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To say nothing of taking pictures of an old man and a sex sheep in the tent. Indeed. Billcoe thanks for valuable interwebs keywords. Traffic increase 47% noticed in the last 15 minutes alone. Keep it up!

They asked for permission to post, but we obviously had a misunderstanding Please support The Hutch, truly a world class organization with some of the best scientists in the world, I work with them on a daily basis and can speak from experience.

I've seen people with these homemade things and let's just say I don't drive behind them. If that thing busts off on the highway and injures someone on the road you are TOAST.

Thanks for everyones contribution to this thread. I am now locking it.

I think I speak for both of us in that if you have a complaint about how a certain poster or group of posters affect the quality of this website that the issue be brought up with Porter and I in a more private manner sooner rather then later. I'm not a huge advocate of public skewering of posters on here however I think some have it coming and the message is better heard from the... hurd. In defense of the moderators, they cannot possibly read every post or thread on this site, and they rely on you bringing things to their attention. Please do so!

I'm with Fairweather. Bicycles are Dangerous. I just got off the phone with him and here is our proposed solution. 1. License bicycles 2. Make bicycle tires wider 3. Add safety reinforcement to bike 4. Make wider tires for bike to accommodate weight. 5. Make beefier brakes to accommodate weight. 6. Make tires bigger, considering adding two more. 7. Fuck this thing is heavy and can barely go uphill. 8. Shit. 9. Fuck it. Let's put an engine in this thing. 10. Bigger tires to accommodate weight of engine. 11. Shit, this thing is flimsy. Need a beefier frame. 12. Crap now bigger tires. 13. And brakes. 14. Wow not looking like a bike anymore. 15. Can I still use the bike lane?

Won't it be some ironic shit when those Chinese, who we long made fun of for riding bikes all around, will have the best transportation system in the world because of their investment into high speed trains and renewable energy, using all the money we gave them with our $260 billion trade deficit and providing us with all this credit to buy their crap to fill the need to CONSUME, and people here will still be arguing over their entitlement to drive their car everywhere with $8/gallon gas with complete disregard for anyone else.

What a great guy. RIP Joe. He posted some great TRs here and on his and David's blog. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/users/2664/joepuryear http://climbtibet.blogspot.com/

Hey Y'all, Dave Burdick has updated his awesome ice article with last years gear, which is great if you are looking at buying used last years tools for this season. We are working on getting it updated with this year new tools. http://cascadeclimbers.com/ice/gear

I want to welcome aboard the Seattle Bouldering Project as the latest cc.com supporter. While the gym has not opened yet they will be starting construction shortly and it will be the largest bouldering gym in the world! We'll be working with them to announce an opening date and a sneak preview of the new gym. Check them out on Facebook for more info. http://www.facebook.com/SeattleBoulderingProject

Bill did an incredible job writing a small cam review for us and I hope everyone has time to check it out in our blog. We'll be adding images and an interactive chart down the road. Take time to check it out and post your own thoughts here. http://cascadeclimbers.com/blog/2010/10/12/small-cams-review-by-bill-coe/

I'd like to introduce a couple new cc.com supporters: Canadian Rockies Alpine Guides and NW Alpine. CRAG is operated by Jay Mills out of Canmore, Alberta. NW Alpine, based in Portland, locally produces some awesome outdoor apparel. We'll have some reviews shortly. Check them both out. Want to thank our other sponsors, some of which have been with us a VERY long time, in no certain order they are.... Backcountry Gear Pro Mountain Sports Feathered Friends Whittaker Mountaineering American Alpine Institute Northwest Mountain School Climb X Gear Second Ascent Please support the people who support us by giving them your business. They help keep your climbing resource up and support other local climbing community. If you are a shop or service provider and want to see you name in that list drop us a line.

Yeah ditto on that, Chair Peak 1993ish when I was in SAR. Same one maybe? Guy had his helmet in his pack. One of my partners took a pretty bad groundfall at the Feathers about 7 years ago, remarkably only broke his collarbone, but suffered pretty bad head injuries, some of which he recovered from, but still has speech and motor function problems. He had a helmet that was in the car and I'm pretty sure that if he had it on his head trauma would have been less severe. I don't climb, ski, or bike without one now.

