ashw_justin

Ah hell does onsighting even matter? I've always just seen it as an irrelevant little bonus, or at most, an artifact of climbing skilz. You want to onsight harder, then just climb harder, and you'll be onsighting harder in no time. Or freesolo. That'll teach you to onsight right quick.

Some care bears make little girls happy. Some go to nice beautiful homes where they live their lives in blissful benevolence unto the little ones. ...this care bear went to live in a dormitory at Reed College. His name is Smokey. Smokey the bear.

Yeah, If you climb up to the crux and find that you're out of position or you need to switch your hands, just DYNO dude! Whatever you do, don't downclimb and reposition yourself. That's a sign of FEAR!!! hahaha that's a good one. I wish! repositioning so you can do the move is not the same as downclimbing to rest and whimper... I've done both and the latter is not as likely to get you an onsight. ...okay, maybe if the last hold was REALLY good... but psychologically, running away solves nothing

I think the downclimbing thing is bad advice. Why would you downclimb? That's a symptom of fear that you can't do the move, or that you wont get the "onsight." Just climb the damn thing, try to keep as much weight on your feet as you can, stay in balance. But just f'ing climb! If it is within your onsight capabilities, you will onsight it. If not, big deal you took a fall and you get to try the moves again. This is not to say that resting your body and collecting your thoughts is not important. But you should already be doing this automatically whenever you find yourself in a comfortable position. That way when you come to the crux you are not already pumped. You get pumped cranking the crux, but you'll probably find a decent place to rest once you just crank through it. Why try the stick-and-move strategy when you can go for the knockout!

Oh man I wish there was a siezure smiley right now

Is it Windows? Latest version of Internet Exploder?

Soloed or Free-Soloed?

No, Sunday we were parked right uphill of Leavenworth on the left, right after that really nasty rapid. Dang you must have been pretty tired to have missed us there!

I'm surprised you didn't see my car on the side of the road Saturday. I was parked at the Castle parking lot in Tumwater Canyon in the morning, and in the Snow Creek parking lot in the afternoon. You didn't stay through Sunday did you?

No man you shoulda just come rock climbing in the first place! We was crackin and slabbin all weekend long, and we found a kickass camping spot to boot.

Seth on "Veins of Glory" at the Pearly Gates

Seth on "Loaves of Fun"

Yeah, I gotta see mr. waterfall in action! I was thinking about bring the split for the traverse and the descent too.

This weekend I found out why it's good to take your harness and rack off before driving to the next crag...

Wow he's soooooo dreamy...

Wow, TWO ropeguns...

to Ebey and the Kettles. The bluff trail is very nice! Fisher Ridge and Forest Run trails are cool too.

And banning people from getting back to nature... strapped. Man, how many times do I have to say it! The dog owner obviously screwed up, and he paid for it, indeed. OK I'm outta crap to say so someone else can play moonbat now...

No way man you can take cougar with your bare hands can't you? Well if you're gonna go out and kill stuff in the woods, sometimes the woods kill you back.

I know, the guy is off the hook unless there is some law we don't know about. I've been talking about ways to avoid having this happen in the future though.

Huh... That might work for you Seattleites, but somepeeople have jobs requiring them to have guns in the wilderness... Yeah I have no problem with that, if it's your job.

I keep saying that there is no proof of this but you keep bringing it up. So fine, hypothetically, if the owner did indeed continue to charge at a man after seeing him fire a gun into the ground, then he was asking to be shot. OK? Are you happy now? I'm just saying that there is no way of knowing if this is what actually went down. I have a hard time believing it myself but yes that is irrelevant. But I don't think the shooter's explanation alone is an acceptable escape from legal responsibility for the death that resulted from his gun use. As for the owner, whatever he was guilty of, he didn't deserve to be shot three times in the chest. The real problem as I see it now is this is just going to make people more gun-crazy. The precedent is you don't even have to be harmed or have any hard evidence of being threatened, if you're just scared that someone is going to hurt you, you kill them, problem solved, you're off the hook. I'm sorry that is some f'd up stone age sh*t. Anyway I'm not surprised at all that it went down in Arizona.

The right to carry a gun (not that I completely agree that it is a "right") does not mean you have to do so.

Cars are a necessary evil, but necessary transportation. Personally, I'd rather see public transit take over the freeways, but that's just my fantasy. I think most knives are against the law in many cities. Survival rates of fist-fights vs. gun-fights... So what is the function of a gun? To injure or kill other living things. No, we do not have the right to injure and kill anyone. But yes, self-defense, if proven, does make it justifiable. But where do you draw the line between just fear, and actual self-defense? Fear is not a legal reason to commit murder. Had the guy actually been physically attacked, I'd say yeah, self-defense. But what proof is there that he had to kill someone to save himself? None.

Yeah I remember hearing something about that... Sounds like an invitation to let guns solve all of the problems one normally encounters in a bar. Just like the Old West! Please tell me you agree, that is a bad idea...