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These are all off my phone. It's too bad I didn't have my camera with me on this trip. It'd be nice to have better copies of these. I think there are some good ones.
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My toes still tingle and are numb. My AT boots aren't that great for winter mountaineering. 
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong. I missed Mangus, when he was in the same city at the same time. 
I'm sure that was hard to do... with the hair 'n' all, I mean...
You guys should consider Hueco at the end of the year (Oct/Nov) as a possibility to meet up. Teh Zeek and I threw the thought out there.
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: My toes still tingle and are numb. My AT boots aren't that great for winter mountaineering. I thought you just bought noo ones? btw... pics of the gear wall? We wanna see!
Yeah, just bought new ones. But they're just not that warm. They're wonderful amazing boots...just not warm. During the day they're fine. But below freezing, there are deffinetly issues.
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: My toes still tingle and are numb. My AT boots aren't that great for winter mountaineering. I thought you just bought noo ones? btw... pics of the gear wall? We wanna see!
Yeah, I keep thinking about it, but I have to clean it up and organize it. I've actually been using it lately, which is good. And it's always cold and rainy so I don't want to be out in the garage.
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Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: My toes still tingle and are numb. My AT boots aren't that great for winter mountaineering. I thought you just bought noo ones? btw... pics of the gear wall? We wanna see! Yeah, just bought new ones. But they're just not that warm. They're wonderful amazing boots...just not warm. During the day they're fine. But below freezing, there are deffinetly issues.
You need some thick, but compressable, down booties to change into between stints. I've done this while mountaineering. Have them handy, so during snack breaks (and in obvious areas of safety) I pull em out and warm my feet up. Is best at the end of the day though.... mmmmmmm.... down bootiez!!
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notapplicable wrote:  FTW!
Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow!
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climbing with Epoch in an hour. DON'T DROPZ ME BRO!!!
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epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: climbing with Epoch in an hour. DON'T DROPZ ME BRO!!! hehehehehehe
"Ouch"
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epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: climbing with Epoch in an hour. DON'T DROPZ ME BRO!!! I WILL NOT READ YOUR BLOG!!!!
OMG! He's an even BIGGER asshole in real life!!!!
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johnwesely wrote: notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: Going to Laurel Knob tonight. Going to climb tomorrow. 1200 feet of granite, here I come. DAMN I want to make it back to Laurel Knob!! Be BOLD but safe. Have fun. We got our butts kicked. We tried to climb seconds even though the groove was a waterfall. I took a fall on pitch two when a foothold kitty littered. Needless to say, we did not finish. The entire approach was through 10 inches of snow, and we had to take off our shoes to ford a shin deep creek. A really good adventure. I was wondering how wet things were going to be with the runoff and all. Sounds like some good North Carolina style fun. It was a lot less wet than I was expecting, but enough to shut us down. I think a more experienced party would have been fine. Don't feel bad, the one time I went, I didn't summit either. Cold temps, wet conditions and a partner with the flu turned out to be precisely the wrong combination. Clearly outmatched, we backtracked and got thoroughly horrorshowed on Big Green. It was pathetic really. We ended up backtracking even further and nursed our wounds at Stone Mtn. instead. Not one of my more inspiring trips. Funny thing is. This weekend I climbed slab that was much harder with even less gear, and I wasn't sketched at all. There will be days like this my momma said... Mine didn't
Obviously she had you listening to the wrong radio stations when you were a kid.
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: NOAA Weather wrote: ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 AM PST SATURDAY ABOVE 4500 FEET.... gOOd times! yep. 
Thats awesome.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong. Next month? Could be possible... we may be busy that week though... Yeah, I'm headed down in a few days. It's gonna be a week full of putting names to faces, working and training. Not exactly a good time for all but I've never been to the "Hottest State" so I'm not gonna complain too much about a free ride. I don't even know what part of Texas you're in. Are you familiar with Austin? Any worthwhile bouldering near by? Sounds like a worthy journey... unfortuately it won't be too hot when you come down. I guess in Austin it may be ok round this time... perhaps a day or two in the 70's if you're lucky... or it could go the other way. We're about 4 hours drive West of Austin. I've heard there's bouldering at McKinney Falls... may want to check out erockonline.com for info. Never been there. There's lot of other places too I've heard... check out this guide. http://www.erockonline.com/pdf/TLBintroweb.pdf
4 hours eh? Yeah, I doubt I'll be bumping in to you at the grocery store.
Thanks for the link though, I'll give it a look and see what I can find. A lot will depend on the hours we work, I might end up just hitting a local gym.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Greg. Dude. Holy earthquakes in Chile Batman!! Where you headed anywhere near Concepcion on your trip? not really, though I was going to visit it at some point because it is a main city. I'm still planning on Santiago, but I have some research to do now to ensure that things are OK (i.e. - safe and / or I'm not walking into a shit storm where there's a lack of housing). I heard Chile has officially asked that "unnecessary travel" to the region (possibly the entire country) be discontinued for the time being. I doubt that will last for more than a few weeks but it's possible that a large portion of the country will be so wrapped up in the relief efforts that security and accommodations will be compromised for some time to come. Hopefully not but that was one hell of a quake. Yeah, we'll see. One of my contacts recently told me that Santiago was fine and that folks are pretty much heading to work on Monday. Intl flights started landing at that airport today. Gonna wait to hear back from a few other contacts, though. I have a few weeks anyway (stupid MA takes six weeks?!?! to get through a subsidized COBRA application. WTF?!? So, yeah, I got some time. it's nice though. My dad set up my grandfather's governor's desk (the grandfather who died while I was in Argentina in Nov) to write on. When I saw it set up I was astounded at how comfortable / inspiring it looked. I'm not one for contrived sentiment either. It just looked / felt right. Been productive today, so happy about that. Six weeks? Fuck that. Things sound promising on being able to go forward with the trip though. Which is good news. So, you mentioned something earlier about "the move". Are sticking around Mass. until you leave or are you headed back out west? I moved out of my apt yesterday and am now in Maine at my Dad's. Didn't know the earthquake had happened. Everyone who helped me move told me about it, but I thought they were joking around. We had the news on the TV and it never came on, so I really thought it was a joke. Then I heard it on the radio. Will be in Maine until COBRA is sorted out. Then I'll figure out what is going on in Chile (safe? practical? etc...). If I can go in a few weeks, then I'll go. if I can't, then I'll see what Jeremiah is up to in April. He is busy in March. In fact, he'll be in N Carolina in march for some climber training thingie. Good way to cut costs in the interim and you can still get plenty of work writing done. BTW, how does it feel to be unemployed? Pretty damn fine I bet. Oh and if you're still around when my brother and I come up for our spring Gunks trip, I'll hit you up. It's likely to be late April or sometime in May though, so you'll probably be gone by then. It's funny because I don't feel unemployed at all. I feel as if I'm a writer. I AM a writer, so I'm employed, just not making any cash at the moment.
Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding.
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: ...3 bolts in 100 feet. blow the 3rd deck 80 feet type spurt climbing. Yes please! On slab ie, no gear.
Yes please!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! |
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Gmburns2000 wrote: climbing with Epoch in an hour. DON'T DROPZ ME BRO!!!
Careful, I hear he's an asshole.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: climbing with Epoch in an hour. DON'T DROPZ ME BRO!!! I WILL NOT READ YOUR BLOG!!!! OMG! He's an even BIGGER asshole in real life!!!!
Tried to warn you. Sorry I was too late.
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: NOAA Weather wrote: ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 AM PST SATURDAY ABOVE 4500 FEET.... gOOd times! yep. [image]http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs460.ash1/25314_1308772714363_1081922301_938642_7088268_n.jpg[/image] Thats awesome.
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: NOAA Weather wrote: ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 AM PST SATURDAY ABOVE 4500 FEET.... gOOd times! yep. Thats awesome. Why thank you
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now!
Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. 
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room.
Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast."
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast."
"Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted."
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast." "Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted."
Problem solved.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast." "Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted." Problem solved averted. |
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Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news.
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notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong. Next month? Could be possible... we may be busy that week though... Yeah, I'm headed down in a few days. It's gonna be a week full of putting names to faces, working and training. Not exactly a good time for all but I've never been to the "Hottest State" so I'm not gonna complain too much about a free ride. I don't even know what part of Texas you're in. Are you familiar with Austin? Any worthwhile bouldering near by? Sounds like a worthy journey... unfortuately it won't be too hot when you come down. I guess in Austin it may be ok round this time... perhaps a day or two in the 70's if you're lucky... or it could go the other way. We're about 4 hours drive West of Austin. I've heard there's bouldering at McKinney Falls... may want to check out erockonline.com for info. Never been there. There's lot of other places too I've heard... check out this guide. http://www.erockonline.com/pdf/TLBintroweb.pdf4 hours eh? Yeah, I doubt I'll be bumping in to you at the grocery store. Thanks for the link though, I'll give it a look and see what I can find. A lot will depend on the hours we work, I might end up just hitting a local gym.
We just discussed going to Austin soon, but I think it won't be until later in the week of the 15th... oh well.
You'd probably have more fun if you head down to the Green Belt with your harness and shoes and jump on someones rope. The gym in Austin is teh suck IMO!
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast." "Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted."
Ah, the joy of kids... bending their thouhts and beliefs... innocent trickery at its finest.
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast." "Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted." Ah, the joy of kids... bending their thouhts and beliefs... innocent trickery at its finest. 
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the url of that picture is funny "bondage-rubber-yikes"
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Greg. Dude. Holy earthquakes in Chile Batman!! Where you headed anywhere near Concepcion on your trip? not really, though I was going to visit it at some point because it is a main city. I'm still planning on Santiago, but I have some research to do now to ensure that things are OK (i.e. - safe and / or I'm not walking into a shit storm where there's a lack of housing). I heard Chile has officially asked that "unnecessary travel" to the region (possibly the entire country) be discontinued for the time being. I doubt that will last for more than a few weeks but it's possible that a large portion of the country will be so wrapped up in the relief efforts that security and accommodations will be compromised for some time to come. Hopefully not but that was one hell of a quake. Yeah, we'll see. One of my contacts recently told me that Santiago was fine and that folks are pretty much heading to work on Monday. Intl flights started landing at that airport today. Gonna wait to hear back from a few other contacts, though. I have a few weeks anyway (stupid MA takes six weeks?!?! to get through a subsidized COBRA application. WTF?!? So, yeah, I got some time. it's nice though. My dad set up my grandfather's governor's desk (the grandfather who died while I was in Argentina in Nov) to write on. When I saw it set up I was astounded at how comfortable / inspiring it looked. I'm not one for contrived sentiment either. It just looked / felt right. Been productive today, so happy about that. Six weeks? Fuck that. Things sound promising on being able to go forward with the trip though. Which is good news. So, you mentioned something earlier about "the move". Are sticking around Mass. until you leave or are you headed back out west? I moved out of my apt yesterday and am now in Maine at my Dad's. Didn't know the earthquake had happened. Everyone who helped me move told me about it, but I thought they were joking around. We had the news on the TV and it never came on, so I really thought it was a joke. Then I heard it on the radio. Will be in Maine until COBRA is sorted out. Then I'll figure out what is going on in Chile (safe? practical? etc...). If I can go in a few weeks, then I'll go. if I can't, then I'll see what Jeremiah is up to in April. He is busy in March. In fact, he'll be in N Carolina in march for some climber training thingie. Good way to cut costs in the interim and you can still get plenty of work writing done. BTW, how does it feel to be unemployed? Pretty damn fine I bet. Oh and if you're still around when my brother and I come up for our spring Gunks trip, I'll hit you up. It's likely to be late April or sometime in May though, so you'll probably be gone by then. It's funny because I don't feel unemployed at all. I feel as if I'm a writer. I AM a writer, so I'm employed, just not making any cash at the moment. Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding.
now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: climbing with Epoch in an hour. DON'T DROPZ ME BRO!!! I WILL NOT READ YOUR BLOG!!!! OMG! He's an even BIGGER asshole in real life!!!! Tried to warn you. Sorry I was too late.
Naw, it was all good. we grabbed food afterward. I had to push him back with a stick after his fourth beer, but...
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Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news.
now, I don't know if it works with shredded wheat, but I HIGHLY recommend Frosted Mini Wheats with cholocate milk. HIGHLY recommend it, as in don't ask questions and do it.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news. now, I don't know if it works with shredded wheat, but I HIGHLY recommend Frosted Mini Wheats with cholocate milk. HIGHLY recommend it, as in don't ask questions and do it.
What if I'm not that big of a fan of choco milk?
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Lazlo
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It's a rain day today. What should I do now?
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Lazlo
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I do have to unpack from my trip and pack for this weekends trip.
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Lazlo
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There is food marinating in my pack.
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Lazlo
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We're going to Squaw Valley Friday to Saturday, then Boreal on Sunday on the way home.
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It's raining at my house and snowing about five miles away.
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I'm tempted to go skiing, but I'd have 20 miles of two lane road snow conditions to get through to find skiable snow.
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Lazlo
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Lazlo wrote: I'm tempted to go skiing, but I'd have 20 miles of two lane road snow conditions to get through to find skiable snow.
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deal with it.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news. now, I don't know if it works with shredded wheat, but I HIGHLY recommend Frosted Mini Wheats with cholocate milk. HIGHLY recommend it, as in don't ask questions and do it. What if I'm not that big of a fan of choco milk?
[shakes fist]
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Gmburns2000
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Lazlo wrote: There is food marinating in my pack.
that ought to smell nice by the time you clean it out.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news. now, I don't know if it works with shredded wheat, but I HIGHLY recommend Frosted Mini Wheats with cholocate milk. HIGHLY recommend it, as in don't ask questions and do it. What if I'm not that big of a fan of choco milk?
Then you must be from another planet!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: There is food marinating in my pack. that ought to smell nice by the time you clean it out.
I should really stop wasting time online and go take care of chore stuff.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: There is food marinating in my pack. that ought to smell nice by the time you clean it out. I should really stop wasting time online and go take care of chore stuff.
seriously? that doesn't help anyone. if that food doesn't stink then there are no stories to tell. simply put, it is your obligation to let it sit for a few days so that you can tell us what happened when you finally remembered it.
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Lazlo
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: There is food marinating in my pack. that ought to smell nice by the time you clean it out. I should really stop wasting time online and go take care of chore stuff. seriously? that doesn't help anyone. if that food doesn't stink then there are no stories to tell. simply put, it is your obligation to let it sit for a few days so that you can tell us what happened when you finally remembered it.
I need to also clean up and organize my gear wall so I can take a picture for you gentlemen.
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Lazlo
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I found on this last trip up Shasta that the single most indispensable item I had was my vacuum bottle. When all our water bottles were nearly frozen solid, I still had HOT water. So hot I actually burned my mouth and throat because I underestimated it's insulating power.
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Lazlo
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Okay...off to do stuff that actually is worthwhile.
No offense intended. (unless applicable. (no offense))
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Lazlo wrote: I found on this last trip up Shasta that the single most indispensable item I had was my vacuum bottle. When all our water bottles were nearly frozen solid, I still had HOT water. So hot I actually burned my mouth and throat because I underestimated it's insulating power.
I've used those a lot in the past. Well worth their weight IMO. Soups are a great idea... either tomato or potato or pea and ham. Keeps the calories and fluids coming in.
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Lazlo
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My farts smell really bad today.
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Lazlo
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: I found on this last trip up Shasta that the single most indispensable item I had was my vacuum bottle. When all our water bottles were nearly frozen solid, I still had HOT water. So hot I actually burned my mouth and throat because I underestimated it's insulating power. I've used those a lot in the past. Well worth their weight IMO. Soups are a great idea... either tomato or potato or pea and ham. Keeps the calories and fluids coming in.
Actually, that's a fantastic idea! I wonder if I can find a good dried potato soup. I'll have to keep my eyes open.
I might pick up another bottle too. A larger one this time.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: There is food marinating in my pack. that ought to smell nice by the time you clean it out. I should really stop wasting time online and go take care of chore stuff. seriously? that doesn't help anyone. if that food doesn't stink then there are no stories to tell. simply put, it is your obligation to let it sit for a few days so that you can tell us what happened when you finally remembered it. I need to also clean up and organize my gear wall so I can take a picture for you gentlemen.
ah, see, that's productivity we're talking about!
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Gmburns2000
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as for me, it took me a few hours just to get one sentence right. then things took off for a bit, but now I'm hungry and finding it hard to concentrate. of course, once I eat lunch then i'll be out writing mode.
but that's ok, i gotta shop some short stories and that was my goal for the afternoon.
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of course, i just went back and changed that sentence again.
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Gmburns2000
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yeah right
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Gmburns2000
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like I didn't see this coming all alone on here
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Gmburns2000
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well, I might as well take it
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Gmburns2000
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after all, that is what PTFTW's are.
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Gmburns2000
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of course no pro is needed when you're:
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Gmburns2000
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I was going to go with this:
 , but Amanda Beard won out.
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Gmburns2000
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her face is fucked up in that pic though.
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Gmburns2000
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 this one is better, though
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Gmburns2000
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is that illegal? ^^
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hope not. it doesnt show everything or anything too nice bad.
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This post contains nudity or adult content. To protect the innocent we require that you register and turn off your Adult Content Filter to read it.
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I'm beginning to think peta knows what it is doing:
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looks pretty furless to me
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that splash of water's got a nice seat
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as promised.
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Lazlo
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The photos aren't the best. Taken with my phone. Much more simple. It's a major pita to upload them to the computer and upload them to the net then embed them.
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Gmburns2000
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Lazlo wrote: The photos aren't the best. Taken with my phone. Much more simple. It's a major pita to upload them to the computer and upload them to the net then embed them.
Imgurl is your friend (no need to sign up)
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Lazlo wrote: [image]http://i.imgur.com/DnrKOl.jpg[/image]
I'magirl.com is pretty cool! Thanks Greg!
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Lazlo wrote: This might be the single best piece of clothing in existence!  In reply to: Light enough to be a first layer. Warm enough to be outerwear when active. And smart: moisture-wicking, quick-drying. The Bat Hang's dual fabrics are pieced for max efficiency and comfort. Brushed for softness. (We don't mind harsh environments. But we don't tolerate harsh textures.) According to First Ascent Guide, Chad Peele, "I've heard stories of guides showering in this so as not to take it off." Enough said. Machine wash.
the coolness factor of this to me is that it is not only a hoodie, but has an included balaclava! And it appears to be a decent soft shell...with thumb holes!!!! Oh man I want it!
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Lazlo
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I am sooo flipp'n bored today.
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bumble grumble stumble trundle grundle.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: [image]http://i.imgur.com/DnrKOl.jpg[/image] I'magirl.com is pretty cool! Thanks Greg!
uh, if that's what came up then I'm sorry , but seriously, that link I gave you works wonders for this site. no need to upload a photo to a site. just use that site and it makes it easy to post them here because it gives you a url.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: [image]http://i.imgur.com/iWiipl.jpg[/image] Hmm. That's cool. ....still have to bust out the camera and upload to the computer first though.
ahh!!! white legs!!!!
must.
bleach.
EYEZ!!!
(ah - i see that you got that site working now - nevermind the previous post)
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: This might be the single best piece of clothing in existence! In reply to: Light enough to be a first layer. Warm enough to be outerwear when active. And smart: moisture-wicking, quick-drying. The Bat Hang's dual fabrics are pieced for max efficiency and comfort. Brushed for softness. (We don't mind harsh environments. But we don't tolerate harsh textures.) According to First Ascent Guide, Chad Peele, "I've heard stories of guides showering in this so as not to take it off." Enough said. Machine wash. the coolness factor of this to me is that it is not only a hoodie, but has an included balaclava! And it appears to be a decent soft shell...with thumb holes!!!! Oh man I want it!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: This might be the single best piece of clothing in existence! In reply to: Light enough to be a first layer. Warm enough to be outerwear when active. And smart: moisture-wicking, quick-drying. The Bat Hang's dual fabrics are pieced for max efficiency and comfort. Brushed for softness. (We don't mind harsh environments. But we don't tolerate harsh textures.) According to First Ascent Guide, Chad Peele, "I've heard stories of guides showering in this so as not to take it off." Enough said. Machine wash. the coolness factor of this to me is that it is not only a hoodie, but has an included balaclava! And it appears to be a decent soft shell...with thumb holes!!!! Oh man I want it! brand - model - price -
First Ascents
Bat Hang Hoodie
$110.00 I think
I would live in that thing! I want it soooooo bad now. Too bad we have that whole budget thing.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: [image]http://i.imgur.com/DnrKOl.jpg[/image] I'magirl.com is pretty cool! Thanks Greg! uh, if that's what came up then I'm sorry , but seriously, that link I gave you works wonders for this site. no need to upload a photo to a site. just use that site and it makes it easy to post them here because it gives you a url.
I was just messing with you. Every time I see imgur.com I think it says I'magurl.com
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: This might be the single best piece of clothing in existence! In reply to: Light enough to be a first layer. Warm enough to be outerwear when active. And smart: moisture-wicking, quick-drying. The Bat Hang's dual fabrics are pieced for max efficiency and comfort. Brushed for softness. (We don't mind harsh environments. But we don't tolerate harsh textures.) According to First Ascent Guide, Chad Peele, "I've heard stories of guides showering in this so as not to take it off." Enough said. Machine wash. the coolness factor of this to me is that it is not only a hoodie, but has an included balaclava! And it appears to be a decent soft shell...with thumb holes!!!! Oh man I want it! brand - model - price - First Ascents Bat Hang Hoodie $110.00 I think I would live in that thing! I want it soooooo bad now. Too bad we have that whole budget thing.
Here's a cool review:
Backpacker wrote: Most Versatile Is it a baselayer shirt or lightweight jacket? Both, actually, and often on the same trip. During 10 days of cool, gusty, and rainy Alaskan weather, our tester pulled the Bat Hang over a T-shirt as his primary insulation. On alpine starts in Colorado, he wore it as a baselayer from trailhead to summit. "I love the comfort range," he raves. "With the hood down, it's like a microfleece shirt. With the hood on, it's almost as warm as a thin puffy jacket. And the deep chest zipper and breathable, quick-dry polyester kept me from overheating." The hood is one of the best we've seen: It zips up high for neck and face protection, and the zip is offset so it doesn't track across your chin and mouth. $99; 12.3 oz. (men's XL); men's S-XXL, women's S-XL; firstascent.com |
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We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off!
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Arrogant_Bastard wrote: caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! In case either one of you was curious, yes, you may use the image as your avatard.
Or other, like marriage invites - just don't send me one.
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caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! [image]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4404147617_32bb3f4826_o.jpg[/image]
holy fuck I knew this would turn bad...and I should have known there'd be someone here with too much time on his hands.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! holy fuck I knew this would turn bad...and I should have known there'd be someone here with too much time on his hands.
dct.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast." "Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted." Problem solved averted.
Yea, something like that.
Though I get all the adult content at work.
But none of the climbing pics...
So I speed scroll through Bryan's pics at work, and at home
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: There is food marinating in my pack. that ought to smell nice by the time you clean it out. I should really stop wasting time online and go take care of chore stuff. seriously? that doesn't help anyone. if that food doesn't stink then there are no stories to tell. simply put, it is your obligation to let it sit for a few days so that you can tell us what happened when you finally remembered it. I need to also clean up and organize my gear wall so I can take a picture for you gentlemen.
Do it
Do it NAO
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Lazlo wrote: I found on this last trip up Shasta that the single most indispensable item I had was my vacuum bottle. When all our water bottles were nearly frozen solid, I still had HOT water. So hot I actually burned my mouth and throat because I underestimated it's insulating power.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! holy fuck I knew this would turn bad...and I should have known there'd be someone here with too much time on his hands.
I love how this seems to be the go-to insult from people that actively maintain blogs and Face Space accounts. Why don't you go Twitter your friends for some fresh material.
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Lazlo wrote: My farts smell really bad today.
Wow back so soon.
I thought you had work to do.
Like sort your gear.
Unpack your climbing bags.
Pack your bags for a ski trip.
Get in a couple turns up the hill just bit.
You know, important work is waiting.
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donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: [image]http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs460.ash1/25314_1310797244975_1081922301_943942_4170775_n.jpg[/image] LRXAWFTW
But greg's pictures came through the filters just fine.
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zeke_sf wrote: caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! That's pretty GUd.
That's some seriously genius photoshopping right there!
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what's a face space account?
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slow day here
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PTFTW
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Baa
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Lazlo wrote: [image]http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs460.ash1/25314_1310797244975_1081922301_943942_4170775_n.jpg[/image]
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I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though.
wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy.
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Wow, quite in here today.
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In other news, work quited down this afternoon.'
This morning was absolutly nuts [nuts], but this afternoon was good.
Which was nice, since the whole week was kind of crazy.
We were able to joke around for a few and unwind.
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In reated news, its supposed to rain all weekend, *again.*
seriously getting tired of this sh!t.
Gorgous all week.
Sunny, brisk. rained over night wed, but other wise clear all week.
Supposed to go camping with Jake and his scout troop Sat night. In the rain. They didn't want to cancel, since they haven't been able to get out for any hiking or camping, because of the on going rains.
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[writing red rocks TR]
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Gmburns2000 wrote: [writing red rocks TR]
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Good weekend everyone. Weather being good, bad or otherwise.
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donald949 wrote: Wow, quite in here today.
Yes, quite.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Greg. Dude. Holy earthquakes in Chile Batman!! Where you headed anywhere near Concepcion on your trip? not really, though I was going to visit it at some point because it is a main city. I'm still planning on Santiago, but I have some research to do now to ensure that things are OK (i.e. - safe and / or I'm not walking into a shit storm where there's a lack of housing). I heard Chile has officially asked that "unnecessary travel" to the region (possibly the entire country) be discontinued for the time being. I doubt that will last for more than a few weeks but it's possible that a large portion of the country will be so wrapped up in the relief efforts that security and accommodations will be compromised for some time to come. Hopefully not but that was one hell of a quake. Yeah, we'll see. One of my contacts recently told me that Santiago was fine and that folks are pretty much heading to work on Monday. Intl flights started landing at that airport today. Gonna wait to hear back from a few other contacts, though. I have a few weeks anyway (stupid MA takes six weeks?!?! to get through a subsidized COBRA application. WTF?!? So, yeah, I got some time. it's nice though. My dad set up my grandfather's governor's desk (the grandfather who died while I was in Argentina in Nov) to write on. When I saw it set up I was astounded at how comfortable / inspiring it looked. I'm not one for contrived sentiment either. It just looked / felt right. Been productive today, so happy about that. Six weeks? Fuck that. Things sound promising on being able to go forward with the trip though. Which is good news. So, you mentioned something earlier about "the move". Are sticking around Mass. until you leave or are you headed back out west? I moved out of my apt yesterday and am now in Maine at my Dad's. Didn't know the earthquake had happened. Everyone who helped me move told me about it, but I thought they were joking around. We had the news on the TV and it never came on, so I really thought it was a joke. Then I heard it on the radio. Will be in Maine until COBRA is sorted out. Then I'll figure out what is going on in Chile (safe? practical? etc...). If I can go in a few weeks, then I'll go. if I can't, then I'll see what Jeremiah is up to in April. He is busy in March. In fact, he'll be in N Carolina in march for some climber training thingie. Good way to cut costs in the interim and you can still get plenty of work writing done. BTW, how does it feel to be unemployed? Pretty damn fine I bet. Oh and if you're still around when my brother and I come up for our spring Gunks trip, I'll hit you up. It's likely to be late April or sometime in May though, so you'll probably be gone by then. It's funny because I don't feel unemployed at all. I feel as if I'm a writer. I AM a writer, so I'm employed, just not making any cash at the moment. Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding. now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set.
Have you thought about writing for an established publication? Does that appeal to you at all?
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Greg. Dude. Holy earthquakes in Chile Batman!! Where you headed anywhere near Concepcion on your trip? not really, though I was going to visit it at some point because it is a main city. I'm still planning on Santiago, but I have some research to do now to ensure that things are OK (i.e. - safe and / or I'm not walking into a shit storm where there's a lack of housing). I heard Chile has officially asked that "unnecessary travel" to the region (possibly the entire country) be discontinued for the time being. I doubt that will last for more than a few weeks but it's possible that a large portion of the country will be so wrapped up in the relief efforts that security and accommodations will be compromised for some time to come. Hopefully not but that was one hell of a quake. Yeah, we'll see. One of my contacts recently told me that Santiago was fine and that folks are pretty much heading to work on Monday. Intl flights started landing at that airport today. Gonna wait to hear back from a few other contacts, though. I have a few weeks anyway (stupid MA takes six weeks?!?! to get through a subsidized COBRA application. WTF?!? So, yeah, I got some time. it's nice though. My dad set up my grandfather's governor's desk (the grandfather who died while I was in Argentina in Nov) to write on. When I saw it set up I was astounded at how comfortable / inspiring it looked. I'm not one for contrived sentiment either. It just looked / felt right. Been productive today, so happy about that. Six weeks? Fuck that. Things sound promising on being able to go forward with the trip though. Which is good news. So, you mentioned something earlier about "the move". Are sticking around Mass. until you leave or are you headed back out west? I moved out of my apt yesterday and am now in Maine at my Dad's. Didn't know the earthquake had happened. Everyone who helped me move told me about it, but I thought they were joking around. We had the news on the TV and it never came on, so I really thought it was a joke. Then I heard it on the radio. Will be in Maine until COBRA is sorted out. Then I'll figure out what is going on in Chile (safe? practical? etc...). If I can go in a few weeks, then I'll go. if I can't, then I'll see what Jeremiah is up to in April. He is busy in March. In fact, he'll be in N Carolina in march for some climber training thingie. Good way to cut costs in the interim and you can still get plenty of work writing done. BTW, how does it feel to be unemployed? Pretty damn fine I bet. Oh and if you're still around when my brother and I come up for our spring Gunks trip, I'll hit you up. It's likely to be late April or sometime in May though, so you'll probably be gone by then. It's funny because I don't feel unemployed at all. I feel as if I'm a writer. I AM a writer, so I'm employed, just not making any cash at the moment. Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding. now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set. Have you thought about writing for an established publication? Does that appeal to you at all?
