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nice. yeah that "5.8" chimney is a bit more challenging than expected!

way to hang in there through the nasty weather! sooooo......see any good routes to do in the future..hint hint?

what a cool climb! nice guys!

that's one of the reasons i went to chiropractic school instead of med school. PT's are good but they can't diagnose...so you gotta see an md 1st. I'd see a chiropractor in Oregon who are also licensed to do PT. If you're in WA i'm not sure if insurance companies will accept a chiropractors referral to a pt. worth a call. if not, go call your doc and get a referral over the phone. if he or she says no tell 'em to get bent.

wouldn't know? my truck is nice and cozy though

thanks john. got a partner for this week

i don't think a new leader should be on the bottom section of godzilla! that's terrible advice!

found a madrock (orange color) shoe in the burly vines and thorns below gandalf's grip area at broughton bluff some weeks ago. just remembered. it's in my car and i am in here, so i can't tell ya what size or right or left. but you should know if you're missing one mad rock orange colored shoe.

i would reccomend having someone perform muscle tests on your hip flexors, adductors, abbuctors, and hamstrings too isolate if a particular group of muscles is weak...not just tight. tight and weak go hand in hand. weak muscles become tight. and yoga doesn't stregnthen those muscles. that combined with a hip stabilization track (exercises much like those in pilates) should help. but there could also be a biomechanical problem (the way your hip sockets/femoral head are positioned). it's hard to say...go spend some money and see someone if the problem lasts more than 2 weeks.

On the flip side, it really sucks to work in a gear shop when someone comes in after having done all the research (to the most minute detail) and then starts asking you questions they already know then answers to. you give your opionion only to have the customer spit back some catalogue bullshit to contradict or challenge you. i'm sure anyone that's worked outdoor retail knows exactly what i'm talking about. oooohhhhhh that's annoying.

thanks dave. i'll call ya when the weather's good and i got a day. luckily i've got some bites already. i hardly ever sport climb, but it can be fun...i just suck. you should re-PM me with your number and delete it from the main board. spambots troll here for phone #'s

yeah, but with metric time one minute is 10 seconds and one hour is only 10 minutes so it evens out to still be pretty fast.

hey great photo! is that the loose flake everyone complained about last year that i didn't even notice at the very bottom of the picture? jeessshhh!

go up from the col for 4 pitches. very very straightforeward. the nelson guide has gotten folks up, you should be fine. bring 2 ropes

the North Face couloirs are in big right now. in fact, so big, they could be boring. i'd wait until crips mornings later in the season.

yeah, i should'a given that statement with some background. i meant those things when you're setting up a rap in the mountains, not bolted rap stations. i also should have said that this whole incident made me very very sad and i wish i had known those folks in life.

no big deal he said he was sorry.

according to sources squampton was very wet the last couple days...so concidering it's raining there the nex two days it might not be a good place to go on monday.

can i borrow it from you?

massive partner failures have occured need partners. any day of the week till oct (with some exceptions) want to climb.

i don't know what's funnier. the fact that jim wouldn't sell camalots, but would sell KONG Frogs....or the fact you actually bought a Frog!!!!!! sucker!

yeah the route is fun! good climb to do if you have to leave from b'ham or seattle that day and can't climb till noon or later. i've got some photos of that route somewhere in the recesses of my gallery on this site. glad you finally did it! fun fun fun

Guess I found out what gets Gidget going! Here's my only bird photo. taken years ago after a storm blew in this little guy on the Ruth Glacier in AK. It died (obviously).

i was hoping someone would post some pics, just curious that's all.

I don't care if this has been said before. i'll say it again if it has ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR ANCHOR!!!!!!!!!!!! ALWAYS HAVE FATTY RAP FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER CLIP INTO THE RAP ANCHOR!!!!!!!!! then skinny can clip into the anchor, and clean the backup after the fatso has rapped.