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I find it amazing how people tend to simply ignore evidence that goes against their opinion. It doesn't reflect on them very well. Or maybe they're just dumb?

I highly doubt that kick wax would have any effect on the grippiness of skins. Plus, if it's wet enough that your skins are glopping, you'd need klister. Glopstopper is a bit softer than household paraffin (which works great for hot waxing if you're cheap!), but you probably won't notice a difference.

Give him Erock's number...

sez: NO SPRAY IN CLIMBER'S BOARD!!!

OMFG! We agree on something! Maybe someday RuMR will see the light and start skiing, too!

I hate heat. Give me cold any day. Smith is best when the high is 40, it's sunny, and all the gapers are at home. The only good thing about summer is that spring comes first, and corn makes for great skiing. For the rest, summer sucks.

Jason's right. says to STFU, Will.

Fat, the one I've used had MAJOR sheath slippage, gets fuzzy fast, poor hand, kinda mushy. It also gets kinky quite easily. Other than at, it's a decent rope. I like the Galaxy more.

I shook hands with Dru once. It was a life changing experience. That dude is SCARY. He seems to spray in real life, too! Talks like he posts.

Excellent TR! That's not a Mammut Flash is it? That rope is THE DEVIL!

Whatever, Cwacked Haven't seen much of him. Where'd he go?

You've been banned and brought back to life at least twice. You have avatars. When skiing, you tell your buddy to "rip it up, lol!" You wonder "What would dwayner do?"

You 'solo' third class? It's called walking.

According to the Smith-hardman authored guidebook (I think Chris Jones wrote it, if I remember correctly), Limpdick is 11b and Satisfaction is 12a. I've led limpdick and almost toproped Satisfaction, so maybe you're right.

I soloed that when I was 12 years old with a 65 year old man. Thump....thump....thump...

I got a !!!!

I haven't prereleased! Seems to work fine even inbounds. If/when I get better and start prereleasing, I'll crank them up. I guess I'm just not as cool as you.

But Impact Force also depends on the elastic modulus of the rope ....not to mention friction of the rope through biners and the dynamics of the belay and and and....

I have my bindings set pretty low...6.5 I think? I release pretty often, but I use leashes so it's not a problem. I haven't prereleased since the first day I used them.

solution: use a real ax and deal the with 'extra' 5 ounces. spend your dividend on packable champagne glass and chopsticks. Hard to ski with a axe rather than a pole. When I've got the ducats I'm shelling out for a pair of whippets...price be damned.

You make as much sense as the SheepShagger himself, CrazyPolishDude.

The old guidebook puts Limpdick at 11b, though I agree that once you've got it wired it's pretty easy. A set of cams and a set of nuts should cover pretty much anything.

A screamer rips if the force on it is greater than the activation force. How much energy is dissipated by the screamer is constant, the force is irrelevant so long as it's greater than the activation force. Once the screamer is fully ripped, then we start getting interested in the true force. But that's not what we're talking about. My previous example simply illustrated that a screamer has a non-negligible effect on reducing the force on pro, Mmmmkay?

Nope, site was down.