Kimmo

yeah grassi lakes aint all that, never went to yam or raptor, but come on, lake louise? awesome solid rock and fun techie and powerful! and you never sampled the better steep limestone either, it sounds like.... i would agree though that the red looks awesome, the new is good, having been there (the city sucks), but AUGUST? yer a mad dog, my man. rudy, online stuff your googling is as good as mine. got an older guidebook, that's it. if you decide to go, definitely check on reservations cuz it might get crowded.

where'd ya go? it seems acephale's pretty cleaned up. and some other crags that i never got to seemed like bomber blue limestone, from the photos hehe....

canmore's cool. 9 hour drive, or quick flight. it truly is gorgeous up there. i think yer gym-freak kids would really like the steeps. canmore's got some great restaurants, and lodging with hot tubs and the whole shebang. some of the crags require a bit of hiking though, specifically acephale (45 minutes to lower wall, another 15 to upper). and yer kid can fire The Path!

i'd worry about the heat and humidity. what do yer kids say about it maybe being 95 degrees with 95 humidity? i'd think about bow valley, canmore area. really good limestone at all grades and angles, and trad stuff to boot. we were there in august, and pretty much perfect temps. hikes, city life, restaurants.... it's kinda got it all.

i cannot agree to that. sounds too much like rocky joe logic. what are we talking about anyway? oh yeah, hanging by our fingers. now that sounds downright silly!

just kiddin'. that was ill, especially rolling the bridge rail on vid #1.

well, definitely impressive, but no matter how you slice it, it's still a unicycle. it would have been better if he was wearing a clown costume.

ahh, in the military? ahh, in the military? his "illustrative point" is non-illustrative, because he is way off base (in theory, but perhaps not in practice). glad you got a good workout; there are many ways to skin a cat (if yer into that kinda thing).

"The purpose of the hangboard is to train your forearms, and body builders have long understood that the best way to train a muscle is to isolate it." body builders are concerned with muscle growth, not functional strength. "Compare it to the opposite style of climbing, the very steep, “thuggish” routes of Rifle, American Fork, and Maple Canyon. Those routes depend mostly on endurance, and very little on strength and power." i wonder if he has ever climbed at af or rifle? sounds fishy.... i could go on and on, but i will say that many climbers would surely improve following this guy's advice (or a number of other climbing "teachers").

and, having read the rockprodigy article, it seems to fall into the same trap as so many "how to" books, becoming more and more didactic as it progresses, making the implicit assumption that they have "figured it out" (with a few diplomatic disclaimers to the contrary thrown in for good measure!). oh well, i guess that's what the military will do to ya!

i think everyone responds to all types of training differently, so one's "sparing" use of a particular type of training is, for another, perhaps too much or way too little. all we can do is experiment and see what works for us and keeps us siked.

http://www.beastmaker.co.uk/ pretty good stuff there.

worry 'bout yer own balls, man.

eliot was the cruelest month.

i think she was 2/3 male and 1/3 female.

think about it: we split it in our society something heavy. depending on where you grew up (america?), the school-yard teaches you quick to at least try to be all cock and balls, and if you fail the grade, you develop intellect, perhaps as compensation for cock and balls. or maybe art. maybe it's different in seattle, and cities in general, but in the country where i grew up(haha), tis the rule. maybe that's why i like norman mailer. and hemingway. used to like bukowski, but he was pretty compensatory.

? so this indian dude was talking about spirituality from an indian perspective at a sweat i went to, and his take was that dudes are ideally 2/3 male and 1/3 female, and the ladies are 2/3 female and 1/3 male. he thought that a lot of the dudes he saw were all out of proportion, either wishy washy sissy boys, or all cock and balls.

if you elide the testicular outro, he actually makes sense. and that's the problem, and it's the problem democrats and others don't take seriously, and argue against vehemently.

you lookin' to ban me, buddy?

yeah war is good if it's a democrat's war, right?

honestly i laughed out loud when i heard the news; like, wtf? he's been in office for .75 years, and done nothing to wind the wars down. he hasn't eliminated extraordinary renditions, nor torture. he has done nothing to bring fairness to the israeli/palestinean schism. and now he wants to add potentially 40,000 or more troops to deathghanistan. and then i thought of the rhetoric he brings to the table; ahhh the Rhetoric! so his demeanor is enough to bring him a nobel Peace prize? with the democrats, the carnage continues under the guise of decency. at least with the republifucks, you know the level of inhumanity you get; with the democrats, you get global complicity in a charade. am i letting my emotions get the best of me? yeah i'm pissed.

nice, but strange: you've done 50 pull-ups before, but no one-arm? it seems people hit one arm level around 30 or so.

not funny.

ummm one kweshton: what is a carpet night?

oh and crag is about an hour north of seattle, for all you bellingham people.