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Training opposing muscle goups will help to avoid tennis elbow. e.g. do a few sets of reverse wrist curls with dumbells after the gym. Also wrist pronator excercises (imagine a weight attached to the end of a stick, hold the stick in your hand and rotate your wrist to draw and arc with the weight). This is probably what happened to pope...when he started working out, his opposing muscles got worked and brought things back into balance. Also, stop jerking off.

Wanting to get out and do some sweet long trad lines...Frogland, Epinephrine...sweet shit like that up to 5.10. PM me.

Dude, Red Rocks is my favorite winter get-away. Lots of long, trad multi-pitch at all grades. And endless food, liquor, gambling and debauchery a short drive away. This is how i imagine heaven.

My nephew is in 5th grade...I'll ask him if he is interested in cranking some turns with you after choir practise.

What the f' does 'catbirdseat' mean?

ate my Halvah

How do you write a climbing physics text with 'little physics'? Sounds like Freedom of the Hills. If you want to understand climbing physics, you need to understand physics. There is no shortcut. First year college course covering forces, vectors, Newtons laws, conservation of energy etc. is the absolute minimum. If you want to get fancy, then you move on to calculus, mechanics of deformable bodies etc.

Lots of stuff out there for those willing to use the google: http://student.kuleuven.be/~m9916724/physics/physics.htm http://bstorage.com/speleo/Pubs/rlenergy/Default.htm Just two examples. If you can't find more on your own...you wouldn't understand it anyway.

I agree w Gary...Sounds like you just need more memory...your hard drive is working overtime because your system is swapping data in and out of virtual memory. Go upgrade to 1MB ...its a cheap and quick fix. Even if this isn't the problem, its $50 well spent. I had problems with my HP printer slowing my system down...it installs all sorts of extra shit that you don't need. I'd suggest using Task Manager to look at stuff the gets automatically started when you boot up...if there is stuff you do not need to start at boot, configure it to not.

This thread should be renamed

"It wasn't a 'pick' it was a 'scratch'" -Jerry Sienfeld

Come to Canada. Here, only the criminals have guns. It is still unclear where they get them, as nobody else is allowed to have one.

Many of the fine consumer product that we enjoy today are a direct result of government funded research via space and military programs. We should also consider, if that money wasn't spent on military, what would it be spent on? In Canada, if we had that kind of money, we would spend it on beer and popcorn. One thing is certain, its not being spent on healthcare.

Ok...at least two of you are liars...I was only laughed at by *one* guy at the hut. ...unless you were laughing on the inside.

Tie that scurvy dog to the yaaarrrd arm. Fifty lashes!!

Buckwheat Brayshaw

Aaaah, depends on the *type* of mayonnaise... Miracle Whip Kraft Real Mayo I just love the zip!

Never would have guessed, white boy. Gonna tell us you got rythm, too?

I hope this guy is getting some 'free' counseling, too.

Save your money. Buy more hexes.

Time for a poll...

Dude, I thought I was the only person who loves hexes. I get alot of stupid looks (and the occasional comment) clanking up behind people like a lost cow with my hexes dangling (I routinely carry sizes 8, 9 and 10). In addition to your comments, for me they are a cheap and light way to add bigger pro to my rack. When I climb, I try to place my big hexes first, saving my #3 camalot for when I *really* need it. My standard rack: 1 set BD nuts Blue to Black Metolius cams (sorry, forgot numbers and sizes) #1, #2, #3 Camalots 8, 9, 10 Hexentrics I also have a #4 camalot, but never carry it, unless I know I will need it. I will echo what has already been said: Get good at placing nuts and hexes. Place them first. Then you'll have your cams available when you need one. When people laugh at my hexes, I just pity them for carrying double (or more) sets of cams up to #3 camalot. Can't be much fun leading with that beast. Who's the dumb one?

I have a great disability insurance policy from Great West Life, despite indicating I am a rock climber and backcountry skier. My financial planner who set it up indicated times are changing and insurance companies are more open to people with "adventurous" lifestyles. So my suggestion is shop around until you find someone that will cover you. I live in Canada, btw.

I'd tip the porters, cook etc. personally. That way you know they get it, as opposed to tipping the guide or the tour operator and expecting them to distribute it.

flick'er? I don't even know 'er!