builder206

So it was an epic?

A fine service you perform, finding and posting all these rope deals. I got a $97 Beal 10.2 from one of your postings.

Good to hear you are on the mend. Your original description of the injury was wicked. Gently work the range of motion as much as you can bear (no load). You can lose ROM when you baby a joint for a long time, even if it's not in a cast or device. It would be super if you can get into a warm pool (not hot), let yourself get warmed up, then work the ROM for a little while, all the time staying in the water. Stand in the shallow end or support yourself on the pool side and work the knee round slowly & gently. Right after, put a big ice pack all around the joint and get it really cold. Let it cold-soak for 15 or 20 minutes. The warm-cold combo will do it good and also make it feel better. Warm pool, not regular ambient temperature. But, if any of this causes pain, stop. This long after the injury, pain will be a signal you are asking the tissues to do something they're not ready for.

Thanks...I think.

Anyone been up the FS road towards Exfoliation Dome? What is its condition?

"Know your knots" and "know how to belay" aren't tips.

There was a thread quite a while back, maybe a year or more, in which someone encountered a guy in the mountains carrying multiple suitcases. He would carry one forward some distance, put it down, go back and get the next one, until they were all together then he would go forward with the first, repeating the cycle. The guy was dressed in street clothes and street shoes too.

Sounds like a good candidate for cc.com.

Can we talk about climbing now?

Unintentional GOP humor: http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6050 Big Bad John, going for "six mo."

It all sounds good but I am wondering what's the beef with hydration bladders? Is it that you can move water bottles around more conveniently?

Unsheath my barrel Cock my gun Pull my iron

Yeah, first I wrote "draw my gun" then thought I'd better make it as shooting-specific as I could. Nothing's going to work with this crowd.

What's worth a walk in "the woods around Marblemount"? And if there's all that iniquity, why not just stay away? Sounds like you're hoping for an armed confrontation. I'd go out of my way to avoid unholstering my pistol.

yeah...well, typically one will find themselves in that situation often...Are you for real?? To fall 40' and deck? You put yourself in that position often? I've seen videos of 60' falls...onto the rope. No one I know puts themselves in a position to fall 40' onto the ground, risking mortal injury. Are you really that obtuse?

This is one thread I am happy to see drift from its starting point. CBS is a stand-up guy.

That sonofabitch owes me 75 cents for the call to Loma Linda Hospital!

No one with his name has been registered there. However, that may not be conclusive. The fall was yesterday. If he was stabilized at Loma Linda then transported elsewhere he would not have been "registered" at Loma Linda.

It is incredible that he would put himself in a position to fall 40', or let conditions decay to the point that he was facing that kind of exposure. He is too smart and too careful. It has to be someone else.

It was a big surprise to show up at the multi-pitch climbing clinic and find none other than Colin Haley as an instructor!

Great stuff! Thanks. Heading to the dry side this morning, back Sunday night. I will phone you no later than Monday evening.

I have also thought of something like this. I bet it can get traction.

...which defense the Seattle taxpayers will pay for.

Ah, OK then. The rule change I first read a couple years ago was to simply roll back the early-80s prohbition. The local-law adoption must have been something added during discussions. Thanks for that.

Source for that? I have taken three CCW combat shooting courses and every time there is a very strong statement that concealed carry ONLY is permissible in Washington. But, I could be misinformed. Perhaps the author of the piece you posted meant that out in the forests you can carry open? My statement applied to carry in cities.