el jefe

again, i congratulate bigbowsky on the proud send and say thanks for the anchor. just ignore raindawg and pope.

if this is a recent picture of raindawg (aka brainfog) then i for one am certainly glad he is invisible. "joseph and the technicolor dreamcoat" sort of fashion went out with the 80s.

Nevermind, apparently I was drawn into a random spray war by a fucking retard who doesn't know anything about the meaning of "natural" in the climbing world. Apparently you're another noob who thinks he has a say because he now climbs 10a. Die, dipshit. another mouth-breather adds his 2 cents worth...

*yawn*

thanks for the bolt anchor, by the way. i for one always appreciate it when people put in the time to do a good job.

i agree. whenever i have made progress, it was because i had been spending a lot of time climbing. climbing is a very technique-intensive activity, and you can only really hone the technique by doing it.

you smell your own butt.

split hairs any way you want to, i agree with TimL about the thick scent of bullshit in a lot of these posts, yours included.

nice posting, bob. i agree about the body fat issue. "losing 10 to 15 pounds" is a pretty arbitrary goal and probably not realistic for john, who i understand is pretty fit to begin with. the best advice in the old goddard and neumann book (performance rock climbing) was to figure out your weaknesses and work on them.

plus, you don't damage the tree itself... Ok, for those who may need a refresher: Rapping from the tree is natural, the tree is super solid (ie. not going anywhere anytime soon) whereas the bolted belay is just another needless scar. OMG I almost forgot, save the trees . "rapping from the tree is natural"? is your rope natural? how about your slings, shoes, or harness? all natural fibers, too? like i said, a 3 digit IQ should be a requirement for a discussion like this.

I agree....but then you would have to chop most of the sport routes at index. most of the sport routes at index aren't cracks.

sorry, alex, but this is an important question, so only people with 3 digit IQs are going to get to vote this time.

at the smoke bluffs in squamish the anchors used to routinely be the nearest sturdy tree, but repeated rapping, etc is bad for the trees, so bolt anchors are pretty much ubiquitous there now. maybe the bolt anchors on boc and roger's corner are really a good thing? certainly good as far as the tree is concerned.

thanks for the info. timson has big hands with fat fingers, so i guess that helped him for sure. and you're right, it would be interesting to know what he did to protect it back in '79. must have been hexes because friends maxed out at #4 -- roughly equivalent to a #3 camalot, so it was either hexes or way run out!

all of those sound good to me. i'm basically just a rock climber, but in my experience, failure occurs when i can't pull my feet up to the next holds rather than because i'm unable to do a pull up. although to be truthful, mostly it's just that i can't hold on any longer...

thanks for the link to the tabata calf raises, they look brutal. for what it's worth, my opinion is that "knees to elbows" is probably more relevant for climbing than pull ups.

what sort of rack did you need? you mentioned placing your "last #5 camalot"...

don't worry, bill, it's not just you...

you know you've nailed it when pink shows you his neener neener lizard...

ooh, dude, watch out, big bad tradman called you a "sport wanker" and a "prick". too bad you ain't got the balls to toprope a route!

nice work! congratulations on the send.

in the old days we would use crampons when climbing ice so didn't have to do any pullups. give it a try sometime.

you probably don't mean to be a dick, but nevertheless...

i visited the boulders at swan falls, idaho this spring and most were completely covered in paintball splotches. essentially the place is dead as far as bouldering goes. too bad as some of the blocs looked pretty good.

yes, bug, cheaper than prozac and with fewer untoward side effects.