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Wow, this has been incredibly entertaining. I havn't laughed this hard in a while.

Fuck off and shit motherfucker. Oh yeah, whats up with the fucking spam you sent around last week?

Gloves from the hardware store are great for leashless climbing, I use them all the time. Most of the time though they are pretty hard to get dried out when they get wet. I have to take a few pairs with me if I want my hands to stay dry. For long routes windstopper material gloves are great, they dry out when you shove them inside of your jacket and they aren't to expensive.

Only like an army of noobs and topropers

RR is probably overhyped, but you can pretty much depend on having great weather. It's sunny in the winter and spring in Vegas when many other places are unclimbable. Peope who exclusively sportclimb try to bag on the climbing at RR, but in reality it is quite good, they really don't know what they are talking about. There is a lifetime of climbing, both trad and sport at RedRocks. My two cents

Canmore Junkyards, pretty funny. I second dale's vote for Riptide.

Flipping it around does alleviate the problem for the most part, unless your ropes are frozen cables.

Yeah, this is total bullshit. The word is that chuck didn't place the new set of bolts, some other fucking moron did. Chuck is a complete tea-bagger, but apparently one of his buddy's is guilty this time. The shitty thing is that they are Petzl long life type bolts and they are not easily removed without damaging the rock. Someone really put a lot of effort into placing these bolts, it's gonna take some effort in getting them out I guess. Once the culprit is identified, they'll get their tires slashed just like chuck did. On the bright side, it is a stellar season so far in Ouray/Telluride for ice. The high temps have been in the teens for the last week, so come down and get after it.

You're right, they are pretty much based on the russian ice fifi that you see getting used at the speed comps. They don't have much weight to them, like the monstgers, so I really don't see how they'd be that great for real swingen, probably good for kids though. The icefests at climbing gyms seem to be a good way of getting people together for shmack talk and boozin, but do people get anything out of the gear demos when they arn't swinging ice tools into real ice? I'm not trying to be critical, I was just wondering.

Seattle and Portland, the home of the SOFA- sweater over a fat ass

Sport climbing at the pullouts is pretty much perfect right now, canyons are definately chilly but doable if ya take enough warm clothes to wear while yer belaying.

You think you can get out with all that bread baking to get done tobin?

Hummers are meant to be given not driven

A lot of people bag on it, but it's a pretty fun event. The folks who run it work there asses off. You kinda just got to see it for what it really is, a big party. If you really wan't to get any climging in, arrive about four or five days in advance of the icefest. By the weekend it is just too crowded everywhere to get anything done. Donini in a dress was a fucking riot, but the teenage girls dance team was the shit.

Drunken wrestling in the middle of the street

Moderately heated. It is a good place to cook and dry your shit out. If you have a truck or a van, it is better to sleep in it in the parking lot-as not to get harrassed by the RCMP. Sleeping in your vehicle in Field isn't quite as cold as Canmore or Banff. All of this assumes a low profile.

The ice in Field is probably the best, most consistant ice of varying difficulty levels in BC. Field is cheap to stay in as well. You can squat in the visitors center-which is my preferred bivy spot.

I'm going through the same thing right now, laid up with a knee injury. It's amazing how many books you can go through when you've got time on your hands. Bringing Down the House- a good story Let My People Go Surfing The brand new book by Bob Woodward about the Irag War- it's supposed to be really good- I think it's called State of Denial?

Yeah, the bolt got chopped only a couple days after it was placed. In my opinion, this guy deserved and still deserves all the harrassment that can be thrown at him,just so he doesn't do it again. He's a complete jackass for placing it. How he got the idea in his head in the first place is a mystery.

To this day, the guy still says he was doing the right thing, his justification was pretty lame. He paid the price in the end though. Vince posted the dude's email address and phone number on the internet which led to the guy getting harassing phone calls and emails for quite a while.

For RMNP the Gillet book is the most current, but the topos arn't that great, the pictures are kind blurry too

It's actually super nice in Vegas right now, climbing in the sun is even managable right now.

Why waste a bunch of money driving around chasing ice in the PNW that doesn't regularly come into shape. The Rockies are only a days drive from Seattle. You can get more climbing milage in weekend up there than you can in a season in Wash or Oregon. This is only true if you don't have any border issues of course

I've talked to several people who have seen it, they all say it is amazing. I'm going tommorow, I'm psyched to see it for myself

This kinda sounds like jackin off without the proper reading materials