Actually, we may have talked about this before. Memory is failing me.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast." "Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted." Problem solved.
Woo!
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notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding. now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set. Have you thought about writing for an established publication? Does that appeal to you at all? Actually, we may have talked about this before. Memory is failing me.
Depends on the publication and the terms. I'm not a prima donna here and demanding that I have creative freedom over my work; I'm just not at a point where I feel confident enough to take on an assignment. Otherwise, yeah, I'd do it, but I'd probably need a patient editor / mentor.
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Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news.
You eat the tree bark for breakfast too?
My friends give me such a hard time for eating the whole grain, Kashi-esque cereals. I like em though.
Good and good for ya...
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I am not a hippie! ^Mere coincidence^
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong. Next month? Could be possible... we may be busy that week though... Yeah, I'm headed down in a few days. It's gonna be a week full of putting names to faces, working and training. Not exactly a good time for all but I've never been to the "Hottest State" so I'm not gonna complain too much about a free ride. I don't even know what part of Texas you're in. Are you familiar with Austin? Any worthwhile bouldering near by? Sounds like a worthy journey... unfortuately it won't be too hot when you come down. I guess in Austin it may be ok round this time... perhaps a day or two in the 70's if you're lucky... or it could go the other way. We're about 4 hours drive West of Austin. I've heard there's bouldering at McKinney Falls... may want to check out erockonline.com for info. Never been there. There's lot of other places too I've heard... check out this guide. http://www.erockonline.com/pdf/TLBintroweb.pdf4 hours eh? Yeah, I doubt I'll be bumping in to you at the grocery store. Thanks for the link though, I'll give it a look and see what I can find. A lot will depend on the hours we work, I might end up just hitting a local gym. We just discussed going to Austin soon, but I think it won't be until later in the week of the 15th... oh well. You'd probably have more fun if you head down to the Green Belt with your harness and shoes and jump on someones rope. The gym in Austin is teh suck IMO!
Hmmm. The problem is, I'm pretty much working during daylight hours and flights are already booked so staying thru the weekend isn't an option. Perhaps I'll just make do with exploring the city and save the climbing for a more opportune time.
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Lazlo wrote: the url of that picture is funny "bondage-rubber-yikes"
'bout sums it up
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Lazlo wrote: My farts smell really bad today.
Please reserve such insights for your new telemarketing friends on that other site.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: is that illegal? ^^
Looks just about right to me
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: is that illegal? ^^ Looks just about right to me
it didnt' get banned anyway.
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donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: [image]http://vanessagx.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bondage-rubber-yikes.jpg[/image] FTW! Dude, I don't know, hmmm, geeshh, I mean, what is there to, wow, I just can't, wow! I'm so turned on right now! Sooooo disgusting. Because of this picture, I haven't been able to read the spci when anyone else is in the living room. Every so often Leigha will see me speed-scroll past some pictures or something and it catches her attention. "What was that? That was awful fast." "Oh nothing. Just something Bryan posted." Problem solved averted. Yea, something like that. Though I get all the adult content at work. But none of the climbing pics... So I speed scroll through Bryan's pics at work, and at home
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notapplicable wrote: caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! MAGNIFICENT!! I got a seriously good laugh out of that. Well played, who ever crafted that beauty.
I love the expression on Epoch's face too. So stoic, so severe, almost begrudging in his passion.
Epoch = Ennis Del Mar of the knob?
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Arrogant_Bastard wrote: donald949 wrote: Wow, quite in here today. Yes, quite.
Say what now
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding. now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set. Have you thought about writing for an established publication? Does that appeal to you at all? Actually, we may have talked about this before. Memory is failing me. Depends on the publication and the terms. I'm not a prima donna here and demanding that I have creative freedom over my work; I'm just not at a point where I feel confident enough to take on an assignment. Otherwise, yeah, I'd do it, but I'd probably need a patient editor / mentor.
You could start off volunteering your time for one of the free publications that are always popping around cities like Boston.
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notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! MAGNIFICENT!! I got a seriously good laugh out of that. Well played, who ever crafted that beauty. I love the expression on Epoch's face too. So stoic, so severe, almost begrudging in his passion. Epoch = Ennis Del Mar of the knob?
He looks like he's taking his love pretty seriously.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding. now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set. Have you thought about writing for an established publication? Does that appeal to you at all? Actually, we may have talked about this before. Memory is failing me. Depends on the publication and the terms. I'm not a prima donna here and demanding that I have creative freedom over my work; I'm just not at a point where I feel confident enough to take on an assignment. Otherwise, yeah, I'd do it, but I'd probably need a patient editor / mentor. You could start off volunteering your time for one of the free publications that are always popping around cities like Boston.
Nah, I have free published credentials (my climbing.com blog actually counts because it isn't my blog, per se) already. With my now lack of income, I need to focus on making money. If I'm going to go free then it is going to be with a literary magazine just to get my name out there.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding. now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set. Have you thought about writing for an established publication? Does that appeal to you at all? Actually, we may have talked about this before. Memory is failing me. Depends on the publication and the terms. I'm not a prima donna here and demanding that I have creative freedom over my work; I'm just not at a point where I feel confident enough to take on an assignment. Otherwise, yeah, I'd do it, but I'd probably need a patient editor / mentor. You could start off volunteering your time for one of the free publications that are always popping around cities like Boston. Nah, I have free published credentials (my climbing.com blog actually counts because it isn't my blog, per se) already. With my now lack of income, I need to focus on making money. If I'm going to go free then it is going to be with a literary magazine just to get my name out there.
Literary mags are an interesting thought. There was one in particular I used to read around the time I left highschool that had a lot of really interesting short stories and poetry. I used to spend hours sitting in Books-A-Million reading and mooching free snacks from the hippie chick who worked in the cafe. Not much else to do when you live in your van and have no job. I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the publication though.
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Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun.
Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs.
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My flight leaves at 2:30 and I haven't packed a damn thing yet. This might not end well.
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I also just found out that South by Southwest starts the friday I leave Texas
WTF is that shit! Stoopid company couldn't have me down one week later so I could splurge on independent films during the evening hours. Selfish bastards!
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Damn right. And in my experience, albeit in a completely different field, working on spec is by far the most rewarding. now if I could just turn that spec into a guarantee then I'd be all set. Have you thought about writing for an established publication? Does that appeal to you at all? Actually, we may have talked about this before. Memory is failing me. Depends on the publication and the terms. I'm not a prima donna here and demanding that I have creative freedom over my work; I'm just not at a point where I feel confident enough to take on an assignment. Otherwise, yeah, I'd do it, but I'd probably need a patient editor / mentor. You could start off volunteering your time for one of the free publications that are always popping around cities like Boston. Nah, I have free published credentials (my climbing.com blog actually counts because it isn't my blog, per se) already. With my now lack of income, I need to focus on making money. If I'm going to go free then it is going to be with a literary magazine just to get my name out there. Literary mags are an interesting thought. There was one in particular I used to read around the time I left highschool that had a lot of really interesting short stories and poetry. I used to spend hours sitting in Books-A-Million reading and mooching free snacks from the hippie chick who worked in the cafe. Not much else to do when you live in your van and have no job. I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the publication though.
Yeah, those are the places where I really need to focus.
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notapplicable wrote: Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun. Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs.
sweet. who is it? regular poster or simple lurker?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun. Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs. sweet. who is it? regular poster or simple lurker?
New guy. His first post was about a week ago looking for partners in my area.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: I also just found out that South by Southwest starts the friday I leave Texas WTF is that shit! Stoopid company couldn't have me down one week later so I could splurge on independent films during the evening hours. Selfish bastards! never saw it, but I undestand your pain.
Yeah it's a pretty massive music and film festival. I'll probably be able to catch some good music as everyone gears up this week but the films are what I'm really interested in...
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: I also just found out that South by Southwest starts the friday I leave Texas WTF is that shit! Stoopid company couldn't have me down one week later so I could splurge on independent films during the evening hours. Selfish bastards! never saw it, but I undestand your pain. Yeah it's a pretty massive music and film festival. I'll probably be able to catch some good music as everyone gears up this week but the films are what I'm really interested in...
wait, aren't you in Austin at the moment?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: I also just found out that South by Southwest starts the friday I leave Texas WTF is that shit! Stoopid company couldn't have me down one week later so I could splurge on independent films during the evening hours. Selfish bastards! never saw it, but I undestand your pain. Yeah it's a pretty massive music and film festival. I'll probably be able to catch some good music as everyone gears up this week but the films are what I'm really interested in... wait, aren't you in Austin at the moment?
Not yet, my flight leaves in about 2 hours. I'll be there all next week.
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Speaking of which. I need to stop talking to you and get my shit together.
Ciao
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notapplicable wrote: Speaking of which. I need to stop talking to you and get my shit together. Ciao
so what's the weather like down there? is the snow all gone?
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donald949 wrote: slow day here
Oooo yes... crickets and tumbleweeds...
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Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy.
How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing?
Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end!
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news. You eat the tree bark for breakfast too? My friends give me such a hard time for eating the whole grain, Kashi-esque cereals. I like em though. Good and good for ya...
I used to eat shredded wheat as a kid... unusual kid I was. I only like the frosted ones now.
Had some whole wheat pasta on Saturday... it's tricky getting that stuff to al-dente... its a fine line.
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notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong. Next month? Could be possible... we may be busy that week though... Yeah, I'm headed down in a few days. It's gonna be a week full of putting names to faces, working and training. Not exactly a good time for all but I've never been to the "Hottest State" so I'm not gonna complain too much about a free ride. I don't even know what part of Texas you're in. Are you familiar with Austin? Any worthwhile bouldering near by? Sounds like a worthy journey... unfortuately it won't be too hot when you come down. I guess in Austin it may be ok round this time... perhaps a day or two in the 70's if you're lucky... or it could go the other way. We're about 4 hours drive West of Austin. I've heard there's bouldering at McKinney Falls... may want to check out erockonline.com for info. Never been there. There's lot of other places too I've heard... check out this guide. http://www.erockonline.com/pdf/TLBintroweb.pdf4 hours eh? Yeah, I doubt I'll be bumping in to you at the grocery store. Thanks for the link though, I'll give it a look and see what I can find. A lot will depend on the hours we work, I might end up just hitting a local gym. We just discussed going to Austin soon, but I think it won't be until later in the week of the 15th... oh well. You'd probably have more fun if you head down to the Green Belt with your harness and shoes and jump on someones rope. The gym in Austin is teh suck IMO! Hmmm. The problem is, I'm pretty much working during daylight hours and flights are already booked so staying thru the weekend isn't an option. Perhaps I'll just make do with exploring the city and save the climbing for a more opportune time.
Sounds like a plan, given your circumstances. I think we may be heading to Austin on Wed or Thur 17th or 18th.
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Shorts in the winter eh. So you're one of THOSE people.
Must have weird Scandinavian genes...
...although, my wife has some of those genes and she hates the cold.
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kachoong
Mar 8, 2010, 4:03 PM
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notapplicable wrote: Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun. Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs.
Where's your nearest crag? Rag? What gym do you normally use? We used to head to the one in Richmond on occasion... it was decent.
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Mar 8, 2010, 4:58 PM
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end!
It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much.
Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too.
There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again.
In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Speaking of which. I need to stop talking to you and get my shit together. Ciao so what's the weather like down there? is the snow all gone?
Yeah, snow is gone and we are starting to get back up to the 50-55 degree highs so climbing weather is just starting to settle in. Shady routes are still a bit much though.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news. You eat the tree bark for breakfast too? My friends give me such a hard time for eating the whole grain, Kashi-esque cereals. I like em though. Good and good for ya... I used to eat shredded wheat as a kid... unusual kid I was. I only like the frosted ones now. Had some whole wheat pasta on Saturday... it's tricky getting that stuff to al-dente... its a fine line.
I eat whole grain when ever it's convenient but you're right, the prep can be a bit different. And sometimes the flavors work out for the better and sometimes not so much but ultimately it is a hell of a lot better for you so...
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun. Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs. Where's your nearest crag? Rag? What gym do you normally use? We used to head to the one in Richmond on occasion... it was decent.
Old Rag is certainly the closest "real" climbing but there is a small outdoor spot right in Richmond called Manchester bridge. I haven't been to the gym in awhile but I do like Peak, it's one of the nicer and better run gyms I've climbed at. Where did you live that you were heading to Peak? Hampton Roads?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count.
Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun.
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Mar 8, 2010, 6:24 PM
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notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun. Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs. Where's your nearest crag? Rag? What gym do you normally use? We used to head to the one in Richmond on occasion... it was decent. Old Rag is certainly the closest "real" climbing but there is a small outdoor spot right in Richmond called Manchester bridge. I haven't been to the gym in awhile but I do like Peak, it's one of the nicer and better run gyms I've climbed at. Where did you live that you were heading to Peak? Hampton Roads?
I've heard of that bridge place, but never got there. When my wife and I went, we'd go to the gym, so as to have all sorts of options, even in bad weather. Yeah, from the Roads area it was 90 min drive. So we'd always make a 3/4 day of it.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Good weekend everyone. Weather being good, bad or otherwise. aye, the same to you matey, the same to you, too.  may the weather gods be kind ta ya and may ya get as mooch hikin' and climbin' as ya heart desires.
Took the older boy camping in the rain with his scout troop. Weather wasn't tooo bad. Although we got a fair bit of rain Saturday evening while we were trying to cook dogs. Everyone sleep in their car, as did we. Although I got the impression not everyone sleep as well as we did. 
Sunday we did go for a short nature hike lead by the ranger.
So overall, not too bad given the weather was somewhat less than optimal.
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun.
Yeah, that'd be tough, but there are folks who like those kinds of challenges. I could probably do it, but I'd have to really think about it.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Good weekend everyone. Weather being good, bad or otherwise. aye, the same to you matey, the same to you, too. may the weather gods be kind ta ya and may ya get as mooch hikin' and climbin' as ya heart desires. Took the older boy camping in the rain with his scout troop. Weather wasn't tooo bad. Although we got a fair bit of rain Saturday evening while we were trying to cook dogs. Everyone sleep in their car, as did we. Although I got the impression not everyone sleep as well as we did. Sunday we did go for a short nature hike lead by the ranger. So overall, not too bad given the weather was somewhat less than optimal. D
that's cause you got a camper. woooo!!!
Why would anyone sleep in the car vs the tent, though? I'd much rather stretch out. Well, unless it meant putting it up and taking it down in the rain, but I've done that before OK.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news. You eat the tree bark for breakfast too? My friends give me such a hard time for eating the whole grain, Kashi-esque cereals. I like em though. Good and good for ya... I used to eat shredded wheat as a kid... unusual kid I was. I only like the frosted ones now. Had some whole wheat pasta on Saturday... it's tricky getting that stuff to al-dente... its a fine line.
again, try it with the chocolate milk. you won't be disappointed. trust me.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Time to go eat some tasty shredded wheat and watch the morning news. You eat the tree bark for breakfast too? My friends give me such a hard time for eating the whole grain, Kashi-esque cereals. I like em though. Good and good for ya... I used to eat shredded wheat as a kid... unusual kid I was. I only like the frosted ones now. Had some whole wheat pasta on Saturday... it's tricky getting that stuff to al-dente... its a fine line.
Ha, true that. Usually ends up as mush. Blah
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Good weekend everyone. Weather being good, bad or otherwise. aye, the same to you matey, the same to you, too. may the weather gods be kind ta ya and may ya get as mooch hikin' and climbin' as ya heart desires. Took the older boy camping in the rain with his scout troop. Weather wasn't tooo bad. Although we got a fair bit of rain Saturday evening while we were trying to cook dogs. Everyone sleep in their car, as did we. Although I got the impression not everyone sleep as well as we did. Sunday we did go for a short nature hike lead by the ranger. So overall, not too bad given the weather was somewhat less than optimal. D that's cause you got a camper. woooo!!! Why would anyone sleep in the car vs the tent, though? I'd much rather stretch out. Well, unless it meant putting it up and taking it down in the rain, but I've done that before OK.
One guy got his tent up before the rain started. But it didn't have fly, so it was all wet inside by the time it came to sleep. I only had our suburban, no trailer for just Jake and I. I've sleep in the back of the sub before, it rocks. I pull the rear seat out before the trip, the middle seat flops down and makes a flat area at least 4x8. Prolly a little longer. No pitching in the rain, no wet muddy tent to roll up or clean up latter, no worries about water at the seams or corners. Just fold up the pads, bags, and seats and ready to go. Love it.
Most guys had minivans or small SUV's. Which should have worked. One guy had a car that he reclined the front seats. Which I've done but is less than optimal.
We were less than 30 min from our house at a local county park. So to me that barely counts as camping. But it had a good number of primative camp sites, and group camp area that was spread out, a play ground for the kids, the river was flowing quite well from all the winter's rain that the kids got to explore. Only a part of the 80,000 acres are developed, the rest is natural. Ranger led a hike. Kids got to ask lots of questions. So it was all good.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Good weekend everyone. Weather being good, bad or otherwise. aye, the same to you matey, the same to you, too. may the weather gods be kind ta ya and may ya get as mooch hikin' and climbin' as ya heart desires. Took the older boy camping in the rain with his scout troop. Weather wasn't tooo bad. Although we got a fair bit of rain Saturday evening while we were trying to cook dogs. Everyone sleep in their car, as did we. Although I got the impression not everyone sleep as well as we did. Sunday we did go for a short nature hike lead by the ranger. So overall, not too bad given the weather was somewhat less than optimal. D that's cause you got a camper. woooo!!! Why would anyone sleep in the car vs the tent, though? I'd much rather stretch out. Well, unless it meant putting it up and taking it down in the rain, but I've done that before OK. One guy got his tent up before the rain started. But it didn't have fly, so it was all wet inside by the time it came to sleep. I only had our suburban, no trailer for just Jake and I. I've sleep in the back of the sub before, it rocks. I pull the rear seat out before the trip, the middle seat flops down and makes a flat area at least 4x8. Prolly a little longer. No pitching in the rain, no wet muddy tent to roll up or clean up latter, no worries about water at the seams or corners. Just fold up the pads, bags, and seats and ready to go. Love it. Most guys had minivans or small SUV's. Which should have worked. One guy had a car that he reclined the front seats. Which I've done but is less than optimal. We were less than 30 min from our house at a local county park. So to me that barely counts as camping. But it had a good number of primative camp sites, and group camp area that was spread out, a play ground for the kids, the river was flowing quite well from all the winter's rain that the kids got to explore. Only a part of the 80,000 acres are developed, the rest is natural. Ranger led a hike. Kids got to ask lots of questions. So it was all good.
ah yeah, I can totally see where a suburban makes for a nice camping vehicle.
sounds as if it was a good trip all around. maybe all that rain has been good for the outdoor type stuff. I mean, what, you haven't seen rain there in decades right?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Good weekend everyone. Weather being good, bad or otherwise. aye, the same to you matey, the same to you, too. may the weather gods be kind ta ya and may ya get as mooch hikin' and climbin' as ya heart desires. Took the older boy camping in the rain with his scout troop. Weather wasn't tooo bad. Although we got a fair bit of rain Saturday evening while we were trying to cook dogs. Everyone sleep in their car, as did we. Although I got the impression not everyone sleep as well as we did. Sunday we did go for a short nature hike lead by the ranger. So overall, not too bad given the weather was somewhat less than optimal. D that's cause you got a camper. woooo!!! Why would anyone sleep in the car vs the tent, though? I'd much rather stretch out. Well, unless it meant putting it up and taking it down in the rain, but I've done that before OK. One guy got his tent up before the rain started. But it didn't have fly, so it was all wet inside by the time it came to sleep. I only had our suburban, no trailer for just Jake and I. I've sleep in the back of the sub before, it rocks. I pull the rear seat out before the trip, the middle seat flops down and makes a flat area at least 4x8. Prolly a little longer. No pitching in the rain, no wet muddy tent to roll up or clean up latter, no worries about water at the seams or corners. Just fold up the pads, bags, and seats and ready to go. Love it. Most guys had minivans or small SUV's. Which should have worked. One guy had a car that he reclined the front seats. Which I've done but is less than optimal. We were less than 30 min from our house at a local county park. So to me that barely counts as camping. But it had a good number of primative camp sites, and group camp area that was spread out, a play ground for the kids, the river was flowing quite well from all the winter's rain that the kids got to explore. Only a part of the 80,000 acres are developed, the rest is natural. Ranger led a hike. Kids got to ask lots of questions. So it was all good. ah yeah, I can totally see where a suburban makes for a nice camping vehicle. sounds as if it was a good trip all around. maybe all that rain has been good for the outdoor type stuff. I mean, what, you haven't seen rain there in decades right?
yea, I know right, decades
getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now.
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donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now.
i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing.
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anyone interested in joining a fantasy baseball league this year?
yahoo
free (no prizes either except bragging rights)
head-to-head
8 teams already, would like to have 10 to 12
draft is on march 21
draft is either live or automatic, depending on your preference
need two players or four players (one and three won't work due to head-to-head setup)
league tends to be the same general group of guys year to year
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing.
Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days.
What to do?
Maybe some climbing.
Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play.
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun.
Words are amazing things. One of my favorite writing styles is to intentionally break the rules. For instance; I wrote a story in first person based on someone who knew he was about to die and was writing his last mements. So the writting had tons of spelling and punctuation errors. The effect was to pull the reader in to a faster frenzied 'tempo' as they read; which meshed with the true tempo of the story in that moment.
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Lazlo
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Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun. Words are amazing things. One of my favorite writing styles is to intentionally break the rules. For instance; I wrote a story in first person based on someone who knew he was about to die and was writing his last mements. So the writting had tons of spelling and punctuation errors. The effect was to pull the reader in to a faster frenzied 'tempo' as they read; which meshed with the true tempo of the story in that moment.
Richard Matheson did something similar in a story called (I think) Father Thing
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Lazlo
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun. Words are amazing things. One of my favorite writing styles is to intentionally break the rules. For instance; I wrote a story in first person based on someone who knew he was about to die and was writing his last mements. So the writting had tons of spelling and punctuation errors. The effect was to pull the reader in to a faster frenzied 'tempo' as they read; which meshed with the true tempo of the story in that moment. Richard Matheson did something similar in a story called (I think) Father Thing
Correction; Born of Man and Woman is the story. Father Thing is a Phillip K Dick story
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun. Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs. Where's your nearest crag? Rag? What gym do you normally use? We used to head to the one in Richmond on occasion... it was decent. Old Rag is certainly the closest "real" climbing but there is a small outdoor spot right in Richmond called Manchester bridge. I haven't been to the gym in awhile but I do like Peak, it's one of the nicer and better run gyms I've climbed at. Where did you live that you were heading to Peak? Hampton Roads? I've heard of that bridge place, but never got there. When my wife and I went, we'd go to the gym, so as to have all sorts of options, even in bad weather. Yeah, from the Roads area it was 90 min drive. So we'd always make a 3/4 day of it.
Thats the way to do it if you don't have a membership. Climb for awhile, eat some diner and climb some more. I think a one day pass is up to $17 now so thats really the only way to make it worthwhile
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Gmburns2000
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Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun. Words are amazing things. One of my favorite writing styles is to intentionally break the rules. For instance; I wrote a story in first person based on someone who knew he was about to die and was writing his last mements. So the writting had tons of spelling and punctuation errors. The effect was to pull the reader in to a faster frenzied 'tempo' as they read; which meshed with the true tempo of the story in that moment.
yup. making the reader feel a certain way not by the meaning of the words themselves but by how they are intentionally organized goes a long way toward engaging the reader.
I love to write my fiction sometimes with really long runon sentences without commas or puncuation so that the reader feels tired by the end of the sentence and I do this because the character is doing something hard like working or running and the character gets tired so I want the reader to get tired, too. It's a great way to "prove" that something happened.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play.
rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should.
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sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by.
been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too.
nice
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got a little bit of writing done, too.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too.
sounds like a painting
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too. sounds like a painting
I'm actually Andrew Wyeth, and it pisses me off that people think I'm dead.
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so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn!
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I'm gonna predict the future - sunny comes back to the SPCI with a roar sometime in April or May.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn!
Isn't that the third over 7?
Ouch
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Gmburns2000 wrote: I'm gonna predict the future - sunny comes back to the SPCI with a roar sometime in April or May.
30K!
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch
dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away.
this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger.
Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock.
Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7.
Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that.
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Yep, dats write
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_scale
wikipedia wrote: The Richter magnitude scale, also known as the local magnitude (ML) scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement from zero on a Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer output. So, for example, an earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0. The effective limit of measurement for local magnitude ML is about 6.8. |
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that.
yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that. yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it!
Actually 90 miles is pretty far away.
But either way, its bigger than anything I've ridden through.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that. yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it! Actually 90 miles is pretty far away. But either way, its bigger than anything I've ridden through.
i would have thought one that close to the surface would have been stronger, but it appears as if it wasn't bad.
there were two others right after it, both in the six range.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that. yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it! Actually 90 miles is pretty far away. But either way, its bigger than anything I've ridden through. i would have thought one that close to the surface would have been stronger, but it appears as if it wasn't bad. there were two others right after it, both in the six range.
Well I haven't seen the video. But 90 miles is a long way away.
My folks lived 3 miles from the epicenter of the northridge earthquake. It wasn't an 8, but it sure got their attention. That one was felt over 200 miles away, maybe 250 miles.
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Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks.
Wow. That does suck pretty bad.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks. Wow. That does suck pretty bad.
My life would be over.
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My local ski spot.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun. Words are amazing things. One of my favorite writing styles is to intentionally break the rules. For instance; I wrote a story in first person based on someone who knew he was about to die and was writing his last mements. So the writting had tons of spelling and punctuation errors. The effect was to pull the reader in to a faster frenzied 'tempo' as they read; which meshed with the true tempo of the story in that moment. Richard Matheson did something similar in a story called (I think) Father Thing Correction; Born of Man and Woman is the story. Father Thing is a Phillip K Dick story
Woo!! We finally dragged you down to the nerdy level with the book talk.
Welcome. You can pick up your broken glasses and pocket protector at the front desk.
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I like the new sig. line BTW. That N/A sure sounds like a classy chap.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should.
He has a point
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too.
Sounds pleasant. Being obliged to do little other than watch the world go by has a certain charm about it.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks.
Yeah I saw the thread he posted. Thats fucked.
Any news?
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks. Wow. That does suck pretty bad. My life would be over.
It was a hell of a lot of gear too. He posted a list of everything here > http://www.rockclimbing.com/...d;page=unread#unread
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The Texans seemed like pretty nice folks to me. Sure, their hats are kind of big and they talk a little fuuuuunny but they damn sure know how to make some BBQ.
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks. Wow. That does suck pretty bad. My life would be over. It was a hell of a lot of gear too. He posted a list of everything here > http://www.rockclimbing.com/...d;page=unread#unread
no details from him. I tried calling him but he was enflight. that and he doesnt have my cell phone number I guess and my home numbers are not valid any more (he tried calling, but couldn't get through).
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kachoong
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks. Yeah I saw the thread he posted. Thats fucked. Any news?
Insurance perhaps? I'll have to check out the thread. Sucks ass!
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kachoong
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notapplicable wrote: The Texans seemed like pretty nice folks to me. Sure, their hats are kind of big and they talk a little fuuuuunny but they damn sure know how to make some BBQ.
You think they talk funny.... you never met me.... they think I talk funny.
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Lazlo
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun. Words are amazing things. One of my favorite writing styles is to intentionally break the rules. For instance; I wrote a story in first person based on someone who knew he was about to die and was writing his last mements. So the writting had tons of spelling and punctuation errors. The effect was to pull the reader in to a faster frenzied 'tempo' as they read; which meshed with the true tempo of the story in that moment. Richard Matheson did something similar in a story called (I think) Father Thing Correction; Born of Man and Woman is the story. Father Thing is a Phillip K Dick story Woo!! We finally dragged you down to the nerdy level with the book talk. Welcome. You can pick up your broken glasses and pocket protector at the front desk.
Schweet!
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Lazlo
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notapplicable wrote: I like the new sig. line BTW. That N/A sure sounds like a classy chap.
Voted most quotable in the spci three years running.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should. He has a point
And out goes skiiing season.
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Lazlo
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too. Sounds pleasant. Being obliged to do little other than watch the world go by has a certain charm about it.
Well put^^^
And I bet he's fairly close to being stress free too. What a life.
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Lazlo
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Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning.
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Lazlo
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Notice how firm the snow seems in this picture?
It had rained (read; stormed) for two days before then froze the night before I went up. Make for quite the snow pack. It was like riding a groomer.
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This was a south facing slope and the snow density was fairly uniform the whole way down to the soil. On a north facing slope, it was a HORRIBLE rain crust. I could hardly ski it. I almost wiped out bad in front of a dad and his kids sledding.
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There is something so satisfying about earning your turns in the back country. As I skin back up the hill, I get to admire my turns and rehearse and critique my run and my style. I get to laugh at my blunders and decisions...because it's all written right there in the snow.
There was one moment where I couldn't turn in time to avoid two saplings, and had to straddle them in a last ditch attempt to not eat it. Seeing the ski tracks on the way back up looked hilarious. I should have gotten a picture.
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Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: notapplicable wrote: Stymingersfink wrote: Guess who just replaced their keyboard? Yep, that's right... ME, BABY, ME!!! Congratulations. Thank you.. thank you.. I'd like to thank the Academy... those of you I call friends... Some I call enemies... but most of all... I'd really like to thank the little people... in CHINA, cranking out keyboards as if their life depended on it... ...but hey, their life DOES depend on it, doesn't it? 'cause dissent in China will always be crushed WITH AND IRON FIST!!!!!!!!11111111oneoneone |
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: The Texans seemed like pretty nice folks to me. Sure, their hats are kind of big and they talk a little fuuuuunny but they damn sure know how to make some BBQ. You think they talk funny.... you never met me.... they think I talk funny.
If you typed with an accent, I could be entertained too!
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: I like the new sig. line BTW. That N/A sure sounds like a classy chap. Voted most quotable in the spci three years running.
