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More fudgepacking :anger:

This is gonna be super fun!!!

Nabbed my first 9 lead yesterday on Roger's Corner. It probably doesn't seem like much to you hardmen out there but I've been pushing myself hard all year to reach this goal before the season ended. So now I figure I've earned a good spray about it. Thanks, Lukic, for the patient belay. I had some....thoughtful moments. Gotta keep pushing it! I wanna lead some of the gendarme pitches on Stuart NR next year.

Sorry, I've got a partner for tomorrow already! Maybe next time.

True enough. And sometimes they rotate into bad placements.

There is a big difference between taking what you can get, and fucking up an easy, bomber placement with sloppy gear

funny, I was gonna post on that thread. I need a few more weeks of good weather still. Snow can wait. But I decided not to post it because I figured somebody would get their panties in a twist.

Before work? After work? Skip work?

Yeah, but I hear you can order that stuff cheap from Canada.

I haven't noticed people being taught to belay improperly. Maybe that's more common in sport crags, or maybe I'm just not paying attention. One thing I do see all the time though is newer (or sometimes older!) leaders placing active gear "sideways" -- not alligned in the direction of anticipated pull, but perpendicular to that pull. I've heard many of them say, "oh, the cam can always just rotate. And besides, it's a flexible stem!"

does the Rooster know about this?

Didn't we already have a long spray about this? Maybe someone who actually knows how to use the search function can find it?

Smurf? Don't you know a fraggle when you see one? check yer email. Why aren't we at Index, sucka? Where you been, anyway? TR?

Don't let them get your goat.

When you started climbing, had the mountains even formed yet?

I have the Mantas, I love them. I use them both winter and summer. I regularly snow-seal the crap out of them and they're super dry, even in sloppy spring snow.

It certainly can't be because of contempt for free speach, democracy or the free market. Are you talking about Putin, or Ahmadinejad?

Nice! Sounds like the rock wasn't too bad. I was surprised by the massive quantity of absolutely shitty rock in the Baileys. Talk about rubble!

This is gonna be great. Nobody better fucking talk about the weather or they'll jinx it. Oops.

Fucker. You're cramping my style.

Man rips head off duck I wonder if this Humane Society spokesman is a vegan?

Would you rescue them, or just "laugh as they slide down the mountain"?

pics?

Yeah, I was wondering if the block was big enough to bounce down and flatten someone's car. Don't pull that shit if Ivy is around! She's already mad at you for making fun of her.