keenwesh

wayne your climb is cool too.

strawberry fields forever. hot damn that route looks like a blast.

my goal is to get on as much mixed as I can. I'd like to play around trying fig fours and stuff like that on horizontal terrain, I'm so gangly and have such long limbs that I think that'll end with me putting a monopoint deep into my extensor carpi. goal #2, get an elk.

I talked to drew a while back at little si, such a nice kid, I still chuckle when I think of how he asked me "what are you working on? chronic?" I laughed and muttered something about bust the move. nothing pretentious about the way he asked, dead honest, as if he honestly couldn't fathom anyone working a climb below 13b. (I'm sure he can't) keep on crushing drew, you're an inspiration to us all.

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Climbed with a guy here in bozeman for a couple months who has actually met and climbed with colin bartholomew, says he's actually not a massive douche in real life. Tear him up on here but give him a chance if you see him out at the crags.

"When soloing, you constantly think about falling" if I constantly was envisioning myself in a mangled dead heap every time I soloed I'd probably stop, or at least wait for another day when my head was more clear. If I'm soloing I'm doing it to have fun and enjoy the day, not to think about death. nice work on the self rescue though. next time don't break your fibula.

a split is so much better than snowshoes. only downside is the price. if you can afford it that's the setup I'd get. currently I'm using a s series with the burton setup. janky and a huge pain in the ass, but the price was right. I've never used the viole setup but from people who have I hear it's the bees knees. locks in super solid and will not spontaneously pop off on you (something the burton is very liable to do if you don't get every little piece of snow and ice out of it before locking it down)

post a photo bro-brah!

only thing I've done with the mountaineers is a MOFA course, learned some decent stuff but at the same time it's pretty basic. like something that you'd probably do anyway if yer buddy went down. coulda just bought a book and read that and saved myself the hundred bucks. I need to do some more crevasse rescue training though. I climbed rainier when I was 13 and spent some time beforehand on the emmons getting dropped into crevasses and having to prussik my way out, figure out how to set a anchor from a self arrest position, stuff like that. I think you could practice setting these things up in a mock scenario in your living room and then in late june or july go up to the nisqually and find a nice big crack to actually practice in. just make sure you have a super solid T anchor above it and giv' er. I'm thinking about taking some non climber friends up the emmons in july so I'll probably be up there a couple weekends giving myself a refresher and teaching them the skills. just be sure you try them in a completely hazard less environment before you go for the real thing.

http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/kennedy_and_kruk_on_cerro_torre_in_their_own_words/index.html

it's keenwesh, wesh, as in waeschle, as in my last name.

dude why are you being a douche, just chill out.

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saw a mike barter video where he just threaded a bight of rope through one hole before feeding the other strand down from the other side. pulled the bight and like that it was threaded. no hook needed. Of course I haven't tried this method myself but he made it look easy.

if it's "around 8a" I doubt he could've bolted it on lead... hopefully he drilled from hooks. If he rap bolted it like he said he was going to do last year the community will (deservedly) beat him to death with pillowcases full of soap.

yeah fuk taxes man, your profile picture is totally not the most idiotic thing ever. I too believe that roads, public schools, police, firefighters, military, ect can just pay themselves.

I went climbing all day today and I come back to this! Am I right in my understanding that the belays on the compressor route are still in place? I also think that kruk and kennedy used some of the belays in their ascent. does anyone have any more info or we all just a bunch of speculators? BTW good looking one is in fantastic shape right now and about 200 lbs or loose rock are now gone from the bottom mixed section. ya'll are welcome.

stealing this point from someone on the taco, but did maestrati have permission to place them? come on dude it's for the better. plus, look at the new "standard route" http://pataclimb.com/climbingareas/chalten/torregroup/torre/ragni.html looks pretty fuckin classic to me.

Same here. Class V on the Guadalupe. Scared the shit out of me, but I didn't get religion over it. But I did become a nicer person for it. The guy a week after me wasn't as lucky... flush drowning or pin? either sucks, but I imagine a flush scenario would be semi infuriating. as things start to grey out thoughts turn from anger to just sorrowful remorse, at least they did for me.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1725375/Cerro-Torre-A-Mountain-Consecrated-The-Resurrection-of-th FIgured I could start another shit storm over here, why pass up a opportunity. gonna have to be honest, kinda mixed feelings about this. However when I make it down there there'll be no question about it now. gotta give the ragini route a try. discuss.

or like the baby that falls into the 5 gallon bucket with a splash of water at the bottom. no fun. drowning fucking sucks. I had a near miss whitewater kayaking, it's a experience I never want to have to go through again.

I loved main vein, something about being way up the side of the valley looking down below. wish the routes in hyalite were as long. ah who am I kidding, the routes in hyalite have a special aura of their own.

great TR, sounds like you had a fantastic day. that area around alpental is a wonderful escape from everyday life.

really good to know! thanks. Still If I go up and do it I'd want to do P4. looks like the best one of the route.