Is it embarrassing to forget your own birthday? Well at least I was in the mountains on it. Anyhoo, cc.com turned 10 years old on Saturday. Yes a decade of spray folks. I don't have a ton to say right now. We want to thank the moderators who have volunteered their time for so damn long and put up with more then I think they bargained for. We couldn't have done it without them. We want to thank everyone who has contributed so many of the great TRs and discussion over the years. Also want to thank our local retailers who have stepped up, even in some hard times, to help support us and keep this resource online for everyone. This is everyone's resource and we look forward to keeping it going for many more years. If you want to support cc.com you can do so in the following ways. Continue contributing great TRs and discussion. Get your friends who just read and poach info to start contributing to the resource. If they don't like some of the spray here tell them the only way to change that is post the content they want to see. It's a two way street. If you have ideas on how to better cc.com please write us to let us know. Lastly, encourage your local shops, gyms, and manufacturers to advertise here. We offer unbeatable rates with almost 1 million page views a month. Cheers!

only put boots into the Keyword Search Terms box. you search for 1 week should give you results.

change the search criteria from a week to a month

Hey Folks, Got a complaint through support that there have been some annoying talking ads? Can people tell me which ad spot on which page this is happening? What company the ad was for? It could only come through the google ads but luckily we have some control over that stuff. Thanks! BTW I always find it funny when people think we have departments here and floor full of people working.

I upped the ram in our VPS so I hope that will solve part of the problem.

I regret to announce that we will not be able to put on RopeUp this year. RopeUp will return next year. With cc.com turning 10 next month we really wanted to organize this event, but the nature of the event has changed since it's inception, and because of that we can't just throw together an event. Unfortunately collectively we were not able to come up with enough energy to do what is required to put on a successful event. Success would be measured by our ability to be allowed to put the event on the next year without objections. We as a site are in the public eye and our actions can have broad effects on all climbers, so just throwing together event that draws the ire of Thousand Trails camphosts or the Forest Service would be incredibly irresponsible of us. We are really sorry about this but promise that it will return next year. We would like to do another SausageFest this Winter and will likely work with a local shop to host a slideshow. I don't want people to think that because RopeUp isn't happening that things are falling apart here, we've got some cool irons in the fire.

A quick update. I really think this is a server issue and not a software issue, but I'm still working on it. I have renewed the license on the photo gallery software and will be working in the next couple weeks to get that upgraded which will hopefully alleviate some of the problems. I'll upload some large images and see if I can recreate this problem. Thanks for the patience.

Thanks that is a lot of help. Some fun stats. 53,196 photos taking up 20gigs of disk space.

I'm hoping that a few people could send us some of the images they are trying to upload. Post here first so we don't get overloaded with email. First 3 people having problems. Email them to climb{remove}aht.kaskadeklimbers.(wemove).cahm. Not like we don't get a ton of spam anyway after 10 years but whatever. If you can't figure that out PM me LOL. People that are having problems, are you uploading jpegs straight from your camera, and if so what megapixel and what size are the image files. One thing that I suspect is happening here is that our databases are getting huge, as is the load on our servers, and so are the megapixel ratings for consumer cameras getting into the 14 megapixel range which of course makes enormous files. Based on the errors people are getting I suspect one of the problems people are encountering are due to high server load and their requests are timing out, hence the squirrel nutz.

Hi Everyone, There have been several complaints online and offline through the support email indicated problems with the photo gallery, mainly with the ability to upload. Thanks to everyone who has written in or posted concerning problems; it helps us stay on top of things here. We will be making efforts this week to remedy the problems with the photo gallery and try to address other issues as well. We'll give a heads up to everyone when we think things are fixed. As always keep the TRs and great conversations coming and get your friends to contribute as well! Cheers, Jon and Porter

This guy is my f'ing hero!

Sorry for the problems we know we need to address this. We'll hopefully have this fixed shortly.