the ATV crowd they should be banned from ever using their machines because they can destroy the landscape. In all these issues the best approach is to manage the problem rather than trying to make it all go away in one fell swoop. I'm wasting my breath, as this is spray.

No, you got it all wrong. He was supporting that column. Right after that picture was taken the roof collapsed.

I've heard it said that it doesn't autoblock very well on small diameter ropes compared to the Reversino.

Did you witness this?

That infamous Jeff Lowe lawsuit of 2003 was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.

Trango has revised the design of the B-52. They have lowered and rounded the brake surface to reduce "biner shift" and they have made the metal thicker on the small end (used for clipping to the anchor). It was claimed that the reason for this design change was to provide more surface for the glue bond holding the keeper cable. It should be noted that in the original design, 40% of this metal could be worn away and the device still failed at above 13 kN. Anyway, those who worried about this have less to worry about.

Yeah, my Dad was always telling me, "son, keep your nose clean, stay out of hot water, and don't fuck up". To this very day, I've heeded his advice. I'm always picking my nose, I avoid taking baths, and I never let let her be on top.

Glad to see you are your usual sweet and cheerful self, Bob. I am not sure what would we do without your advice.

Guano sounds so much more... what's the right word?...pleasant?...er... nevermind.

Either the Dolomites or made up.

CG starts with a layback. The jams suck and it is almost horizontal.

I was going to post that, Harry, but decided not to. Have fun!

Pearly Gates? Do you mean to say all the routes at Pearly Gates? Many of them do have hard starts.

Damn