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and neither do 5.11 trad climbers me thinks u think too much I know! Sheesh... I gotta quit that shit.

I love my tricams, but in the Cascades, they stay home. There is very little out here that will take a tricam better than a nut. If you go to Looking Glass and a handful of other places in NC, you'd swear by tricams. There are weird eyelid features that will take nothing but tricams. One thing for sure... if you intend to use em, you need to learn a new way of setting gear.

- a step or two below asshole was what I was thinking. Not active pursuit of being as asshole, but passively so. Well see... now I was being a douche bag and expecting a bunch of senseless CC spray on this one... but here I find myself challenged to really think about this one. Tyson's unedited comments on douchefulness and insecurity struck a cord. It is probably my own insecurities rather than some sort of correlation between 5.11 and douche.

0 blissfully ignorant 25 curious 50 stop while you can 100 need another post 200 this is my last post 700 douche 1200 veteran douche 1600 douche-Bah 5000 anal sprayer 10000 gaping mouthed anal douche spray master

Cebe Base Camp Or check out REI. If you're go through Seattle, talk to the gabber at ProMountain Sports before you spend any money at REI.

That is insane.

I wouldn't call it a win on their part. You never know who's got a secret stash of beer in the river.

Why is it that so many 5.11-and-up trad climbers are megalomaniacal douche bags? I mean, the shirtless stretching at the trail head isn't a big deal, but can you at least acknowledge the presence of other inferior climbers?

Maybe we should talk about the merits of two or three more bolts on the whale back of SEW. You know, it would really make it more enjoyable for everyone.

Tronc Feuillu wouldn't bother thinking about any of you, but if he did, he'd probably say we're all a bunch of dickwads. Bring on the cornholing!!!

Christ, they're not the sonics any more! Get over it! Corporate pro sports has no mother and no soul.

Did you click the ft/meters buttons?

Unless you're a total math junky and want to get into the gnarly physics of it all, here's a calculator. http://www.myoan.net/climbart/climbforcecal.html In the end, all the math and measuring in the world is no sub for experience and steady breathing.

Do you speak Spanish? There are a few different CC-like sites... though nothing quite as special. This one is pretty good: http://www.barrabes.com/foro/foro.asp This forum is specifically in Madrid, but I don't think they get much traffic: http://www.escaladoresdemadrid.com/

i'm sure cc.com has at least helped one guy get blown I look forward to hearing that story!

That sounds pretty cool. I'm in. Me too! I don't even know what dirigibles are, but if they alleviate gridlock, DO IT!

Land of freedom, home of modern democracy! You show doubt in our infallible system! Give yourself a dose of Fox news and self-flagellate for an hour or so, then see how you feel in the morning.

Freakin awesome!

I gotta use up the sidewalk chalk my kids don't use.

Just think, if the weather were better here, we'd lose out on CC!!! Everyone would be outside actually climbing instead of talking about it! Where would we go for spineless venom and banter?

Seattle's really takes the cake with grumpy assholes though. It's probably cuz of the rain. I went to LA last week and it's like Sesame Street down there compared with Seattle. ... but on the other hand... any opposition to public transport is myopic and ignorant.

The problem is that everyone wants a simple solution with immediate gratification... there isn't one. You won't find love bangin jenna jameson. The silver bullet is education. More money in schools - Aimlessly throwing money into education would be like giving a 16 year old more money in the hope they figure out that some of it needs to go to college savings. Instead it needs to go to a specific place where your ROI is highest - pay teachers six figure salaries so that the competition to get a job is totally ruthless and the caliber of teaching is far greater than it is now. Might have to axe the union too. But guaranteed that within 5 years, you'd have some of the best and brightest teachers in the world. Then in 10 to 15 years, our doctors and engineers and economy will dominate the world!

It would have to be an impartial judge... I'm thinking Punxsatawny Phil.

Sterilize all the stupid people. That'd get the job done.

HA! I don't think "questionable" really describes the HF. Their motivation/funding/slant is pretty undeniable.