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Emphasis on fucking.

What silliness. Climbing is no more anarchy than baseball is anarchy. Climbers operate in a world full of standards of behavior, both between climbers in relation to non-climbers. These standards aren't laws or rules set in stone, but they're real nonetheless. You can ignore them if you wish, but don't expect the rest of the world (including the climbing world) to accept you if you do. The notion that climbers operate apart from the rest of the world is an empty conceit. I disagree, in that baseball is rigid, structured, and formulated. In climbing, you can do whatever you want (within limits, of course). You can attempt to climb whatever routes you want, in whatever style you want (I don't mean pounding pins on clean routes or leaving garbage, etc). There are no 'rule books', no committee telling you what you can or can't do. Climbing is much more free than other sports.

They're larger than POINTS.

What was that bout terrorists?

Now every pagetop is a pagetop!

First off, that's pathetic. If it's open to everybody, then it's open to EVERYBODY. Second, both Beck and Marylou are pathetic. Third, who the fuck would WANT to go to Beckfest? Sounds like it'll be really lame. Marylou

Twight climbed on BD tools for quite a while. He seemed to really like his CF Black Prophets. The cobra is a sweet tool, esp for large hands, like mine. BUT it's too expensive for me. If I had the money, I'd buy em. But I like my Rages. And, the Rage recall is OLD news. Plus, there were a limited number of tools recalled, it's not like the O2 disaster.

Slothrop, I think Dwayner (and many other climbers) resents having rules set in stone. Climbing is anarchy, to use a well-know cliche. Overall, the arrrogant tone and the assumptions made in that "declaration" piss me off. Some (very few) of their points are valid, but most, eg, the partner-related one, are over the top. Period.

If you weren't a skinny bastard maybe you could actually swing, instead of hook. Rage Dru Quark balance all fucked up, POS aluminum head, fucked up grip, too. And changing the pick is a nightmare.

No cable here. No TV even. Only cc.com