Pete_H

On that descent if you feel like you're bushwacking, you are.

What if bolts were 4 inches apart, you dumbfuck.

Adventure climbing is when you get dirt in your climbing shoes.

Isn't half of Colorado from Texas? The other half are just really mountain Texans anyway. Nice trip!

Seems like places where parents take kids to climb (like easy 5.6/5.7 slabs) are usually different locations than where big kids go climbing so this conflict is usually not an issue. Maybe this fellow who posted this was just bitter because the kids were sending his sick 5.8 proj's.

The most time efficient way to approach Torment is via Boston Basin and the BB trail. As far as I know you can drive to the BB trailhead, though I haven't been up there this year.

so, what, yer gonna figure out the answer to a rydberg formula whilst climbing W/O having to write nothing down?!? sport vs trad is like fake tits vs regular tits - does it really matter that much so long as yer balls deep in the whore? Dear Partner, Just to let you know I have screwed a dame that weighs 300 lbs. Your pal, Jim

This is a very impressive send. DOE is still very dirty even though Sol and Jens cleaned it and is much more difficult than the grade suggests.

That root has better looking rock than I thought it would.

I like kids at the crag. I beat them up and steel their ice cream.

Damn dood you are Sooooo hardcore!

It was more like Mark Twight and Hunter S. Thompson.

A liter of tequila, 20 miligrams of mescaline, some crayola crayons, duct tape, and 40 yards of bailing twine.

Don't you know that every Mountie expedition to Lib Bell is required to add another reem of 1" tubular to the rap stations regardless of how much tat is already there. It's in their bylaws or something.

Apparently, neither can you. You clearly have a secret man-crush on him.

You got that right.... now It seems worse than ever! Dang this whole climbing idea's never gonna work is it? Nor is scrambling, or perhaps even hiking..... face it, I lost. Since your sort of a chronic truant and a runaway, maybe you can get into some sort of hoods-in-the-woods program. Go winter camping with some 15-year-old gang bangers and meth addicts and tell them about the time you rode your ghetto-ass bike to Mt. Pilchuck, or wherever the fuck it was, and duct taped your feet together.

Sofa King.

The moon thing is real. 9/11's a conspiracy though.

How about 1" tubular webbing climber guy, who has just fucking reams of 1" tubular hanging from his harness, and who superfluously backs up every rap anchor with gobs of webbing. Frequently seen mid-season epicing on the Beckey Route of Lib Bell.

Like you need experience to go up the DC route.

Impressive, but do your climbing partners(past & present)include: - 2 climbing guidebook authors - 1 author of a self-rescue book - 1 AMGA rock and ice guide (my rope was the first he ever tied into) - 1 former non-accredited alpine guide in WA state - 1 current non-accredited guide in WA state I'm not saying this because I want anyone to feel bad about their own climbing resume, but I think its important to note.

Pics?

In fact, too hard to believe. The trip was most likely fabricated in order to sell copies of Mike's soon-to-be published book. The photoshoped images would definitly account for the camera tilt perspective as keenly noted by Dru.

Dru, that's just what it looks like when you climb harder than 5.8.

Mike I didn't understand from the TR: 4 hours for 15 pitches, but 11 hours for the descent? How many pitches did you pitch out vs. simul?