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or use a piece of webbing to make a "handle" by taping duct tape around the bottle.

The forecast looks pretty crappy. Should've been there last weekend.

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In addition to the other stuff she carries, although seeing a chihauhau carrying two PBR's would be sweet.

Two tall boy PBR's fit nicely in my dog's pack. One per side keeps the load nice and even.

Nope, there is probably about 1,000 other people heading to the RRR. That's why I'm heading to Moab instead.

I understood the concept of the air blast. I was just trying to see if there was anything in the photos that indicated air blast over damage from the avalanche itself.

I was wondering what your basis was for thinking this.

The main road to black velvet is closed (intermittently or entirely) while they construct the new parking lot. They are rerouting people to black velvet on a 2x4 road, which sounds like it could be a little sketchy in a rental. This is the same road that goes out to Windy Canyon.

Were you going back to Windy Canyon on that road? As far as I can recall the Black Velvet road was open at that time.

You should probably stick to the lower town wall. That's where all the good climbing is anyways.

Fenderfour and I were over gardening in the Private Idaho area. Senior Citizens in Space, Magic Fern, and Wet Dream got excavated. Wet Dream was still seeping and I'm not sure how often it dries out, but it looks like fun if it does. The first pitch of Magic Fern is super clean now. Battered Sandwich looked pretty clean still, so we didn't mess with it.

It's across from Dark Shadows to the west of the brass wall. American Ninja is another really cool climb over there.

Here's a copy of the map. http://www.mountainproject.com/images/8/32/106080832_large_653707.jpg

So how bad is the rerouted approach to Black Velvet? I'm headed there in a month and was wondering what kind of car I'll need to get back there.

and that's a bad thing? http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1308/1034329867_bbadb80699.jpg

I thought she was taking a header in that 3rd picture. Blodgett is a pretty rad place. Nice work.

So did you play?

Unfortunately I have a 4 day hut skiing trip this weekend. Next weekend would work better.

We were actually on the 1st pitch of GDO, while they were on the 5.9 crack. I'm glad Fenderfour led that pitch after getting up there and seeing the top out. Of course, getting bombed with snow the whole time while belaying kind of sucked as well.

I'll play if it fit's in my schedule. I travel a lot for work, so a weekend night would have the best probability of me making it.

I've climbed at the Prophesy Wall and that place is pretty sweet. The rock is very similar to Red Rock but is typically bolt protected. Snow Canyon State Park is also worth checking out. The rock there seemed more like the sandstone of Zion. I drove to Crawdad Canyon, but couldn't bring myself to climb there. The rock is like the basalt you were climbing on, except it's on private property so they turned into into an outdoor climbing gym. The bolts are 2-3' apart and plaques at the base of the route stating the name/grade. To top it off, you have to pay to climb there.

I'd play if it worked out with my schedule.

I tie a regular bow knot, but I wrap the second loop through the hole twice. The extra friction does an awesome job of keeping them from untying.

small file to the end = no problems Do you have to seal it off somehow or don't you need to file it that deep?