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Both! When I was climbing at my highest level (not very high at that & no I don't mean my bakedest level smartasses) I weighed 160-170 pounds depending on if I was road tripping or living easy with a fridge and TV with a body fat percentage between 4 & 8 percent (caliper test, take it as you will). Now, much less time to climb ( and no time to roadtrip) but more time to weight train as it fits into family orientated lifestyle better. So, functional strenth up, lean body mass up, body fat up, probably around 12-15% (guessing on that one, scared to find out for sure). Climbing level down, although multiple A2 injuries now fully healed, enjoyment of climbing up, spray level weigh up.

35 degrees and rain/sleet mix last 2 days, also next 4 days forecasted. I think I'll keep spraying. Two of them, but without the bun. The mrs. has me on some bullshit low carb diet, guess she found the six pack sexier than the pony keg I'm rocking now. No carbs+no outdoor recreation for 4 days=spray queen.

Get on the sled with them and have them head up Devil's Creek towards Schweitzer Mountain Resort. Before you get to the resort you'll see groomed trails heading west/northwest (a snowmobile map will be very helpful). Follow these until you're above treeline. If you can't see something good to climb from there, sorry, can't help you. Alternate option: Take skiing/snowboarding gear and take advantage of the 4-stroke chairlift your buddy rode in and rip up sick lines behind Schweitzer all day. Easy groomed roads back to the top for shuttling, short hike along the ridge either way guarantees you'll never cross your tracks twice. 40" of fresh in last 36 hours up there. Have fun.

Yeah, same here but I've seen enough +40 hardmen (&hardwomen) to know it doesn't have to be that way. Of course, the absense of gainful employment and family responsibility had weigh (punny, huh?) more to do with it than weight.

You can start with me, 203 this morning on the scale (after a lengthy piss & big brown coiler) and weighted pullups are a big part of my training program. Don't have Olympic weights as I train at home, so don't use the 45# plate barometer but usually do one warm up set with just bodyweight, 1 set to failure with 25# plate, 1 set to failure with 2 25# plates, and 1 set to failure with 3 25#plates. Done twice a week, 1 day pullups/1 day chinups. Can obviously do more reps with pullups as biceps are in better biomechanical position to assist but today was chinups and still managed 7 reps with 50# and 4 with 75#. Although I could do a lot more reps when I weighed 175 a few years back. Don't believe the lies children, shit really does change after 30.

CLASSIC! Me thinks weight is only relative if you've gained a bunch more than when you were climbing harder & then it's the lack of training/climbing that allowed you to gain the weight as opposed to the actual weight itself. Fuck it, I got no problem struggling up shit two grades easier than I used to onsight. Because I suck down cheeseburgers like Wimpy and spend most of my time kiteboarding, where extra fat on the ass helps me hold down more kite. Not that I expect anyone to give a shit anyway.

Have we met? Because you just described me. Except for the fact that I now find V4 hard. Klem Loskot weighs 210 pounds and boulders pretty well, oh wait, he's strong. Never mind. Hopeless.

About 35 pounds more than when I was a skinny sportclimber, right around 200# +/-. Only difference is strength and endurance. Oh yeah, and power. But who needs any of that, footwork is king. Besides, now when I flail up a V4 it still feels like I'm climbing something hard even though it's not. It's all relative. Cheeseburgers are yummy!

Both are amazing climbers with very different strengths but they share some loves aside from climbing as well. Maybe someday they'll hook up & free some dastardly aid route in the Valley that will forever change the map of free climbing. Knowing both, I certainly wouldn't put it past them. No disses on the Chris's, they both climb harder than we do.

Take the salad out of the package before you toss it.

I see a typo on the cover of that guidebook, it appears it should read; "A Bowl-dering guide to Joe's Valley" Love that book.

Chris was climbing in the Valley this summer, haven't heard from since. Seen that boy do some shit that makes 13+ trad seem sane. Go Chris!

