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No shit, that was the first thing I noticed. Look at her sultry pose. oh...a qoute. let's see -Tim's Morning Wood Gets A Bit Out Of Controll -Ohhh Ohhh, I've got a Splinter!

it's been extremely dry, so y'all have to find some water source that would be not to high volume, not to anemic. Put your thinking caps on and try to remember what you saw in the hills in the summer. wouldn't an airplane be handy!

last chance is da shit

50 degress, 60 in spots...if that i believe.

I'll second Rat's suggestion of Bad Boy Bubby.

the store (and mazama itself) is like a living breathing patagonia lifestyles ad

Been there done that! Nice one Mark. Wish I could've joined you. The girl friend maintence continues through another weekend however... Speaking of which, you going to AK soon or what?

now that's funny!

have we mentioned that we can't search any more than 4 years back. Those were the best years too! Also, the search feature basically sucks. Either no results or every post ever comes up. not that I should complain, i still haven't donated yet.

here are some links to old tr's i dug up I could only search 4 years back, so i guess the rest before early 2003 are lost forever cutthroat peak east face couloir TR Bear DNB TR clean break TR vienesse peak derektissima TR carlos rossi memorial tower tr minuteman east face tr cloud tower redrocks tr the fox, redrocks TR resolution arete redrocks tr big four spindrift couloir TR Zero Gully TR Big 4 and The Fox TR

There goes all Mike's gear!! No shit dude. When Beckey and I were racking up he looked at my shit and said, "Let's take my gear. Jesus Christ!"

Like before: Do a few pitches on TR without tools on a WI4. Stem stem stem stem stem...even if it's straight in, find a stem. Follow through in your kick. Sharped your poons.

Haha! Nice Pete, good thing I moved, I had to go to bed early last night.

sounds like the repetitive microtraumo to your calf from lots of hiking and climber tore some small muscle fibers, the and the muscle is locally splinting. Heat, stretch, squeeze, stretch. After that works the knot out, you might want to work on flexibility of your calf (stretch it often) and make sure there are no small muscle imbalances (like a weaker tib ant, peron long), your gait is normal (pronator/supinator), and your shoes are correct for you. Sure everyone can benefit from muscle balance, gait correction, posture, nutrition/supplements etc etc etc...it can only help->BUT, i bet this is more like a one time thing that should resolve itself. If it gets worse or doesn't go away you should get it looked at by someone YOU think would be the best person for the job...be it your family doc, a massage therapist, a PT, or even one of us chiropractors.

don't do myotherapy, it's not necessary. Trigger point therapy hardly ever involves needles. It's a fancy way of saying press on the lump to squeeze out the blood and try to get the muscle to relax (basically). if you tore some muscle, inflammed the tendon or tendon sheath, or even bruised it --the effect is the same, it's inflammed and creating pain. yes, improper gait, leg legnth inequality (functional or anatomical), or muscle imbalance could be causing it. or you just pulled it by doing something too foreful. i'm assuming there was never any direct trauma?

Yo. The flexor hallicus longus is your big toe flexor, not FDL. Regardless, it could be several things, including a grade I muscle strain, or a big ol trigger point. Whoever checks it out needs to palpate it, muscle test and legnth test your gastroc, soleus, FHL and FDL. If so and it's healing, stretching, compression of the knot (trigger point therapy), and pin and stretch (pinch the muscles while stretching it) are usefull. Heat, ultrasound, a foot/shoe/leg biomechanical eval, are other ideas if it doesn't resolve. Hydration is key as are a lot of other things I wish i had time to help with but my girlfriend is callng me to dinner. good luck. if you were in PDX i'd see you at the clinic.

Thanks for the info. I'm adding a couple extra biner to the rack.

worked fine for me, but i have version 10 and haven't used it since they "upgraded" sounds crappy now? hmmmm.

true, but it might influince (sp?) me carrying more biners

Can anyone find how much girth hitching a sling to a nut or another sling reduces it's strength? Are we saying now, "never girth hitch to runners together?" Because I do it all the time when I've run out of biners.

Jay, if you are using a PC, then Studio 10.5 Plus through Pinnacle Systems kicks ass. It is waaaay more user friendly than Premier and just as powerful. One of the best features is incorporating photos, and animating them. Also the music editing software is fantastic. Estimate an hour of work per minute of footage if youre lucky with any program.

anyway we can go back to old trip reports (pre-trip report index) and make em a [TR] type post so they get indexed?

I posted it here because this is a portland only deal (unless of course you are passing through) and I want climbers to come in. I appologize for spamming, but I am a student and dont make a cent, I actually pay tuition for you to come in. I also think that I post enought trip reports on this website to be given a little slack.

girth hitching two slings together is common practice, and the fact that this may cause one to break is not common knoweldge. it should be the manufacturer's responsibility to inform customers that their product won't do what it's supposed to.

just reminding y'all of this resource