*fist pump*
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too. Sounds pleasant. Being obliged to do little other than watch the world go by has a certain charm about it. Well put^^^ And I bet he's fairly close to being stress free too. What a life.
Yup. Until the earthquake aftershock dodging starts, life should pretty much be smooth sailing.
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Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning.
Cool. It's kind of like having a crag just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine.
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Sungam wrote: I don't have experiance in the matter, but I reckon enough buttseks and yer dic starts to hurt a little.
TMI!
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning. Cool. It's kind of like having a crag just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine.
And one of the main benefits to me is the slopes are under 30 degrees, very warm/consolidated snow pack, and extremely well anchored. Avys are almost impossible. I don't have a beacon, so I can't play with the big dogs up in Lassen National Park.
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notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: The Texans seemed like pretty nice folks to me. Sure, their hats are kind of big and they talk a little fuuuuunny but they damn sure know how to make some BBQ. You think they talk funny.... you never met me.... they think I talk funny. If you typed with an accent, I could be entertained too!
Well blimey, oi don't know about that, cobber! Cood be a tad tricky... cood be haarsh on yer oiz, mate!
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kachoong
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning. Cool. It's kind of like having a crap just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine.
I'm not sure why I read it like that... early morning, I guess.
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kachoong
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning. Cool. It's kind of like having a crag just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine. And one of the main benefits to me is the slopes are under 30 degrees, very warm/consolidated snow pack, and extremely well anchored. Avys are almost impossible. I don't have a beacon, so I can't play with the big dogs up in Lassen National Park.
Stick it on your B'day wishlist.
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Gmburns2000
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks. Yeah I saw the thread he posted. Thats fucked. Any news? Insurance perhaps? I'll have to check out the thread. Sucks ass!
yeah, I guess that's what he'll do. he had to take his exam that week without his gear and in the rain all week.
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Gmburns2000
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too. Sounds pleasant. Being obliged to do little other than watch the world go by has a certain charm about it. Well put^^^ And I bet he's fairly close to being stress free too. What a life. Yup. Until the earthquake aftershock dodging starts, life should pretty much be smooth sailing.
slowly leaning toward staying here for the summer. I'm getting work done and saving money here, and I kinda want to climb. That and they're having problems down there still and I don't need to be adding to that. not 100% but close.
I'll go down in Nov / Dec now, and that'll give me their spring, summer, and fall.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks. Wow. That does suck pretty bad.
+1
Hope he's able to get it back.
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notapplicable wrote: The Texans seemed like pretty nice folks to me. Sure, their hats are kind of big and they talk a little fuuuuunny but they damn sure know how to make some BBQ.
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donald949
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should. He has a point And out goes skiiing season.
We got some freinds lined up for babysitting in a month.
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kachoong
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donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should. He has a point And out goes skiiing season. Mammoth still has snow. We got some freinds lined up for babysitting in a month.
Ah, but will the snow be there in a month?
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: I like the new sig. line BTW. That N/A sure sounds like a classy chap. Voted most quotable in the spci three years running. *fist pump*
My favorite of yours was when you a and Jack were having a little dialog.
He found something we had going on here, well he thought it was kinda gay.
So he barked out "get a room."
your reply was "we did, you're in it"
made me laff. Almost put in my sig.
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kachoong
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Good news... got a letter on Saturday from Immigration saying that I am now basically a permanent permanent resident rather than a temporary permanent resident, which I have been now for three years. I'm not barely legal anymore! Woooo!
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kachoong wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should. He has a point And out goes skiiing season. Mammoth still has snow. We got some freinds lined up for babysitting in a month. Ah, but will the snow be there in a month?
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donald949
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too. Sounds pleasant. Being obliged to do little other than watch the world go by has a certain charm about it. Well put^^^ And I bet he's fairly close to being stress free too. What a life. Yup. Until the earthquake aftershock dodging starts, life should pretty much be smooth sailing. slowly leaning toward staying here for the summer. I'm getting work done and saving money here, and I kinda want to climb. That and they're having problems down there still and I don't need to be adding to that. not 100% but close. I'll go down in Nov / Dec now, and that'll give me their spring, summer, and fall.
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Greg, Did you get the pics/tr put up for the RR trip?
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donald949 wrote: Greg, Did you get the pics/tr put up for the RR trip?
kinda sorta no. I sent the post to the climbing.com folks and it sat there for about 10 days before they told me there was a change in guard. I actually just sent it off to the new person and she said she'd get right to it.
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Arean Ellis So, did you really randomize your password?Fri at 4:04pm · Comment ·LikeUnlike · See Wall-to-WallDonald Ashcraft likes this.
Greg Burns doesn't matter. its easy to request a new one.
Fri at 4:53pm · Magnus Johnson Itz true, I did.
Fri at 5:45pmGreg Burns again - doesn't. matter.
Sat at 6:35am · Arean Ellis Hrmmm...
Sat at 9:05amDonald Ashcraft very strange...
Sat at 10:51pmDonald Ashcraft But you were last logged on 2 weeks ago.
Sat at 10:57pmDonald Ashcraft So how do you explain that???
Sat at 10:58pmMagnus Johnson I had to log in to check my emails.
Yesterday at 7:32amGreg Burns note the lack of explanation
Yesterday at 7:38am · Magnus Johnson You gave it above, Greg.
Yesterday at 7:50amGreg Burns what? your password is doesn't.matter.?
Yesterday at 7:53am · Arean Ellis I didn't know fb had ptftws!
Yesterday at 11:08amArean Ellis does it have PC++?
Yesterday at 11:09amGreg Burns it does now. pc++...WOOOOOOO!!!!
Yesterday at 5:29pm · Donald Ashcraft PC+
17 minutes agoDonald Ashcraft PC++
17 minutes agoDonald Ashcraft we'll have to see if we ever get a pt
16 minutes agoGreg Burns PTFTW! There's only 18 posts per page on FB.
16 minutes ago · Greg Burns protecshuns
15 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft I don't see the pt
13 minutes agoDonald Ashcraft still don't see it
12 minutes agoGreg Burns use your imagination
11 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft Sorry I'm an engineer
10 minutes agoGreg Burns that's OK. change the topic. How's the weather out there? Still raining? We got that storm, but Maine didn't get hit that hard.
8 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft No, the weather broke
6 minutes agoDonald Ashcraft Now its nice a sunny
6 minutes agoDonald Ashcraft Been sunny and warm for a week.
6 minutes agoDonald Ashcraft Hopefully I can talk somepne into going to Josh for the weekend.
5 minutes agoGreg Burns Finally eh? supposed to be nice tomorrow here. gonna go out and get a decent walk in. get some good writing too. finally broke through on a trouble spot. I can move forward finally.
5 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft where the high will be 80
5 minutes agoGreg Burns we'll be nice and toasty in the 50s
5 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft good to hear.
5 minutes agoGreg Burns a bunch of folks are heading to the 'gunks this weekend. =(
I wanna go!
5 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft go. Nothing keeping you tied down
4 minutes agoGreg Burns prolly heading to RR with jeremiah here in a couple weeks, then will be staying in Colorado for a few weeks after that. hoping to hit the Black of Gunnison
4 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft that sounds good too
3 minutes agoGreg Burns lack of partner for the gunks. could climb in three. OH, no. actually, can't. going to a rough water sailing seminar with my dad on Sat. he sails, I sleep on the bow, but he still wants me to learn something about big weather on a sailboat.
2 minutes ago · Donald Ashcraft Jeremiah not busy guiding? I would think spring would be fairly busy
2 minutes agoGreg Burns he is, but he also manages one of the two gyms he works for, so he gets to set the schedule. what he does is give himself two days off at the end of one week then two days off to start the next. and he can leave work early before the trip and come in late on the way back, so that's how he gets out for fun these days.
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donny and burnsy just made the SPCI mobile.
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if sunny won't come here then we'll bring it to the stalkbook.
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temporarily of course
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wouldn't want to ruin that ptftw pc++ that we've got going so well here.
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thats right bitches. uploading music and killing time at the same time.
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mp3 is 94% done, so I won't be here long.
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had to redo the whole thing to squeeze in a few songs that I bought recently.
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twas a weird download mix that ranged from Alien Ant Farm to B-boys to Kylie Minogue to Paul Oakenfold to Slick Rick to Brendan Channing and Broken Social Scene.
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got a "free" itunes GC when I brought five years worth of change to the Coinstar machine at the store.
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if you take cash then you pay a fee. if you get a gift card then you dont pay a fee.
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i took the itunes option, but i gotta say, apple sucks.
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moving stuff from itunes to windows media player so that i can put it on my mp3 player is a pain in the ass. too many extra steps.
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down to the final 10 songs or so now. wooo!!! i can go to bed!!!
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we all had our reasons to be there
we all had a thing or two to learn
we all all needed something to cling to, so we did
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we all had delusions in our heads
we all had our minds made up for us
we all had to believe in something, so we did
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god I can only hope my book picks a fight as well as she did
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you're either a fan or her or the stupid "if it makes you happy" girl. one or the other.
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there is no in between.
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bitter and angry always makes a better story than happy songs.
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hard living, pure emotion, raw feelings,
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that's the shit people are drawn to.
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bringing the man to the verge of tears but
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instead he crumbles to his knees with his hands out wide and his mouth open, shocked, and his breath
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choking him as he tries to understand where the rug went
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that rug, that weave, that pattern that had held him together
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faithfully, beautifully
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deceptively slick
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ptftw
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peace love and brown rice y'all. i'm off to bed.
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notapplicable
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning. Cool. It's kind of like having a crag just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine. And one of the main benefits to me is the slopes are under 30 degrees, very warm/consolidated snow pack, and extremely well anchored. Avys are almost impossible. I don't have a beacon, so I can't play with the big dogs up in Lassen National Park.
Skiing aside, if your going to be doing winter ascents and what not, you might want to invest in one of those.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: The Texans seemed like pretty nice folks to me. Sure, their hats are kind of big and they talk a little fuuuuunny but they damn sure know how to make some BBQ. You think they talk funny.... you never met me.... they think I talk funny. If you typed with an accent, I could be entertained too! Well blimey, oi don't know about that, cobber! Cood be a tad tricky... cood be haarsh on yer oiz, mate!
Nevermind.
It's like LOL talk, only different, but equally annoying.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too. Sounds pleasant. Being obliged to do little other than watch the world go by has a certain charm about it. Well put^^^ And I bet he's fairly close to being stress free too. What a life. Yup. Until the earthquake aftershock dodging starts, life should pretty much be smooth sailing. slowly leaning toward staying here for the summer. I'm getting work done and saving money here, and I kinda want to climb. That and they're having problems down there still and I don't need to be adding to that. not 100% but close. I'll go down in Nov / Dec now, and that'll give me their spring, summer, and fall.
It sucks to push things back, but that might be for the best. They seem better equipped than any other country in the region to deal with a quake like that but they are obviously struggling.
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: The Texans seemed like pretty nice folks to me. Sure, their hats are kind of big and they talk a little fuuuuunny but they damn sure know how to make some BBQ. Thats is what I noticed when I was there on business a couple years ago.
It is a bit funny to watch cowboy hat after cowboy hat stroll by at the airport though. Kind of thought those things had gone extinct. It's nice to see them alive and well in their native habitat.
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: I like the new sig. line BTW. That N/A sure sounds like a classy chap. Voted most quotable in the spci three years running. *fist pump* My favorite of yours was when you a and Jack were having a little dialog. He found something we had going on here, well he thought it was kinda gay. So he barked out "get a room." your reply was "we did, you're in it" made me laff. Almost put in my sig. edit fer speilink
Ain't seen ol' Jack around these parts in awhile. Too bad, he was always good for a laugh.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donny and burnsy just made the SPCI mobile.
HA!
And strong work getting Magnus to admit that he has been lurking.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between.
Hmmm
I disagree. Wanna fight about it?
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donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should. He has a point And out goes skiiing season. Mammoth still has snow. We got some freinds lined up for babysitting in a month.
Nice. I think we're taking the boys on one last boarding trip.... And after that it's probably all going to be BC on Shasta.
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning. Cool. It's kind of like having a crag just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine. And one of the main benefits to me is the slopes are under 30 degrees, very warm/consolidated snow pack, and extremely well anchored. Avys are almost impossible. I don't have a beacon, so I can't play with the big dogs up in Lassen National Park. Skiing aside, if your going to be doing winter ascents and what not, you might want to invest in one of those.
Oh it's on the list.
Only thing is that we just bought my AT gear, my WFR is coming up in May (another $680.00 aside from lost time at work) and now I'm talking about a three hundred dollar beeping box.
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning. Cool. It's kind of like having a crag just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine. And one of the main benefits to me is the slopes are under 30 degrees, very warm/consolidated snow pack, and extremely well anchored. Avys are almost impossible. I don't have a beacon, so I can't play with the big dogs up in Lassen National Park. Skiing aside, if your going to be doing winter ascents and what not, you might want to invest in one of those. Oh it's on the list. Only thing is that we just bought my AT gear, my WFR is coming up in May (another $680.00 aside from lost time at work) and now I'm talking about a three hundred dollar beeping box.
Oh, and for guided trips, the company supplies them.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: laz, donny and burnsy just made the SPCI mobile. Just remember who started it!
aha, well played.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it?
grrrrr...
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Gmburns2000
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newest post is up: Good Partners.
This is the TR from Red Rocks.
I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: if sunny won't come here then we'll bring it to the stalkbook.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: if sunny won't come here then we'll bring it to the stalkbook. Clogging up his wall FTW
And calling him out on the password
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donny and burnsy just made the SPCI mobile. HA! And strong work getting Magnus to admit that he has been lurking.
Since laz was calling out for lurking and he denided it. I did a little quick stalking. And Boom, there it was.
Stalk
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should. He has a point And out goes skiiing season. Mammoth still has snow. We got some freinds lined up for babysitting in a month. Nice. I think we're taking the boys on one last boarding trip.... And after that it's probably all going to be BC on Shasta.
The weather only stopped pounding us last week.
We're going to try to go local here soon. Wife found a babysitter who's avaliable all week. Course her dad is scheduled for knee replacement Wed, so she wants to go up town Th to see him. But if we could get out early next week, that would be sweet.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one.
Um... pro????
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Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one.
Greg's Climbing Blog wrote: Cold weather causes me to lose dexterity both from pain and a loss of feeling at the same time. I know, that sounds contradictory, but it's true. It happens. I both feel nothing and pain at the same time. The nothingness hurts.
been there done that.
Kept me from getting my first 10a on sight.
Ok, so it was a soft 10a, really a 9. But still, I coulda bean a contender...
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. Um... pro????
5.4. 120 feet or so. anchor was solid. no need for pro. probably placed three pieces the entire pitch. maybe four.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. Greg wrote: Cold weather causes me to lose dexterity both from pain and a loss of feeling at the same time. I know, that sounds contradictory, but it's true. It happens. I both feel nothing and pain at the same time. The nothingness hurts. been there done that. Kept me from getting my first 10a on sight. Ok, so it was a soft 10a, really a 9. But still, I coulda bean a contender...
you were a contender, and a good one at that, too. I saws ya ziggin' and divin' and dodgin' and boppin'. I saws ya. I still sees ya. You still got it. Now go out there and fight!
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donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should. He has a point And out goes skiiing season. Mammoth still has snow. We got some freinds lined up for babysitting in a month. Nice. I think we're taking the boys on one last boarding trip.... And after that it's probably all going to be BC on Shasta. Should be plenty of snow still everywhere. The weather only stopped pounding us last week. We're going to try to go local here soon. Wife found a babysitter who's avaliable all week. Course her dad is scheduled for knee replacement Wed, so she wants to go up town Th to see him. But if we could get out early next week, that would be sweet.
gotta get a TR from Josh for the WW thread. That thread is gonna keep going or my name ain't Yooooooosemiteeeeeeee Sssssam!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. Um... pro???? 5.4. 120 feet or so. anchor was solid. no need for pro. probably placed three pieces the entire pitch. maybe four.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. Greg's Climbing Blog wrote: Cold weather causes me to lose dexterity both from pain and a loss of feeling at the same time. I know, that sounds contradictory, but it's true. It happens. I both feel nothing and pain at the same time. The nothingness hurts. been there done that. Kept me from getting my first 10a on sight. Ok, so it was a soft 10a, really a 9. But still, I coulda bean a contender... you were a contender, and a good one at that, too. I saws ya ziggin' and divin' and dodgin' and boppin'. I saws ya. I still sees ya. You still got it. Now go out there and fight!
Go go go!
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? 5.4. 120 feet or so. anchor was solid. no need for pro. probably placed three pieces the entire pitch. maybe four. cool, those are fun pitches.
Here's the info from MP on late parking passes at RR:
Larry on MP wrote: ***** LATE EXIT PASSES ***** It is easy to be late returning to your car, and the tickets are EXPENSIVE. The BLM has a "Late Exit" system in place to allow climbers extra time before they must exit the scenic loop road. Full details are on the BLM recording at 702-515-5050. Here's what to do: Call the LATE EXIT RECORDING at 702-515-5050. You can call up to seven days prior to your climb. If you can get a cell phone signal (but don't count on this), you can call as late as 4:00 p.m. on the day of your climb. Be prepared to recite the following information to the answering machine: 1. Your name and address 2. Vehicle license number and description 3. Type of pass (late exit or overnight) 4. Intended date of climb 5. Route name 6. Parking area 7. Your phone number ALL information must be left or NO PERMIT WILL BE ISSUED! All climbers should take advantage of this excellent resource. Any number of unexpected things can cause you to run late on a climb. Don't let your trip get ruined with an expensive, but avoidable, parking ticket |
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donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? 5.4. 120 feet or so. anchor was solid. no need for pro. probably placed three pieces the entire pitch. maybe four. cool, those are fun pitches. Here's the info from MP on late parking passes at RR: Larry on MP wrote: ***** LATE EXIT PASSES ***** It is easy to be late returning to your car, and the tickets are EXPENSIVE. The BLM has a "Late Exit" system in place to allow climbers extra time before they must exit the scenic loop road. Full details are on the BLM recording at 702-515-5050. Here's what to do: Call the LATE EXIT RECORDING at 702-515-5050. You can call up to seven days prior to your climb. If you can get a cell phone signal (but don't count on this), you can call as late as 4:00 p.m. on the day of your climb. Be prepared to recite the following information to the answering machine: 1. Your name and address 2. Vehicle license number and description 3. Type of pass (late exit or overnight) 4. Intended date of climb 5. Route name 6. Parking area 7. Your phone number ALL information must be left or NO PERMIT WILL BE ISSUED! All climbers should take advantage of this excellent resource. Any number of unexpected things can cause you to run late on a climb. Don't let your trip get ruined with an expensive, but avoidable, parking ticket
Been there, done that, happy to have used it.
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Well, pretty good skiing for being so close to my house I should say. Makes for a nice morning. Cool. It's kind of like having a crag just up the road. Makes it much easier to make the activity part of your weekly routine. And one of the main benefits to me is the slopes are under 30 degrees, very warm/consolidated snow pack, and extremely well anchored. Avys are almost impossible. I don't have a beacon, so I can't play with the big dogs up in Lassen National Park. Skiing aside, if your going to be doing winter ascents and what not, you might want to invest in one of those. Oh it's on the list. Only thing is that we just bought my AT gear, my WFR is coming up in May (another $680.00 aside from lost time at work) and now I'm talking about a three hundred dollar beeping box.
But think about how much of a waste it would be if your not around long enough to get your monies worth out of that new gear.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr...
Whats not to like?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? 5.4. 120 feet or so. anchor was solid. no need for pro. probably placed three pieces the entire pitch. maybe four.
Looks steeper than that.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. Greg's Climbing Blog wrote: Cold weather causes me to lose dexterity both from pain and a loss of feeling at the same time. I know, that sounds contradictory, but it's true. It happens. I both feel nothing and pain at the same time. The nothingness hurts. been there done that. Kept me from getting my first 10a on sight. Ok, so it was a soft 10a, really a 9. But still, I coulda bean a contender...
Maybe so but your still no bum. You got class, you are somebody.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like?
Isn't it obvious!? She's dressed!
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Lazlo
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? Isn't it obvious!? She's dressed!
That picture reminds me of a quick story.
The last time we went out skiing I got on a two person chair lift only to find myself stuck with a guy determined to take up as much room as possible. Legs are splayed. Skis are way across my buffer zone. And he's just sitting there oblivious. I REALLY wanted to say "Hey, Dude, stop sitting like a whore, put your legs together and stay on your side of the chair!"
...but I didn't say it.
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Gmburns2000
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image]
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Gmburns2000
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: newest post is up: Good Partners. This is the TR from Red Rocks. I'm actually pretty unhappy with my effort on this one. [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? 5.4. 120 feet or so. anchor was solid. no need for pro. probably placed three pieces the entire pitch. maybe four. Looks steeper than that.
It was pretty straight up and down, but was really easy terrain.
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donald949
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy.
Yea, me want to climb dat.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image]
Hmmmm.
Now heres a switch, the work filters actually blocked a NA NSFW Chick picture, but let me see a climbing picture. Whats up with that?
Crazy day.
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Isn't it obvious!? She's dressed!
Liegha PM'd!!!
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notapplicable
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Isn't it obvious!? She's dressed!
Touche mon ami
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notapplicable
Mar 18, 2010, 3:28 AM
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Isn't it obvious!? She's dressed! That picture reminds me of a quick story. The last time we went out skiing I got on a two person chair lift only to find myself stuck with a guy determined to take up as much room as possible. Legs are splayed. Skis are way across my buffer zone. And he's just sitting there oblivious. I REALLY wanted to say "Hey, Dude, stop sitting like a whore, put your legs together and stay on your side of the chair!" ...but I didn't say it.
You gotta wonder about people sometimes, "oblivious" is definitely the right word for it.
And your story reminds me of another story. On occasion, three of us guys would ride in the same truck to work and take turns sitting in the middle. Well a friend of mine has a big build and he could never keep his legs together in his "section" of the cab when he was middle man. We used to give him all kinds of shit about it and one day he got pissed and grabbed a bungee cord from under the seat and tied is knees together.
It was years ago but the mental image of him riding down the road with a scowl on his face, knees securely bungeed together, still cracks me up.
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notapplicable
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] me no likesy. me thinks she annoying.
Personality? Sure.
Music? Meh, I do like some of her stuff.
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notapplicable
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Hmmmm. Now heres a switch, the work filters actually blocked a NA NSFW Chick picture, but let me see a climbing picture. Whats up with that? Crazy day.
Still a FAIL. Nothing NSFW about that particular picture. I did see a few topless beach pics of here while finding that one but this isn't the daily breast thread so...
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notapplicable
Mar 18, 2010, 3:34 AM
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Long days my friends, long days. Two 14ers in a row suck the ass!
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notapplicable
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Climbing the granite this weekend though, so no worries.
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notapplicable
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Should be 60's and sunny.
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Isn't it obvious!? She's dressed! That picture reminds me of a quick story. The last time we went out skiing I got on a two person chair lift only to find myself stuck with a guy determined to take up as much room as possible. Legs are splayed. Skis are way across my buffer zone. And he's just sitting there oblivious. I REALLY wanted to say "Hey, Dude, stop sitting like a whore, put your legs together and stay on your side of the chair!" ...but I didn't say it. You gotta wonder about people sometimes, "oblivious" is definitely the right word for it. And your story reminds me of another story. On occasion, three of us guys would ride in the same truck to work and take turns sitting in the middle. Well a friend of mine has a big build and he could never keep his legs together in his "section" of the cab when he was middle man. We used to give him all kinds of shit about it and one day he got pissed and grabbed a bungee cord from under the seat and tied is knees together. It was years ago but the mental image of him riding down the road with a scowl on his face, knees securely bungeed together, still cracks me up.
Heh. Pretty funny.
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Gmburns2000
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat.
After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls Wall
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Gmburns2000
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notapplicable wrote: Long days my friends, long days. Two 14ers in a row suck the ass!
rough. I hope you get out soon.
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Gmburns2000
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Hmmmm. Now heres a switch, the work filters actually blocked a NA NSFW Chick picture, but let me see a climbing picture. Whats up with that? Crazy day.
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into...
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Gmburns2000
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] me no likesy. me thinks she annoying. Personality? Sure. Music? Meh, I do like some of her stuff.
I like neither
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Gmburns2000
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Isn't it obvious!? She's dressed! That picture reminds me of a quick story. The last time we went out skiing I got on a two person chair lift only to find myself stuck with a guy determined to take up as much room as possible. Legs are splayed. Skis are way across my buffer zone. And he's just sitting there oblivious. I REALLY wanted to say "Hey, Dude, stop sitting like a whore, put your legs together and stay on your side of the chair!" ...but I didn't say it. You gotta wonder about people sometimes, "oblivious" is definitely the right word for it. And your story reminds me of another story. On occasion, three of us guys would ride in the same truck to work and take turns sitting in the middle. Well a friend of mine has a big build and he could never keep his legs together in his "section" of the cab when he was middle man. We used to give him all kinds of shit about it and one day he got pissed and grabbed a bungee cord from under the seat and tied is knees together. It was years ago but the mental image of him riding down the road with a scowl on his face, knees securely bungeed together, still cracks me up. Heh. Pretty funny.
just spread your legs back. make sure your weight firmly presses agaist his legs. if gets uncomfortable, then you've won. if he gets comfortable and likes it, well, the snub you give him at the top will make him cry.
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Mar 18, 2010, 6:13 PM
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] Hmmmm. Now heres a switch, the work filters actually blocked a NA NSFW Chick picture, but let me see a climbing picture. Whats up with that? Crazy day. Still a FAIL. Nothing NSFW about that particular picture. I did see a few topless beach pics of here while finding that one but this isn't the daily breast thread so...
So perhaps your right it is sfw. Which might explain why the work filters are blocking it.
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donald949
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Ho boy...
Up to my armpits in aligators.
Z28 in the shop. Sparkplug got ejected from the head, Al. Backfired, got to look at the cat too. Bout a grand to drill, tap and install an insert.
Fathter in law had knee replacement yesterday. Wife is off to see him up town. I have to heard the kids around tonight.
Tommarrow night supposed to get w/ the tax man and drop off my paperwork.
Wife is supposed to go back up town over the weekend to see her dad. I'll be in chrge of the boys, and I'm trying to get out climbing at Josh.
Just found out that the boy scouts are going to be there, and going to be climbing. Some are freinds from church and its the boy scout troop associated with the cub scout troop my son started going to. I'll have to take my boys. I'll have to get a few thing together tonight, tommarrow night, Sat morning to pull it off. But, I may be able to swing it.
pray for me...
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wow, that's a full plate.
speaking of which, I gotta take a dump. brb...
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OK so I backed off a little.
Go pick up the car tonight.
Climbing Sat at Big Rock for teh day, not all weekend at Josh.
Drop off the tax stuff Sunday instead of tonight.
Still a bit of stuff to get together tonight for climbing tommarrow. But a least not adding camping stuff into the mix.
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Gmburns2000
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nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!).
Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out.
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Mar 20, 2010, 12:33 AM
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after climbing at the gym tonight I jumped into the pool and did lap swim for 40 min. 20 laps (one lap = both down and back) of alternating between free, breast, and backstroke one lap each. felt good.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out.
Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity!
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epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity!
Have a good time girls! I'll be waiting for the blog update with masturbation breath!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out.
Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off.
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notapplicable wrote: caughtinside wrote: We heard burnsy and dawg had a date last night and really hit it off! MAGNIFICENT!! I got a seriously good laugh out of that. Well played, who ever crafted that beauty.
just bumpin this gem.
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caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off.
I'll climb, but it won't be pretty.
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Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend?
It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think?
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Gmburns2000
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notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think?
when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not.
Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work.
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Headed to a home and garden show today
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rather be skiing,
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climbing,
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alpinizing,
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But at least I'm being paid.
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I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind.
Perfect.
I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today.
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Lazlo wrote: Headed to a home and garden show today
that sucks
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epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today.
OK, I'm showing up. Don't expect much, though.
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cesare wrote: My standards are pretty low when it comes to snow conditions, alcohol, or sex. I can say with respect to all three, the worst I ever had was great
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notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think?
That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours?
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours?
haven't heard back from him either.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] me no likesy. me thinks she annoying. Personality? Sure. Music? Meh, I do like some of her stuff. I like neither
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: there is no in between. Hmmm I disagree. Wanna fight about it? grrrrr... Whats not to like? [image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/grayokc/sheryl-crow21.jpg[/image] me no likesy. me thinks she annoying. Personality? Sure. Music? Meh, I do like some of her stuff. I like neither hater
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donald949 wrote: Ho boy... Up to my armpits in aligators. Z28 in the shop. Sparkplug got ejected from the head, Al. Backfired, got to look at the cat too. Bout a grand to drill, tap and install an insert. Fathter in law had knee replacement yesterday. Wife is off to see him up town. I have to heard the kids around tonight. Tommarrow night supposed to get w/ the tax man and drop off my paperwork. Wife is supposed to go back up town over the weekend to see her dad. I'll be in chrge of the boys, and I'm trying to get out climbing at Josh. Just found out that the boy scouts are going to be there, and going to be climbing. Some are freinds from church and its the boy scout troop associated with the cub scout troop my son started going to. I'll have to take my boys. I'll have to get a few thing together tonight, tommarrow night, Sat morning to pull it off. But, I may be able to swing it. pray for me...
Damn dude, that sounds like me lately. I feel your pain.
Atleast you and the boys might be able to squeeze some climbing in though.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out.
Climbing accidents happen every day you know, even to green people. I doubt you'd get in any trouble if something were to happen.
Just sayin
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat. After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls Wall
It looks like nice clean rock. I'm gonna make the trip out there one of these days...
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Climbing accidents happen every day you know, even to green people. I doubt you'd get in any trouble if something were to happen. Just sayin
are you telling me I missed my opportunity?
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat. After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls WallIt looks like nice clean rock. I'm gonna make the trip out there one of these days...
well, it is nice clean rock - some of the best i've ever climbed - but not within 48 hours of rain apparently.
