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That is a really good plan and probably something I'd do if I was smart or had any foresight at all.

If there's no creek handy and your beer has to sit baking in a car until your return- what is your favorite variety? I have found IPAs stand up pretty well, since they have a lot of flavor and aren't too carbonated. Anything cheap and light that would be thirst-quenching when cold (like pbr, coors, etc) just gets nasty when hot. You?

i can't tell whether that's a pretty girl or a pretty boy

With a 34 inch waist... you should prrrrrrrobably get a new nickname.

i so cannot believe that is not yet registered

dang, nice biceps.

I haven't done the route in a while but I remember the line on the slab being pretty indistinct, and having the option of using some cracks or some bushes as supplements to the bolts. Anyone else have this experience? Also, this was one of my very first trad leads and I don't remember being scared. Not saying that I think this is the final word on the topic...

Yup, was up there yesterday. Snow free to well above the lake. Glacier was pretty well consolidated. We didn't go over to Dragontail but there's a couloir back there that looks to be the same difficulty as the upper part of the Colchuck glacier. If ya see my GPS could you grab it?

Nice, way to stick it out! Looks like it was beautiful from your pics. I was in the group who looked at the clouds and the dusting of snow on Burgundy and bailed. We spent the weekend climbing Outer Space and Colchuck instead. Not a bad backup plan but I have to wonder what the rock would have been like up on Burgundy.

Today I left my bright green Garmin Gecko GPS sitting on a rock at the top of Colchuck col. Cuz I'm a fool. Whoever returns it to me will get a six pack of beer of their choosing.

I nominate him for the kiss ass of the week award.

Who are some of your favorite asshole characters in movies? I'm tossing out Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross. What's your name? Fuck you, that's my name. You know why mister? Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an 80,000 dollar BMW. That's my name.

Awesome, awesome, awesome. Who put these up? I remember drooling over a picture of Roan Wall that was posted a couple months ago. Maybe in a couple more months 5.10d slab will be within my grasp.

Are those hand jammies?

Hate begets hate? Is that a new idea?

Look around- you can always find something to hate.

I also think the idea that you're going to say "falling" and the climber is just gonna whip off is pretty dumb. To say a route goes on gear doesn't mean that you can fall at any time with no ill consequences. Even applying that to a sport route isn't very reasonable.

I find the pain you're describing happens to me more often when I've been doing overhanging routes with big holds. I think I grab the holds in such a way that my weight is resting right on the tendon, and combined with the normal workout the finger gets it leads to pain. This is probably bad technique, but at any rate my fingers are better when I climb vertical routes or climb outside on real rock.

Grid-doorers deserve to be buried within their projects!!!

bolting begets spraying

Hey suge! Did you realize you just ruined a perfectly good ice axe?? Way to go. It was better when it was straight!

Come on you bozos, he is joking.

Yeah, there's nothing very tricky about TC (except maybe the roof on the first aid pitch- either swing around it or reportedly you can use an inverted cam hook to straight aid it). GD is a little trickier but if you felt good about micro-nut placements you should be good to go. If you want to get faster you could have a couple races up City Park. But days are long right now anyway, learn as you go. Or just do it in two days.