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BBB is one of my favorite routes anywhere. It is in the best condition I've ever seen it. Over a thousand feet of mixed climbing twenty minutes from the car, pretty awsome. Not to many other routes of it's quality in the lower 48.

The classic TLT is the way to go. after using them a while you'll be able to flip them around with you're ski poll just like the comforts. I have not used the ski breaks in a few years now, but I thought they sucked.

As long as you can read the picture on the side of your belay device I think you're ok. Who was that retard though?

Be heads up for all the booth bimbos at CES this year, thy're top fricken notch

Ice climbing is far too expensive an too region dependent for it to become all that popular.(although one look at the Ouray Ice Park on a holiday weekend might make it seem different) A kid can go down to a shop and drop a couple of hundred bucks on shoes, chalkbag and bouldering pad and have all the shit he/she really needs to get started. Ice climbing of course requires a bunch of expensive gear and somewhat close proximity to accessable ice. Ice climbing is also cold and miserable most of the time, which is far outside of most americans comfort level.

Toyata just offers a better product, more reliable product.

Wow man that's some hardcore shit! How does it feel to be so rad? It does totally suck in there when it is crowed though. It sucks that it has to be that way, that's the way it's going. Ted and Sara Toproper from Denver take over the place. I still think Ouray is the best in December before the ice park opens- the backcountry is usually in good shape and there is very few climbers around besides the ones who live there.

Rock/ice climbs in the alpine realm. Not hit the ground again. Make a bunch of money and spend it all climbing. Live in the dirt again.

Passarounds, pretty funny. Luckily, I'm out of that gene pool now. Someone chopped them a few days ago.

Wow, that looks like one of the better waterfall pitches in Washington, nice work

Dude might not have gotten punched, but at least he got his tires slashed

What everyone has said is pretty much right on. R A has some Ok pitches combined with complete sandy choss. The route can go suprisingly fast if you are willing to simul-climb large sections. The descent is quite long, I think it took us about as long as the route.

I think Bonnotti is still alive. Fowler/Saunders are still alive and climbing hard. I would add the Lafaille to the list of guys better than Messner.

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?