LostCamKenny

sure it is, bill, it plastic climbing... its the red-headed stepchild of rock, ice, alpine or aid climbing!

How is Kim's belay?

It makes me itch just looking at the picture

Better yet, lets bolt everything from Bluebird on over to Dod's and call the place a gym!

I like ivans idea... thats the perfect rack!

Natural anchors always give me a warm fuzzy when i see them. if they're solid, just sling the damn thing and bring up your second.

Interesting - how studious of you!

To add to this - the autoblocking devices seem to lock up pretty easily, even if the rope is newer and more supple than an old rope. I put a second biner through the device to keep it from locking up as easily (here come the naysayers!!!) and I haven't had a problem even with a rope as stiff as a cable, and Jim's rope is nearly that! And no, the xtra biner hasn't kept the device from operating in this mode safely!

'stache jam????

Oh, that's just hot! How bout handfulls of slings for pom poms?

Nice, though I have to tell you this: Quit "Dreamin" and come to Beacon! And don't wear your kilt like you did the last time you stood atop tha rawk!

Nice view once the clouds were gone, yeah? I'm guessing that you weren't bombarded with other climbers on the route the way one would if you were on the DC... What was the total time on the mountain?

You guys should have mooned the route, too

Yeah, right. Sport climbers don't get those kind of badges...

more like a .5

I second that one... I love it when dave sprays! the story-telling process is an epic in itself

heeheehee... so is wet granite with vibram soles

Good to see that someone still gets over to that side of the mountain - looks real remote and f**king awesome!

Have you been paying attention to anything on this zany site?!?

Oh it was plenty exciting! I knew the ropes would reach since we dropped the tagline before I started to clean P2... The knot in the main line halfway down did provide a bit of the excitement, though. Luckily I saw it with enough rope to do a few leg wraps to free it up! Then I had to untangle the tag line from the tree it landed in closer to the bottom... Nearly epic descent!

Ivan forgot to mention that my headlamp went dead when I reached the belay after jugging and cleaning the 2nd pitch - thus the rappel into the darkness, and then the free-hanging darkness, got really, really freaky! I almost needed to stop and cry when I reached the top roof of the arena...

I was having a bad day until I read these latest posts... Thanks y'all! Someone pass the beernuts, please... and don't start round 3 until I get another Hamms!

THe benefits of such a practice cannot be understated...

Thanks for the pics - very nice!