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epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity!
He's an unemployed, quasi homeless white boy.
No dignity to be found.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not.
By Wednesday or so. If you can make it that would be great but don't go chaning plans or anything, it's just a hairbrained idea I had. If I stop down this way for the weekend I'll have saturday off, so the alternate plan is to head to WV for a three day weekend. Either way, climbing will be happening, it's just a matter of where.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work.
I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck.
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Lazlo wrote: Headed to a home and garden show today
Don't knock it till you try it. I went to one awhile back and it was alright.
Nothing compared to the climbing mind you, but not a total waste of time.
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Lazlo wrote: But at least I'm being paid.
Even better!
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epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today.
Me too. A little warmer at about 73 but we had our pick of sunny and shady routes so it really couldn't have been any better.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck.
Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday.
Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide.
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notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today. Me too. A little warmer at about 73 but we had our pick of sunny and shady routes so it really couldn't have been any better.
Climbed again today as well. Exact same scenario, different venue. I sure do love this time of year.
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notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity! He's an unemployed, quasi homeless white boy. No dignity to be found.
I'm not unemployed; I'm a writer. However, the rest of the statement is completely true.
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notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today. Me too. A little warmer at about 73 but we had our pick of sunny and shady routes so it really couldn't have been any better. Climbed again today as well. Exact same scenario, different venue. I sure do love this time of year.
Oh and I'm excited to see who wins in the race to kill the other. My money is on Burns, as I've dispatched a team of ninjas to assist in the rope cutting efforts.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today. OK, I'm showing up. Don't expect much, though.
Climb how you will, my only expectations are for carnage.
Do not disappoint me.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours?
I might be able to cut it down to 22 if I haul ass. Mapquest says 26.
Either way, it's farther than I want to drive, thats for damn sure. Whats really fucked up is that this truck was there last week but for some reason they didn't have me bring it back then, when there were two of us to split the driving.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours? haven't heard back from him either.
To many climbs, not enough time...
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Climbing accidents happen every day you know, even to green people. I doubt you'd get in any trouble if something were to happen. Just sayin are you telling me I missed my opportunity?
I'm disappointed in your sir.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat. After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls WallIt looks like nice clean rock. I'm gonna make the trip out there one of these days... well, it is nice clean rock - some of the best i've ever climbed - but not within 48 hours of rain apparently.
I've heard the same thing. Thankfully our sandstone out this way is much harder. Unfortunately, not as tall.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat. After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls WallIt looks like nice clean rock. I'm gonna make the trip out there one of these days... well, it is nice clean rock - some of the best i've ever climbed - but not within 48 hours of rain apparently. I've heard the same thing. Thankfully our sandstone out this way is much harder. Unfortunately, not as tall.
go pick up a truck out there.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Climbing accidents happen every day you know, even to green people. I doubt you'd get in any trouble if something were to happen. Just sayin are you telling me I missed my opportunity? I'm disappointed in your sir.
I did make him drive.
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notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today. Me too. A little warmer at about 73 but we had our pick of sunny and shady routes so it really couldn't have been any better. Climbed again today as well. Exact same scenario, different venue. I sure do love this time of year. Oh and I'm excited to see who wins in the race to kill the other. My money is on Burns, as I've dispatched a team of ninjas to assist in the rope cutting efforts.
I tried, but he seemed to fail on the killinz part.
Zent him up a runowt for a first klimb. Decking potential fer shure.
Then I got guilt/suckered into leading while it was snowing.
Nay, the score is still 0:0
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Today's tic list in order of climbed:
Old Spice
Old Stud Topropeking!
Lower Charlotte's. (actually a zvhen in teh book)
Arete
Out of Gas
Dreamweaver. (Featherbaged wun won eh?)
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide.
Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that.
I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off.
Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity! He's an unemployed, quasi homeless white boy. No dignity to be found. I'm not unemployed; I'm a writer. However, the rest of the statement is completely true.
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epoch wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today. Me too. A little warmer at about 73 but we had our pick of sunny and shady routes so it really couldn't have been any better. Climbed again today as well. Exact same scenario, different venue. I sure do love this time of year. Oh and I'm excited to see who wins in the race to kill the other. My money is on Burns, as I've dispatched a team of ninjas to assist in the rope cutting efforts. I tried, but he seemed to fail on the killinz part. Zent him up a runowt for a first klimb. Decking potential fer shure. Then I got guilt/suckered into leading while it was snowing. Nay, the score is still 0:0
I almost had you on the guilt thing, too, dammit!
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive.
that sounds good. just let me know and make sure it's after April 28, 'cause that's when I'm back from CO.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat. After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls WallIt looks like nice clean rock. I'm gonna make the trip out there one of these days... well, it is nice clean rock - some of the best i've ever climbed - but not within 48 hours of rain apparently. I've heard the same thing. Thankfully our sandstone out this way is much harder. Unfortunately, not as tall. go pick up a truck out there.
Fortunately this is a one time thing. I should have this truck until I quit the job or it breaks down, which ever comes first.
I will find my way out there though. The Tetons are first on the list of "beyond the mississippi" trips, RR is second.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Climbing accidents happen every day you know, even to green people. I doubt you'd get in any trouble if something were to happen. Just sayin are you telling me I missed my opportunity? I'm disappointed in your sir. I did make him drive.
I like to sleep while the other person drives after a long day of climbing, even if I'm not tired, just to rub it in.
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epoch wrote: Today's tic list in order of climbed: Old Spice Old Stud Topropeking! Lower Charlotte's. (actually a zvhen in teh book) Arete
Need to add this to the route databases both here and MP. you got the info to do that? That's the 5.8, right?
In reply to: Dreamweaver. (Featherbaged wun won eh?)
soft for sure. will get on it again later this year for the red point.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat. After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls WallIt looks like nice clean rock. I'm gonna make the trip out there one of these days... well, it is nice clean rock - some of the best i've ever climbed - but not within 48 hours of rain apparently. I've heard the same thing. Thankfully our sandstone out this way is much harder. Unfortunately, not as tall. go pick up a truck out there. Fortunately this is a one time thing. I should have this truck until I quit the job or it breaks down, which ever comes first. I will find my way out there though. RRare first on the list of "beyond the mississippi" trips, The Tetons is second.
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epoch wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: I climbed today. It was 65, low humidity, and little to no wind. Perfect. I shall kill gmburnz tomorrow. He gets to lead the wet klimbs I didn't get to today. Me too. A little warmer at about 73 but we had our pick of sunny and shady routes so it really couldn't have been any better. Climbed again today as well. Exact same scenario, different venue. I sure do love this time of year. Oh and I'm excited to see who wins in the race to kill the other. My money is on Burns, as I've dispatched a team of ninjas to assist in the rope cutting efforts. I tried, but he seemed to fail on the killinz part. Zent him up a runowt for a first klimb. Decking potential fer shure. Then I got guilt/suckered into leading while it was snowing. Nay, the score is still 0:0
Hmmmm, now I'm in an awkward situation. My ninjas have failed so clearly they must be fired, but being ninjas, I'm a little scared.
I do take solace in the fact that it was snowing on you guys while I was inundated with mere sunshine and blue skys.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. that sounds good. just let me know and make sure it's after April 28, 'cause that's when I'm back from CO.
Sounds good actually. I'm going to NC for a trip right in the middle of April and will have had my fill of the less than vertical death routes. The Gunks will be a perfect change of pace.
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Mar 22, 2010, 1:19 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: [image]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4390509114_4ced4cd6f4.jpg[/image] Um... pro???? Pro or no pro, THAT is sexy. Yea, me want to climb dat. After the first three pitches, that wasn't even the good pitch, or the second best pitch. A very interesting route. Black Magic (5.8) - Lotta Balls WallIt looks like nice clean rock. I'm gonna make the trip out there one of these days... well, it is nice clean rock - some of the best i've ever climbed - but not within 48 hours of rain apparently. I've heard the same thing. Thankfully our sandstone out this way is much harder. Unfortunately, not as tall. go pick up a truck out there. Fortunately this is a one time thing. I should have this truck until I quit the job or it breaks down, which ever comes first. I will find my way out there though. RRare first on the list of "beyond the mississippi" trips, The Tetons is second. fixed
I have BIG, although unlikely to be realized, dreams of soloing the grand traverse one day. Gotta get a preview and see if it's even in the realm of possibility for me.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Today's tic list in order of climbed: Old Spice Old Stud Topropeking! Lower Charlotte's. (actually a zvhen in teh book) Arete would like to go back and lead old spice when it isn't as cold. almost did it today and kinda sorta wished I had instead of TR'ing it, but whatever. It'll go. Need to add this to the route databases both here and MP. you got the info to do that? That's the 5.8, right? In reply to: Dreamweaver. (Featherbaged wun won eh?) soft for sure. will get on it again later this year for the red point.
It will be in the gnU guide whenever it comes out. I feel that, then, it should be added to the RDB of here and/or MP. However, considering the quiet nature of the area I may be disinclined to do it. I, and others, have already omitted adding many routes as it is.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity! He's an unemployed, quasi homeless white boy. No dignity to be found. I'm not unemployed; I'm a writer. However, the rest of the statement is completely true.
Are you currently writing something you will be paid for? Does your writing usually generate enough revenue?
If you can't answer both with; yes, then you might be unemployed after all.
Just axing!
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours? haven't heard back from him either. To many climbs, not enough time...
So you did end up climbing in Austin? Where at?
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive.
I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people.
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epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Today's tic list in order of climbed: Old Spice Old Stud Topropeking! [img]http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Fh9XTTSkRTk/S6a85XUjfCI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/quwErL89Uvw/s512/2010-03-21%2010.36.15.jpg[/img] Lower Charlotte's. (actually a zvhen in teh book) Arete would like to go back and lead old spice when it isn't as cold. almost did it today and kinda sorta wished I had instead of TR'ing it, but whatever. It'll go. Need to add this to the route databases both here and MP. you got the info to do that? That's the 5.8, right? In reply to: Dreamweaver. (Featherbaged wun won eh?) soft for sure. will get on it again later this year for the red point. Out of Gas isn't published yet. It will be in the gnU guide whenever it comes out. I feel that, then, it should be added to the RDB of here and/or MP. However, considering the quiet nature of the area I may be disinclined to do it. I, and others, have already omitted adding many routes as it is.
naw, if there's a guidebook then there's no reason to keep it quiet except for personal reasons. Yeah, it's nice to not have crowds, but the guidebook kinda defeats that purpose from the outset and it is probably more likely to be bought before anyone stumbles on that area on-line...but maybe not.
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I_do wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity! He's an unemployed, quasi homeless white boy. No dignity to be found. I'm not unemployed; I'm a writer. However, the rest of the statement is completely true. Are you currently writing something you will be paid for? Does your writing usually generate enough revenue? If you can't answer both with; yes, then you might be unemployed after all. Just axing!
- Yes.
- Not yet, but yes in the future.
- Not really because I am working pretty hard to get paid. Just because it isn't bringing in money now that doesn't mean I'm not working to bring in money in the future.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people.
teh zeke is gravitational?
I think your circumstances are different. If it were my only climbing time in a while then I'd probably do that, too. That and he's coming back.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: I_do wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity! He's an unemployed, quasi homeless white boy. No dignity to be found. I'm not unemployed; I'm a writer. However, the rest of the statement is completely true. Are you currently writing something you will be paid for? Does your writing usually generate enough revenue? If you can't answer both with; yes, then you might be unemployed after all. Just axing! - Yes. - Not yet, but yes in the future. - Not really because I am working pretty hard to get paid. Just because it isn't bringing in money now that doesn't mean I'm not working to bring in money in the future.
Well I'll take that as a not being unemployed. I wish you lots of luck and fuzzy bunnies in making a living as a writer (no ironing).
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I_do wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I_do wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Bring a jacket, gloves, wollen hat, wear long johns, get some handwarmers, and find your dignity! He's an unemployed, quasi homeless white boy. No dignity to be found. I'm not unemployed; I'm a writer. However, the rest of the statement is completely true. Are you currently writing something you will be paid for? Does your writing usually generate enough revenue? If you can't answer both with; yes, then you might be unemployed after all. Just axing! - Yes. - Not yet, but yes in the future. - Not really because I am working pretty hard to get paid. Just because it isn't bringing in money now that doesn't mean I'm not working to bring in money in the future. Well I'll take that as a not being unemployed. I wish you lots of luck and fuzzy bunnies in making a living as a writer (no ironing).
well thanks! I appreciate it (no ironing either). But knowing a fair amount of people who do work and get paid later, sometimes months later, I consider myself employed. The money will come, I'm sure of it.
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notapplicable
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours? haven't heard back from him either. To many climbs, not enough time... So you did end up climbing in Austin? Where at?
As it turns out, the Northern ARG was only a few miles from my hotel so I walked over and bouldered one evening. It was nice to get a bit of exercise after trying not to shoot myself in the face during the 11th power point presentation.
I didn't get to climb outside because we "worked" till about 5 every evening but the hotel did have a small gym and heated pool which I took full advantage of.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people.
But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. teh zeke is gravitational? I think your circumstances are different. If it were my only climbing time in a while then I'd probably do that, too. That and he's coming back.
Yeah I'd drive 10 hours for two days at Cochise too.
The Gunks, I've been to.
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notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours? haven't heard back from him either. To many climbs, not enough time... So you did end up climbing in Austin? Where at? As it turns out, the Northern ARG was only a few miles from my hotel so I walked over and bouldered one evening. It was nice to get a bit of exercise after trying not to shoot myself in the face during the 11th power point presentation. I didn't get to climb outside because we "worked" till about 5 every evening but the hotel did have a small gym and heated pool which I took full advantage of.
Nice one.... actually Saturday was certainly a day for a heated pool here in teh Texas. I think it topped 34F here.
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notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is.
Heh! Plastic is not worthy!
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is. Heh! Plastic is not worthy is for rock masters and I'm not good enough!
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is. Heh! Plastic is not worthy!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is. Heh! Plastic is not worthy is for rock masters and I'm not good enough! fixed for obvious correctedness based on actual rc.com data.
Ironically enough, so is this
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Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Today's tic list in order of climbed: Old Spice Old Stud Topropeking! [img]http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Fh9XTTSkRTk/S6a85XUjfCI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/quwErL89Uvw/s512/2010-03-21%2010.36.15.jpg[/img] Lower Charlotte's. (actually a zvhen in teh book) Arete would like to go back and lead old spice when it isn't as cold. almost did it today and kinda sorta wished I had instead of TR'ing it, but whatever. It'll go. Need to add this to the route databases both here and MP. you got the info to do that? That's the 5.8, right? In reply to: Dreamweaver. (Featherbaged wun won eh?) soft for sure. will get on it again later this year for the red point. Out of Gas isn't published yet. It will be in the gnU guide whenever it comes out. I feel that, then, it should be added to the RDB of here and/or MP. However, considering the quiet nature of the area I may be disinclined to do it. I, and others, have already omitted adding many routes as it is. naw, if there's a guidebook then there's no reason to keep it quiet except for personal reasons. Yeah, it's nice to not have crowds, but the guidebook kinda defeats that purpose from the outset and it is probably more likely to be bought before anyone stumbles on that area on-line...but maybe not.
Considering that there is only one outlet for the guide, it may remain an overlooked area. People usually do not associate Maine climbing and Camden. It is overlooked and passed because the hype is on Arcadia. Thing is, locals and myself like the lack of crowds up there. The actions of the CT bolt choppah have caused the local climbing community to appreciate the quiet resource at their disposal.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is. Heh! Plastic is not worthy is for rock masters and I'm not good enough! fixed for obvious correctedness based on actual rc.com data. Ironically enough, so is this
ahhh!!! I can't see your correction!
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epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: epoch wrote: Today's tic list in order of climbed: Old Spice Old Stud Topropeking! [img]http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Fh9XTTSkRTk/S6a85XUjfCI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/quwErL89Uvw/s512/2010-03-21%2010.36.15.jpg[/img] Lower Charlotte's. (actually a zvhen in teh book) Arete would like to go back and lead old spice when it isn't as cold. almost did it today and kinda sorta wished I had instead of TR'ing it, but whatever. It'll go. Need to add this to the route databases both here and MP. you got the info to do that? That's the 5.8, right? In reply to: Dreamweaver. (Featherbaged wun won eh?) soft for sure. will get on it again later this year for the red point. Out of Gas isn't published yet. It will be in the gnU guide whenever it comes out. I feel that, then, it should be added to the RDB of here and/or MP. However, considering the quiet nature of the area I may be disinclined to do it. I, and others, have already omitted adding many routes as it is. naw, if there's a guidebook then there's no reason to keep it quiet except for personal reasons. Yeah, it's nice to not have crowds, but the guidebook kinda defeats that purpose from the outset and it is probably more likely to be bought before anyone stumbles on that area on-line...but maybe not. Considering that there is only one outlet for the guide, it may remain an overlooked area. People usually do not associate Maine climbing and Camden. It is overlooked and passed because the hype is on Arcadia. Thing is, locals and myself like the lack of crowds up there. The actions of the CT bolt choppah have caused the local climbing community to appreciate the quiet resource at their disposal.
understood and acknowledged with appreciation, but I seriously doubt KN doesn't know about the guidebook. besides, the point of the guidebook is to make the places and routes easier to find, not to keep it a special place for only locals.
also, based on where we went, NONE of that rock is hidden. it is all pretty easily found by either hiking or driving, and there's plenty of info on MP and RC.com to show people that there is, in fact, decent rock up there.
I think we're probably going to have to disagree on this. I know, people don't want folks rushing to their crag, and the concern about chopping is a legit reason for keeping things on the down-low. BUT I think there are better ways to manage bolt chopping. The WMCC is a good example of this. Yeah, it took some muscle, but KN won't be back at Farely for a long time, and it isn't because it is hush-hush, it's because the community expanded and got strong enough to combat him. I'd rather have a large, strong community than a small, quiet one.
I dunno, for me, the outdoors are to be shared. I understand and sympathize with those who don't feel the same way, however. It's just a difference of living life, and I'm openly on the side of sharing. I hope that doesn't mean you stop showing me around, but if that's my penalty then so be it.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out.
Saw your FB post. Sounds like you got some good laps in.
We had the opposite problem here Sat.
It was hot H-O-T hot. Dang, two weeks ago I was camping in cold, well cold for South OC, rain with my son. Sat im frying my brains on the rock.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Saw your FB post. Sounds like you got some good laps in. We had the opposite problem here Sat. It was hot H-O-T hot. Dang, two weeks ago I was camping in cold, well cold for South OC, rain with my son. Sat im frying my brains on the rock.
Only the middle of march and already that H-O-T!
Yikes. What the hell is July like?
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If you guys can't tell, I don't have to work today and no can go climbing.
I is bored.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Saw your FB post. Sounds like you got some good laps in. We had the opposite problem here Sat. It was hot H-O-T hot. Dang, two weeks ago I was camping in cold, well cold for South OC, rain with my son. Sat im frying my brains on the rock.
saw your's, too. how's the sprainage?
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notapplicable wrote: If you guys can't tell, I don't have to work today and no can go climbing. I is bored.
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Also, had a little miss hap.
I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz.
We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full.
Oh well.
Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up.
Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge.
Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab.
But otherwise Im fine.
Tim is looking past me.
I turn around.
The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. 
Their eyes were that big.
they were right behind me.
And I just meat bombed them.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Saw your FB post. Sounds like you got some good laps in. We had the opposite problem here Sat. It was hot H-O-T hot. Dang, two weeks ago I was camping in cold, well cold for South OC, rain with my son. Sat im frying my brains on the rock. saw your's, too. how's the sprainage?
Pretty tender, though the swelling is down from yesterday. Not nearly as bad as last year misshap. Hurt both my knee and my ankle. I think I'll be good to go in couple of weeks. Althoug TR'n might be in order for a while longer than that. we'll see.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Saw your FB post. Sounds like you got some good laps in. We had the opposite problem here Sat. It was hot H-O-T hot. Dang, two weeks ago I was camping in cold, well cold for South OC, rain with my son. Sat im frying my brains on the rock. saw your's, too. how's the sprainage? Pretty tender, though the swelling is down from yesterday. Not nearly as bad as last year misshap. Hurt both my knee and my ankle. I think I'll be good to go in couple of weeks. Althoug TR'n might be in order for a while longer than that. we'll see.
well, I certainly know from experience this past year: take care of it or else...
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donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them.
I jump back on, and pull through no problem. No idea, what I did wrong. Wrong footholds, or balance off? IDK.
Tim is brought up, I set up a TR, and the boys climb all day. Tim just ends up doing a lot of traversing and bouldering, along with seconding the first climbing. I climb one last time, the ankle is deff tender, but not weak in that direction. clean the anchor and rap off.
The hardest part was the walk out.
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Accidental pt FTL
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The boys had a good day though.
They climbed like mad. Played in the dirt, rode their bikes all around. And generally were well behaved, much better than the morning when I was trying to get them ready to go.
Jake climbed up the full 100 feet twice. Climbs too fast for me to keep up with on the rope.
Mark didn't go all the way up, but went up a good ways on his own this time.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty.
A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show.
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Lazlo wrote: or really anything.
Beating your head against the wall?
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Lazlo wrote: But at least I'm being paid.
OIC.
work.
well thats not too bad then.
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Ho boy... Up to my armpits in aligators. Z28 in the shop. Sparkplug got ejected from the head, Al. Backfired, got to look at the cat too. Bout a grand to drill, tap and install an insert. Fathter in law had knee replacement yesterday. Wife is off to see him up town. I have to heard the kids around tonight. Tommarrow night supposed to get w/ the tax man and drop off my paperwork. Wife is supposed to go back up town over the weekend to see her dad. I'll be in chrge of the boys, and I'm trying to get out climbing at Josh. Just found out that the boy scouts are going to be there, and going to be climbing. Some are freinds from church and its the boy scout troop associated with the cub scout troop my son started going to. I'll have to take my boys. I'll have to get a few thing together tonight, tommarrow night, Sat morning to pull it off. But, I may be able to swing it. pray for me... Damn dude, that sounds like me lately. I feel your pain. Atleast you and the boys might be able to squeeze some climbing in though.
Too much backed off.
Even so, it was a full weekend
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show.
touche
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? That's a fair drive.... what, 20-22 hours? haven't heard back from him either. To many climbs, not enough time... So you did end up climbing in Austin? Where at? As it turns out, the Northern ARG was only a few miles from my hotel so I walked over and bouldered one evening. It was nice to get a bit of exercise after trying not to shoot myself in the face during the 11th power point presentation. I didn't get to climb outside because we "worked" till about 5 every evening but the hotel did have a small gym and heated pool which I took full advantage of. Nice one.... actually Saturday was certainly a day for a heated pool here in teh Texas. I think it topped 34F here.
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Saw your FB post. Sounds like you got some good laps in. We had the opposite problem here Sat. It was hot H-O-T hot. Dang, two weeks ago I was camping in cold, well cold for South OC, rain with my son. Sat im frying my brains on the rock. Only the middle of march and already that H-O-T! Yikes. What the hell is July like?
Actually, we did once. Several years ago when we were getting back into climbing after a number of years off. But it was over 100 by the time we quit at 1130.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Saw your FB post. Sounds like you got some good laps in. We had the opposite problem here Sat. It was hot H-O-T hot. Dang, two weeks ago I was camping in cold, well cold for South OC, rain with my son. Sat im frying my brains on the rock. saw your's, too. how's the sprainage? Pretty tender, though the swelling is down from yesterday. Not nearly as bad as last year misshap. Hurt both my knee and my ankle. I think I'll be good to go in couple of weeks. Althoug TR'n might be in order for a while longer than that. we'll see. well, I certainly know from experience this past year: take care of it or else...
Yea, prolly should lay off for a while.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is. Heh! Plastic is not worthy is for rock masters and I'm not good enough! fixed for obvious correctedness based on actual rc.com data.
Heh!! I remember that thread. Classic Angry.
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notapplicable wrote: If you guys can't tell, I don't have to work today and no can go climbing. I is bored.
Actually.... I couldn't tell.
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donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them.
It's a wonder he noticed you fall with all da ladies.
Hope your ankle feels better soon.
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kachoong wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. It's a wonder he noticed you fall with all da ladies. Hope your ankle feels better soon.
Hey yea. He an old married dude like myself. Whch actaully makes it worse. Well he's a couple years younger than me. And there was actually several groups of young girls around.
But I gave a big FALLING shout, he would have been hard pressed to miss it. Also, our wifes are good freinds, so he would have been in big trouble with his wife, if I cratered and told my wife that Tim dropped me cause he was distracted by the coeds.
Thanks for the good wishes for the ankle.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Hey Greg, you tryin to climb the Gunks (yes, the whole thing) next weekend? It's a long story but I'm driving a truck from TX to NJ and I can either stop at home on Thursday and then do the last stretch on Monday, or I can just drive straight thru to NY and climb and collect per diem over the weekend. What ya think? when do you need to know by? my dad wants me to spend the weekend yanking trees out of the back yard. there's an outside chance I could get out of it, but maybe not. Oh, and i probably can't be there until Sat morning because a friend is making his acting debut in a play friday night. but sat - mon might work. I wouldn't be getting in to town until late friday anyway so thats no big deal. I could only do Sat. and Sun. though, got to be back in NJ on Monday morning to outfit the truck. Hmmm...not sure if a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) is worth 1.5 days of climbing. Too bad you can't do Monday. Let's touch base on Wed and see where we're at. If it's raining down there on the weekend then we should cancel. If it isn't, then we gotta decide. Oh yeah, your not in Boston anymore are you? I was was thinking it would be like half that. I totally agree, 12 hours is too far for a two day weekend in a place you've already climbed plenty and the circumstances being what they are, I doubt I can take monday off. Oh well, I'll be up there for a longer stretch later this spring so we can plan farther in advance and climb for long enough to justify the drive. I drove 10 hours each way to climb teh climez with teh Zeek. We were there for two days of climbing. It was worth it! Zeek has that affect on people. But you wouldn't drive a measly 4 hours to climb the plastic with me? I see how it is. Heh! Plastic is not worthy is for rock masters and I'm not good enough! fixed for obvious correctedness based on actual rc.com data. Ironically enough, so is this ahhh!!! I can't see your correction!
All I know is that I've never gone to the gym and not had my as thoroughly kicked.
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donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them.
Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall.
I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign.
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donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. So I'm miffed, not quite pissed, but miffed. I jump back on, and pull through no problem. No idea, what I did wrong. Wrong footholds, or balance off? IDK. Tim is brought up, I set up a TR, and the boys climb all day. Tim just ends up doing a lot of traversing and bouldering, along with seconding the first climbing. I climb one last time, the ankle is deff tender, but not weak in that direction. clean the anchor and rap off. The hardest part was the walk out.
A lot of people aren't really willing to take falls and you seem to take your fair share, so one could argue that your doing something right. Other than getting hurt in the process of course.
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. So I'm miffed, not quite pissed, but miffed. I jump back on, and pull through no problem. No idea, what I did wrong. Wrong footholds, or balance off? IDK. Tim is brought up, I set up a TR, and the boys climb all day. Tim just ends up doing a lot of traversing and bouldering, along with seconding the first climbing. I climb one last time, the ankle is deff tender, but not weak in that direction. clean the anchor and rap off. The hardest part was the walk out. A lot of people aren't really willing to take falls and you seem to take your fair share, so one could argue that your doing something right. Other than getting hurt in the process of course.
Seriously though, I respect your willingness to go for it, fall and then get right back on. Especially on the slab!
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donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. So I'm miffed, not quite pissed, but miffed. I jump back on, and pull through no problem. No idea, what I did wrong. Wrong footholds, or balance off? IDK. Tim is brought up, I set up a TR, and the boys climb all day. Tim just ends up doing a lot of traversing and bouldering, along with seconding the first climbing. I climb one last time, the ankle is deff tender, but not weak in that direction. clean the anchor and rap off. The hardest part was the walk out.
Miffed could be pissed if your mouth was full of marshmallows.
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notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. So I'm miffed, not quite pissed, but miffed. I jump back on, and pull through no problem. No idea, what I did wrong. Wrong footholds, or balance off? IDK. Tim is brought up, I set up a TR, and the boys climb all day. Tim just ends up doing a lot of traversing and bouldering, along with seconding the first climbing. I climb one last time, the ankle is deff tender, but not weak in that direction. clean the anchor and rap off. The hardest part was the walk out. A lot of people aren't really willing to take falls and you seem to take your fair share, so one could argue that your doing something right. Other than getting hurt in the process of course. Seriously though, I respect your willingness to go for it, fall and then get right back on. Especially on the slab!
Ditto!
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: If you guys can't tell, I don't have to work today and no can go climbing. I is bored. Actually.... I couldn't tell.
Ha! Mock my pain all you want, I'm going to get a massage in 30 min.
Suckers!
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I love the tech tips on this website... makes me laugh every time.
The Willy Stick site.
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign.
Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny.
I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece.
What do you do to set up practice falls?
It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well.
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notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. So I'm miffed, not quite pissed, but miffed. I jump back on, and pull through no problem. No idea, what I did wrong. Wrong footholds, or balance off? IDK. Tim is brought up, I set up a TR, and the boys climb all day. Tim just ends up doing a lot of traversing and bouldering, along with seconding the first climbing. I climb one last time, the ankle is deff tender, but not weak in that direction. clean the anchor and rap off. The hardest part was the walk out. A lot of people aren't really willing to take falls and you seem to take your fair share, so one could argue that your doing something right. Other than getting hurt in the process of course. Seriously though, I respect your willingness to go for it, fall and then get right back on. Especially on the slab!
Anyrate, I knew where the fall was, so the second go I did something different, apparently, and moved through smartly. Figured out the moves I guess.
Anyrate, this fall was not as bad as last years. Where I twisted my ankle, but really wrenched my knee. But was not too too bad, Thank God, as it healed I got back out in June.
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kachoong wrote: I love the tech tips on this website... makes me laugh every time. The Willy Stick site.
