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Hmmm, I just remember jugs and laybacks. Sometimes the approach one takes makes all the difference in the world. I try not to dislike a climb just because I lack a peculiar skill needed for it. Sometimes though we just don't have the right body type for a given climb. Hands too big, hands too small, too tall, too short, etc. Some climbs are just plain ugly though. Considering the subject of climbs with no holds... I find that climbs that in the past had no holds suddenly sprout jugs when I climb them again with better skills. It's miraculous, really.

Why? The why is the most intesting part.

Hands down, Kick Start, 5.9+, at Clem's Holler. It is the dirtiest SOB I've ever climbed. Even if it were cleaned, you'd be climbing through a sea of grunge. It just isn't pretty.

I've never trusted bladders. On climbs there is too much at stake. I don't want to risk getting my extra clothes wet or losing my water supply, whether it is from a leak or because of a frozen line.

This "hoard" will consist of 6-8 students.

Money talks.

Dude, we have PLENTY to fear from Islam. I guarantee you that.

The police department itself has the power to press charges if there is evidence of spousal abuse. In this case there was physical evidence- a severed lip.

We don't hang ropes were are not actively using. I'm sorry if you have encountered people who do that. If you see a route with a rope hanging and no climbers, you have a right to ask that that rope be pulled so you can climb the route.

I don't think i was blaming the victim. Having worked closely with abused women, nothing breaks my heart so much as when a women who has been beaten near to death, has escaped started to put her life together, and then goes back to the monster who is trying to kill her. how do we teach our daughters better than that? how do we give them the self confidence and self preservation necessary to keep them out of harms way. what i read that disturbed me, was that the woman didn't want to press charges. to me, that is devastating. he should go to jail for a long time. but thats just my opinion. In this case the imam probably got to the woman and told her that she would burn in hell if she pressed charges against her husband. So she decided not to cooperate. This thread is related to the one that JayB posted about Bill Moyer, actually.

A gold star to whoever can come up with the photo that goes with Eastwood's quote from Pale Rider, "Nothing like a nice piece of hickory!"

There's a statistic that Dru is unlikely to refute!

"After climb, go home, take shower, drink beer." -Mizuki Takahashi

Short People - Randy Newman Short people got no reason Short people got no reason Short people got no reason To live They got little hands And little eyes And they walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet Well, I don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people Round here Short people are just the same As you and I (A fool such as I) All men are brothers Until the day they die (It's a wonderful world) Short people got nobody Short people got nobody Short people got nobody To love They got little baby legs And they stand so low You got to pick 'em up Just to say hello They got little cars That got beep, beep, beep They got little voices Goin' peep, peep, peep They got grubby little fingers And dirty little minds They're gonna get you every time Well, I don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people 'Round here

I'd heard that Lamar's Trust was a good one that almost never gets climbed. Somebody (Mattp?) said it had a tree lodged in it last time he looked at it.

Dru, that is fucked up and you are too for showing it. I am sure the snake is defanged, but I don't care.

There are always Yak Tracks.

We are in a more difficult situation now than we were when the war started. Wouldn't you agree?

Someone told me that the reason that the Makahs have not gone out to harvest another whale was that too many people were grossed out over the carcass. They found out that whale carcasses are bloody, stinky and that whale blubber tastes awful.

Would you like to cast the first harpoon?

No, not at all. Everything will have a sign saying something like, "200 foot cliff with jagged rocks at bottom, Alpental not reponsible if you jump off".

So often in life what seems like a great idea doesn't turn out to be so great in practice.

Nope, I can't.

That's why you went up there. I suppose someone might have beat you to it.

Exactly. Each and every sect thinks it knows better than the other sect, and knows better than anyone else. It doesn't matter if the ideas conflict with science. Faith means not listening to anyone else's argument with an open ear. Quite the contrary. Men and women of faith are praised and held in the highest esteem for being steadfast in closing their minds to ideas that might contaminate the dogma.