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Correct Alan, You might be in trouble if you were climbing on a binier that had been fired at a steel barricade with a railgun. Otherwise yer not gonna die.

AHHHH ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. I skip out on studying for my test to peruse CC and end up reading about fukkin benzene rings! Neat application, is there a compound that'll bind to receptors in my brain and light up my comprehension of the difference between SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 reactions when exposed to ultraviolet light?

micro fractures don't exist. throw your rack off el cap and I'll use it once it hits the talus. If your axe needs replacing you'll know because it's broken in half. If yours isn't broken in half it's probably alright.

I'm gonna be doing some climbing on the UTW this winter, and I've heard that the methheads have been getting particularly active lately. I'm planning on just not having anything valuable in my car and leaving it unlocked, but has it really reached that point? Car break ins are lame. Previous experience leaving your car for a 4 or 5 days in the lot in November?

haha well now I'm stuck climbing limestone choss out here in MT, or the flaring gneiss cracks of the Gallatin Canyon. I've only climbed on WW1 at Little Si, and the one 5.9 there is really soft. It boils down to the fact that climbing is fun and I don't care too much about grades. I'll take a day at index over a weekend at the snoqualmie crags any day, but if I find myself in the area and it isn't pouring I'd love to get shown around by a local guru who isn't as aloof as I am towards sport climbing.

Try Whores of Babylon. It took a CO climber to complete the hardest climb in WA. We need to be better perfomers and less whiners and complainers. I watched Jonathan Siegrist climb his route there a while back, 32 is tough, I've only jumped on routes up to 12- there (because I'm a wanker) but I felt like the grades were a lot more spot on than a little ways up the road. As for Squamish being soft, I have fun whenever I climb there and I usually don't have a guidebook! Jangling Ball Wall in the Smoke Bluffs is freakin' hard for 11b.

wow, in 03 I was just a wee lad, still I'll chime in anyway. 38 is a fun places to get a bunch of routes in, but whooo-eeee is it soft! endless bliss is rated 10a, but is barely 5.8. Theres some 10a above it, ellies sweet kiss or something, can't be more than 5.7. I've gotten onto "10b" terrain after going the wrong way on criss crossing boltlines when i thought I was doing a 5.8. Fun place to climb, but I kinda ignore grades there, at least at the moderate level, as they really don't mean anything. Little Si though, that is a fun place to fall off stuff!

"Keenan" is irish name that means ancient or distant (thanks wikipedia) So my name roughly translates to ancient laundry. Fuckin' fascinating!

You're trying to incite my rage. I ain't fallin' for it. Plus, "Waeschle" translates to something to do with washing in German, so you're kinda spelling it right. I shoulda come up with a more creative handle.

I wonder if Mitt took it in the rear to save his virginity?

your skin is inordinately thin, if you're going to incite the same argument on thread over thread year after year maybe you should toughen up, sugar tits.

you're a douche for posting a link to nowhere and getting me all excited!

Oh the horror!

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This is how Mark and I learned how to aid. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1015149

Sounds like you gotta drop out!

I like Tieton better, but I've only spent 2 days apiece at each area.

Skip the bolt ladder, most any free climbing crack can be aided, as long as the gear placements are bomber and you can fend off the crowds of angry free climbers below you. Placing your own gear is good for establishing a pace. Reminds me of the first time I went trap shooting. I was hitting doubles every time, but as soon as my buddy had me flip the safety off before bringing the gun to my shoulder I couldn't hit jack shit. Practice the whole thing the first time, and eventually you'll get even with the glacial pace that is the level of proficiency.

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if you trek over to bozeman I'll climb with ya. I "know" a climber in Missoula (he was introduced to me over the internet by another climber I also met over the internet. I could forward this post to him if yer really desperate, but seeing as you are in Helena, not Missoula, that wouldn't do you any good. Is there a gym in Helena? drop by there and go climbing with the guy who's belaying with a munter.

I'd hang onto your raven, axes with the aluminum spike aren't worth shit in hard snow or glacial ice. As the season progresses a steel spike makes all the difference. I use a BD venom, it's lightweight and is really nice to have on those steep snow couliors.

I always tick the jams on godzilla, to help my second. But tick marking footholds is lame!

I don't know shit about bolting but I'm going to chime in anyway. I thought epoxy bolts were the shit because when it came time to replace them all that was needed was a propane torch. Heat up the bolt which melts the epoxy and the whole thing slides out of the hole, ready for a new glue in once it cools down a bit. I'm not putting in bolts, but if I was and used this technique to replace a hypothetical bolt 30 years later WOULD I DIE?