Pete_H

I'm going to use some science to build a robot that can kick your ass.

Balance is the key for those high glycemic index foods. For example, you should be eating cheese and perhaps some cured meats with your bagette and drinking a nice red.

why not?

I think if you don't have access to a climbing gym, or maybe even if you do, there are certain exercises that x-fit embraces which will help your technical climbing fitness, such as rings. But alpine climbing involves moving for long periods of time which x-fit doesn't account for. So I guess John and I agree on that point.

Not really. X fit workouts are too short and too weight-lifting intensive. If you couldn't get into the mountains to train you'd be better off putting a weighted pack on and running hills and going to the climbing gym - its way more relevant.

Why don't you sell your spleen to the highest bidder and find out.

That sounds lame.

Wall Street gave Obama 7 mill in the last election cycle. Perhaps that has something to do with it. Ironically, Wall Street isn't as enamored with him this go 'round. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/obamas-not-so-hot-date-with-wall-street.html?_r=1&hp

First pitch of Lamplighter / Heaven's Gate.

The 2nd and 3rd pitches are 5.10. You can access them from Thin Fingers. Walter B has one bouldery .11 move but the crux is 5.10 fingers in a corner.

Walter B with direct start 2nd and 3rd pitches of Narrow Arrow

Wal-Mart pup tent. Duh.

How 'bout Spaghetti Sauce and The Arch. Two good 5.8's right next to each other and right off the road.

Whole grains make you poop better.

Aim high.

If you had kicked his ass you probably would have had a better chance of taking the girl home though.

I would have used my sweet nun-chuck skills or bowstaff skills on him. Maybe just telling him which dojo I train at would have scared him off.

Yeah and there's probably ten 200 page threads on supertaco about whether Colorado or Utah or California is better for climbing.

If climbing, especially year-round climbing, is your top priority I wouldn't move to Washington.

Renton.

Maybe you can start the first chapter of the Kandahar Climbing Club.

Looks like a great resource Jon. Thanks. I'd use a mobile app but I don't think my 10-year-old flip phone would support it.

It seems like whenever you'd go down to Classic Crack on a busy weekend there'd be throngs of gapers attempting to thrutch up the route and inevitably sliding down in failure. Which is why the lower 10 feet of the route is, indeed, polished. Now, though, I rarely see people on the route. I think with the development and hype of so many short, easy and friendly face climbs beginners have spread out at places like Playground Point and such.

There's actually people out there who boulder without crashpads too. Without crashpads their feet are touching the ground and polishing the meadows. They must be stopped!

Last Sunday it was dry for about 1.5 miles up, then snow.