Oh yea, The Willy Stick.
Funny stuff.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show.
I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show. I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
Oh, and I just got off work. Last pay check had 56 hours.
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well.
I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up.
I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well.
I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong.
Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it.
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kachoong wrote: I love the tech tips on this website... makes me laugh every time. The Willy Stick site.
#2 made me laugh pretty hard.
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show. I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
what does that mean, you worked seven days straight?
sucks if that's the case.
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fucking A. I can't stand it when I can't find a grammar solution.
In paragraph form (i.e. - not at the start of a letter), do I use "Mister Jones" or "Mr. Jones" and does it matter if there is a Mrs. Jones?
Strunk and White? Nothin'
Grammar Girl? Nuttin'
Woe is I? Packed in a box in NH.
Google search? gives me the history of Ms. vs. Mrs.
My asshole? Nada.
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you should e-mail grammar girl.
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I did! and all I got was a stinkin' form letter telling me that she probably won't answer my question, even though she hasn't already answered it in any of her articles.
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dont you just hate that? it's like that time you e-mailed car talk and refreshed your e-mail 150 times the next hour to see if they had read it yet.
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exactly! and those bastards never got back to me either (except, of course, with a standard e-mail telling me that they had recieved it and probably wouldn't e-mail me back).
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yeah, but you gotta laugh at their chauffer's name.
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the russian dude?
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yeah, his name is Pikup Andropov.
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almost as funny as their landowner, which is the law firm: Dewey, Cheatham & Howe
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aw, at least there's some humor in this world.
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yeah, sure is. Hey, did you go to the gym today?
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yeah, why?
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you fucking stink. go take a shower you slob.
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my, you came back nice and clean.
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^^ in honor of the original posts.
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jeremiah has a post on his NC trip coming up soon. I've read part of it. I think it will be an interesting read.
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ok, I gotta read and go to bed.
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night-night.
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night-night to you too.
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HEY! where do you think you're going?
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show. I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
Ah yes, the dreaded 8th day of the week.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it.
I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: dont you just hate that? it's like that time you e-mailed car talk and refreshed your e-mail 150 times the next hour to see if they had read it yet.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: yeah, his name is Pikup Andropov.
heh
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Gmburns2000 wrote: yeah, why?
Got your ass handed to ya, didn't ya.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: you fucking stink. go take a shower you slob.
And thats because plastic is for the real rock masters
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notapplicable
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Gmburns2000 wrote: jeremiah has a post on his NC trip coming up soon. I've read part of it. I think it will be an interesting read.
I hope he had fun and gets some form of resolution to that whole stolen gear bullshit.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it. I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO.
I think the fear of falling is anything but elementary for some people. There have been times when I've been OK with it, and there have been times when I've been petrified...in a gym.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: jeremiah has a post on his NC trip coming up soon. I've read part of it. I think it will be an interesting read. I hope he had fun and gets some form of resolution to that whole stolen gear bullshit.
he hasn't really. he's still trying to work out the insurance stuff, which hasn't been as fun as he'd hoped it would be.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: you fucking stink. go take a shower you slob. And thats because plastic is for the real rock masters
actually, it was a regular gym. 1hr cross arc + weights. Tonight it's 3hrs of climbing + swim.
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donald949 wrote: I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well.
I've set up instances, during early parts of my climbing years, to practice lead falls, but not so much anymore. I found the best place either in the gym or outside on bolted climbs. Most important thing though, it should be overhanging to minimise risk of hurting an ankle or knee. Falling from an anchor isn't as good as a bolt on the climb, mainly due to not being able in most cases to climb past the anchor to take a fall. On trad you'd best leave the falling till all other possibilities have been exhausted. I did used to practice trad falling, but I was younger and cocky and stuffed the crack with lots of pro.
All that aside, there's nothing better for your days confidence than to take a fall with a flash pump early in the day... gets it out of the way.
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show. I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
Yea, but least you were getting paid to go.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: yeah, his name is Pikup Andropov.
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kachoong wrote: donald949 wrote: I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've set up instances, during early parts of my climbing years, to practice lead falls, but not so much anymore. I found the best place either in the gym or outside on bolted climbs. Most important thing though, it should be overhanging to minimise risk of hurting an ankle or knee. Falling from an anchor isn't as good as a bolt on the climb, mainly due to not being able in most cases to climb past the anchor to take a fall. On trad you'd best leave the falling till all other possibilities have been exhausted. I did used to practice trad falling, but I was younger and cocky and stuffed the crack with lots of pro. All that aside, there's nothing better for your days confidence than to take a fall with a flash pump early in the day... gets it out of the way.
Reflexes. Thats the word I'm looking for. While I've certainly taken a few lead falls lately. I have not taken many falls as a leader overall. TR yea. I'll tackle any problem and fall a million times on TR/2nd. So I don't think I have the right reflexes on lead falls.
Although the one time I kept falling on gear in Josh, I think by the end of the go I was doing better. Course I had sewed it up so they weren't long after the first fall.
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That time I fell repeatedly on gear in Josh was good in a way. I had never really fallen hard on gear. Even though trad climbing is all we did back in the day. And with a couple of my partners I did all the leading, others it was more even.
Sure I took a couple hard falls on bolts, though I wouldn't call them sport routes.
So it was kind of like proof testing the concept.
Anyrate, leading above gear before you are really really sure that it will hold, sure makes you focus. And I look back and think how little gear I had, and how far above gear I must have been some times.
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kachoong wrote: All that aside, there's nothing better for your days confidence than to take a fall with a flash pump early in the day... gets it out of the way.
ain't that the truth.
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I've taken a few falls on gear. only one was a fall I knew was coming, and that ended up being a 20-footer. but it was a good catch.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show. I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays. what does that mean, you worked seven days straight? sucks if that's the case.
Yep. That's the case.
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Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working.
But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags!
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Seagrams Sweet Tea Vodka is pretty good.
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Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags!
Wooo!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it. I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO. I think the fear of falling is anything but elementary for some people. There have been times when I've been OK with it, and there have been times when I've been petrified...in a gym.
Sorry, I think my phrasing was poorly chosen. By "elementary", I meant fundamental or integral to the activity itself, in a sense unavoidable. That being the case, I think a person for whom falling is both a concern and an unknown us likely to be unduly distracted by the impending event so in such a case, I'd rather address it in a timely fashion.
I wasn't trying to be dismissive of a persons fears. Falling can be spooky man, you'll get no argument from me on that.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview.
aw that sucks, dude. sorry to hear that. any chance of going through a second time and learning what mistakes you made?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: you fucking stink. go take a shower you slob. And thats because plastic is for the real rock masters actually, it was a regular gym. 1hr cross arc + weights. Tonight it's 3hrs of climbing + swim.
Damn, your really gettin after it this year. Good deal.
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kachoong wrote: All that aside, there's nothing better for your days confidence than to take a fall with a flash pump early in the day... gets it out of the way.
Totally agree. The rest of the day is smooth sailing after that first fall.
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Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags!
That ain't half shabby man!
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview.
Laz fails psych profile?
Hmmmm, very interesting...
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview. Laz fails psych profile? Hmmmm, very interesting...
Passed the psyche. Just not my panel interview.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview. aw that sucks, dude. sorry to hear that. any chance of going through a second time and learning what mistakes you made?
Leigha wants me to...but I don't think I'm going to give it another go.
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! That ain't half shabby man!
Yeah. i'm really stoked. I make a lot more guiding than I do at my 9-5.
(or should I say my 7-5:30? )
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it. I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO. I think the fear of falling is anything but elementary for some people. There have been times when I've been OK with it, and there have been times when I've been petrified...in a gym. Sorry, I think my phrasing was poorly chosen. By "elementary", I meant fundamental or integral to the activity itself, in a sense unavoidable. That being the case, I think a person for whom falling is both a concern and an unknown us likely to be unduly distracted by the impending event so in such a case, I'd rather address it in a timely fashion. I wasn't trying to be dismissive of a persons fears. Falling can be spooky man, you'll get no argument from me on that.
ah, I see. sorry about that. come to think of it, I don't often get distracted by falling. sometimes the fear does prevent me from making a move, but it rarely distracts me to the point of not thinking of anything else.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview. aw that sucks, dude. sorry to hear that. any chance of going through a second time and learning what mistakes you made? Leigha wants me to...but I don't think I'm going to give it another go.
do it. let the results settle. give it some time. give it enough time to let you think about it in a way that doesn't affect you emotionally. then, when you start thinking about it objectively, you'll have matured to the point where you're comfortable enough to try again...and you'll do well.
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what the fuck was that ^^ asshole! we don't do content in this thread!
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sorry! pc++?
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Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags!
Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview. Laz fails psych profile? Hmmmm, very interesting... Passed the psyche. Just not my panel interview.
The last big govt job I got back in Aus involved an interesting interview. With one question remaining out of ten a HUGE hailstorm came roaring out of the sky and we were sitting right next to big plate glass windows. Well, two of the panel got up and stood at the window to watch... then the rest of us followed. Heh! We all stood there for about ten minutes laughing and joking about the storm and how some of them forgot to put up their car windows, left the cat out, didn't bring in the washing etc... It became very casual all of a sudden... and I reckon that helped me get the job.
Either that or they just thought I was awesome anyway!
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview. Laz fails psych profile? Hmmmm, very interesting... Passed the psyche. Just not my panel interview. The last big govt job I got back in Aus involved an interesting interview. With one question remaining out of ten a HUGE hailstorm came roaring out of the sky and we were sitting right next to big plate glass windows. Well, two of the panel got up and stood at the window to watch... then the rest of us followed. Heh! We all stood there for about ten minutes laughing and joking about the storm and how some of them forgot to put up their car windows, left the cat out, didn't bring in the washing etc... It became very casual all of a sudden... and I reckon that helped me get the job. Either that or they just thought I was awesome anyway!
That's pretty cool. Not a bad story
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm
Yeah, I have issues with being dirty. Weird considering I landscape and mountain guide.
I have the hardest time crawling into a sleeping bag after doing nasty dusty dirty climbing.
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Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm Yeah, I have issues with being dirty. Weird considering I landscape and mountain guide. I have the hardest time crawling into a sleeping bag after doing nasty dusty dirty climbing.
+1 I take showers at night because I hate sleeping in filth.
what's the difference between a blue-collar worker and a white-collar worker (other than the color, of course)? It's when they shower. Think about it.
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alright, which one of you numbnuts have done epinephrine and what the hell do I need to know besides "it's long."
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm
trying to get Jeremiah to do the same thing, except we'll be at the Suncoast Casino, which is only about 15min away tops.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm Yeah, I have issues with being dirty. Weird considering I landscape and mountain guide. I have the hardest time crawling into a sleeping bag after doing nasty dusty dirty climbing. +1 I take showers at night because I hate sleeping in filth. what's the difference between a blue-collar worker and a white-collar worker (other than the color, of course)? It's when they shower. Think about it.
I've been on both sides of the showering spectrum. Working in the trees I always stepped in the door when I got home, de-robed completely and then walked straight to the shower. I would need to vacuum up the pile of sawdust and dirt from in front of the door each night.
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm Yeah, I have issues with being dirty. Weird considering I landscape and mountain guide. I have the hardest time crawling into a sleeping bag after doing nasty dusty dirty climbing. +1 I take showers at night because I hate sleeping in filth. what's the difference between a blue-collar worker and a white-collar worker (other than the color, of course)? It's when they shower. Think about it. I've been on both sides of the showering spectrum. Working in the trees I always stepped in the door when I got home, de-robed completely and then walked straight to the shower. I would need to vacuum up the pile of sawdust and dirt from in front of the door each night.
I've made all my girlfriends do that too.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Wooo!
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm
Good job.
Wish I could swing a trip like that.
Just need to get the stars a planets aligned...
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Gmburns2000 wrote: alright, which one of you numbnuts have done epinephrine and what the hell do I need to know besides "it's long."
Sorry never have, never will, not really interested.
We have a drug screen program at work. I'm sure you could figure out why. And getting canned for drugs doesn't look good on the resume. And I have a wife a 3 young kids at home I have to feed, dress and provide with a nice home. So I will have to pass. I know writers sometimes get into that type of stuff. I myself prefer a clear head, although the occasional buzz at night from some wine, when the kids are asleep, the wife is relaxed, is good too.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: alright, which one of you numbnuts have done epinephrine and what the hell do I need to know besides "it's long." Sorry never have, never will, not really interested. We have a drug screen program at work. I'm sure you could figure out why. And getting canned for drugs doesn't look good on the resume. And I have a wife a 3 young kids at home I have to feed, dress and provide with a nice home. So I will have to pass. I know writers sometimes get into that type of stuff. I myself prefer a clear head, although the occasional buzz at night from some wine, when the kids are asleep, the wife is relaxed, is good too.
HA.
HA.
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got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review.
next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene.
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I'm stoked about this trip. Money! woo!
I just found out that I'm working the weekend after ass well.
Bummer....but yay for money!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: alright, which one of you numbnuts have done epinephrine and what the hell do I need to know besides "it's long." Sorry never have, never will, not really interested. We have a drug screen program at work. I'm sure you could figure out why. And getting canned for drugs doesn't look good on the resume. And I have a wife a 3 young kids at home I have to feed, dress and provide with a nice home. So I will have to pass. I know writers sometimes get into that type of stuff. I myself prefer a clear head, although the occasional buzz at night from some wine, when the kids are asleep, the wife is relaxed, is good too. HA. HA. HA.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review. next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene.
Good job on transitioning from "work" to writing. Sounds like you're keeping the pressure on and not just relaxing, goofing, doing whatever. I'm afraid I'd be really inclined to do the later.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review. next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene. Good job on transitioning from "work" to writing. Sounds like you're keeping the pressure on and not just relaxing, goofing, doing whatever. I'm afraid I'd be really inclined to do the later.
I've done my fair share of the latter, but in my business it's called writer's block.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review. next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene. Good job on transitioning from "work" to writing. Sounds like you're keeping the pressure on and not just relaxing, goofing, doing whatever. I'm afraid I'd be really inclined to do the later. I've done my fair share of the latter, but in my business it's called writer's block.
I get that too... but in my mind it's called... hmmmmm.... what.... errrrrrr.... doesn't matter, can't remember.
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review. next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene. Good job on transitioning from "work" to writing. Sounds like you're keeping the pressure on and not just relaxing, goofing, doing whatever. I'm afraid I'd be really inclined to do the later. I've done my fair share of the latter, but in my business it's called writer's block. I get that too... but in my mind it's called... hmmmmm.... what.... errrrrrr.... doesn't matter, can't remember.
heh.
I've had to resort to writing exercises the past few days, just to get an hour or two of writing in. most of the time, thankfully, those exercises work well and get me jump-started, particularly when those exercises are directly related to my book (such as a summary, character profile, short story based on one of the character's previous experiences, etc.).
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review. next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene. Good job on transitioning from "work" to writing. Sounds like you're keeping the pressure on and not just relaxing, goofing, doing whatever. I'm afraid I'd be really inclined to do the later. I've done my fair share of the latter, but in my business it's called writer's block. I get that too... but in my mind it's called... hmmmmm.... what.... errrrrrr.... doesn't matter, can't remember. heh. I've had to resort to writing exercises the past few days, just to get an hour or two of writing in. most of the time, thankfully, those exercises work well and get me jump-started, particularly when those exercises are directly related to my book (such as a summary, character profile, short story based on one of the character's previous experiences, etc.).
Having an extensive story behind each character really must be a daunting task to create. I'm sure it's also fun, but to think about and develop a "lifestory" in order to create the character must be challenging.
I'm reading Stephen King's "The Dome" right now... almost done... but he has a butt-ton of characters in it... all with their own lives, history and manerisms. Plus they all weave themselves among each others parts of the plot... phewww it must be tricky!
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review. next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene. Good job on transitioning from "work" to writing. Sounds like you're keeping the pressure on and not just relaxing, goofing, doing whatever. I'm afraid I'd be really inclined to do the later. I've done my fair share of the latter, but in my business it's called writer's block. I get that too... but in my mind it's called... hmmmmm.... what.... errrrrrr.... doesn't matter, can't remember. heh. I've had to resort to writing exercises the past few days, just to get an hour or two of writing in. most of the time, thankfully, those exercises work well and get me jump-started, particularly when those exercises are directly related to my book (such as a summary, character profile, short story based on one of the character's previous experiences, etc.). Having an extensive story behind each character really must be a daunting task to create. I'm sure it's also fun, but to think about and develop a "lifestory" in order to create the character must be challenging. I'm reading Stephen King's "The Dome" right now... almost done... but he has a butt-ton of characters in it... all with their own lives, history and manerisms. Plus they all weave themselves among each others parts of the plot... phewww it must be tricky!
Yeah, each writer has his/her own tricks, but writing a short story about a character just to get an idea of who that character is a good tool. what it does is rids the writer of having to think about what the character would do next, which is sometimes paralyzing to the point that it changes the direction of the book.
in those instances, it is better to plop the character in that scenario to see where the story goes. then you don't have to delete, rewrite, delete, rewrite, swear, delete, rewrite, burn dinner because you can't think straight, delete, rewrite, buy a gun...you get the idea.
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Lazlo wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: that sucks. have you heard back from the cops yet? Yeah I got a very low score on my interview. Laz fails psych profile? Hmmmm, very interesting... Passed the psyche. Just not my panel interview.
Ah. Well, some folks just don't interview well (I'm one of them) so if you felt good about the rest of the process, I wouldn't let that one element deter you from trying again. If it's something you really want to do that is. It seems like you're having fun and making money guiding on the side and the patrol job might make that harder due to a more rigid schedule.
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Lazlo wrote: Lazlo wrote: Kind of creepee
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it. I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO. I think the fear of falling is anything but elementary for some people. There have been times when I've been OK with it, and there have been times when I've been petrified...in a gym. Sorry, I think my phrasing was poorly chosen. By "elementary", I meant fundamental or integral to the activity itself, in a sense unavoidable. That being the case, I think a person for whom falling is both a concern and an unknown us likely to be unduly distracted by the impending event so in such a case, I'd rather address it in a timely fashion. I wasn't trying to be dismissive of a persons fears. Falling can be spooky man, you'll get no argument from me on that. ah, I see. sorry about that. come to think of it, I don't often get distracted by falling. sometimes the fear does prevent me from making a move, but it rarely distracts me to the point of not thinking of anything else.
Thats good. Some folks get crazy tunnel vision when it comes to falling and it throws them WAY off their game. And ironically enough, makes them more likely to fall.
I can feel the fear taking control sometimes and it causes me to overlook better gear placements higher up or off to the side and my technique starts slipping. I don't really remember what it was like when I first started climbing but I would imagine that not know exactly what to expect from a fall would just make things even worse.
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kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm
That is one minor upside to my current job. I'm racking up points at various hotel chains so I should be able to spend less time in tents when I'm there to focus on the climbing.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: alright, which one of you numbnuts have done epinephrine and what the hell do I need to know besides "it's long." Sorry never have, never will, not really interested. We have a drug screen program at work. I'm sure you could figure out why. And getting canned for drugs doesn't look good on the resume. And I have a wife a 3 young kids at home I have to feed, dress and provide with a nice home. So I will have to pass. I know writers sometimes get into that type of stuff. I myself prefer a clear head, although the occasional buzz at night from some wine, when the kids are asleep, the wife is relaxed, is good too.
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: alright, which one of you numbnuts have done epinephrine and what the hell do I need to know besides "it's long." Sorry never have, never will, not really interested. We have a drug screen program at work. I'm sure you could figure out why. And getting canned for drugs doesn't look good on the resume. And I have a wife a 3 young kids at home I have to feed, dress and provide with a nice home. So I will have to pass. I know writers sometimes get into that type of stuff. I myself prefer a clear head, although the occasional buzz at night from some wine, when the kids are asleep, the wife is relaxed, is good too. HA. HA. HA. BA BA BA
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: got a good summerical outline (yes, that's a summary to the outline) done today. then I wrote the first draft of my query letter and sent that off for review. next stop, either the next chapter or the outline itself. I'm hoping to get feedback from a friend on chapters two and three soon so that I can send the first three chapters and the query letter to an agent. it'd be nice to work on those two chapters while I futz around trying to figure out the transition from chapter four to chapter five. I know what chapter five is, but it'd be awkward at this point if I just jumped to that scene. Good job on transitioning from "work" to writing. Sounds like you're keeping the pressure on and not just relaxing, goofing, doing whatever. I'm afraid I'd be really inclined to do the later.
I know, right.
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Sooooooooooo, I broke down outside of Wytheville, Va. Way down in the southwest corner.
So far it's been a big PITA and may cause me to miss my climbing plans for Saturday. If it's just the fuel filter like everyone thinks (Diesel engine), I should be out of here shortly. If it turns out to be something else, I have to find a rental car and try to get home before it's too late to turn right around and head back to the mountains.
Like I said. PITA.
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notapplicable wrote: Sooooooooooo, I broke down outside of Wytheville, Va. Way down in the southwest corner. So far it's been a big PITA and may cause me to miss my climbing plans for Saturday. If it's just the fuel filter like everyone thinks (Diesel engine), I should be out of here shortly. If it turns out to be something else, I have to find a rental car and try to get home before it's too late to turn right around and head back to the mountains. Like I said. PITA.
Oh and all of this actually happened yesterday evening but this being BFE and all, I wasn't able to get anybody to look at it until now.
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Mar 26, 2010, 5:12 PM
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notapplicable wrote: Sooooooooooo, I broke down outside of Wytheville, Va. Way down in the southwest corner. So far it's been a big PITA and may cause me to miss my climbing plans for Saturday. If it's just the fuel filter like everyone thinks (Diesel engine), I should be out of here shortly. If it turns out to be something else, I have to find a rental car and try to get home before it's too late to turn right around and head back to the mountains. Like I said. PITA.
Sucks!
So much for that 24 hours, eh?
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it. I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO. I think the fear of falling is anything but elementary for some people. There have been times when I've been OK with it, and there have been times when I've been petrified...in a gym. Sorry, I think my phrasing was poorly chosen. By "elementary", I meant fundamental or integral to the activity itself, in a sense unavoidable. That being the case, I think a person for whom falling is both a concern and an unknown us likely to be unduly distracted by the impending event so in such a case, I'd rather address it in a timely fashion. I wasn't trying to be dismissive of a persons fears. Falling can be spooky man, you'll get no argument from me on that. ah, I see. sorry about that. come to think of it, I don't often get distracted by falling. sometimes the fear does prevent me from making a move, but it rarely distracts me to the point of not thinking of anything else. Thats good. Some folks get crazy tunnel vision when it comes to falling and it throws them WAY off their game. And ironically enough, makes them more likely to fall. I can feel the fear taking control sometimes and it causes me to overlook better gear placements higher up or off to the side and my technique starts slipping. I don't really remember what it was like when I first started climbing but I would imagine that not know exactly what to expect from a fall would just make things even worse.
throw in the fact that when I'm in a position where I'm likely to fall, it means i'm usually pumped and that means...run it out to safer ground. not exactly the better solution.
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Sooooooooooo, I broke down outside of Wytheville, Va. Way down in the southwest corner. So far it's been a big PITA and may cause me to miss my climbing plans for Saturday. If it's just the fuel filter like everyone thinks (Diesel engine), I should be out of here shortly. If it turns out to be something else, I have to find a rental car and try to get home before it's too late to turn right around and head back to the mountains. Like I said. PITA. Sucks! So much for that 24 hours, eh?
Good news, it's just the fuel filter. Should be out of here in a bit.
Now if only it would stop raining...
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it. I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO. I think the fear of falling is anything but elementary for some people. There have been times when I've been OK with it, and there have been times when I've been petrified...in a gym. Sorry, I think my phrasing was poorly chosen. By "elementary", I meant fundamental or integral to the activity itself, in a sense unavoidable. That being the case, I think a person for whom falling is both a concern and an unknown us likely to be unduly distracted by the impending event so in such a case, I'd rather address it in a timely fashion. I wasn't trying to be dismissive of a persons fears. Falling can be spooky man, you'll get no argument from me on that. ah, I see. sorry about that. come to think of it, I don't often get distracted by falling. sometimes the fear does prevent me from making a move, but it rarely distracts me to the point of not thinking of anything else. Thats good. Some folks get crazy tunnel vision when it comes to falling and it throws them WAY off their game. And ironically enough, makes them more likely to fall. I can feel the fear taking control sometimes and it causes me to overlook better gear placements higher up or off to the side and my technique starts slipping. I don't really remember what it was like when I first started climbing but I would imagine that not know exactly what to expect from a fall would just make things even worse. throw in the fact that when I'm in a position where I'm likely to fall, it means i'm usually pumped and that means...run it out to safer ground. not exactly the better solution.
Damn dube, I usually downclimb. There always is that point of no return though, where if you downclimb, all you are doing is getting closer to your last piece before you fall but up could actually mean NOT bombing down off the side of the cliff. Sketchy that.
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class. Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them. Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well. I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up. I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well. I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong. Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it. I'm not real big in to practice falls but if taking or catching them will make a person feel more at ease, I'll help em out. A person concerned with and distracted by something as elementary (to climbing) as falling is a dangerous person to tie in with IMO. I think the fear of falling is anything but elementary for some people. There have been times when I've been OK with it, and there have been times when I've been petrified...in a gym. Sorry, I think my phrasing was poorly chosen. By "elementary", I meant fundamental or integral to the activity itself, in a sense unavoidable. That being the case, I think a person for whom falling is both a concern and an unknown us likely to be unduly distracted by the impending event so in such a case, I'd rather address it in a timely fashion. I wasn't trying to be dismissive of a persons fears. Falling can be spooky man, you'll get no argument from me on that. ah, I see. sorry about that. come to think of it, I don't often get distracted by falling. sometimes the fear does prevent me from making a move, but it rarely distracts me to the point of not thinking of anything else. Thats good. Some folks get crazy tunnel vision when it comes to falling and it throws them WAY off their game. And ironically enough, makes them more likely to fall. I can feel the fear taking control sometimes and it causes me to overlook better gear placements higher up or off to the side and my technique starts slipping. I don't really remember what it was like when I first started climbing but I would imagine that not know exactly what to expect from a fall would just make things even worse. throw in the fact that when I'm in a position where I'm likely to fall, it means i'm usually pumped and that means...run it out to safer ground. not exactly the better solution. Damn dube, I usually downclimb. There always is that point of no return though, where if you downclimb, all you are doing is getting closer to your last piece before you fall but up could actually mean NOT bombing down off the side of the cliff. Sketchy that.
I can only think of one time I was attempting to downclimb and then fell. I guess I run it out to safer ground? Fortunately, I've always been able to hold it together when I must not fall.
Yesterday was a big day of falls. I logged some good feet, probably taking a 15 footer three times. But it was only a sport climb. I probably should have been taking bigger falls but my belayer refuses to do a dynamic belay and he outweighs me by a good bit.
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zeke_sf wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Thats good. Some folks get crazy tunnel vision when it comes to falling and it throws them WAY off their game. And ironically enough, makes them more likely to fall. I can feel the fear taking control sometimes and it causes me to overlook better gear placements higher up or off to the side and my technique starts slipping. I don't really remember what it was like when I first started climbing but I would imagine that not know exactly what to expect from a fall would just make things even worse. throw in the fact that when I'm in a position where I'm likely to fall, it means i'm usually pumped and that means...run it out to safer ground. not exactly the better solution. Damn dube, I usually downclimb. There always is that point of no return though, where if you downclimb, all you are doing is getting closer to your last piece before you fall but up could actually mean NOT bombing down off the side of the cliff. Sketchy that. I can only think of one time I was attempting to downclimb and then fell. I guess I run it out to safer ground? Fortunately, I've always been able to hold it together when I must not fall. Yesterday was a big day of falls. I logged some good feet, probably taking a 15 footer three times. But it was only a sport climb. I probably should have been taking bigger falls but my belayer refuses to do a dynamic belay and he outweighs me by a good bit.
Damn, that sucks. I'm not sure I'd want to take such large falls over and over again without some sort of soft catch. Once or twice is enough for me.
Usually when I run it out it is because downclimbing is likely harder than going up. I have fallen on a downclimb before, too.
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Lazlo
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Hello from the Hotel room. Yeah, I'm rubbing it in.
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zeke_sf
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Thats good. Some folks get crazy tunnel vision when it comes to falling and it throws them WAY off their game. And ironically enough, makes them more likely to fall. I can feel the fear taking control sometimes and it causes me to overlook better gear placements higher up or off to the side and my technique starts slipping. I don't really remember what it was like when I first started climbing but I would imagine that not know exactly what to expect from a fall would just make things even worse. throw in the fact that when I'm in a position where I'm likely to fall, it means i'm usually pumped and that means...run it out to safer ground. not exactly the better solution. Damn dube, I usually downclimb. There always is that point of no return though, where if you downclimb, all you are doing is getting closer to your last piece before you fall but up could actually mean NOT bombing down off the side of the cliff. Sketchy that. I can only think of one time I was attempting to downclimb and then fell. I guess I run it out to safer ground? Fortunately, I've always been able to hold it together when I must not fall. Yesterday was a big day of falls. I logged some good feet, probably taking a 15 footer three times. But it was only a sport climb. I probably should have been taking bigger falls but my belayer refuses to do a dynamic belay and he outweighs me by a good bit. Damn, that sucks. I'm not sure I'd want to take such large falls over and over again without some sort of soft catch. Once or twice is enough for me. Usually when I run it out it is because downclimbing is likely harder than going up. I have fallen on a downclimb before, too.
The fall wasn't too bad, but it could have been softer. Granted, the falls were pushing the point where I was getting a wee close to the ground. It was a weak day on a bold-ish climb.
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zeke_sf
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Lazlo wrote: Hello from the Hotel room. Yeah, I'm rubbing it in.
The lotion? I really don't need to hear these personal details.
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Gmburns2000
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Lazlo wrote: Hello from the Hotel room. Yeah, I'm rubbing it in.
I'll be in one in two weeks myself, though I won't be bringing my computer - it's vegas, and I hear there are desperate people there.
