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Two pairs of Mad Rock Splash velcro slippers for bouldering/gym/etc. Styled on the Five.Ten Anasazi Velcro, but with a softer, fleecy upper. I found them to run a bit big in size, so I ordered them smaller than my normal bouldering/gym shoes. For reference, I have a slightly wider forefoot, narrower heel, and wear a US 9.5-10 street shoe, a US 8.5 climbing shoe in Boreal, a Euro 39 1/2 climbing shoe in Sportiva (which are always too narrow for my foot, but whatever), etc. These are a bit narrow/pointy, so better for Sportiva type people. I think these prices are reasonable, but offers may be considered if you're willing to tell me a yarn about how you need these shoes to train for freeing El Cap in a day. Shipping is $5/pair, or come get them in Portland. 1) US 7.5 (Euro 40) - worn once in the gym but too narrow/pointy in the forefoot. Edges are perfect, shoes are slightly dusted in chalk. $30 2) US 8.0 (Euro 41) - never worn. These seemed slightly too big, and I concluded that the shoe just doesn't fit my foot right. $35

Black, medium men's Arc'teryx Gamma MX softshell. New with tags and never used - was a gift but I need something a bit warmer. Located in Portland; shipping can be negotiated if need be. MSRP is $325 - I'd like to get $250 to fund a puffy jacket. (Trade options considered for a medium Arc'teryx Fission LT jacket...) Now $200!! [img:left]http://www.e-omc.com/catalog/new_images/large/ArcteryxMsGammaMXJacketBlack.jpg[/img]

I have three issues of the British On the Edge climbing magazine that I've had sitting around for what appears to be about 15 years. They're April-June 1994 and don't have their covers. Check out the awesome 90s climbing fashion, a pic of Robyn Erbesfeild climbing a 14a, Jerry Moffet pretending to be a soldier in Chad (with excellent photos by Heinz Zak), old school pics of Ben Moon with his dreads, and a profile of the Reebok British Climbing Team (wtf?). Pick up in Portland, or contact for shipping if you really have to have them somewhere else.

Rarely used Prolite 3 short - ultralight at only 13oz! No tears, holes, or damage. I'm using a full length pad and this is taking up space in my closet. $35 - pickup in Portland or contact about shipping.

Wow, dude - that helmet cam bit of the lead was unreal. (Is this what the rock climbing video games of the future will look like?) Sweet vid and sweet route!

People are not malnourished in the United States because our "organic" food system is not able to produce enough food. They're malnourished because they don't eat any vegetables. They're malnourished because they eat at McDonalds. People in other countries are not malnourished because the Western world is forcing them to grow food organically when doing so does not produce enough yield. They're starving because their governments are corrupt, their economies are destroyed, or they're refugees. Who is "impos[ing] the same constraints on other people who aren't as well fed?" If we use tariffs and regulations to require farmers in other countries to use organic practices, we do so because we are buying their food - meaning their farming methods have no impact on their ability to feed themselves or those in their country, since they are growing food for foreign, not domestic, consumption. What exactly is your point with all this? You seem to just be making vague skeptical remarks and anwering questions with questions.

You mean after doing that painting, Goya kept running for president as a dark horse third party candidate?

It's so rare to see them captured on film...

(Though the hypothetical chipping discussion would go more like: "Chipping - you don't" and then 99.9% of people would say "Duh," while .1% of people would be smacked upside the head - point being that the issue already seems to be settled.)

That would be super awesome. I'm definitely in favor of a history/literature section where we can read some actual climbing writing from back before the mags were just lifestyle advertisements. With respect to bolting, it seems like the issue is mostly a non-issue to most people. Certain climbing communities have their own bolting sagas (where one person will bolt and someone else will go chop them), but the climbing community on the whole seems to be mostly in agreement that we should compromise - bolts happen, but you don't bolt a crack that can accept gear (with the exceptions being expanding flakes that will pop, etc.). Rebolting is cool to make unsafe/homemade bolts safe for future generations, but retrobolting is not cool - you don't add bolts to a person's line if those bolts were not originally there. The rest of it is a semantic ethics debate that seems mostly to happen behind the scenes. If someone doesn't want to clip bolts, then that person probably won't be a face climber, and if that person's not a face climber, then they really have no reason to go around mouthing off about bolts on face climbs! Really, aside from retrobolting and bolting cracks, this is such a non-issue. (We could have a similar discussion about chipping or something.) It's also funny, re: the Messner article, how we're still getting worked up over the same issues nearly forty years later. (Or make it fifty, what with Robbins vs. Harding in the Valley in the sixties.) Times never change?

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Shouldn't it be "I like bolts and I vote?" And if you like bolts so much, why don't you marry them?

I read his posts, and I understood what he was referring to. I agree with what he writes most of the time. I just didn't quite follow what you said - how the point of headlines was that corporate farming requires pesticides (non sequitur?), not to mention the fact that "efficiency" was not something mentioned in that BBC article, seeing as the study they're reporting on did not appear to study anything actually relevant to anyone. And seriously, if you're talking about "corporate" farming, you're not really talking about food that people eat - you're talking about grain fed to cows. (I guess the surplus is made into corn syrup, and people do inexplicably seem to eat that... and then they eat the cows...)

How on earth did you infer that from a worthless BBC article on nutrition?

The study neglected to mention that the existence of nutritional differences between organically grown and non-organically grown food is irrelevant because Americans don't actually eat the fruits and vegetables being studied. Maybe when they do a study of organic vs. non-organic Big Macs...

Bill, you should have recommended they rename SE 39th Ave, "Trask."

That was like walking into some alternate universe where you're all wearing fake mustaches.

I didn't know PETA had Playboy models on staff...

I bought some camera equipment here once, so I thought I'd try my hand at it now that I have some to sell: Canon 28mm F1.8 USM lens - compatible with all Canon film and digital autofocus cameras, approximates "normal" perspective on 1.6x crop cameras (xxD and Rebels). Like new, comes with caps and box. Canon BG-E2 battery grip - holds two batteries, compatible with 20D-50D (it's the same thing as the "new" BG-E2N, which just has an additional/unnecessary foam seal around the battery compartment). $400 for the lens and $100 for the grip, or $475 for both! Shipping is $10 for insured UPS ground, or pickup in Portland. I don't have pics since I sold the camera I used these with, but can probably borrow a point and shoot from someone if you need to verify how perfect the lens glass is.

I'm sure that says something to all the amateur sociologists about the different personality types represented... We just can't help slowing down to oggle? Also, where the eff are all you "I just registered yesterday because I know Josh and have an outside perspective on your highly unimportant internet discussion" people coming from?

sho nuf.