Bob_Clarke

This could bring the question, Should there be a CC.com womens (clothing optional) calendar?

1993: First free ascent of The Nose; Lynn Hill What a hottie!

quote: [/QB] WOW

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!! I have to get laid off from this job.

quote: Originally posted by Winter: quote:Originally posted by rbw1966: Not sure if they got the onsite or the redpoint. I'm going bacck for the brownpoint this winter, Winter. Wanna join in the staining? Brownpoint - Shitting your pants while sending a 5.12c on Upper Yocum. Count me in. dibs, I'm IN!!

quote: Originally posted by chucK: But this time in a day So are you soliciting for solo-climb or "regular"-climb ideas? Solo Climbs -Stuart, (skip the gendarme) -Forbidden, West Ridge -Torment/Forbidden Traverse Partner Climbs -SEWS, Southwest Rib -Chainti Spire, East Face -Mt Si, Haystack

The good news is that localism in climbing is still mostly of the positive kind. Let’s keep it that way. For the most part yes however do not forgot about the Frenchmans Coulee debacle. Only time will tell if the passing of Bill Robbins (RIP) will change the face of tactics there and make it a great place to climb again.

quote: Originally posted by erik: FSU ON SATURDAY... Go Dawgs!

quote: Originally posted by erik: FSU ON SATURDAY..... Go Dawgs

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: This automatically makes you a homo. What he said

quote: Originally posted by Thinker: Yeah, I thought you'd eventually recognize your momma's shade of lipstick.

quote: Originally posted by climbmachine: "would have mighty hard time on-sighting 5.11 (even a sport route) or doing a WI4 pitch. . What a maroon - go back to spanking your monkey

Darrington - Dreamer Peshatin Pinnacles - Anything! Smith Rock - Dreamin Lworth - Edge of Space

Here's some real Space News: RELEASE: 02-156 25 YEARS LATER, VOYAGER MISSION KEEPS PUSHING THE SPACE ENVELOPE A quarter-century after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft departed Earth to visit outer planets, the historic mission is flying a race against time. During the first 12 years after launch in 1977, the Voyagers chalked up a wealth of discoveries about four planets and 48 moons, including fast winds on Neptune, kinks in Saturn's rings and volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. As scientists and engineers mark the mission's silver anniversary, they hope at least one Voyager will pass beyond the boundary of the Sun's influence before the onboard nuclear power supply wanes too low to tell us what's out there. Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object, about 85 times as far from the Sun as Earth is. Voyager 2 is now about 68 times the Sun-Earth distance. "After 25 years, the spacecraft are still going strong," said Dr. Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist since 1972 and former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. "Back in 1977, we had no way to know they would last so long. We were initially just on a four-year journey to Jupiter and Saturn." The Voyager team at JPL still receives information almost daily from the durable spacecraft traveling beyond all the planets. The Voyagers are examining the far reaches of the solar wind, a gusty flow of particles hurled outward by the Sun. The eventual goal is to become the first spacecraft to taste interstellar space. Voyager 1, which launched on Sept. 5, 1977, flew past Jupiter and Saturn, then angled northward out of the plane of the planets' orbits. After Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and completed its tour of Jupiter and Saturn, NASA extended the spacecraft's adventure with flybys of Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. "A radio signal traveling at the speed of light takes nearly 12 hours to travel between Voyager 1 and Earth. That raises operational concerns," said Ed Massey, Voyager's project manager at JPL. " If something went wrong on board, at least a full day would lapse before a signal revealing the problem could reach Earth and commands to fix it could be returned. It could be too late." So the project team tries to anticipate any emergencies and program the spacecraft's computers with advance instructions on how to react to them, he said. Both spacecraft are studying the vast bubble the Sun inflates around itself by outward pressure of the solar wind. The bubble has a boundary, called the heliopause, where this outward pressure is counterbalanced by inward pressure of the interstellar wind in our neck of the galaxy. The interstellar wind outside that boundary is a flow of atoms and other particles blasted from explosions of dying stars. The location of the heliopause varies with the level of solar activity during the Sun's 22-year sunspot cycle and with changes in the interstellar wind, Stone said. Some scientists suggest that, on a much longer time scale, the interstellar wind may occasionally press the boundary far enough inward to sway Earth's climate. Voyager 1 is rushing toward the heliopause at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) a day. Whether it gets there before about 2020, while it still has adequate electrical power, depends on how far away the heliopause is. Recent estimates are that, depending on that distance, it would take Voyager 1 between seven and 21 years to reach the heliopause. Voyager 1 has already discovered that the outbound solar wind around it is slowing from effects of inbound interstellar particles leaking through the boundary. A much better prediction of the boundary's location will come when the spacecraft encounters the termination shock, the zone where the solar wind begins piling up against the heliopause. That encounter may come within the next three years, Stone estimates. Whatever their future holds, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have already earned a prominent place in the history of exploration. Among their big surprises: Jupiter's moon Io has active volcanoes. Jupiter's atmosphere has dozens of huge storms. Saturn's rings have kinks and spoke-like features. The hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan extends far above the surface. Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, has a jumble of old and new surfacing. Neptune has the fastest winds of any planet. Neptune's moon Triton has active geysers. Long after they fall silent, the Voyager twins will keep speeding away from our solar system, each carrying an "interstellar outreach program" of recorded sounds and images from Earth, Massey said. More information about Voyager is available at: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Voyager for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington. -end-

Lord have mercy on me - I have to agree with Dru. Queen Creek is a great place in the winter, however the rock can rip you up!! Why not Smith? It's the best sport climbing in the nation.

Those young guns are squeeling pigs. Get out there and throw down the hard stuff where it counts. (btw - I'm getting bak in shape!)

quote: Originally posted by RuMR: ...I don't climb anything hard... Yeah right - Fat boi.

http://pincher.homestead.com/cartoon9.html

Smith Rock: - 12b, Crossfire - 13a, Churning - 13a, Darkness at Noon - 11a, Magic Light - 10c, Morning Sky (best 10c) - 12d, Kings of Rap - 10a, Light on the Path (Awesome) - 12b, Vision (deserves propah respect) - 11b, Vomit Launch Little Si: - 12b, Technorignie - 12d, Californiacator Red Rocks - 12a, Fear and Loathing - 11d, Yak crack

Smith has two awesome 10a's that seem to go forgotten. Bring your "A" game on these. -Paper Tiger, Red Wall Area. -Trezlar, Mesa Verde. They're always open and a wild ride.

This thread is about as long as the Muir Hut smokefest and just as stupid. (hilarious as well)

Hey RuMR fatboi - How did the Nose go?

quote: Originally posted by TimL: Funny thing, I never hear of sport climbers complaining about gear climbers. It’s always gear climbers bitching and moaning about sport climbers. What gives? The only thing I hear from sport climbers as "trad" climbers pass by at the crags is chuckles:D or laughter at the self righteous idiot in a helmet with all new gear and chaotic mess of slings draped over themselves like a medieval barbarian proclaiming some mantra about bolts this or that. Climbing is supposed to be fun. If your so involved that your knocking people for being a sport or a trad climber and not focusing on you and your friends climbing maybe you should see a doctor. Or just do something else like play in traffic! :::::raising hand in the air::::: what he said. Sport Climbing has helped me raise the bar in every climbing discipline. I now have the ability to solo long alpine routes (Torment-Forbidden Traverse) hard crack lines, and wiggle around in spandex sporto kswiss outfits. Back to the subject - Godzilla is a mediocre 5.9 therefore the masses thinks it's classic.

Oh jeez - Free Willy on CC.com

So Dwayner - what is you opinion of the mighty Godzilla?