larrythellama

well you have to be down here for said sessions! we are waiting!

juan you are not allowed to do that same slog twice! why dont you come down here and i will help you up some nice easy peaks!

bernie is still in the valley and still fixing cams.

its getting warmer with snow melting, but it is still present.

8:34 am

toast whats your point? i have a bibler that i take on road trips, but i still dont use it to car camp when i am on those road trips, even if i plan on using the bibler in the high country on that same trip.

no offense, but this speaks volumes about not using a high dollar tent for car camping. walmart tents are always the last to get jacked. also why leave all that stuff out. i understand the convience of it, but the logic is not there.

so what are the specific dislikes people have of the neutrinos? i have never had a problem with mine, wheter it be ice or rock climbing. i know some of the people here dont like black diamond because they listen to others opinions more then actually going out and using their gear.

beta is like bolts, they can both be bad.

kiosk= shotgun target

exactly, you expressed your opinion and i expressed mine. one view point is never 100% correct, especially with climbing. i just think that it is funny that someone would put so much energy into climbing something at all. same way we all learn, i learned on my own with my friends, we took no classes and only relied on each other. everyone except for me now is an amazing climber. were as cbs appears to have learned from the mounties. we both took different paths and that formulated different belief systems in the nature of the sport. i just find it silly that sooo many people are ready to follow what one person sez, wheter it be the guide book or some random on the internet. to try to think for yourself is what i am trying to say. and enjoy the freedom that climbing brings. i just dont think a micro managed beta spray is either. tho the thing that got me is he is trying to claim that one move is harder then what it is and that is bad beta. i dont think placing a 5.9 rating to it is a good idea. maybe now the person is scared and will not do the route because some person gave bad beta. if he found the move challenging then maybe he coud say that, but to attempt to apply a new rating is dumb. have a nice day

i need the gps cordinates to the blue tcu you can place right after the 5.9 slab move on the w rdige of prussik. tia

lotsa hiking for a little rock climbing. tho the position over the canyon is nice. it is a mounie trade route so just about anyone other then a wheel chaired person can make it.

the chiro at thr crag thing doesnt work real well, if anyone knows dr dave of indian creek, his lifestyle does not match up with mike's current financial issues. he gets smoked out alot tho.

here are my thoughts on it. i have personally that overthinking any climb does nothing positive for me. it allows moments of doubt and other counter-productive energy to flow threw my body. so in essence when a new "alpine" leader is climbing a non-sustained route like the west ridge of prussik and he comes to a point where cbs's gospel does not make sense to him at the time(remember he is pushing himself, so his thoughts are not 100%) the person might panic and instead of just doing the move infront of him overthinks it and gets scared and then bails. thus resulting in a wasted effort to climb a nice feature such as the one mentioned above and possibly bailing on gear which is a financial loss. so in retrospect what works for cbs does not work for me, so that now invalidates all my beta? and opinion on the route? fun is the point of climbing not a scientific breakdown of the entire route and moves and gear required. part of climbing is adventure, if you are not ready for that adventure then maybe one should practice more before getting into something that maybe over a persons head, which could lead to tragedy. make sense now? or do we unilaterally support cbs's method of adventureless climbing by spelling out each individual move in the entire climbing universe. by the way i am hardly a good climber, i just like to have fun and adventure and approach each individual moment with an open mind and not one filled with some other persons personal beta. thx

slow, it snowed last night.

if your b/f thought that spiderman was scary then you might want to rethink your trip to the needles.

i walked right past it, not too interested in contrivences anyways, you should already know that.

i think you have to be using the term for profit before there is a legal issue.

737 miles. was just up there a few weeks ago. i saw your truck!

well norcal/reno/sacto area has almost nothing in the way of multipitch. once you move towards the s end of the lake more options become available. lover's leap has penty of multipitch .7 routes. camping is free at the base. tho on 4th of july the bay area takes over and ruins the tahoe basin. bridgeport/sonora pass is where the real rock mountains start. before that most are kinda chossy(carson range) and do not really have any large features. you could go to calavaras dome which is semi close to sacto off of 88 and then 20 miles of unmarked roads, but there are not any good multipitch .7's. nice thing about the sierra's is there is not much underbrush to contend with so that part of your request is easy enough. tho on the july 4th weekend everything in cali is fucked as it is on all 3 day weekends. you would be better suited to wait until it is over and come down.

whoa! talk about mico managing a little crag climb.

"dood i am soo proud of my 30' contrivence, a real gift to the climbing community!"

that late in th e year the need for crampons on the snow creek glacier(the one the east side of d-tail) is easily doable with out crampons or an axe. i've done it in running shoes and i'm sure alot of other people have as well. and you can practically ride to the lemahs from cle elum. just watch out for the horse people.

you can rent the sleeping lady for 20k a day! with a minimum of two days!