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donald949
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notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: Lazlo wrote: Next weekend, I'm STILL going to be working. But at least I'm going to be guiding. We're doing a four day rock climbing trip. The bonus part is that we'll be staying in a hotel for a change. No bivy bags! Nice... hotels and climbing work great together... we did that for the second half of our Vegas trip last year. Five star room... dirty climbing... back to five star room... repeat... mmmmmm That is one minor upside to my current job. I'm racking up points at various hotel chains so I should be able to spend less time in tents when I'm there to focus on the climbing.
hey, sweet deal.
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: alright, which one of you numbnuts have done epinephrine and what the hell do I need to know besides "it's long." Sorry never have, never will, not really interested. We have a drug screen program at work. I'm sure you could figure out why. And getting canned for drugs doesn't look good on the resume. And I have a wife a 3 young kids at home I have to feed, dress and provide with a nice home. So I will have to pass. I know writers sometimes get into that type of stuff. I myself prefer a clear head, although the occasional buzz at night from some wine, when the kids are asleep, the wife is relaxed, is good too. HA. HA. HA. BA BA BA Barbaran?
Jaa.
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donald949
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zeke_sf wrote: Lazlo wrote: Hello from the Hotel room. Yeah, I'm rubbing it in. The lotion? I really don't need to hear these personal details.
Ohhhhh...
did need that visual.
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donald949
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donald949
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donald949
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PTFTW
(way above pro, lets see if we take another flyer)
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donald949 wrote: PTFTW (way above pro, lets see if we take another flyer)
Shit, I took the flyer again yesterday! The route is called "Frequent Flyer," fittingly. My friend and I had thought the crux was sandbagged but I think I've figured out how to make it go at the grade. Nope, it's that it stays sustained for about all of the 15' feet between the crux bolt and the next into terrain that starts putting you pretty close to the ground. Yesterday, I took an ankle-slamming fall on it and then got completely psyched out on my next attempts. Maybe I just need to climb something bolted down to my standards. Sadly, I know that I'd just cruise this climb on toprope. I'd like to think I do alright on a "reasonable" runout, but this climb is handing my lead head to me. That and I'm limping around today.
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kachoong
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zeke_sf wrote: donald949 wrote: PTFTW (way above pro, lets see if we take another flyer) Shit, I took the flyer again yesterday! The route is called "Frequent Flyer," fittingly. My friend and I had thought the crux was sandbagged but I think I've figured out how to make it go at the grade. Nope, it's that it stays sustained for about all of the 15' feet between the crux bolt and the next into terrain that starts putting you pretty close to the ground. Yesterday, I took an ankle-slamming fall on it and then got completely psyched out on my next attempts. Maybe I just need to climb something bolted down to my standards. Sadly, I know that I'd just cruise this climb on toprope. I'd like to think I do alright on a "reasonable" runout, but this climb is handing my lead head to me. That and I'm limping around today.
Wooooo!! Would have loved to been there to watch the air time, mate! Good job though... sounds like you're pushing your limits, which is always a good thing. Hope the ankle feels better soon... I know all about how that goes!
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kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: donald949 wrote: PTFTW (way above pro, lets see if we take another flyer) Shit, I took the flyer again yesterday! The route is called "Frequent Flyer," fittingly. My friend and I had thought the crux was sandbagged but I think I've figured out how to make it go at the grade. Nope, it's that it stays sustained for about all of the 15' feet between the crux bolt and the next into terrain that starts putting you pretty close to the ground. Yesterday, I took an ankle-slamming fall on it and then got completely psyched out on my next attempts. Maybe I just need to climb something bolted down to my standards. Sadly, I know that I'd just cruise this climb on toprope. I'd like to think I do alright on a "reasonable" runout, but this climb is handing my lead head to me. That and I'm limping around today. Wooooo!! Would have loved to been there to watch the air time, mate! Good job though... sounds like you're pushing your limits, which is always a good thing. Hope the ankle feels better soon... I know all about how that goes!
Yeah, I'm finding my limits but the only problem is they're not that expansive. I'll just have to do this route when I'm psyched. I'll probably hit this place later again into the season because there's a swimming hole at the bottom and it is dog friendly.
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Lazlo
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Back from my trip. Now back to work.
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Lazlo
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oh, and pc++?
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donald949
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zeke_sf wrote: donald949 wrote: PTFTW (way above pro, lets see if we take another flyer) Shit, I took the flyer again yesterday! The route is called "Frequent Flyer," fittingly. My friend and I had thought the crux was sandbagged but I think I've figured out how to make it go at the grade. Nope, it's that it stays sustained for about all of the 15' feet between the crux bolt and the next into terrain that starts putting you pretty close to the ground. Yesterday, I took an ankle-slamming fall on it and then got completely psyched out on my next attempts. Maybe I just need to climb something bolted down to my standards. Sadly, I know that I'd just cruise this climb on toprope. I'd like to think I do alright on a "reasonable" runout, but this climb is handing my lead head to me. That and I'm limping around today.
Sorry to hear about your ankle.
My ankle was tweeked the previous weekend. Getting better now. We'll see how much climbing I'm up for in a week, when I head to Lone Pine for some camping. Next to Alabama Hills, home of a buch of Moderate Sport climbs. Also doing the Death Valley sight seeing thing.
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zeke_sf
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donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: donald949 wrote: PTFTW (way above pro, lets see if we take another flyer) Shit, I took the flyer again yesterday! The route is called "Frequent Flyer," fittingly. My friend and I had thought the crux was sandbagged but I think I've figured out how to make it go at the grade. Nope, it's that it stays sustained for about all of the 15' feet between the crux bolt and the next into terrain that starts putting you pretty close to the ground. Yesterday, I took an ankle-slamming fall on it and then got completely psyched out on my next attempts. Maybe I just need to climb something bolted down to my standards. Sadly, I know that I'd just cruise this climb on toprope. I'd like to think I do alright on a "reasonable" runout, but this climb is handing my lead head to me. That and I'm limping around today. Sorry to hear about your ankle. My ankle was tweeked the previous weekend. Getting better now. We'll see how much climbing I'm up for in a week, when I head to Lone Pine for some camping. Next to Alabama Hills, home of a buch of Moderate Sport climbs. Also doing the Death Valley sight seeing thing.
It's not too bad. Swollen but I can climb on it. Took some whippers at the gym even.
Cool! Man, I really keep thinking of moving out near the East Side. Some of the best climbing and scenery I've ever seen. Never climbed Alabama Hills, hopefully they don't have eyes.
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donald949
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zeke_sf wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: donald949 wrote: PTFTW (way above pro, lets see if we take another flyer) Shit, I took the flyer again yesterday! The route is called "Frequent Flyer," fittingly. My friend and I had thought the crux was sandbagged but I think I've figured out how to make it go at the grade. Nope, it's that it stays sustained for about all of the 15' feet between the crux bolt and the next into terrain that starts putting you pretty close to the ground. Yesterday, I took an ankle-slamming fall on it and then got completely psyched out on my next attempts. Maybe I just need to climb something bolted down to my standards. Sadly, I know that I'd just cruise this climb on toprope. I'd like to think I do alright on a "reasonable" runout, but this climb is handing my lead head to me. That and I'm limping around today. Sorry to hear about your ankle. My ankle was tweeked the previous weekend. Getting better now. We'll see how much climbing I'm up for in a week, when I head to Lone Pine for some camping. Next to Alabama Hills, home of a buch of Moderate Sport climbs. Also doing the Death Valley sight seeing thing. It's not too bad. Swollen but I can climb on it. Took some whippers at the gym even. Cool! Man, I really keep thinking of moving out near the East Side. Some of the best climbing and scenery I've ever seen. Never climbed Alabama Hills, hopefully they don't have eyes.
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donald949
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donald949
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donald949
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donald949
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donald949
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In other news.
Hows everyones Spring break shaping up?
Anyone climbing this week/weekend/next week?
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donald949
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I'm headed to Lone Pine next week.
If anyone wants to join a crip weak climber.
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Gmburns2000
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Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!!
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donald949
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!!
Strong werk indeed!
well done.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!!
Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news!
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donald949
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news!
Oh, wait a minute...
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Gmburns2000
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donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute...
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute...
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute...
naw, no 12s. going to tackle my first 11, though. it is soft, however. we'll see how it goes. i've been on it only once on TR, and it was cold outside. we'll see how it goes.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute... naw, no 12s. going to tackle my first 11, though. it is soft, however. we'll see how it goes. i've been on it only once on TR, and it was cold outside. we'll see how it goes.
Don't see how it goes. Do your best and school that bitch!
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute... naw, no 12s. going to tackle my first 11, though. it is soft, however. we'll see how it goes. i've been on it only once on TR, and it was cold outside. we'll see how it goes. Don't see how it goes. Do your best and school that bitch!
i'm surprisingly ready for it.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute... naw, no 12s. going to tackle my first 11, though. it is soft, however. we'll see how it goes. i've been on it only once on TR, and it was cold outside. we'll see how it goes.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute... naw, no 12s. going to tackle my first 11, though. it is soft, however. we'll see how it goes. i've been on it only once on TR, and it was cold outside. we'll see how it goes. Don't see how it goes. Do your best and school that bitch! i'm surprisingly ready for it.
Then get on Ariel afterwards...
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For the win.
KACHOW!
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epoch wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wooo!!! Just sent my first 12!!! Well, I'll be an April Fool, that is terrific news! Oh, wait a minute... naw, no 12s. going to tackle my first 11, though. it is soft, however. we'll see how it goes. i've been on it only once on TR, and it was cold outside. we'll see how it goes. Don't see how it goes. Do your best and school that bitch! i'm surprisingly ready for it. Then get on Ariel afterwards...
It'll be a long day, so we'll see. I may want to TR it first, but we'll see.
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tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb.
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Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb.
good. had a good day today, too. didn't get over to where the 11 (10c) is, but we're going there tomorrow. today was a fun day playing on slab / face climbs.
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Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb.
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb. Reception duty today, I love getting paid to post.
Holy Shit!!!!! Unscrambled password For The Win!!!!!!
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epoch wrote: For the win. KACHOW!
What iz it you want?!
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donald949 wrote: In other news. Hows everyones Spring break shaping up? Anyone climbing this week/weekend/next week?
Spring has a break? A slice of winter... or prehaps summer shoved in the break?
We went to Austin for a few days... enjoyed being in the city... Yippeee a bookstore!! We also went climbing and enjoyed some restaurants we don't get out here in the Outback.
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Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb.
I remember those dayz. Hard work but fun climbing around in the trees keeping fit. It's a nice fun mix of ropes and chainsaws.
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb. Reception duty today, I love getting paid to post.
Oh noes!!!! You found the key?
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Burnsey tried to kill me.
Literally.
He also killed the Easter turkey.
Those two events are related to each other.
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Gmburns2000
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epoch wrote: Burnsey tried to kill me. Literally. He also killed the Easter turkey.
Those two events are related to each other.
I think we evened each other out though, with you putting me on either a wet, run-out, R-rated slab or under two cams placed in the same crack in a loose block.
And yeah, I killed the fucking easter turkey. Serves him right for thinking he could fly over my car.
The post is up. Click below.
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Gmburns2000
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb. Reception duty today, I love getting paid to post.
too bad you didn't do enough of it.
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Gmburns2000
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been a tough-to-get-motivated past week with regards to writing, but everything is happening at once today: wrote two guidebook posts and one TR post, and just got my aunt's edits in the mail for the first chapter of my book. I was hoping to get her edits a month ago and not the day before I send the chapter and query letter to the agent, but at least it's here before I take off for CO tomorrow.
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fuck we've got a lot of posts coming up, too. Jeremiah has a couple regarding his stolen gear, then he's got an IC post, then we're going to have a RR report, then a Black Canyon report...that's a lot of fucking climbing in a month or so. I'm happpy.
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I can also smell my suntan from this weekend.
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Lazlo wrote: sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb. Reception duty today, I love getting paid to post. Holy Shit!!!!! Unscrambled password For The Win!!!!!!
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Lazlo wrote: How ya been buckaroo?
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: How ya been buckaroo? Good. Training hard, still wekesawz etc. but getting better.
Certainly you aren't acun. How'd you find that one post in so many hundreds of thousands of posts?
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Gmburns2000
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Lazlo wrote: sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: How ya been buckaroo? Good. Training hard, still wekesawz etc. but getting better. Certainly you aren't acun. How'd you find that one post in so many hundreds of thousands of posts?
he lurks.
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Taking off for CO in a few hours.
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Taking off for Red Rocks in a few days.
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Taking off for the Black Canyon in a couple of weeks.
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Sending out two more short stories and some other stuff today.
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but it's worth it.
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all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday
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Frogland and something else on Sat
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Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday
This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too.
When and if I ever get to go back to RR.
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR.
we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity.
I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT.
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT.
that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long.
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Lazlo wrote: sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: How ya been buckaroo? Good. Training hard, still wekesawz etc. but getting better. Certainly you aren't acun. How'd you find that one post in so many hundreds of thousands of posts?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Taking off for Red Rocks in a few days.
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Taking off for Red Rocks in a few days. Again?!? Sweet!
yup, then heading to the Black Canyon. I'm a bit tired right now after a difficult pair of flights that left me staying the night unexpectedly in Chicago, but I'll be ready to go as soon as we touch down tomorrow night.
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Gmburns2000
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damn - a 70m rope might not be good enough to descend off either Wild Turkeys or Sour Mash.
(nor the stand-by Crimson Chrysalis)
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Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long.
I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway.
I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel.
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Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness.
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel.
everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7.
wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few:
Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap)
I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more...
(the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day)
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zeke_sf
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day)
I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon!
I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it.
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it.
I can see that. I don't have much desire to head back to to Yos any time soon.
Lev 29 sounds pretty sweet, though.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it. I can see that. I don't have much desire to head back to to Yos any time soon. Lev 29 sounds pretty sweet, though.
Yeah, sounds sweet, except - like most every other "classic" RR route - the approach is too long, rappelling will probably suck balls because of stuck ropes, the walkoff is worse, and its quality is most likely highly overrated.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: damn - a 70m rope might not be good enough to descend off either Wild Turkeys or Sour Mash. (nor the stand-by Crimson Chrysalis)
Yeah, maybe double 60's might be better....
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it.
I'd love to head back to RR a couple more times, since I haven't really had enough of a taste to make up my own mind on the place. Perhaps a planned overnight "bivy" might be the best plan for the long approaches... to climb a couple decent routes without the back and forth to the road.
Other than Cochise I don't have an opinion on the other classic asreas yet.... one day perhaps. We really need to move to CO or CA or sumpthin'!
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kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route!
Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness.
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zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness.
Nice... where is it?
I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh!
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kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh!
It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc..
This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip.
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zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip.
The crack to the right, Semper Fi, is also on my list. It starts off with a bolt before getting into the crack.
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zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip.
Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs.
Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it?
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kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip. Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs. Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it?
I know a guy who knows the guy.
I've been playing detective to figure out the sprawling data online to divulge which routes are which.
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zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip. Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs. Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it? I know a guy who knows the guy. I've been playing detective to figure out the sprawling data online to divulge which routes are which.
Hah! It's even more alluring that it's so secretive. Is the Proposal really 12a? Gud lord!
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kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip. Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs. Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it? I know a guy who knows the guy. I've been playing detective to figure out the sprawling data online to divulge which routes are which. Hah! It's even more alluring that it's so secretive. Is the Proposal really 12a? Gud lord!
It feels like a 12. It sure bouted me like one.
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zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip. Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs. Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it? I know a guy who knows the guy. I've been playing detective to figure out the sprawling data online to divulge which routes are which. Hah! It's even more alluring that it's so secretive. Is the Proposal really 12a? Gud lord! It feels like a 12. It sure bouted me like one.
Well, I think I found the hike in...
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it. I can see that. I don't have much desire to head back to to Yos any time soon. Lev 29 sounds pretty sweet, though. Yeah, sounds sweet, except - like most every other "classic" RR route - the approach is too long, rappelling will probably suck balls because of stuck ropes, the walkoff is worse, and its quality is most likely highly overrated.
well, if you can levitate 29 then none of that matters much.
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zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip. Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs. Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it? I know a guy who knows the guy. I've been playing detective to figure out the sprawling data online to divulge which routes are which. Hah! It's even more alluring that it's so secretive. Is the Proposal really 12a? Gud lord! It feels like a 12. It sure bouted me like one.
haven't you shown us this before? Or were you just showing it to us and hoping to get on it then?
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zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip. Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs. Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it? I know a guy who knows the guy. I've been playing detective to figure out the sprawling data online to divulge which routes are which.
That looks rad!!
I'd try to ride it out with no guidebook as long as possible... that's a one way process, no getting the genie back in the bottle once it's out and the riff raff shows up. Keep hassling those guys you know, see if you can get an advance copy or some hand drawn topos or something. Place looks sweet.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it. I can see that. I don't have much desire to head back to to Yos any time soon. Lev 29 sounds pretty sweet, though. Yeah, sounds sweet, except - like most every other "classic" RR route - the approach is too long, rappelling will probably suck balls because of stuck ropes, the walkoff is worse, and its quality is most likely highly overrated. well, if you can levitate 29 then none of that matters much.
Actually, that's the whole point. If I can Levitate 29 and I still don't care too much for the place, it matters. It may be the gestalt of the place: shitty camping, the stupid, one-way loop, my inexplicable bad attitude towards it... who knows.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Finally got on this (the climb, not the girl). Sweet sweetness. Awesome, mate! Looks like you're climbing stronger than ever. Looks like a sweet route! Yeah, it's a very cool climb I'd like to get clean. It goes from a sweet, thin crack, to some bolt-protected technical burliness. Nice... where is it? I really enjoy "mixed" climbs like that. Back in Aus we used to have quite a few climbs at one of the local spots that had bolt-protected sections connecting discontinuous cracks. A little like the inverse of what appears on Peacemaker. Heh! It's located at Isolation Canyon, an area that needs the guidebook published now! NOW! The main developer there has been dragging his heels on the actual publication part. You can often be the only party there with about 150 routes at your disposal, including multipitch (up to four pitches) sport and trad offerings. It would be cool to get on climbs knowing the protection scheme, etc., although eyeing what you climb is also cool. Crowds would be crowds, but area allows you to disperse, and it would also be nice to get a little more consensus on what routes are rated, etc.. This route, The Proposal, will be a cool send for me and I have my eye on a few more pretties there for next trip. Sounds like my type of place. Adds to the adventure if you don't really know too much about the place... a grade though would be nice, but not neccessarily any info about the climbs. Looks like it's not an easy place to find... how did you find out about it? I know a guy who knows the guy. I've been playing detective to figure out the sprawling data online to divulge which routes are which. Hah! It's even more alluring that it's so secretive. Is the Proposal really 12a? Gud lord! It feels like a 12. It sure bouted me like one. haven't you shown us this before? Or were you just showing it to us and hoping to get on it then?
Probably.
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it. I can see that. I don't have much desire to head back to to Yos any time soon. Lev 29 sounds pretty sweet, though. Yeah, sounds sweet, except - like most every other "classic" RR route - the approach is too long, rappelling will probably suck balls because of stuck ropes, the walkoff is worse, and its quality is most likely highly overrated. well, if you can levitate 29 then none of that matters much. Actually, that's the whole point. If I can Levitate 29 and I still don't care too much for the place, it matters. It may be the gestalt of the place: shitty camping, the stupid, one-way loop, my inexplicable bad attitude towards it... who knows.
yeah, the loop is annoying. this will be my first venture into black velvet canyon, so no loop and no fee.
as you probably saw on my thread with regards to the camping, we went with a hotel. they're cheap here and the one i stay at is pretty damn close. yeah, i'm skeptical on the camping.
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looks as if we're heading next week to some place in NM with hot springs (single pitch stuff, about 6hrs from Colorado Springs, I think).
Jello's girlfriend didn't want to go to the black and didnt want to get left behind (she doesnt climb). the black also had hot springs, but she wasn't digging those as much.
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Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock.
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caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock.
yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black.
If the lady ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. I climbed a bit around there a couple years ago. I thought the Overlook at white rock was my favorite, but we did do mostly sport. There were some cracks there but my partners weren't interested. There was a really cool area called the dungeon with steep sport, but it was covered in icicles.
if you have time Bandolier national monument is right there, some pretty sweet cliff dwellings.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: looks as if we're heading next week to some place in NM with hot springs (single pitch stuff, about 6hrs from Colorado Springs, I think). Jello's girlfriend didn't want to go to the black and didnt want to get left behind (she doesnt climb). the black also had hot springs, but she wasn't digging those as much.
Screw that! Get to the black! Greg, you're being pussy-whiped BY SOMEONE ELSE'S GIRLFRIEND. NO. BAD GREG. BAD. GO TO THE BLACK, GO DIRECTLY TO THE BLACK, DO NOT PASS JEMEZ SPRINGS, DO NOT COLLECT SINGLE PITCH BS.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it. I can see that. I don't have much desire to head back to to Yos any time soon. Lev 29 sounds pretty sweet, though. Yeah, sounds sweet, except - like most every other "classic" RR route - the approach is too long, rappelling will probably suck balls because of stuck ropes, the walkoff is worse, and its quality is most likely highly overrated. well, if you can levitate 29 then none of that matters much. Actually, that's the whole point. If I can Levitate 29 and I still don't care too much for the place, it matters. It may be the gestalt of the place: shitty camping, the stupid, one-way loop, my inexplicable bad attitude towards it... who knows. yeah, the loop is annoying. this will be my first venture into black velvet canyon, so no loop and no fee. as you probably saw on my thread with regards to the camping, we went with a hotel. they're cheap here and the one i stay at is pretty damn close. yeah, i'm skeptical on the camping.
Wife and I stayed at the Suncoast (if that's where you mean) and found it to be a good one... yep, nice and close to the road outta town.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black.
If I was heading to N NM and CO I'd probably check out the Great Sand Dunes too in S CO. They look awesome!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black.
More variety and your buddy gets laid. Everybody wins.
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: looks as if we're heading next week to some place in NM with hot springs (single pitch stuff, about 6hrs from Colorado Springs, I think). Jello's girlfriend didn't want to go to the black and didnt want to get left behind (she doesnt climb). the black also had hot springs, but she wasn't digging those as much. Screw that! Get to the black! Greg, you're being pussy-whiped BY SOMEONE ELSE'S GIRLFRIEND. NO. BAD GREG. BAD. GO TO THE BLACK, GO DIRECTLY TO THE BLACK, DO NOT PASS JEMEZ SPRINGS, DO NOT COLLECT SINGLE PITCH BS.
Don't listen to some Scotsman who watched First Ascent one too many times, crag it, let your buddy bag it, and then get your multi-choss on at Red RockPotrero North!
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. More variety and your buddy gets laid. Everybody wins.
hey burnsy, can Jello even climb? I thought he was really fucked up from something, like MS?
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caughtinside wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. More variety and your buddy gets laid. Everybody wins. hey burnsy, can Jello even climb? I thought he was really fucked up from something, like MS?
Jello would be an apt name.
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zeke_sf wrote: caughtinside wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. More variety and your buddy gets laid. Everybody wins. hey burnsy, can Jello even climb? I thought he was really fucked up from something, like MS? Jello would be an apt name.
He also has the FA of Surrealistic Pillar Direct.
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. If I was heading to N NM and CO I'd probably check out the Great Sand Dunes too in S CO. They look awesome!
Great Sand Dunes are great fun!
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caughtinside wrote: zeke_sf wrote: caughtinside wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. More variety and your buddy gets laid. Everybody wins. hey burnsy, can Jello even climb? I thought he was really fucked up from something, like MS? Jello would be an apt name. He also has the FA of Surrealistic Pillar Direct.
Old Jello
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edge wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. If I was heading to N NM and CO I'd probably check out the Great Sand Dunes too in S CO. They look awesome! Great Sand Dunes are great fun!
I totally wanna go and camp on one of those huge dunes! Mile high club perhaps?
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kachoong wrote: edge wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. If I was heading to N NM and CO I'd probably check out the Great Sand Dunes too in S CO. They look awesome! Great Sand Dunes are great fun! I totally wanna go and camp on one of those huge dunes! Mile high club perhaps?
You'll get sand in places you didn't even know you had places.
NTTAWWT
You could walk an hour and be so secluded you could hide out for a month.
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edge wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. If I was heading to N NM and CO I'd probably check out the Great Sand Dunes too in S CO. They look awesome! Great Sand Dunes are great fun!
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zeke_sf wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: looks as if we're heading next week to some place in NM with hot springs (single pitch stuff, about 6hrs from Colorado Springs, I think). Jello's girlfriend didn't want to go to the black and didnt want to get left behind (she doesnt climb). the black also had hot springs, but she wasn't digging those as much. Screw that! Get to the black! Greg, you're being pussy-whiped BY SOMEONE ELSE'S GIRLFRIEND. NO. BAD GREG. BAD. GO TO THE BLACK, GO DIRECTLY TO THE BLACK, DO NOT PASS JEMEZ SPRINGS, DO NOT COLLECT SINGLE PITCH BS. Don't listen to some Scotsman who watched First Ascent one too many times, crag it, let your buddy bag it, and then get your multi-choss on at Red RockPotrero North!
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I need my aiders, modded grigri, hammer, about 5 RURPS and a double rack of KB's now, NOW!!! That thing is not going free by me.
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Shitzing pants in rage yet Greg? Yore colours are infinitely inferior!!!!
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Reports, reports and more reports...
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TR time!
Sooooo..... The fam and I went for a weekend of skiing. We stayed in North Lake Tahoe and skiing for two days at Boreal. The first day, I skipped out on the boring hill and went BC toward Castle Peak.
Found some ice.
Didn't climb it. Was pretty cool to see in Nor Cal. Rather rare thing around here.
Here is a view of the summit from the first of three spires that you arrive at. You can see two climbers on the summit. At this point, you have to down climb and traverse over to what summit post calls a "third class scramble" I call BS as there is a rap anchor on top. Granted I climbed it in ski boots...but I'd call it class 4 to 5.1
The summit:
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Me and my Voodoos:
View toward Boreal:
Very fun trip. I went in there for the skiing and ended up enjoying the climb more. It was one of my favorite summits.
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Sweet TR, that peak is awesome lookin'!!!
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HaHa.
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caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. If the lady ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. I climbed a bit around there a couple years ago. I thought the Overlook at white rock was my favorite, but we did do mostly sport. There were some cracks there but my partners weren't interested. There was a really cool area called the dungeon with steep sport, but it was covered in icicles. if you have time Bandolier national monument is right there, some pretty sweet cliff dwellings.
looks as if the lady chose Taos (sp?) instead.
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: looks as if we're heading next week to some place in NM with hot springs (single pitch stuff, about 6hrs from Colorado Springs, I think). Jello's girlfriend didn't want to go to the black and didnt want to get left behind (she doesnt climb). the black also had hot springs, but she wasn't digging those as much. Screw that! Get to the black! Greg, you're being pussy-whiped BY SOMEONE ELSE'S GIRLFRIEND. NO. BAD GREG. BAD. GO TO THE BLACK, GO DIRECTLY TO THE BLACK, DO NOT PASS JEMEZ SPRINGS, DO NOT COLLECT SINGLE PITCH BS.
I lost. she no like me coming to CO for three weeks and taking her boyfriend away for all of his free time, especially when she's leaving for a week after we go climbing, and then he's leaving for a week after she gets back (after I leave) for his sister's graduation. Ends up being six weeks without him. I'm a bad boy all around.
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caughtinside wrote: zeke_sf wrote: caughtinside wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Jemez? Great hot springs and some fun cragging around Los Alamos and white rock. yup, jemez springs. neither of us are too thrilled with single-pitch, but sometimes one has to keep the lady happy. we're also doing eldo and / or boulder for a couple of days in advance instead of four straight days in the black. More variety and your buddy gets laid. Everybody wins. hey burnsy, can Jello even climb? I thought he was really fucked up from something, like MS? Jello would be an apt name. He also has the FA of Surrealistic Pillar Direct.
haha! yeah, he can climb. he can climb circles around me, but that's not that hard. he had a good weekend in RR this weekend. I had an OK one.
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Lazlo wrote: TR time! Sooooo..... The fam and I went for a weekend of skiing. We stayed in North Lake Tahoe and skiing for two days at Boreal. The first day, I skipped out on the boring hill and went BC toward Castle Peak. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341545333658_1081922301_1018432_2354217_n.jpg[/image] Found some ice. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs402.snc3/24396_1341544893647_1081922301_1018427_1879170_n.jpg[/image] Didn't climb it. Was pretty cool to see in Nor Cal. Rather rare thing around here. Here is a view of the summit from the first of three spires that you arrive at. You can see two climbers on the summit. At this point, you have to down climb and traverse over to what summit post calls a "third class scramble" I call BS as there is a rap anchor on top. Granted I climbed it in ski boots...but I'd call it class 4 to 5.1 [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553293857_1081922301_1018448_4742906_n.jpg[/image] The summit: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553253856_1081922301_1018447_4576738_n.jpg[/image] Summit marker: [image]http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs422.snc3/24396_1341545093652_1081922301_1018429_500733_n.jpg[/image] Me and my Voodoos: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341544973649_1081922301_1018428_6719282_n.jpg[/image] View toward Boreal: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341544813645_1081922301_1018426_2381602_n.jpg[/image] Very fun trip. I went in there for the skiing and ended up enjoying the climb more. It was one of my favorite summits.
nice TR, dude. who went with you on the climbing?
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did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi.
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Lazlo wrote: TR time! Sooooo..... The fam and I went for a weekend of skiing. We stayed in North Lake Tahoe and skiing for two days at Boreal. The first day, I skipped out on the boring hill and went BC toward Castle Peak. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341545333658_1081922301_1018432_2354217_n.jpg[/image] Found some ice. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs402.snc3/24396_1341544893647_1081922301_1018427_1879170_n.jpg[/image] Didn't climb it. Was pretty cool to see in Nor Cal. Rather rare thing around here. Here is a view of the summit from the first of three spires that you arrive at. You can see two climbers on the summit. At this point, you have to down climb and traverse over to what summit post calls a "third class scramble" I call BS as there is a rap anchor on top. Granted I climbed it in ski boots...but I'd call it class 4 to 5.1 [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553293857_1081922301_1018448_4742906_n.jpg[/image] The summit: Summit marker: [image]http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs422.snc3/24396_1341545093652_1081922301_1018429_500733_n.jpg[/image] Me and my Voodoos: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341544973649_1081922301_1018428_6719282_n.jpg[/image] View toward Boreal: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341544813645_1081922301_1018426_2381602_n.jpg[/image] Very fun trip. I went in there for the skiing and ended up enjoying the climb more. It was one of my favorite summits.
