BillA

No muscle, in real life, works in isolation. The reason kipping pullups are preferred in crossfit are because they engage a variety of muscle groups to get the work done. There's a good lengthy discussion on kipping pullups here: http://www.crossfit.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=22&post=34589 Checkout http://www.gymjones.com/video.php# and scroll down to the nothing but pullups video. Watch Jim Howe bust out 65 pullups. His kip gets more pronounced as the reps go up. Also, without a good kip it would be really difficult to do a muscle-up, which is a pretty freaking awesome upper body workout.

Anyone gonna be around the Vail area any of these days? Want to climb? PM me...

Yeah, it really didn't seem to have too much to do with climbing. If things continue to go the way they are, and the standard routes keep getting more and more commercial traffic with people that have no clue what's going on, it's only a matter of time until some disaster way worse than 1996 (or this year) happens.

Oh man, I've been saying that for weeks in a computer voice.

Did anyone catch the final show? How about that French guys frostbite, pretty wicked. Hey scheissami, did we meet at the bar? I was there for half the episodes... Bill

Nice John! Looks awesome, we were wondering if Narc was in... My update: last night my partner drunkenly got on a snowmobile with our friend and they rolled it off an embankment and threw themselves through a barbed wire fence. His elbow is the size of a grapefruit. Now it's a beautiful bluebird day in Bozeman and no climbing. Ugh.

I was climbing in Hyalite today and unfortunately I forgot my belt pouch with my MREs. I was about to call in a rescue but just called in a favor to the baby Jay-sus and it was all good.

Sounds like a stand up guy. Kind of ironic the new Alpinist has a piece on the first ascent of the ice hose written by Micheal Kennedy. He says, "When a Telluride climber added a bolt to the variation in 2006, I was happy to hear that someone promptly chopped it-and to learn how powerfully so many other people felt about preserving a reflection of the original experience, one that had meant so much to us."

From Vince Anderson's Site: the Hose is getting FAT! The first and last pitches are cruiser but the middle is still wild and mixed. There are now three bolts on the first pitch mixed variation to the right! Now, anybody who can hangdog can make their way up the first pitch! Yippee! Courage not necessary! Saftey! Wankers! This is fucking bullshit, I bet it's the same douche who placed the bolt on it last year. If those bolts aren't chopped by the time I get there in a few weeks I'm doing it myself.

You should come to Crossfit Portland.

I've found Mike Anderson's training program that he outlines on rc.com to be pretty helpful in developing my own program. FWIW, Twight has completely switched gears in his training philosophy. It's completely different than what he writes about in Extreme Alpinism and is based on Crossfit. Check out Gym Jones for more info.

Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen it. There's a bunch of good stuff there.

I've climbed in Chamonix during the summer when it's easy to camp, but would like to spend an extended period of time (3+ months) there during the winter. Anyone have any suggestions on places to stay? Would it be possible/reasonable to rent a shitty apartment somewhere in the valley? We'd be trying to do it as cheaply as possible, obviously.

Instead try doing the Crossfit WOD for a month and witness the magic. Then add in your sport specific training.

I love shwarma. When I lived in NYC I used to eat at Village Shwarma at least three days a week. Best shwarma ever, nothing I've found in the NW can hold a candle to it. Seriously.

This thread sucks. Delete, delete, delete, delete, delete....

That's a mandate from the American people motherfuckers.

Has anyone owned one of these? I'm perhaps looking into getting one and was wondering what kinds of experiences people have had with them? Are they all notoriously unreliable? Are there any model years that are supposed to be better/worse? Has anyone seen any alternatives (different makes/models) that look interesting? Thanks!

Hot or not?

Since when did bouldering become climbing? And name dropping "models" for a shitty clothing company is about as lame as it gets.

This election is totally gonna rule, btw.

Woooohooo politics! Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, clusterfuck, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Hypocrites, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, etc.

Are you fucking kidding me? Old, tubby and slow is no match for small, weak and hyperactive. Plus my dad could kick his Dad's ass. And he's stupid. I have to get in on spray more often, this is good shit. My guess is FW is your average fatty right-wing member of the 101st fighting keyboardists who can't see his ankles or climb 5.7. And I bet Chris could kick his ass, he's short and all, but still.

Haha, whoops