marc_leclerc

Everything in Waddington is Moderate, the North wall of the Matterhorn is quite moderate, I think the American Corkscrew on cats ear spire can squeeze into Laytons Def of Moderate too!

I cant wait to get out to Squamish!

Eiger North Wall obviously looks cool and is a moderate too!

its hard to place gear on! I was just checking out how well it could protect... btw did you ever use the sweet double toe jam no hands rest in the middle?

oh yes.. my favourite finger crack there! I put up a new direct start on that

looks like fun... maybe a good solo jaunt in the sun

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I was thinking the same thing

This one! It is under 5.11c but is strenous. And this 5.10a finger crack!

I love rock climbing in the sun.. I got this pic of me last week at Harrison Bluffs... I love hot sunny weather!

your 5.scray looks like class 2/3

I did the FA of the Arete an Mike wanted me to take the hangers off so he could get the second ascent, the face climb was Mike Project... hes gonna be pissed off... he hasnt got to try it cuz hes in Mexico right now. I scrubbed the top of the offwidth and Im looking forward to trying it too. What is Shark Tooth Flake BTW? Oh.. you didnt redpoint it NVM Mike wont care...

Black Diamond bags often have a low profile waist belt that doesnt interfere with a harness and you can put a hydration pack in most of them... thay work well for me

go with the 9.8 dry if you like the idea of a lighter and easier to manage (I find) rope that you can get wet without worrying about decreased strength... if you are just planning on simple cragging in the sun the 10.2 ropte may last longer..

I like areas like Harrison for that reason, as groups of less experienced people show up you can hike a couple minutes to the upper levels and try the more difficult climbs and it wont be crowded. But if the spot that they show up to has too many people for everybody to climb than they should go somewhere else or reserve a climbing gym.

your autosig is the mantra of the boealps/mounties! Thats just mean.... Groups that teach new climbers good safety skills so that they can progress their skill and do more complex and difficult climbs are great. I learned most of what what I know from watching and climbing with experienced climbers but I never would have minded taking some more courses when I was starting out. Thanks for being thoughful enough give a heads up fenderfour

So true....but I will try to influence my children to a real sport like soccer.... I think climbing is the realest sport ever! Alot of other sports invole running around playing with your balls but climbers get to put their nuts in cracks and so on... hockey aint bad at all tho

and Vf^2= Vi^2 + 2ad then Pi = mv .. with those you can find your momentum when the rope catches you after the 60 ft whip!

I say it depends on if it is just scary or really dangerous and if there have been many injuries on the route. If the fall is fairly clean but just is a bit of a mental subconcious thing than leave the runout. If it is really dangerous and people are getting injured/killed then you make the call. There was one climb in Harrison that used to only have two bolts but a guy broke his ankles and suffered several other injusries after ledging out on a massive ledge way before the rope caught, the First Ascentionist said that it was fine to retro bolt it so now there are 4 bolts and it is a fun and adequately protected climb

I agree.. thats really funny!

I should try repeating the fall with a crazy carpet and sliding down at high speed!

Those look great, if they work well that may totally revolutionize trad climbing even!

"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb", The third big war will begin when the big city is burning" - Nostradamus 1654 That was a Nostradamus prediction that people say pooints towards 9-11 It is so vague, many wars begin with some sort of burning or chaos.. a bible prediction referring to christ says in Psalm 22:16-18 that "Brutal enemies attack me like a pack of dogs, tearing at my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones, and my enemies just stare and sneer at me. They took my clothes and gambled for them." Jesus was attacked, beaten, his hands and feet were peirced, his enemies mocked him and gambled for his clothes.. very precise! Thats a good example of what real predictions should be like...

exactly... nostradamus didnt write the Bible.... his predictions were lucky guesses.. I could say 'someone from brazil will cause great problems and people will die' and it may one day happen... that what Notradamus did. He made vague predictions that would probably eventually happen and then people made a big deal about it. In the Bible the prophets made extremely precise predictions about where Jesus would be born (an example) when he would be born, what line he would descend from and so on, those guys were real prophets.

It seems like snowmobilers often get into trouble... I know plenty of very safe snowmobilers with training in avalanche safety and stuff but there are also the snowmobilers that think they are invincible because they have big powerful machines.... I think 85% of the news stories of people killed in slides were snowmobilers.