Sweet! Sounds like a great way to spend the w'end, Laz.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: looks as if we're heading next week to some place in NM with hot springs (single pitch stuff, about 6hrs from Colorado Springs, I think). Jello's girlfriend didn't want to go to the black and didnt want to get left behind (she doesnt climb). the black also had hot springs, but she wasn't digging those as much. Screw that! Get to the black! Greg, you're being pussy-whiped BY SOMEONE ELSE'S GIRLFRIEND. NO. BAD GREG. BAD. GO TO THE BLACK, GO DIRECTLY TO THE BLACK, DO NOT PASS JEMEZ SPRINGS, DO NOT COLLECT SINGLE PITCH BS. I lost. she no like me coming to CO for three weeks and taking her boyfriend away for all of his free time, especially when she's leaving for a week after we go climbing, and then he's leaving for a week after she gets back (after I leave) for his sister's graduation. Ends up being six weeks without him. I'm a bad boy all around.
Six weeks is nuthin'!
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Gmburns2000 wrote: did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi.
Great! Pics???????
Bet your toes were hurtin'!
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kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi. Great! Pics??????? Bet your toes were hurtin'!
holy fuck you aren't kidding. damn, that first day was HARD on the toes. too many hanging belays.
then our fingertips ended up shredded after Epi. Not sure why it happened after Epi in particular, but that was the case.
sore toes, calves, and fingertips FTL
but fun climbing FTW
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Gmburns2000 wrote: did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi.
Sometimes you forget if you're hiking or climbing in RR.
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi. Sometimes you forget if you're hiking or climbing in RR.
damn, that descent off Epi is really hard. I mean, if you have good beta and you're coming off in the daylight, then it is pretty straight forward. If that's the case, then it is simply MUCH longer than you really want it to be (which was the case for us).
However, without good info and / or if you're looking for it in the dark - wow, I can totally see why so many people bivy.
Two of the three chimneys kicked my ass.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi. Sometimes you forget if you're hiking or climbing in RR. damn, that descent off Epi is really hard. I mean, if you have good beta and you're coming off in the daylight, then it is pretty straight forward. If that's the case, then it is simply MUCH longer than you really want it to be (which was the case for us). However, without good info and / or if you're looking for it in the dark - wow, I can totally see why so many people bivy. Two of the three chimneys kicked my ass.
Hmmm... that sucks to hear. I hate gathering beta.
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: tree climbing today. I love getting paid to climb. Reception duty today, I love getting paid to post.
Hey ho, its Sunny...
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donald949
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kachoong wrote: donald949 wrote: In other news. Hows everyones Spring break shaping up? Anyone climbing this week/weekend/next week? Spring has a break? A slice of winter... or prehaps summer shoved in the break? We went to Austin for a few days... enjoyed being in the city... Yippeee a bookstore!! We also went climbing and enjoyed some restaurants we don't get out here in the Outback.
Well, my two boys are in school. So we vacation when they are off.
Had a good trip, no climbing though. I'll make quick write up in a sec.
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donald949
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epoch wrote: Burnsey tried to kill me. Literally. He also killed the Easter turkey.
Those two events are related to each other.
So he failed in his mission?
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donald949
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Looks good.
Hard to argue with...
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Gmburns2000
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi. Sometimes you forget if you're hiking or climbing in RR. damn, that descent off Epi is really hard. I mean, if you have good beta and you're coming off in the daylight, then it is pretty straight forward. If that's the case, then it is simply MUCH longer than you really want it to be (which was the case for us). However, without good info and / or if you're looking for it in the dark - wow, I can totally see why so many people bivy. Two of the three chimneys kicked my ass. Hmmm... that sucks to hear. I hate gathering beta.
well, it's only the descent really. The approach may be a little complicated if you aren't familiar with the area, but the climb itself, it's pretty straight forward. I'd find it tough to believe anyone could fuck up the route itself.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: all of Dream of Wild Turkeys on Friday This climb is one on my list to get on too. That, Sour Mash and Rock Warrior too. When and if I ever get to go back to RR. we'll probably end up on sour mash due to wild turkey's popularity. I've heard it's got a bit of everything and possibly as good as DOWT. that's what I hear, too. The only downside is that sour mash isn't as long. I thought it was about the same since most people bail at DOWT's 7th pitch? That's what we did, anyway. I'm really not sold on Red Rocks as a climbing destination. I'm going to hit a few more classics there and see how I feel. everything i've read suggests going straight to the top because there are some stellar pitches after P7. wow - what classics haven't you done? Birdland, Crimson Chrysalis, Dark Shadows? <-- those are just a few: Olive Oil was a fun route and so was Black Magic. I'm guessing Epi isn't going to disappoint and niether will Frogland. I'm hoping that neither DOWT and / or Sour Mash will be right up there, too (if a 70m works on rap) I've heard great things about Johnny Vegas, Tunnel Vision, Solar Slabs (also heard SS wasn't that great, too). I can't stand the desert, but I keep wanting to go back for more and more... (the easy sport stuff sucks, but I can't vouch for the hard sport stuff. I don't really go there for the sport, but because routes are so long, and approaches and descents are so committing, there tends to be one "rest" day) I like sandstone, I like multipitch, I like the desert, but for some reason Red Rock really doesn't grab me. I'm planning on hitting epinephrine and lev 29, the exalted classics, and, if I still don't dig the area, I'm just not making an effort to go to a place I feel "meh" about in the future. I guess I should do that soon though, the place is going to be too hot pretty soon! I don't know, places like J Tree, Yosemite, Cochise, Indian Creek... they all just appeal to me for some unknown factor. Not saying RR isn't a good area, I just don't have a personal draw to it. I can see that. I don't have much desire to head back to to Yos any time soon. Lev 29 sounds pretty sweet, though. Yeah, sounds sweet, except - like most every other "classic" RR route - the approach is too long, rappelling will probably suck balls because of stuck ropes, the walkoff is worse, and its quality is most likely highly overrated. well, if you can levitate 29 then none of that matters much. Actually, that's the whole point. If I can Levitate 29 and I still don't care too much for the place, it matters. It may be the gestalt of the place: shitty camping, the stupid, one-way loop, my inexplicable bad attitude towards it... who knows. yeah, the loop is annoying. this will be my first venture into black velvet canyon, so no loop and no fee. as you probably saw on my thread with regards to the camping, we went with a hotel. they're cheap here and the one i stay at is pretty damn close. yeah, i'm skeptical on the camping.
So what is the problem w/ the camping?
I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips.
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donald949
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: looks as if we're heading next week to some place in NM with hot springs (single pitch stuff, about 6hrs from Colorado Springs, I think). Jello's girlfriend didn't want to go to the black and didnt want to get left behind (she doesnt climb). the black also had hot springs, but she wasn't digging those as much. Screw that! Get to the black! Greg, you're being pussy-whiped BY SOMEONE ELSE'S GIRLFRIEND. NO. BAD GREG. BAD. GO TO THE BLACK, GO DIRECTLY TO THE BLACK, DO NOT PASS JEMEZ SPRINGS, DO NOT COLLECT SINGLE PITCH BS.
Did you ever get on that long slab out of SLC that you posted a picture of last year. That looked sweet. Do you have the 411 link on it.
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Lazlo
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: TR time! Sooooo..... The fam and I went for a weekend of skiing. We stayed in North Lake Tahoe and skiing for two days at Boreal. The first day, I skipped out on the boring hill and went BC toward Castle Peak. Found some ice. Didn't climb it. Was pretty cool to see in Nor Cal. Rather rare thing around here. Here is a view of the summit from the first of three spires that you arrive at. You can see two climbers on the summit. At this point, you have to down climb and traverse over to what summit post calls a "third class scramble" I call BS as there is a rap anchor on top. Granted I climbed it in ski boots...but I'd call it class 4 to 5.1 The summit: Summit marker: Me and my Voodoos: View toward Boreal: Very fun trip. I went in there for the skiing and ended up enjoying the climb more. It was one of my favorite summits. nice TR, dude. who went with you on the climbing?
Thanks. I went solo. I'm growing weary of trying to find partners. It's such a pita
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Gmburns2000
Apr 13, 2010, 7:24 PM
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donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips.
we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..."
From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too.
I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel.
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Gmburns2000
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: TR time! Sooooo..... The fam and I went for a weekend of skiing. We stayed in North Lake Tahoe and skiing for two days at Boreal. The first day, I skipped out on the boring hill and went BC toward Castle Peak. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341545333658_1081922301_1018432_2354217_n.jpg[/image] Found some ice. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs402.snc3/24396_1341544893647_1081922301_1018427_1879170_n.jpg[/image] Didn't climb it. Was pretty cool to see in Nor Cal. Rather rare thing around here. Here is a view of the summit from the first of three spires that you arrive at. You can see two climbers on the summit. At this point, you have to down climb and traverse over to what summit post calls a "third class scramble" I call BS as there is a rap anchor on top. Granted I climbed it in ski boots...but I'd call it class 4 to 5.1 [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553293857_1081922301_1018448_4742906_n.jpg[/image] The summit: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553253856_1081922301_1018447_4576738_n.jpg[/image] Summit marker: [image]http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs422.snc3/24396_1341545093652_1081922301_1018429_500733_n.jpg[/image] Me and my Voodoos: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341544973649_1081922301_1018428_6719282_n.jpg[/image] View toward Boreal: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341544813645_1081922301_1018426_2381602_n.jpg[/image] Very fun trip. I went in there for the skiing and ended up enjoying the climb more. It was one of my favorite summits. nice TR, dude. who went with you on the climbing? Thanks. I went solo. I'm growing weary of trying to find partners. It's such a pita
with the exception of a lack of partners, you've got a good deal going.
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donald949
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Gmburns2000 wrote: did Goblet to Dream of Wild Turkeys, Frogland, Epinephrine in three days. I was toast by the time we hit the tarred road at Epi.
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donald949
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel.
Sounds good.
Hoteling with the family is kinda painful. Should be was. Kids are getting older so it should be better.
The advantage of the trailer is the kids can play right outside while we make dinner inside/rest.
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Gmburns2000
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel. Sounds good. Hoteling with the family is kinda painful. Should be was. Kids are getting older so it should be better. The advantage of the trailer is the kids can play right outside while we make dinner inside/rest.
totally understandable. I'd do that campground with a trailer. it's not the most comfy (I'd still do it with a tent for a short trip) and doesn't have facilities (pit toilet). Not sure about water. Definitely not a "nice" campground, though.
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So we've been at Lone Pine for spring break.
Alabama Hills, a spurt climbing area, with a ton of moderates. However, didn't do any climbing
But did do a lot of sight seeing.
Got to Darwin, and old mining town, not quite ghost town yet, as it still claims 50 residents. Lots of gold and silver were mined in the area. Balarat, another old Mining Town. A few of the old adobe mud houses are still standing - partially standing. These are just west of Death Valley Park. We drove through a little bit of the west side of the park, but didn't get into DV proper. Just too many miles, too little time with my crew. Cool scenary, maybe next year do the DV area itself.
Another day we got up into the East Seirras a bit, hit the snow for some playing around. Kids all had fun.
Thrid day we did some sightseeing around Lone Pine, drove up Granite View road quite a ways. Drove around Alabama Hills, kids wanted to climb, but by the time I got the gear out of the car they were off running around someplace else. Checked out one of the Arches that you can get a picture of Whitney through.
Last day we were going to climb, but just way too windy. Drove across Owens Valley a checked out an old mine. Some really cool stuff there, ore shoots and structures. One shaft thats big enough for a Jeep to drive into. Lots of trails and equipment all around.
All in all, a good time. Transfer case got a good work out, and that is always a good thing.
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donald949
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel. Sounds good. Hoteling with the family is kinda painful. Should be was. Kids are getting older so it should be better. The advantage of the trailer is the kids can play right outside while we make dinner inside/rest. totally understandable. I'd do that campground with a trailer. it's not the most comfy (I'd still do it with a tent for a short trip) and doesn't have facilities (pit toilet). Not sure about water. Definitely not a "nice" campground, though.
Sounds about like the campground we were in last week. Sounds like the campgrounds at Josh. No water, power or sewer. Pit toilets.
But we did have a nice stream for the kids to play around, although it was generally a little too cool for them to want to get in.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel.
The big problem with RR campground is the wind. Overnight the winds often pick up and that place is the definition of exposed.
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel. The big problem with RR campground is the wind. Overnight the winds often pick up and that place is the definition of exposed.
yup, I'd believe that. there's no protection there all around it. all the hills or mountains that are nearby are too far away to provide any kind of decent shelter.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel. The big problem with RR campground is the wind. Overnight the winds often pick up and that place is the definition of exposed. yup, I'd believe that. there's no protection there all around it. all the hills or mountains that are nearby are too far away to provide any kind of decent shelter.
Though It couldn't be much worse than Lone Pine last week.
Whosh, it was windy.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: TR time! Sooooo..... The fam and I went for a weekend of skiing. We stayed in North Lake Tahoe and skiing for two days at Boreal. The first day, I skipped out on the boring hill and went BC toward Castle Peak. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341545333658_1081922301_1018432_2354217_n.jpg[/image] Found some ice. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs402.snc3/24396_1341544893647_1081922301_1018427_1879170_n.jpg[/image] Didn't climb it. Was pretty cool to see in Nor Cal. Rather rare thing around here. Here is a view of the summit from the first of three spires that you arrive at. You can see two climbers on the summit. At this point, you have to down climb and traverse over to what summit post calls a "third class scramble" I call BS as there is a rap anchor on top. Granted I climbed it in ski boots...but I'd call it class 4 to 5.1 [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553293857_1081922301_1018448_4742906_n.jpg[/image] The summit: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553253856_1081922301_1018447_4576738_n.jpg[/image] Summit marker: [image]http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs422.snc3/24396_1341545093652_1081922301_1018429_500733_n.jpg[/image] Me and my Voodoos: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341544973649_1081922301_1018428_6719282_n.jpg[/image] View toward Boreal: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341544813645_1081922301_1018426_2381602_n.jpg[/image] Very fun trip. I went in there for the skiing and ended up enjoying the climb more. It was one of my favorite summits. nice TR, dude. who went with you on the climbing? Thanks. I went solo. I'm growing weary of trying to find partners. It's such a pita with the exception of a lack of partners, you've got a good deal going.
A good deal? Do you mean just everything in general? ie Life the Universe and Everything? (42)
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: TR time! Sooooo..... The fam and I went for a weekend of skiing. We stayed in North Lake Tahoe and skiing for two days at Boreal. The first day, I skipped out on the boring hill and went BC toward Castle Peak. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341545333658_1081922301_1018432_2354217_n.jpg[/image] Found some ice. [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs402.snc3/24396_1341544893647_1081922301_1018427_1879170_n.jpg[/image] Didn't climb it. Was pretty cool to see in Nor Cal. Rather rare thing around here. Here is a view of the summit from the first of three spires that you arrive at. You can see two climbers on the summit. At this point, you have to down climb and traverse over to what summit post calls a "third class scramble" I call BS as there is a rap anchor on top. Granted I climbed it in ski boots...but I'd call it class 4 to 5.1 [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553293857_1081922301_1018448_4742906_n.jpg[/image] The summit: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341553253856_1081922301_1018447_4576738_n.jpg[/image] Summit marker: [image]http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs422.snc3/24396_1341545093652_1081922301_1018429_500733_n.jpg[/image] Me and my Voodoos: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs422.snc3/24396_1341544973649_1081922301_1018428_6719282_n.jpg[/image] View toward Boreal: [image]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs442.ash1/24396_1341544813645_1081922301_1018426_2381602_n.jpg[/image] Very fun trip. I went in there for the skiing and ended up enjoying the climb more. It was one of my favorite summits. nice TR, dude. who went with you on the climbing? Thanks. I went solo. I'm growing weary of trying to find partners. It's such a pita with the exception of a lack of partners, you've got a good deal going. A good deal? Do you mean just everything in general? ie Life the Universe and Everything? (42)
yes, that's what I meant.
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sungam
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Hmmm, the last 4 days - cleaned up some awesome highballs, did the FA on one of them, did the FA of a new 2 pitch route (though this route may have been done by a friend of mine around 40 years ago, I have to go ask) complete with an ass-puckering 30 foot moss-climb exit with just a shitty wobbly tree at the start for pro (the NOT FUN part of the route...), then did Agag's Groove on the Bouchaille (the route I posted a long story about a while back, my first mountain route or something). Fuck I love the highlands!
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Gmburns2000
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sungam wrote: Hmmm, the last 4 days - cleaned up some awesome highballs, did the FA on one of them, did the FA of a new 2 pitch route (though this route may have been done by a friend of mine around 40 years ago, I have to go ask) complete with an ass-puckering 30 foot moss-climb exit with just a shitty wobbly tree at the start for pro (the NOT FUN part of the route...), then did Agag's Groove on the Bouchaille (the route I posted a long story about a while back, my first mountain route or something). Fuck I love the highlands!
strong work. now go repeat some of macleod's work on st john's head.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Hmmm, the last 4 days - cleaned up some awesome highballs, did the FA on one of them, did the FA of a new 2 pitch route (though this route may have been done by a friend of mine around 40 years ago, I have to go ask) complete with an ass-puckering 30 foot moss-climb exit with just a shitty wobbly tree at the start for pro (the NOT FUN part of the route...), then did Agag's Groove on the Bouchaille (the route I posted a long story about a while back, my first mountain route or something). Fuck I love the highlands! strong work. now go repeat some of macleod's work on st john's head.
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Hmmm, the last 4 days - cleaned up some awesome highballs, did the FA on one of them, did the FA of a new 2 pitch route (though this route may have been done by a friend of mine around 40 years ago, I have to go ask) complete with an ass-puckering 30 foot moss-climb exit with just a shitty wobbly tree at the start for pro (the NOT FUN part of the route...), then did Agag's Groove on the Bouchaille (the route I posted a long story about a while back, my first mountain route or something). Fuck I love the highlands! strong work. now go repeat some of macleod's work on st john's head. That knot wat ewe go two saynt jonz hed fore. too hard
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel. The big problem with RR campground is the wind. Overnight the winds often pick up and that place is the definition of exposed.
When the missus and I went to RR Rendezvous last year the winds destroyed our tent and we slept in the car before checking into our downtown hotel a few days early. I went to throw the tent in the dumpster before we left and saw another four or five tents in there... trashed.
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Gmburns2000
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man, so this past weekend really kicked my ass. 30 pitches in three days is a lot for a guy who hasn't put many long days in for 2010. and the easiest pitch was 5.7, with the vast majority being at 5.9-5.10a, which is at my onsite trad level. so, my freaking biceps and triceps are trashed, and my fingertips are shredded to the point that it hurts to use a pen. i'm glad my laptop has a soft keyboard.
tried to climbing again today in Red Rocks in Colorado Springs. Got up a few easy sport climbs, but my fingertips started bleeding again so we stopped. My arms still havent recovered.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: man, so this past weekend really kicked my ass. 30 pitches in three days is a lot for a guy who hasn't put many long days in for 2010. and the easiest pitch was 5.7, with the vast majority being at 5.9-5.10a, which is at my onsite trad level. so, my freaking biceps and triceps are trashed, and my fingertips are shredded to the point that it hurts to use a pen. i'm glad my laptop has a soft keyboard. tried to climbing again today in Red Rocks in Colorado Springs. Got up a few easy sport climbs, but my fingertips started bleeding again so we stopped. My arms still havent recovered.
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kachoong wrote: zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: So what is the problem w/ the camping? I haven't looked into it much. Just seen a couple pics of the campground. Looked fine, like it would work with my trailer for bringing the family sometime. I've also been known to crash in the back of the Sub. Actually my ussual MO when camping solo for climbing trips. we stayed at the Suncoast Casino, so I can't comment on the conditions except for that one spin through the campground that we took looking for a couple of Jeremiah's friends who happened to be in RR at the same time. We didn't find them, though. It might not have helped that, as we were driving slowly along the dark, dirt road, I was chanting, "warriorrrrs, come out and pla-yayyyyy..." From what I saw, though, it didn't look that bad, nor nearly as crowded as folks suggested it might be (i.e. - we could have had a site had we tried for one). There were certainly trailers there, too. I'm glad we stayed in a hotel, though. I got beat up from a lot of climbing long days at my limit. The hot tub after Epi was well worth the expense of the hotel. The big problem with RR campground is the wind. Overnight the winds often pick up and that place is the definition of exposed. When the missus and I went to RR Rendezvous last year the winds destroyed our tent and we slept in the car before checking into our downtown hotel a few days early. I went to throw the tent in the dumpster before we left and saw another four or five tents in there... trashed.
Cool, thanks for the info guys.
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: man, so this past weekend really kicked my ass. 30 pitches in three days is a lot for a guy who hasn't put many long days in for 2010. and the easiest pitch was 5.7, with the vast majority being at 5.9-5.10a, which is at my onsite trad level. so, my freaking biceps and triceps are trashed, and my fingertips are shredded to the point that it hurts to use a pen. i'm glad my laptop has a soft keyboard. tried to climbing again today in Red Rocks in Colorado Springs. Got up a few easy sport climbs, but my fingertips started bleeding again so we stopped. My arms still havent recovered. Fukken Eh. Good effort Greg.
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donald949 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: man, so this past weekend really kicked my ass. 30 pitches in three days is a lot for a guy who hasn't put many long days in for 2010. and the easiest pitch was 5.7, with the vast majority being at 5.9-5.10a, which is at my onsite trad level. so, my freaking biceps and triceps are trashed, and my fingertips are shredded to the point that it hurts to use a pen. i'm glad my laptop has a soft keyboard. tried to climbing again today in Red Rocks in Colorado Springs. Got up a few easy sport climbs, but my fingertips started bleeding again so we stopped. My arms still havent recovered. Fukken Eh. Good effort Greg. +1
thanks, but this has kept me from Devil's Tower this weekend. could've gone today for a few days before next week's trip to Taos. kinda bummed about that.
not really convinced those kinds of efforts are worth it if you're missing other stuff.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: man, so this past weekend really kicked my ass. 30 pitches in three days is a lot for a guy who hasn't put many long days in for 2010. and the easiest pitch was 5.7, with the vast majority being at 5.9-5.10a, which is at my onsite trad level. so, my freaking biceps and triceps are trashed, and my fingertips are shredded to the point that it hurts to use a pen. i'm glad my laptop has a soft keyboard. tried to climbing again today in Red Rocks in Colorado Springs. Got up a few easy sport climbs, but my fingertips started bleeding again so we stopped. My arms still havent recovered. Fukken Eh. Good effort Greg. +1 thanks, but this has kept me from Devil's Tower this weekend. could've gone today for a few days before next week's trip to Taos. kinda bummed about that. not really convinced those kinds of efforts are worth it if you're missing other stuff.
Sounds like your partner is riding you roughshod!
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Gmburns2000
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: man, so this past weekend really kicked my ass. 30 pitches in three days is a lot for a guy who hasn't put many long days in for 2010. and the easiest pitch was 5.7, with the vast majority being at 5.9-5.10a, which is at my onsite trad level. so, my freaking biceps and triceps are trashed, and my fingertips are shredded to the point that it hurts to use a pen. i'm glad my laptop has a soft keyboard. tried to climbing again today in Red Rocks in Colorado Springs. Got up a few easy sport climbs, but my fingertips started bleeding again so we stopped. My arms still havent recovered. Fukken Eh. Good effort Greg. +1 thanks, but this has kept me from Devil's Tower this weekend. could've gone today for a few days before next week's trip to Taos. kinda bummed about that. not really convinced those kinds of efforts are worth it if you're missing other stuff. Sounds like your partner is riding you roughshod!
every time I come out his goal is to push me because he thinks I'm a better climber than I let on. Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. I got to the top but I wasn't clean on everything. I hurt. WAAAAAAA!
We'll see how next week goes in Taos.
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Gmburns2000
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bored. posting stupid things on MP. getting a little bit of writing in, but letting the last scene ferment a little before continuing.
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donald949
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Gmburns2000 wrote: bored. posting stupid things on MP. getting a little bit of writing in, but letting the last scene ferment a little before continuing.
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donald949
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Up to my armpits in aligators at work
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My turn in the barrel
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got to work tommarow too
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donald949
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Saturday that is...
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donald949
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PTFTW
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That is all.
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Gmburns2000
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watching American Loggers (takes place in Maine - love that accent) and doing research on the Sprinter.
30mph not so bad eh?
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sungam
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Good lord I shouldn't have looked at greenland in the first place.
How am I meant to concentrate on physics WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH UNCLIMBED ROCK??? Just over the ocean from me!
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Gmburns2000
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sungam wrote: Good lord I shouldn't have looked at greenland in the first place. How am I meant to concentrate on physics WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH UNCLIMBED ROCK??? Just over the ocean from me!
the late, great Mat Goodyear has a few FAs there. Not sure what route. Lot of potential.
fucking cold here in CO, and Jello won't turn on the fucking heat!
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Gmburns2000
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heading to jeremiah's gym for the afternoon. it shares a building with a freaking hockey rink. brrr...
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zeke_sf
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Gmburns2000 wrote: watching American Loggers (takes place in Maine - love that accent) and doing research on the Sprinter. 30mph not so bad eh?
30 mph is shitty.
30 mpg would be pretty good though.
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Gmburns2000
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: watching American Loggers (takes place in Maine - love that accent) and doing research on the Sprinter. 30mph not so bad eh? 30 mph is shitty. 30 mpg would be pretty good though.
well played. mpg was the correct term.
heading to Eldo Canyon tomorrow. Doing Yellow Spur.
Not sure what we're doing Tues.
Wed / Thurs in Taos.
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*yawn* ugh. Back down to Edinburgh today to learnz t3h numbers before I haz to write abowt them on t3h paperz.
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Pretty sleepzy tho
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sungam
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Up two layt laz nite.
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then wakey wakey for werkez this mornz.
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sungam
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Not as bad az ewanz, tho.
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He gots to getz up EARLEEZ.
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5:30, to drive t3h drivez, gets da ferry, then drives some moar.
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then he busts his azz at t3h rock breaking playce all day lawng.
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Doesn't stop him trainin', tho
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sungam
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Mr MacLeod called him "the steely fingered man of Glencoe".
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not two shabbi
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BAKAW!!!!!
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Mid flite bird?
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mid root flite
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what, like, what?
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We getzed a wii
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My sister made me do t3h hoola hupz on it. I thought it was stupid but I was super surprised at how much it pumped out my core.
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I guess I'm WEAK at t3h hoola hupz, maybe a PTFTW will make me feel better?
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Nawp, it wuz 2 hollawez
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better vacewm up t3h crumbz
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aint nuttin to it but to do it.
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So gregz, ewe still shitzing pantz in rage! at my supirioer shineez on t3h sig?
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sungam wrote: then wakey wakey for werkez this mornz.
me too. late night last night, up early for yellow spur in eldo today.
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sungam wrote: Mr MacLeod called him "the steely fingered man of Glencoe".
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sungam wrote: So gregz, ewe still shitzing pantz in rage! at my supirioer shineez on t3h sig?
i shitz in technicolor
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sungam wrote: So gregz, ewe still shitzing pantz in rage! at my supirioer shineez on t3h sig?[/quote
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johnwesely
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For some reason, I thought by purposefully cheesetitting that I could save your sig for posterity.
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johnwesely
Apr 19, 2010, 9:04 PM
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I have a huge pile of dishes waiting to be lovingly cleaned.
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donald949
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sungam wrote: So gregz, ewe still shitzing pantz in rage! at my supirioer shineez on t3h sig? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stymingersfink wrote:dunt wory, Rose will keep an eye on it for yew. Your sitzer, i mean. try not to fall asleep tho, he mite do mor than watch. ¤ Greg shitz pants in rage!!!!!!1111eleventyone11 |
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donald949
Apr 20, 2010, 12:50 AM
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No color codes though
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donald949
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johnwesely wrote: I have a huge pile of dishes waiting to be lovingly cleaned.
Get on them man...
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donald949
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Busy week.
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including Sat.
plus eye got a couple things on the trailer fixed and put back in the lot Sunday.
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donald949
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tired.
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donald949
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donald949 wrote: No color codes though
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johnwesely
Apr 20, 2010, 1:15 AM
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Who isn't?
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johnwesely
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donald949 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I have a huge pile of dishes waiting to be lovingly cleaned. Get on them man...
I so got on them. They are cleaner than ever.
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Lazlo
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Saw this today while working:
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notapplicable
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It sure is nice of IHOP to stay open 24-7 so I'd have a place to eat at 3 a.m. before crashing out after a long.
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notapplicable
Apr 21, 2010, 7:12 AM
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notapplicable wrote: It sure is nice of IHOP to stay open 24-7 so I'd have a place to eat at 3 a.m. before crashing out after a long.
And even nicer yet that they installed WiFi so I could I the PC
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notapplicable
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notapplicable wrote: notapplicable wrote: It sure is nice of IHOP to stay open 24-7 so I'd have a place to eat at 3 a.m. before crashing out after a long. And even nicer yet that they installed WiFi so I could I the PC
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notapplicable
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I gotta say boys, this has been a busy spring. I've worked a metric fuckton of hours but still managed at least 1 day of climbing during 7 of the last 8 weekends. A couple of them being 2 day trips.
I'm tired but feeling fit. Which has been the goal
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notapplicable
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Ahhh shit, foods ready. Gotta go.
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notapplicable
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Off to the hotel to eat and possibly ++ mucho mas
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Lazlo
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notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: Saw this today while working: Thats what I call getting the message out!
