mountainmatt

Wonder who it was?

Nice work big guy! Sounds like you had a a long, but great day! Hopefully I can get out on that route next season... Pictures?

When climbing a 19 pitch route in over 90 degree weather, you should bring a lot of chalk.

Fantastic pictures! It makes me want to get up there for a swim

First off, you do not know if its non-biased information or not. I have delt with a back injury for several years, and I can say (unbiased) that PT helped and Chriropractors were a waste of time. This is my experience, and therefore I relayed the story to someone asking for advice. Secondly, I did not know it was your profession and I might have stepped a little more carefully had I known. For that I appoligize. Third, how about instead of name calling, you actually defend your profession. What makes chiropractors better than PT? Since you are intimately involved in the profession, do a compare and contrast. Who knows, maybe I just had a bad experience?

First off, sorry man. Back injuries suck and they slow you down for quite a while. I tore three discs in my lower back several years ago when training for Ironman. Following the injury, I had severe sciatica going down my left leg that made it difficult to sleep and sit. I went to PT for several months, after which I was able to run, bike, and swim again. I never had problems climbing once the initial tears healed, however I had to be careful not to strain it by moving quickly (no skiing, or anything else that jerked my back around). The key for me was doing PT and stretching. It was not something that got better overnight, it took several months before I was back to normal. My injury turned out to be related to tight hamstrings, causing me to compensate in my lower back, leading to bulging discs, and finally torn discs. After getting some flexibility back in my hamstrings, I was able to go on as normal. PM me if you want to chat more. I think you mean Chiro-QUACK-tor. Don't waste your time and money by going to a chiropractor. They are not medical doctors, they will simply provide you with a really expensive backrub (and no happy ending!) Find yourself a nice PT, and get to work on getting better.

Sweet looking face! Nice pics, looking forward to seeing more pictures

Fantastic pictures! Nice job!

Only 60 beers? What a fucking light weight...

Water bottles, if given a chance, will commit suicide when hanging from the anchor.

Excellent pictures!

Nice line

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No, but I have been shot at when walking out from the Red River Gorge...

That would be better than the pirates forum

And then the CHUDs come...

Nice work!

Nice pictures! I will have to add this to the ever growing list of climbs to do...

Is he any good in bed?

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...l=pubmed_docsum

Some pics for da haters (finally up as I got sick this weekend ) http://serpentinearete6-24-06.blogspot.com/

That is fine, but we could still compare the numbers. How much safer is soloing than roped climbing or vis versa?

Yea, 37% of all people know that.

I had an interesting discussion at Squamish this last weekend with someone that insisted that its was less dangerous to solo than to rope climb. The logic was the people that solo know what they are getting themselves into, and therefore rarely get hurt or die. This seems crazy to me, but then again, I have not heard about a lot of soloing deaths, but have heard of lots of deaths between roped teams. Does anyone know some of the stats?