marc_leclerc

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.

purposely standing (or crawling) on cornices unsecured can cause some problems....

where does the bible say anything about the Anti Christ being of Muslim descent? post the scripture reference please.

haha! you should have seen how much dirt fell off of the climb called route picker!somewhere between 300 and 500 ibs. You couldnt tell there was a crack there... it only took 1/2 hour because it all rolled off the climb like carpet though.

Yeah, its a great area, lots of really nice crack and slab climbing especially!

Trip: Overnighter at Harrison Bluffs - Date: 4/13/2008 Trip Report: So a few days ago me and a couple friends were out rock climbing at Harrison Bluffs and I got the idea to find an easy route to one of the highest sections of the cliffs. I scrambled top the top of the highest fixed line and found a way to traverse a 3rd class ledge to a mostly 4th class corner with a few moves to 5.4 or so. We belayed this section then scrambled more 3rd class terrain to the area called The Change room. There are four climbs here that were lichen covered and some had moss on them. But before going back down we found a huge flake had detatched from the rock forming a cave that looked really cool. On Friday I gave my friend a call and asked if he wanted to bring all our gear up to the cave and camp in it overnight then climb all day Saturday, he liked the idea but was busy until about 10:00 Friday night. I decided to go and bring all my gear and food (about 45 ibs in my bag) to the cave that afternoon and leave a fixed line up the corner for my friend to come up by headlamp that night. I flexed up fixed lines and then soloed the 5.4 corner while fixing a rope for my buddy until I reached the cave and set up our campsite. It was only 5:00 so I had 5 hours to explore the area and look at old routes I wanted to clean the next day. I got a fire going when it got dark and ate food. Lorne managed to climb to the cave by headlamp with his gear and we hung out in the cave for a while before going to sleep. Just as we were falling asleep we heard a bunch of twigs snapping and a rock rolled down the hill by the cave, alarmed we turned on the light to see who the culprit was but couldnt see anything. When we got up at first light and found deer prints around the cave! After breakfast we took a trail through the woods to the top of the cliffs and set a rappel down a climb called Friction Addiction (5.9+) and spent forever cleaning second growth moss and lichen off of it, I led it in its mostly clean state bt fell a couple times when I steeped on loose moss on the friction slab. Mt friend stared cleaning a 5.8 groove called root picker (he pulled about 300 ibs of dirt off this one) while I pulled a tick out of my shoulder and burned in the hot sun. After this we went down a ways to get water and climbed back up to the site so I could clean lichen off of a 5.10d arete that I toproped afterwards. We decided to pack up and rapped all the way to the base with our heavy bags and went home and fell asleep. Now its raining anf hopefully the rain will was all the loose moss and lichen off of the routes we cleaned so thay will be really nice the next time we go there. Red circle shows the location of cave. Gear Notes: Bring a full rack. Approach Notes: Drive, Walk, climb.

My red circle around the bite has shrunk and is barely visible now but it is still quite sensitive around the bite area, I think I'll see a doctor at the walk in clininc and see if he has any concerns.

While I was at the bluffs cleaning a route I suddenly felt like I was getting sunburned just above my collar bone and looked down to see a tick burrowing itself into my skin... not realizing what it was I grabbed it and ripped it out. I looked up tick bites and apparently the head gan get stuck in the skin and cause problems. Right now the bite just looks like a red circle with a black circle in the center... I hope the head isnt stuck in my shoulder. Do you guys know of a way to tell whether or not the head is still in the skin?

I just got a new account cuz of a new E-Mail thing.... its just me ...cheamclimber.. with a new name

LOL! I love that one