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  1. This just goes to show that giving awards for something as subjective as alpine climbing is a bad idea. I think Rolo Garibotti and his two partners had it right when they refused to accept a Piolet nomination for their route on Cerro Torre. It is cool to see people get recognized for their achievements, but to single out one climb as being more significant than another is pretty futile.

  2. I just started wearing a chopat type brace in the last week while at work and when I work out, havn't worn it climbing yet. It works pretty well. My one worry with that is that I've heard long term use of knee braces can be detrimental. For me though, it allows me to move around with little or no pain. I've been pretty good with the stretching, I just in the last few weeks have been able to stretch my quads without any pain in my knee. What is glucosamine sulfate? I have a fair bit of scar tissue built up, is there any way to decrease that Mike? Thanks for the help Mike, I really have had to educate myself with this thing, cause the p.t. that everyone said was so great was of little help.

  3. So I have been dealing with patellar tendonitus in one of my knees for about six months at this point you could say that it's pretty chronic. I've been through the whole sports dr. and physical therepey route with pretty minimal results. I was told that rest and stretching were the only things that would allow recovery, but both have done little or nothing to improve the pain or stength levels in my knee. Time away from climbing and trail running only left me out of shape and without any noticable recovery. I have tried a lot of different stuff to get this thing straitened out and it's getting pretty damn frustraiting. Anyone out there have some suggestions?

  4. 12th place finisher is a summer resident of B-ham, she's no slouch. I think Tracey used to live in Seattle too. Seems like all the PNW female exports showed well. The comp route looked pretty creative this year, I've only seen the pictures, but it looks pretty cool.

  5. 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.

  6. By the way I was soloing, is that getting after it?

     

    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.

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    but is fred the only one alive still?

     

    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.

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