layton

I wonder if ALL CAPS has anything to say about this?

what about a baby dropped onto a dead horse?

ok fine! but to beat a dead horse, i am fully aware of the difference b/t velocity and acceleration. i again didn't fully explain. I said at 9.8m/s^2 it will be traveling fast. what I should have typed was it will be traveling fast by the time you can react in time.

because i am their creator and I made them do it

not a trick, just a little hypothetical situation. what would you do after asecending the rope, but unable to re-lead higher?

no, i just didn't bother to type the equation. still disagree: batters are actively watching the ball and anticipating. with rockfall you have to hear it, process what you are hearing, turn your head to look, find the object, asses it's trajectory, make a reaction plan, and then move. At 9.8m/s^2 it will be traveling fast. I do agree with sliding rock - i'm talking a straight shot.

i totally disagree about looking up. 9.8 meters per second is too fast to look AND react. when you hear rock cower and turn to the side to minimize your width and surface areas facing the rock, and cover the back of your neck elbows forward

how about this for an idea? Bring the anchor down to as close to the lip as possible. Fix both ropes together, and fix the end of the joined lines to the anchor. This way you've got 400 feet to of rope to at least reach the wall behind the roof. Find a crack on the wall, and solo-aid until you reach the knot, and the end of the first rope. Build an anchor, have your partner pull both ropes up (knotting the ends) and rapping down and swinging while you grab him - possibly tossing him out a lasso of hitched slings, and aluminum stays from your backpack. just a totally ridiculous idea, i know I call this technique the Layton Kobayashi Maru

i know, it's basically an unsolvable situation. the would'a, should'a, could'a, or what if's are interesting though

you're bailing down a wall but not the way you came up. There is good enough gear to make and leave anchors, but it looks REALLY hard, if not impossible for you to re-climb. You look below and you're above a GIANT roof. You rap the roof, but can't swing over to the wall. fucked?

fuck yeah! worthLeaven: the sierras of the cascades

sometime after sept 14 and before oct 1 city o rocks is not on the way though

working or not, it's fun to return things to REI

Being off route on the Fin and dealing with loose rock IS on route! Nice plan - way to be creative with the permits n' shit

well that's nice

mmmmm stemming!

I'll post on your TR Wayne

Nice Job! Ivan and I didn't make it very far on our attempt on the approach - I heard from a source (off white?)I've now forgotten that it's been done a couple times...but I find that hard to believe. Find any titanium tricams?

Awesome!!

jesus, i must be getting senile. thanks -

I'd still like to know if this line follows the line mark allen and i attempted, and if so, where it deviates. Did you see the old stamped bolts?

this guy needs more internet thrashing http://www.mountainproject.com/v/wolfs-head-accident---aug-1819/107757959

is the suicide note still in the summit register (there as of sept 2001)? also, post pics of said hottie canadian yoga instructor

Ok besides the SBR on moran - I'm also looking for partners to hit up Blodgett Canyon in Mt, Some fun classics and maybe a rt on the diamond in RMNP, and/or routes in the Incredible Hulk or Conness (harding rt) ... possibly whitney area if permits can be had

10 or so pitches (easily aided crux) and longest rock route in lower 48 (4,600' base to top!), and best rock in the tetons. Prob have to bivy? One day in two days in and out regardless of bivy b/c of the canoe approach and permit getting. You don't have to lead 5.11 but moving fast is a must I'd be coming from SLC. I'd love to cap my summer off with this baby. Send a PM