Pete_H

Look at that abortion on the east face of South Early. It goes at hard 5.13, but has mandatory 5.6. Talk about dumbed down for the masses.

Well ... I'd say that's exactly what has happened with IB and similar debacles put down by the routes progenitor.

Another good source for wilderness medicine / wilderness med classes (WFR, W-EMT, etc.): http://www.remotemedical.com/ Local company.

You probably ilegally downloaded the copyrighted music off the internet too. Thief!

"I have clipped many a bolt but i believe we should leave the alpine just that, alpine and these i-b kind of routes for the crags."

I would agree Bob. Those kind of shows are definitly more commercial than Colin giving a show at Feathered Friends to about 50 people who know eachother.

All the public slideshows I've seen are pretty low-key local affairs in which the climber / presenter is essentially doing the show as a favor to the community and maybe the local climbing shop. Even if the presenter mentions the companies name at the end of the show I would hardly call the show a "commercial" affair.

Right on guys. Welcome! Kind of ironic that your journey started in the faux-european mecca of 11worth. If you find yourself back in Washington looking to go ski touring send me a PM.

Its funny if you read most of the Supreme Court opinions on these issues you'd probably see the Justices wrangling with many of the same questions the reasonable minds here are, and probably slinging as many rhetorical insults to their colleagues as well. I think its a difficult issue in which the right result in theory (not restraining political speech) results in a difficult outcome, i.e. money influencing politics. Does anyone agree that its a sad commentary on human nature that the party with the loudest voice (who pays the most to inundate the media channels) gets the most support as opposed to the one with the most rational argument?

Freedom of speech isn't absolute. Never has been. The balance of freedom to chaos just depends on where we want to draw the line. I don't think hiding behind freedom of speech on this one holds a lot of water.

Bone, you're soooo out of your league here. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing con law isn't your strong suit.

You're never too old if you have a younger woman to keep you spry.

This is the U.S., everything is for sale.

Interesting that they did it as a summer rockclimb as subsequent ascents were earlier in mixed / winter conditions.

I believe Harbor Properties is either owned or controlled by the Bullit family.

I'd rather take my chances of getting fucked by the government than by Corporate Insurance America, who I know definitly won't have the common courtesy to give us a reach-around.

I thought Harriet Bullitt owns Stevens.

Heavy handed regulation? You MUST be a liberal.

Tvash I enjoy your vitriol. Its the trip reports and photography that suck.

Nice. That place is stout. When I went there a good ten years ago I was onsighting 10d's pretty solidly everywhere else but I was bairly hanging on to 10a's there.

Unfortunately they are also for promoting the interests of megecorp insurance industry, eroding constitutional civil rights, and spending hundreds of billions on unsuccessfull military forays into the mid-east in order to pad the pockets of their oil industry buddies.

Unfortunately he has about as much peronality as a potato.

"Tone deafness, delight in human misery dripping in self-satisfied senile crap." Pretty much.

Its the low center of gravity. The little bit of racing I did it was always the short squat guys that won.

Its still Wow. Dumbass just doesn't understand how weather works.