JosephH

Now that is one of the worst insults I've ever read! From Kevbone? Been called far worse by better. What would really make me feel bad is if he could climb my routes.

PM if interested...

You only have had to watch OMC walk-in retail go from two full floors to 1 1/2 to 1 to 1/2 a floor as their internet sales rose to see what's going on. I think it's just an inevitable part of the process as we as a society sort out what we're going to buy on line and what we want to actually see, touch, and hold before buying. Mostly going to end up big box and on-line with few exceptions inbetween. Bummer all the way around, but you have to ask yourself how much gear did you buy on-line or big box (REI) last year vs. walk-in to shops like Climb Max?

Lots of hard old routes were put up when the hardest rating known was 5.10 or 5.11. We put up a few routes back in the mid 70's that we very much hesitated to call 5.11s, which in later decades were successively uprated to .12d/.13a depending on who you talked to. It's been the same at every rating break all along with no one really wanting to be the first person to claim to have upped the grade standard. Maybe the community needs to man up.

No, just mad skills and a pair of balls to match.

Dave just still has old school assumptions and expectations. Oh, and though he may be old, one can suspect Dave is still packing a pair.

That just got me looking into it all again and now that I see what's available in even the last few months I think I could put together an pretty self-contained solar panel/battery/iPhone combo in a brick-sized package for couple of hundred bucks. Will have to prototype it and re-propose for next year.

Nice. Wish we had line-of-sight visibility into the nest at Beacon. I did propose a cellphone-based, solar webcam for this year but the idea got nixed, mostly due to the solar panel.

Would be good to learn about Anesthesia and Pheochromocytoma then... http://www.metrohealthanesthesia.com/edu/endocrine/pheo1.htm Undiagnosed Pheochromocytoma: The Anesthesiologist Nightmare http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069072/ ...in case you run into it. My sister-in-law died in an outpatient / nurse anesthetist setting up in Seattle a few years back due to one and the person on the gas not knowing how to respond. Rare, but there are people walking around with them without knowing it.

iPhone Screen Replacement & Disassemble/TakeApart Directions

Looks like a couple of us will be heading out there, feel free to join us if so inclined...

May head out there in the afternoon, PM if interested...

That's going to have to be some damn sophisticated 'malintent' technology if it's going to be able to differentiate between a suicide bomber / terrorist and a couple of my ex's having a bad month.

Just a heads up that this cold, wet spring, like last year's, has the Gorge Peregrine nests just hatching out now (essentially last week and this). So as it stands now it's unlikely there'll be an early open at Beacon; if anything let's hope it doesn't go long.

You can definitely hang from the above even if that's not what it was designed for. You could use a Bypass Lanyard like below, but there are very few applications where I'd leave the ground with one.

For work I can't imagine an employer not wanting you rigged professionally...

Yeah, a guy might need It, but not for climbing. It isn't climbing gear or a climbing topic beyond the fact rope and carabiners are involved. Maybe a caving topic I suppose, but not climbing.

Might have to run out there this afternoon as well the way it's turning out. Definitely hitting it tomorrow.

why fuck around?

PM if so inclined or just come out...

Looking to be another wet spring like the last two years. Last year in PDX March was the best month between January and July 1st. Hoping this June doesn't suck as bad as last year.

Yer giving Stephane and Marty a run for their money...!

Working on a quintuple rack...?

Feel free to join me if similarly inclined.

Can't imagine - I do entirely the reverse...