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What's the biggest rockfall when bouldering? A few pebbles as a microflake pulls off? Bird, back me up on this.

I second this one. I also like Camp 4 by Steve Roper. It is a good history of early Yosemite big walling. You got that book Bird? Gimme

I wanna do that line inbetween Overboard and Magic Light

I'm heading out to do a little constructive deconstruction. (bolt removal) Go crawl back into the navel you came from!

Gotta love Vertical Limit with the raging kegger at basecamp with Ed. Also the guy who happens to wind up in the same crevasse as his wife...who was frozen solid years earlier (there wasn't a dry eye in the house). How about Tom Cruise's incredible dyno in MI2. He also had a killer Iron Cross move. He does all of this free solo as he shrugs off near death slips with a smirk.

Have fun without me this time y'all!

Was it the Park Service and was it two summers ago? I was there and they burned the trees directly below the Nose. Poor people on various wall routes were getting absolutely hammered with thick smoke. That must have been a few peoples "FEAR". No escape from choking thick smoke hanging from aiders 2000 ft up. I saw no warning signs around before hand.

Hey Distel, I think you guys are planning on heading to Lworth right? Your meeting at 10 where? I may be interested. I need to check with the boss to see if she can handle the baby sans Norsky.

vantage is a pretty cool place. sure the rock is choss and there are hoards of people, but there is something about the atmosphere there, the lighting that always seems to draw me a few times a year, it seems to always be a bit flat, drawing my focus to the small details of the enviroment. the feel of the sun cutting the crisp air and warming me, always brings a smile. vantage is pretty cool! Vantage always creeps me out. It has a lunar quality that seems devoid of life. There's just something sinister about that place for me. The echos, the ravens, the puke green lichen, the wind. There's some really cool routes there like Positive Vibrations...oops, I heard that toppled. Did that column really fall? I haven't been there in a while. When I eventually make it back, I don't think I'll ever place gear there again. My luck there has run out. I've lead all the crack pitches there I care to except for some of the harder ones like Bob's Your Uncle. There's plenty o' cracks elsewheres.

A trip to Vantage

ever climbed at smith? I have new appreciation for the established on lead heinous cling No wonder Smith was one of the US places that began rap bolting.

Sheit!

What about the Lithuanian Roof on Liberty Crack?

Never mind that, how about that 5.2 slab traverse at the end -GRIPPED!- Very good point. That last pitch was some serious BS. We wanted to top out so that we could check out the notorious North Dome Gully descent without haul bags. My God how hot that day was!

What, and leave booty?!!!

Some bad shit in Europe. In Germany I got to the top at a sport area and they have a string of 10mm rope tied between two YOUNG trees. About 5 routes shared this "anchor" by clipping into "fixed" non locking biners to lower off of. In France, single bolt anchors seemed to be the norm. Kinda like how I found lots of the old routes in the Flatirons.

You guys are right, Karate Crack is harder than 8. I'd say it's a solid 8+

I'll help you get started. How about Karate Crack? Cool Ranch? Ol' Orange at the gym?

It was wet when I did it a couple years ago. Nice short crux though. How about that cool pitch above when you yard on that chopper flake/block that is gonna kill someone someday.

Angel Crack had oily ooze coming out of it when I did it way back when. Short, greasy, and tricky.

How about the East Butt on Middle Cathedral with the original (left) last 4 or 5 pitches? WIDE and way at my limit when I did it. There's that bombay "5.8" flare. Anyone else done this route?

March was an awesome route! When I did it, I looked up and thought it ended much sooner than it did so I was short gear. I ran out the last half of the route.

Real soft belays seem to be the solution to that one. It'll keep you from kicking into the wall when you whip of that 3rd or 4th bolt. Listen to me, I'm talking like I've done the thing.

How about that 5.6 chimney first pitch of Royal Arches? Remember that one? So polished!

Yeah, I wouldn't call Latest Rage a good moderate. Have you seen anyone whip on the crux!!! There's nothing mellow about this sport route all you alpinists.