"Fungicidal Maniac"-project, N. Idaho "Bachar Cracker of North Idaho"-I couldn't call it anything else, it's what it is.

Highball with an ass-splitting post for a landing?

Here's mine after a long night drinking absinthe and smoking tough (as if anyone truly cares) 1-off your mom 2-out of bed 3-onto the toilet 4-off the toilet 5-back on your mom

Especially considering all the ganja he rocks!

Road Head, so named for a little extra inspiration I recieved on the way to the crag before the 1st accent. BB

You fuckin' pansies should just free solo all alpine climbs. Then you don't have to deal with your dumfuck partner or the rack. Simple, eh? Most people don't climb harder than 5.10 in the mountains anyway. This means that whatever is being climbed is less than vertical & a fall is going to result in you getting hurt. Couple this with the fact that you're probably way the fuck out in the boonies & you have the makings of a proper epic. Better just to solo it, then if you fall you don't have to deal with a rescue epic. Which takes a lot more time than re-racking a bunch of crap every 100'. Told you it was simple. Flame on. BB

How about hot, snake-infested, greasy-shit-paper-everywhere choss pile? Some of us MFing 509ers call it Frenchman too! BB

Jake speaks the truth. If your hiking that far, Cathedral & Ampitheatre are the places to climb. Killer camping at Cathedral Lake underneath Ampitheatre with some amazing bouldering w/ perfect landings ( a real concern considering how far in you are) right where you can camp. Enjoy! BB

Buddy of mine got bit on the hand by a rattler bouldering up in the Okanogan. Reached up to big jug (ledge) and "WHAP". Snake was known to habitate large crack connected to ledge. I'd suggested "removing" said snake for a couple years before that but got denied with crys of "they're good for the environment, they keep the rodent population at bay, it's wrong to "remove" an animal from it's natural environment, ect" FUKKIN HIPPIES!!! $16,000 later, the snake has been "removed". BB

You're lucky wasps were what you ran into in a pocket. My friend was climbing on the Thai Wand wall & a lizard was hanging out on a tufa next to him. All of a sudden, this 8 ft snake flys out of the crack he was climbing (about 6 ft above him) and munches that lizard down. He was just about to clip, had a bunch of rope pulled up + I had penalty slack out (since we were sport climbing a crack, penalty slack is sporting), he ended up taking a 20' on sketchy bolts to avoid the snake when it started heading back into his crack right at his handjam. Turns out said snake is deadly poisonous, can't remember name. Lotsa creepy crawlys on the rock in Thailand Cheers BB

Seen it multiple times in J-Tree, they can be seen stalking the campgrounds sizing up potential meals during the day even. I seem to remember the particular event you describe, hippy girl running around screaming for someone to help her dog "It's being killed by a pack of wolves, somebody help it" Think it was winter 95 or 96. Sound about right? BB

Easy to carry all those pads in on horses tho! That's the local secret access. Popular with smugglers too. The bouldering underneath Ampitheatre Mt., while not sharing the same amazing view, is much more expansive & high quality. Lotsa sheep up on top, pretty fun to mess with on shrooms. OOPS, strike that last one, didn't happen. Or did it? BB

Dane, Seems to me that's already been taken care of, IMO, on the climbing end of things. However, it remains to be seen if your actions will wreck the access situation. Come on, consider the Spokane Parking Garage fiasco. And these are the people you want involved to mediate this debate? Ethics are only beliefs, & just like religious ones, only valuable to the person or people who hold them. Would you really rather see climbing banned at DH than people violating your ethical stance? You must consider that as a possibility, the precedent has been set in other areas where land-use officials with no prior knowledge of climbing protocol have been involved to settle disputes within a climbing community. Personally, I agree with your position on the ethics of DH. I don't agree with the route you have chosen to take to enforce your belief system on others. Just because you were there first doesn't mean you have a right to determine what goes on now. Just ask the Native Americans. I believe it's called manifest destiny. BB