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bomber!!

Hey is that from ZM??? yep, when u used to aid climb.... man it's cool to see ur still crushing it. hope u don't mind me posting it.

it's just a pic i got off the internet, don't know where it's at

fucking aid climbers

pics of u with "little dawg" drillin that bolt ladder high on the north face??? ya know if it were up to joseph he'd remove that bolt ladder.

Well, at least it's large enough to adequately cover your grave. Ujahn had been talking up this finger crack route he'd been cleaning elsewhere. I went out one day and soloed climbed the route using his fixed line. I get up under this column that is the right side of his "fantastic Fingercrack". I look carefully and as the climbing was hard there and as I'm edging up directly under it notice that the damn thing is not touching the main wall on any of it's sides. It appears to be free hanging like an icecycle. It's just hanging free right over my head like the sword of Damoclese ready to chop my neck which I'd stuck right out there....holy crap, I can't reverse the moves without weighting the rope and the rope is going to put pressure on the upper part of this death block somewhere (that I can't even see from below) I don't know it my weight would dislodge the thing.....I had to weight it eventually. I felt so lucky that thing didn't fall off there as it would have been instant death. I come back and describe this to him, and we show up the next weekend with my pry bar. He goes up to lever and I was @ a 1/4 mile back ground spotting as he cranked this thing: which turned out to be @ 15' across and about that long, 2" out from the wall- @ 100' up. It moved remarkably easy and the roar and crash, despite being a long distance from my cush spot, still had me scrambling and moving at high speed to duck for cover behind the boulder I had been resting on. It was so loud!

the nose

nobody likes a monday, but ur pretty cool... who should make more money??? a ditch digger or a teacher??? seriously???

His point being no nation can run a decent school system with everyone doing their own thing with no national standards of achievement. P.S. Oh, and it isn't the teachers who are to blame - it's the parents. i personally think we should all make the same money no matter what or skill levels or ages are... basically a itch digger and a doctor should make the same wages but a ditch digger should be taxed less cause it just seems right .......

illuminate me then, esse - i'm not the dumbest person in the room most likely, and i've worked a variety of jobs, some w/ good owners/bosses, some not...what is it that you see/understand that i don't? u can't even drill a bolt ladder monday

hippy!!! size matters i reckon. seems much easier for small companies to treat their employees well - the bigger the organization, the more impersonal the relationship between owner and employee becomes, and the easier to screw them. kinda like slavery in that regard, perhaps? reading narratives of former slaves, there seems a similiar trend - satisfaction w/ servitude was much more common in small settings, much less so on huge plantations. you haven't a clue ivan??? but i think u mean well stud

OK -time to put up or shut up, how much more than your competitors are you paying YOUR employees? Maybe I should walk away from this and go to work for you, oh blessed great employer jb who does so much for so many. I must have been wrong about you as strictly based on your posts you sound like a know-nothing parasite. How many employees do you have? I tend to agree with JB on more things than not, certainly on this particular post, so as a business owner and employer I thought I'd share my employment practices. I've got 5 employees, and I pay them as much as I can, including health insurance, dental insurance, vacation pay, sick pay, and flexibility with regards to unpaid time off. I think I'm roughly 10 to 15 percent over the competition in terms of total compensation, but folks in construction aren't always that forthcoming about this topic. A few years back I did have a conversation with one of my best competitors, and he did share info based on my promise that I wouldn't try and steal any of his people, so I'm not completely whistling in the dark. My employees are my greatest single business asset, and I want them to feel both valued by me and proud of their work. Perhaps more importantly than the compensation numbers, I encourage everyone to do their best and follow their own sense of how best to do things. Empowering the employees with authority over their own work is a good thing for them, the clients, and the company. Funny thing is, this is also a successful business strategy. Employee satisfaction and retention matters. My clients appreciate having the same folks they've come to know and love come back to work on their homes, and they notice the respect and attitude that flows throughout the company. In an industry where 95% of businesses fail on a ten year cycle, we're at 22 years and looking to weather this particular downturn just fine. Oh, I'm sure I personally could make more money by paying my employees as little as possible, but we wouldn't be doing the same work for the same people. I wouldn't be as happy or proud of my company either. i basically take what's left over with my business, does your wife work OFF???

can someone trundle some large rocks down the north face before i arrive please

however, i'll just get the scoop from the ranger.

don't bother, i'll just call the ranger station. why wouldn't it be a serious question, chances r i won't have to install any bolts in the first place and you can TR hang dog another one of my routes like you did on this one MONKEY BOY

guess i just call the ranger station for the scooop...

i can understand why a moderator would have removed my post, but if john is chiming in on ur TR u proly climbed something cool. yes john and i have poked fun at each other but it's pretty clear that john is a badass climber and i have really always been okay with this. john will put something up uber sicky someday and it won't be posted here. it will be in the AAJ. nice TR, that rock looks super sweet

i guess when u say one of YOU, you are speaking on yours and ours behalf...

um bill can you please remove your spray from this very important thread, thank you :kisss:

so i may come out to portland in september and would love to finish a few routes that i started 10 years ago, i understand i have to jump through some hoops to do so. lets say i put in some bolts but don't jump through the hoops. shall i polish up my hand basket or should i not worry about the authority behind it. thanks, andrew

i can't really - that's why i picked up that ultra-kewl bolt-gun from vertical limit on ebay the other day Lord have mercy. indeed - i'm fucking up my bad climbing movie references - do believe that was cliffhanger that featured the mechanical hotness looks like MONKEY to me

i think she's hawt enough

riverside is dreamy