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calling Ivan, your toes are gnarly and tvash doesn't want to see them anymore... My feet are incredibly mangled from years of wearing rock shoes and bashing my toes into the fronts of boots that were too small. check out those compressed/nauseating toes!

cyborgs are good, but pretty much any mono point crampon will work well enough. If you're planning on doing mixed routes I'd upgrade 'pons, but I've seen guys climb M8 in sabertooths, so if you're a badass you might not need to purchase mono's (I am not a badass).

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one of the best pieces I've read on here, sweet work dudes!

I don't see the need for a SPOT type device in some place like the enchantments. If shit does hit the fan there are going to be plenty of other people around to provide assistance. Worse case scenario you'd have to huddle together on a ledge for the night. You were never in a actual life or death scenario. I keep a mindset that if I do get caught out in the dark I can always sit down and shiver until it gets light again. A friend nearly died on Colchuck a few years back and I'm pretty sure he didn't have a spot. Other folks saw the fall and sent for help. In a remote place where you are unlikely to see anyone a SPOT device might be warranted. It really should never be used though, self sufficiency is your number one tool for staying safe. and I'm off my soapbox

If you grew up in a town of 1000 people in North Idaho and moved away at 18 to the wild diversity of Bozeman Montana I am sure you would hang on to the racist shit your closed minded white supremacist grandfather spewed about after a few pulls of moonshine, at least initially.

The most racist and close minded Romney fans I know are all from the ID panhandle. They're all great people though, as long as you don't bring up politics/black people in their presence.

Cascade Designs is a local company, right? sent in my 4 year old prolite thermarest because it had developed a slow leak where I'd wake up on a deflated mattress after 5 or so hours. shipped it a week ago, and a brand new prolite just showed up at my house today. Couldn't be more satisfied!

bump, tell your friends with huge feet! I need these gone!

I'm trying to round up some buddies to go to Zion the week of Thanksgiving, but that is not set in stone at all. Gotta do Christmas with the family December 17th to 28th, but other than that I will be here in the Bozone, doing stupid things. Send me a PM when you're going to be making it 'round these parts and as long as you're not homicidal we should do some clamberin' together!

saw it today, sure looked like a quark to me, but who am I to crush your dreams. HARK! PETZL RELEASED A NEW VERSON OF THE NOMIC IN A PATAGONIA CATALOGUE THAT BEARS AN UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE TO THE QUARK!

why do you need your phone in the mountains?

1000 YEARS OF DARKNESS! how do they keep straight faces for 2 minutes and 15 seconds of that bullshit?

$100 OBO, I've been trying to sell these for the last 3 years, guess the percentage of the population with huge feet is just that small. They're basically unused and cost me around $220 new. Someone can put them to good use. this is what they look like

is it just me or does your avatar vibrate violently, olyclimber? Might be the quarter of shrooms I just ate

I have a split board and skins, but I'd rather get killed in an avalanche climbing. If anyone is going to set off a slab it'll be my phat ass. Plus I forgot to throw it in the car when I moved over here. here are some pics Curt hiking above elbow lake Weather was a little iffy below the notch Blue skies to the east though Cold and white outey at the notch Looking down the ridge extending off cowan, plenty of fantastic looking routes on these summits The Montana Centennial goes up the left hand buttress rising over the lake. 12 or so pitches that I will be back for. And finally, Curt modeling on the hike out

Curt reclining above the haze I'll post up more when I don't have class in 15 minutes.

Nevertheless, the route we did was one of the most enjoyable climbs I've done all summer. I haven't spent 3 hours on a summit for forever and plus the added benefit of hearing your stories of (not so) old were wonderfully entertaining. Can't wait for the next climb, I don't know what it'll be, but I know it will be a good one.

squamish rocks, I'm ashamed to admit I took a ground fall off the first couple moves of slot machine. I thought, "how hard can 5.8 be?" and just went for it without a semblance of technique. next thing I knew I was jumping along down the rock to land at Mark's feet with the realization that I just took a grounder. jumped back up and thought about the single move before my second try. Fantastic route. Glad you guys enjoyed the wonderful climbs squamish has to offer. next time fill yer car up with booze before crossing the border.

thanks scotty for posting me up in all my glory. Geeze, I was such a stud back then! The route I was aiming to do with you was in fact the NE arete, alas, in the info I obtained plus our lack of a map of any kind I missed out on the fact that the ridge of interest was on the complete other side of the mountain. Fourtunately I have a couple of roommates with horses (gotta love montana) who want to go horsepacking. with any luck I'll get to try and climb the NE arete before the icebox of winter descends on the rockies and leaves me to the pitiful pursuit of climbing frozen chunks of ice to pass my time (it's a rough life out here).

ya'll can relax now, I found what I was looking for.

the (very large) rock that chris' right hand is touching came flying off about 30 seconds after I took this shot. I luckily had the foresight to belay off to the right, so I was fine. The rest of the season I was hypervigilant about where I belayed/was belayed from. A dead partner is fairly useless. Be smart out there guys

looking for a set, message me and we can work out a price. I want to do some aiding and having to use prussiks to clean is really putting a damper on my climbing.

direct east buttress, I always thought it was just the east buttress, but I guess I was wrong. edit: misread the second half of that. yeah I have no idea what the DEB on liberty bell is... I'll stop chiming in and shut up now