Maxtrax

Can somebody tell me where this Garth Pillar route is?

Just noticed this thread... I took your draws down. I got to the powerhouse wall psyched to send "my project" king of the ruins only to find some random draws up on it with shitty looking webbing that I didn't trust. We didn't see another soul within earshot of the powerhouse wall the entire weekend so i took em down and left em clipped at the bottom of the route. I think you had absolutely no business leaving draws up on that route. If you have any business on king of the ruins it should be no problem to climb the .11a next to it to get to the anchors and hang/clean the draws on rappel. That's what I did the 2 days I was working on king of the ruins.

I came here to post exactly this. I rock climbed on 60m Phoenixes this summer and absolutely loved them. I prefer them over my buddy's Ice Lines I'm climbing on this winter. There's one 30m Phoenix in stock over at Marmot.

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I would start with putting one of those shake n bake handwarmers in your chalkbag - they were awesome out at vantage last february. If the alibi is that glove with the black and grey fabric and little red rubber blobs on the back then I don't like it - none of the sizes fit my hands well and they provided no appreciable warmth over bare hands. Right now I'm really diggin my dainese mountain biking gloves. I don't know the model but they're the expensive ones - like $60-70. I haven't used them for technical rock but I loved em for the drytooling at the pdx ice fest. They're slightly insulated (moreso than the OR gloves) and fit my hands like ... well ... a glove, no extra fabric hanging off the tips of a finger or two or anything like that.

I really like setting with voodoo and soill holds, and also throwing on a few random franklin slopers. EP holds suck.

I'll just reiterate thanks to John, Marcus and all the gym staff/owners that made the event possible, it was awesome. I can't wait to get outside this season on some real rock and ice. You guys got me hooked (pardon zee pun) on another aspect of climbing. PS if anyone has any pictures of my ugly mug (khaki nylon pants, white t-shirt, orange petzl helmet, second to last to climb the pink route) if you could email them to me at mkawaky at gmail dot com that would be super duper.

I'll hopefully be attending. Depending on who I can get to come with me I might be pming some of you guys about carpooling from seattle.