Just found out via stalk book what that banner is about. The guy that lives there is Chico Police and his wife left him and put that banner up before she left (something to remember her by). He's just been leaving it up.
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sungam
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johnwesely wrote: For some reason, I thought by purposefully cheesetitting that I could save your sig for posterity.
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sungam
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: then wakey wakey for werkez this mornz. me too. late night last night, up early for yellow spur in eldo today.
Too bad it's near Boulder...
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johnwesely
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: For some reason, I thought by purposefully cheesetitting that I could save your sig for posterity. HaHa
At least I still have my pride.
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sungam
Apr 21, 2010, 1:09 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Mr MacLeod called him "the steely fingered man of Glencoe". how do you know?
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sungam
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: So gregz, ewe still shitzing pantz in rage! at my supirioer shineez on t3h sig? i shitz in technicolor
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Gmburns2000
Apr 21, 2010, 2:17 PM
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: then wakey wakey for werkez this mornz. me too. late night last night, up early for yellow spur in eldo today. Nice, I hear it's classic. Too bad it's near Boulder...
I got shut down by the cold. I couldn't feel the holds and kept falling off the start, which was the harder variation. I'm hoping to go back when it is warmer.
Had a decent day yesterday, though in Eldo. Did a bunch of single-pitch stuff that was fun. Was supposed to rain, and it started out cold (totally sucked for me, but at least I was willing to be the belay slave if I couldn't climb), but then then sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day.
supposed to go to Toas today. Not sure if we're going to make it. It is supposed to rain and Jello's girlfriend is whining about going in the rain.
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Mr MacLeod called him "the steely fingered man of Glencoe". how do you know? Andy told me.
name dropper
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New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine.
Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: then wakey wakey for werkez this mornz. me too. late night last night, up early for yellow spur in eldo today. Nice, I hear it's classic. Too bad it's near Boulder... I got shut down by the cold. I couldn't feel the holds and kept falling off the start, which was the harder variation. I'm hoping to go back when it is warmer. Had a decent day yesterday, though in Eldo. Did a bunch of single-pitch stuff that was fun. Was supposed to rain, and it started out cold (totally sucked for me, but at least I was willing to be the belay slave if I couldn't climb), but then then sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day. supposed to go to Toas today. Not sure if we're going to make it. It is supposed to rain and Jello's girlfriend is whining about going in the rain.
Taos.
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nilcarborundum
Apr 21, 2010, 7:03 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: then wakey wakey for werkez this mornz. me too. late night last night, up early for yellow spur in eldo today. Nice, I hear it's classic. Too bad it's near Boulder... I got shut down by the cold. I couldn't feel the holds and kept falling off the start, which was the harder variation. I'm hoping to go back when it is warmer. Had a decent day yesterday, though in Eldo. Did a bunch of single-pitch stuff that was fun. Was supposed to rain, and it started out cold (totally sucked for me, but at least I was willing to be the belay slave if I couldn't climb), but then then sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day. supposed to go to Toas today. Not sure if we're going to make it. It is supposed to rain and Jello's girlfriend is whining about going in the rain.
I've read about 4 of your posts, and in everyone of them, this girl is whining about something. Sounds like a real winner.
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johnwesely
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Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks.
I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny.
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zeke_sf
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny.
Actually, that is pretty funny.
I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why.
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johnwesely
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zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why.
My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys.
There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble.
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sungam
Apr 21, 2010, 7:42 PM
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johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble.
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johnwesely
Apr 21, 2010, 7:45 PM
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. HOLY SHIT I DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING ON THAT EXACT SAME ROUTE!!!!!!
Really? REALLY? REALLY? orly?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Mr MacLeod called him "the steely fingered man of Glencoe". how do you know? Andy told me. name dropper
Yore awl just jealuz because I was chattin' with strong steve the other day while we trained
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sungam
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nilcarborundum wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: then wakey wakey for werkez this mornz. me too. late night last night, up early for yellow spur in eldo today. Nice, I hear it's classic. Too bad it's near Boulder... I got shut down by the cold. I couldn't feel the holds and kept falling off the start, which was the harder variation. I'm hoping to go back when it is warmer. Had a decent day yesterday, though in Eldo. Did a bunch of single-pitch stuff that was fun. Was supposed to rain, and it started out cold (totally sucked for me, but at least I was willing to be the belay slave if I couldn't climb), but then then sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day. supposed to go to Toas today. Not sure if we're going to make it. It is supposed to rain and Jello's girlfriend is whining about going in the rain. I've read about 4 of your posts, and in everyone of them, this girl is whining about something. Sounds like a real winner.
And just for the record... *cough* That never happens, I'm so sorry... (unrelated yet unavoidable).
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. HOLY SHIT I DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING ON THAT EXACT SAME ROUTE!!!!!! Really? REALLY? REALLY? orly? 
Then our damn rope got caught on the reppel. We were like "wtf - stuck rope benightment on a two pitch route? FFS". Gud times. Fun route, too!
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. HOLY SHIT I DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING ON THAT EXACT SAME ROUTE!!!!!! Really? REALLY? REALLY? orly? [image]http://files.myopera.com/drlaunch/albums/37656/ya-rly001.jpg[/image] Then our damn rope got caught on the reppel. We were like "wtf - stuck rope benightment on a two pitch route? FFS". Gud times. Fun route, too!
Did you do the Frosted Flake too? It is out of this world good. It is not fair to other cliffs that the Cereal Buttress has such a concentration of uber classics.
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johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble.
Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you?
As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys.
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zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys.
I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality.
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Lazlo
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johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys. I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality.
Weird. I seem really relaxed in chimneys. They're really the only type of route I'm willing to solo.
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. HOLY SHIT I DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING ON THAT EXACT SAME ROUTE!!!!!! Really? REALLY? REALLY? orly? [image]http://files.myopera.com/drlaunch/albums/37656/ya-rly001.jpg[/image] Then our damn rope got caught on the reppel. We were like "wtf - stuck rope benightment on a two pitch route? FFS". Gud times. Fun route, too! Did you do the Frosted Flake too? It is out of this world good. It is not fair to other cliffs that the Cereal Buttress has such a concentration of uber classics.
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sungam
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zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys.
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys. I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality. Weird. I seem really relaxed in chimneys. They're really the only type of route I'm willing to solo.
Now that I think about it, I've never found a chimney that's the right shape or size...
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johnwesely
Apr 21, 2010, 11:38 PM
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sungam wrote: Nope, we climbed way over on the left, some cool routes, then jumped on fruit loops as our last root. Rumbling Bald was well nice, I hope to go back there some time. Corn Flake and Shredded Wheat (that's the finger crack, right?) looked awesome. Especially shredded wheat, holy shit! What a splitter.
Shredded Wheat is super great. Caveat, I have only top roped it. It starts off as perfect fingers, then you get a rest at the small roof. After that, it is thin tips with no feet to an almost no hands rest. Then is the crux, a crazy throw off tiny tips to a mono pocket followed by easier climbing to the top. I can't wait to get back for the lead, but it is looking like it will have to wait till next winter because it is out of season now.
If you get back there, you need to get on Frosted Flake though. The Crux layback is strenuous and the gear gets below your feet real quick. You feel awesome after you nail the crux though. Total stud.
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Nope, we climbed way over on the left, some cool routes, then jumped on fruit loops as our last root. Rumbling Bald was well nice, I hope to go back there some time. Corn Flake and Shredded Wheat (that's the finger crack, right?) looked awesome. Especially shredded wheat, holy shit! What a splitter. Shredded Wheat is super great. Caveat, I have only top roped it. It starts off as perfect fingers, then you get a rest at the small roof. After that, it is thin tips with no feet to an almost no hands rest. Then is the crux, a crazy throw off tiny tips to a mono pocket followed by easier climbing to the top. I can't wait to get back for the lead, but it is looking like it will have to wait till next winter because it is out of season now. If you get back there, you need to get on Frosted Flake though. The Crux layback is strenuous and the gear gets below your feet real quick. You feel awesome after you nail the crux though. Total stud.
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Nope, we climbed way over on the left, some cool routes, then jumped on fruit loops as our last root. Rumbling Bald was well nice, I hope to go back there some time. Corn Flake and Shredded Wheat (that's the finger crack, right?) looked awesome. Especially shredded wheat, holy shit! What a splitter. Shredded Wheat is super great. Caveat, I have only top roped it. It starts off as perfect fingers, then you get a rest at the small roof. After that, it is thin tips with no feet to an almost no hands rest. Then is the crux, a crazy throw off tiny tips to a mono pocket followed by easier climbing to the top. I can't wait to get back for the lead, but it is looking like it will have to wait till next winter because it is out of season now. If you get back there, you need to get on Frosted Flake though. The Crux layback is strenuous and the gear gets below your feet real quick. You feel awesome after you nail the crux though. Total stud. Frosted Flake (not cornflakes, that was in Squamish!) looked awesome, but fairly scary - or maybe I'm thinking of the direct version.
I am not sure if people do a direct version but it probably would not be terrible. 30 or 35 feet of 8ish runout until the first piece, but it is fairly featured rock. The real route follows the crack from the ground. The crux lieback is technically protectable with 2 and 3 inch cams, but you would be placing blind pro during the most insecure and strenuous part of the route. I believe that most people just run it out.
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys. I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality. Weird. I seem really relaxed in chimneys. They're really the only type of route I'm willing to solo. For me it depends on the shape/size of the chimney. Fruit loops was just awkward as hell. Stolen Chimney was just fucking terrifying, and the chimney on river tower was just loose as hell. Now that I think about it, I've never found a chimney that's the right shape or size...
Stolen chimney was terrifying? That thing is casual!
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys. I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality. Weird. I seem really relaxed in chimneys. They're really the only type of route I'm willing to solo. For me it depends on the shape/size of the chimney. Fruit loops was just awkward as hell. Stolen Chimney was just fucking terrifying, and the chimney on river tower was just loose as hell. Now that I think about it, I've never found a chimney that's the right shape or size...
I've probably climbed 5 chimneys, if my memory serves me right. Two of them were roped. They all seemed pretty easy.
They were everything from squeezes to hip-heel
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Lazlo wrote: sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys. I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality. Weird. I seem really relaxed in chimneys. They're really the only type of route I'm willing to solo. For me it depends on the shape/size of the chimney. Fruit loops was just awkward as hell. Stolen Chimney was just fucking terrifying, and the chimney on river tower was just loose as hell. Now that I think about it, I've never found a chimney that's the right shape or size... I've probably climbed 5 chimneys, if my memory serves me right. Two of them were roped. They all seemed pretty easy. They were everything from squeezes to hip-heel
Oh, and I downclimbed one of the squeezes because I thought there was a walk off, and there was not.
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caughtinside wrote: sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys. I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality. Weird. I seem really relaxed in chimneys. They're really the only type of route I'm willing to solo. For me it depends on the shape/size of the chimney. Fruit loops was just awkward as hell. Stolen Chimney was just fucking terrifying, and the chimney on river tower was just loose as hell. Now that I think about it, I've never found a chimney that's the right shape or size... Stolen chimney was terrifying? That thing is casual!
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Nope, we climbed way over on the left, some cool routes, then jumped on fruit loops as our last root. Rumbling Bald was well nice, I hope to go back there some time. Corn Flake and Shredded Wheat (that's the finger crack, right?) looked awesome. Especially shredded wheat, holy shit! What a splitter. Shredded Wheat is super great. Caveat, I have only top roped it. It starts off as perfect fingers, then you get a rest at the small roof. After that, it is thin tips with no feet to an almost no hands rest. Then is the crux, a crazy throw off tiny tips to a mono pocket followed by easier climbing to the top. I can't wait to get back for the lead, but it is looking like it will have to wait till next winter because it is out of season now. If you get back there, you need to get on Frosted Flake though. The Crux layback is strenuous and the gear gets below your feet real quick. You feel awesome after you nail the crux though. Total stud. Frosted Flake (not cornflakes, that was in Squamish!) looked awesome, but fairly scary - or maybe I'm thinking of the direct version. I am not sure if people do a direct version but it probably would not be terrible. 30 or 35 feet of 8ish runout until the first piece, but it is fairly featured rock. The real route follows the crack from the ground. The crux lieback is technically protectable with 2 and 3 inch cams, but you would be placing blind pro during the most insecure and strenuous part of the route. I believe that most people just run it out.
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Apr 22, 2010, 6:05 PM
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sungam wrote: I meant just to the right of the proper flake there's a wee flared crack thing that looks pantshitzing.
Whiskey for Breakfast?
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: I meant just to the right of the proper flake there's a wee flared crack thing that looks pantshitzing. Whiskey for Breakfast?
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: I meant just to the right of the proper flake there's a wee flared crack thing that looks pantshitzing. Whiskey for Breakfast? Dunno, CBA lookin' it up, either.
Whiskey for Breakfast it is then!
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Dear Magnus,
Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert.
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John Wesely
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johnwesely wrote: Dear Magnus, Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert. Regard, John Wesely
randomize your password! GET THE FUCK OUT NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK! this place is a soul sucking crack hit that keeps sucking you back for more.
My best advice is to stop giving a shit about the PC - your existence in this shit-hole is more affirmed by your giving of sound advice, discussion of worthwhile routes, heartless plugs at John, Greg, and e-kop, and your ability to banter. Quality of quantity bro!!!!
Sincerely,
Yours forever,
Magnus
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Dear Magnus, Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert. Regard, John Wesely My Dearest John, randomize your password! GET THE FUCK OUT NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK! this place is a soul sucking crack hit that keeps sucking you back for more. My best advice is to stop giving a shit about the PC - your existence in this shit-hole is more affirmed by your giving of sound advice, discussion of worthwhile routes, heartless plugs at John, Greg, and e-kop, and your ability to banter. Quality of quantity bro!!!! Sincerely, Yours forever, Magnus
You two bromosapiens make me sick. Good thing I'm above this pc++ nonsense and can exercise a little impulse control. Hrumph.
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Fuck I'm getting horrendous stomach cramps/the shits. This fucking sucks.
It's like "hmmm, I'm feeling better, maybe I'll do some revision - oh, wait. Nope, gotta go shit again"."Huh, maybe I'll practice some calculu - nope, gotta poop".
Exam in 3 days. this has been going on for 2. FML.
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Just got a book in the mail, though.
"Climbing: Expedition Planning".
Getting psyche - wait, BRB, gotta poop.
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Dear Magnus, Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert. Regard, John Wesely My Dearest John, randomize your password! GET THE FUCK OUT NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK! this place is a soul sucking crack hit that keeps sucking you back for more. My best advice is to stop giving a shit about the PC - your existence in this shit-hole is more affirmed by your giving of sound advice, discussion of worthwhile routes, heartless plugs at John, Greg, and e-kop, and your ability to banter. Quality of quantity bro!!!! Sincerely, Yours forever, Magnus
Dearest Magnus,
I should be writing right this second. However, I will never randomize my password. I am just going to go on a 6 week detox when I am at the Gunks.
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Dear Magnus, Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert. Regard, John Wesely My Dearest John, randomize your password! GET THE FUCK OUT NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK! this place is a soul sucking crack hit that keeps sucking you back for more. My best advice is to stop giving a shit about the PC - your existence in this shit-hole is more affirmed by your giving of sound advice, discussion of worthwhile routes, heartless plugs at John, Greg, and e-kop, and your ability to banter. Quality of quantity bro!!!! Sincerely, Yours forever, Magnus
Oh, it is not about the PC, it is about the procrastination.
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sungam wrote: caughtinside wrote: sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: zeke_sf wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: New post is up: Preparing for Epinephrine. Still writing the Epi post. I had it mostly written but wasn't happy with it. Then some poor climbing days made me want to change the whole thing. give me a couple of weeks. I can't wait to hear about how you did on Epi, especially because we both, apparently, suck at chimneys. I am so bad at them that it is not even funny. Actually, that is pretty funny. I am okay with chimneys. I have never done an extended, unprotectable one though, so that may explain why. My excuse is that I am too tall, but it is a poor one because people are good at all sizes of chimneys. There is this 5.7 at Rumbling Bald called Froot Loops that features a second pitch chimney. I climbed it by climbing the 20 degree overhanging finger crack on the steep wall and then resting with my back when I got tired. It was super hard for me, and when I got to the top I ended doing these roof type moves on this chockstone that were basically equivalent to climbing a full body length roof. My partners did not understand why I was having so much trouble. Uh, sounds like you did Froot Loops direct or something. What you are doing is equivalent to gastoning a hand crack. Wait. You gaston hand cracks, don't you? As an aside, I had a buddy who was fixated on doing "old school" moderates. We go do Royal Arches in Yosemite, which starts with a 5.7 chimney. I lead up, establish the anchor. When he arrives he's huffing and puffing, turns to me and says, "If the rest of this route is like this, it fucking sucks!" I just laughed and told him if he didn't like that, good luck on his tick list. Those old routes are silly with chimneys. I feel like it is a skill that will hopefully click someday. Every time I think it does, I am rudely returned to reality. Weird. I seem really relaxed in chimneys. They're really the only type of route I'm willing to solo. For me it depends on the shape/size of the chimney. Fruit loops was just awkward as hell. Stolen Chimney was just fucking terrifying, and the chimney on river tower was just loose as hell. Now that I think about it, I've never found a chimney that's the right shape or size... Stolen chimney was terrifying? That thing is casual! Right then, it's decided. I'm shit as fuck at chimneys. I though that thing was ball shreddingly awkward and just a shitshow. Fun rowt, though.
I had the most trouble with the cracks inside the chimney. Tough to explain, but it isn't all chimneying in the chimneys.
working on that post. give me some time.
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Dear Magnus, Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert. Regard, John Wesely My Dearest John, randomize your password! GET THE FUCK OUT NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK! this place is a soul sucking crack hit that keeps sucking you back for more. My best advice is to stop giving a shit about the PC - your existence in this shit-hole is more affirmed by your giving of sound advice, discussion of worthwhile routes, heartless plugs at John, Greg, and e-kop, and your ability to banter. Quality of quantity bro!!!! Sincerely, Yours forever, Magnus Oh, it is not about the PC, it is about the procrastination.
remember, randomized passwords don't really work. just look who you've been chatting with.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Dear Magnus, Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert. Regard, John Wesely My Dearest John, randomize your password! GET THE FUCK OUT NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK! this place is a soul sucking crack hit that keeps sucking you back for more. My best advice is to stop giving a shit about the PC - your existence in this shit-hole is more affirmed by your giving of sound advice, discussion of worthwhile routes, heartless plugs at John, Greg, and e-kop, and your ability to banter. Quality of quantity bro!!!! Sincerely, Yours forever, Magnus Oh, it is not about the PC, it is about the procrastination. remember, randomized passwords don't really work. just look who you've been chatting with. best, burnsy
I wouldn't do it anyway.
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Dear Magnus, Why is it that I want to post whore the most when I should be post whoring the least? I figured you were an expert. Regard, John Wesely My Dearest John, randomize your password! GET THE FUCK OUT NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK! this place is a soul sucking crack hit that keeps sucking you back for more. My best advice is to stop giving a shit about the PC - your existence in this shit-hole is more affirmed by your giving of sound advice, discussion of worthwhile routes, heartless plugs at John, Greg, and e-kop, and your ability to banter. Quality of quantity bro!!!! Sincerely, Yours forever, Magnus Dearest Magnus, I should be writing right this second. However, I will never randomize my password. I am just going to go on a 6 week detox when I am at the Gunks.
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donald949
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Work is the suck
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donald949
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I *need* to go climbing before I explode
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donald949
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kids had a very short leash last night.
But they shaped up straight away.
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donald949
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donald949 wrote: I *need* to go climbing before I explode
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donald949
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that is all
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Gmburns2000
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donald949 wrote: that is all
or is it?
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Lazlo
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donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: I *need* to go climbing before I explode Skiing would be good right about now too.
I think I'm going to Lassen Park this Sunday. I say think because I'm also planning on attending a bar crawl with some college friends Saturday night.
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donald949 wrote: I *need* to go climbing before I explode
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: I *need* to go climbing before I explode Skiing would be good right about now too. I think I'm going to Lassen Park this Sunday. I say think because I'm also planning on attending a bar crawl with some college friends Saturday night.
I get the sense that I was not that far from you earlier this week, but maybe in a totally different direction.
We we went to Jemez Springs and met some folks from Albequerque. Anyway, they mentioned going to Shasta a fair amount, so I assumed they weren't too, too far.
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donald949 wrote: I *need* to go climbing before I explode
I have had to turn down at least 4 trips in the last week. If it weren't for the knowledge that I will soon be at the Gunks, I would probably have turned to alcoholism.
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donald949 wrote: kids had a very short leash last night. But they shaped up straight away.
Teach your children well.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: I *need* to go climbing before I explode Skiing would be good right about now too. I think I'm going to Lassen Park this Sunday. I say think because I'm also planning on attending a bar crawl with some college friends Saturday night. I get the sense that I was not that far from you earlier this week, but maybe in a totally different direction. We we went to Jemez Springs and met some folks from Albequerque. Anyway, they mentioned going to Shasta a fair amount, so I assumed they weren't too, too far.
Cool cool.
Did the bar crawl last night. After three hours of sleep, my alarm went off and I snoozed it for the next half hour until I decided I wasn't going to get up.
Now it's 12:45 and I might be leaving in a few minutes. Not quite an alpine start...but I just need to get out of town.
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Oh, and I can't drink anymore. Sucks.
I start feeling sick after two beers. AND I'm not even buzzed.
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Gmburns2000
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johnwesely wrote: donald949 wrote: kids had a very short leash last night. But they shaped up straight away. Teach your children well.
their father's hell did slowly go by
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Lazlo wrote: Oh, and I can't drink anymore. Sucks. I start feeling sick after two beers. AND I'm not even buzzed.
welcome to old age
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Oh, and I can't drink anymore. Sucks. I start feeling sick after two beers. AND I'm not even buzzed. welcome to old age
Yep. Old at 25. Doesn't look good for me.
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Lazlo
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my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out.
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Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out.
it's nice when you can ski for free
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free
It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way.
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way.
Better than gumbies and fucking kids... at least if you're going to hit a tree it's all yore fault.
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sungam
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Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out.
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Apr 26, 2010, 6:03 PM
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: I *need* to go climbing before I explode Skiing would be good right about now too. I think I'm going to Lassen Park this Sunday. I say think because I'm also planning on attending a bar crawl with some college friends Saturday night.
Looks like you made it to Lassen. Nice pics.
Although I did get out with some friends for a couple rounds Fri night. That was good.
I cleaned out the garage Sat. A little cleaning/organizing and I'll get two cars back in it.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Oh, and I can't drink anymore. Sucks. I start feeling sick after two beers. AND I'm not even buzzed. welcome to old age
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free
Free or pay. Either way. its not work.
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Back to the salt mine...
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kachoong wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Better than gumbies and fucking kids... at least if you're going to hit a tree it's all yore fault.
At least if you hit a kid, it doesn't really hurt.
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Lazlo
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It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though.
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Lazlo
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free
Yeah. Not bad. It cost $30 dollars in gas. ...but that's less than driving to any resort...and didn't have to pay for a lift ticket.
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Lazlo
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way.
Wut twees?
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Lazlo
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way.
Most slopes at that altitude are fairly bare. And when there are trees, it usually makes for a good time.
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Lazlo
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kachoong wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Better than gumbies and fucking kids... at least if you're going to hit a tree it's all yore fault.
Yep
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Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though.
That is why you need groomed trails.
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Wut twees?
The twees in your pictures.
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. Sounds like a blast, and nice pics dude!!!
Thanks!
The down side to my solo trips is I never get any good action shots.
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Most slopes at that altitude are fairly bare. And when there are trees, it usually makes for a good time.
Until you hit one.
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Lazlo
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johnwesely wrote: kachoong wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Better than gumbies and fucking kids... at least if you're going to hit a tree it's all yore fault. At least if you hit a kid, it doesn't really hurt.
I think it would still hurt a lot...especially the legal bills.
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: kachoong wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Better than gumbies and fucking kids... at least if you're going to hit a tree it's all yore fault. At least if you hit a kid, it doesn't really hurt. I think it would still hurt a lot...especially the legal bills.
Naw, kids are fairly light weight. Most of the time they just bounce right off of you. Plus, kids are really elastic, so they will be fine.
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johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails.
Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort.
But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds.
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johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Wut twees? The twees in your pictures.
The ones that are really spaced out?
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds.
Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge.
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free It may sound nice, but there are trees and stuff in the way. Wut twees? The twees in your pictures. The ones that are really spaced out?
Yeah.
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johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge.
-cheaper
-adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun)
-exercise
-solitude
-new terrain
-untracked powder
-challenge
(edit: -not ski lodge)
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johnwesely
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge
I am actually just messing around. I would love to do that if I lived somewhere that I could.
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johnwesely
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Jealous.
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Gmburns2000
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hit shelf road yesterday. had a decent day. i didn't lead much because I was kind of cold and didn't really care, but we got on some really nice climbs.
I like climbing there. it kind of reminds me of rumney.
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: my trip to Lassen yesterday. Fun times. Just spent the afternoon. Got two good runs in. Let out some involuntary 'whoops' of joy. Great corn. Hardly anyone was out. it's nice when you can ski for free Yeah. Not bad. It cost $30 dollars in gas. ...but that's less than driving to any resort...and didn't have to pay for a lift ticket.
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sungam
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Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition.
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donald949
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge (edit: -not ski lodge)
Yea, but no snow bunnies.
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donald949
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sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition.
Mine went through the implosion phase last month.
Barb's cousin Pat is getting married end of June.
Everyone wanted already planned to go, as an excuse to get together.
He said only his folks her folks going to the wedding, nobody else. He's not much on big family get togethers.
Now everyone, including Barb, doesn't have an excuse to go to MN for 2 weeks leaving me alone to do nothing.
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sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition.
Rob a bank.
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank.
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe.
I would have to rob a bank to do that.
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suckah.
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suckah.
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edge
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe.
I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour?
Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer.
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edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer.
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sungam wrote: edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer. I will never, NEVER take a cable car. I go climbing to climb, not to sit on my ass.
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sungam wrote: edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer. I will never, NEVER take a cable car. I go climbing to climb, not to sit on my ass.
You could stand in the car.
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sungam wrote: edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer. I will never, NEVER take a cable car. I go climbing to climb, not to sit on my ass.
You and I can go to the Alps. I'll take the cable car, wait for you at the hut, and drink myself silly. We'll climb the second day after my hangover wears off.
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donald949 wrote: sungam wrote: edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer. I will never, NEVER take a cable car. I go climbing to climb, not to sit on my ass. UR doing it rong
yup
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Lazlo
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donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge (edit: -not ski lodge) Yea, but no snow bunnies.
Too tru. I did see one snow bunny when I was at Lassen this last weekend though.
We exchanged smiles and hellos too. True story.
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge (edit: -not ski lodge) Yea, but no snow bunnies. Too tru. I did see one snow bunny when I was at Lassen this last weekend though. We exchanged smiles and hellos too. True story.
was her name lazsgirl?
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge (edit: -not ski lodge) Yea, but no snow bunnies. Too tru. I did see one snow bunny when I was at Lassen this last weekend though. We exchanged smiles and hellos too. True story. was her name lazsgirl?
No, but she couldn't miss his Pitched Tent For The While they were together.
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge (edit: -not ski lodge) Yea, but no snow bunnies. Too tru. I did see one snow bunny when I was at Lassen this last weekend though. We exchanged smiles and hellos too. True story. was her name lazsgirl? No, but she couldn't miss his Pitched Tent For The While they were together.
Leigha PM'd!
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe.
Dolomites! Follow...follow...follow....follow... follow the Maestri trail!
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Lazlo wrote: sungam wrote: edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer. I will never, NEVER take a cable car. I go climbing to climb, not to sit on my ass. You and I can go to the Alps. I'll take the cable car, wait for you at the hut, and drink myself silly. We'll climb the second day after my hangover wears off.
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sungam
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Yes, sir!
That's a different trip, though. I'm (hopefully) meeting up with ScoTt and heading out there. He just moved to Germany.
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge (edit: -not ski lodge) Yea, but no snow bunnies. Too tru. I did see one snow bunny when I was at Lassen this last weekend though. We exchanged smiles and hellos too. True story.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: Lazlo wrote: It was. I didn't get out there until after 2:00...so the snow was already deep. I had fun anyway though. That is why you need groomed trails. Don't get me wrong, groomers have their place. I can do Fifty runs a day at a resort. But this trip was only two runs. You can't learn to ski backcountry conditions like that. You have to learn in bounds. Why would you want to ski back country? There is not ski lodge. -cheaper -adventure (the climb up is sometimes more fun) -exercise -solitude -new terrain -untracked powder -challenge (edit: -not ski lodge) Yea, but no snow bunnies. Too tru. I did see one snow bunny when I was at Lassen this last weekend though. We exchanged smiles and hellos too. True story. was her name lazsgirl? No, but she couldn't miss his Pitched Tent For The While they were together. Leigha PM'd!
Dang it, you bet me too it.
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kachoong wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. Dolomites! Follow...follow...follow....follow... follow the Maestri trail! [image]http://c0278592.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/original/61537.jpg[/image] [image]http://c0278592.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/original/252049.jpg[/image] [image]http://c0278592.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/original/293834.jpg[/image]
hells ya!
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I am in your thread.
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squandering your PT's
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Dang. I suck.
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Huge loser.
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I wasn't even close.
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I am so seighked on the Gunks.
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Not so seighked about the Greyhound ride.
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Or about my complete lack of PT skills.
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Hopefully I will be able to get on something really classic the first day.
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Get me started off right.
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I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks.
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Like High Exposure.
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johnwesely wrote: Hopefully I will be able to get on something really classic the first day.
that shouldn't be too hard. you should be able to get on a classic every day, in fact.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Hopefully I will be able to get on something really classic the first day. that shouldn't be too hard. you should be able to get on a classic every day, in fact.
Classics all around!
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Physical Trad For The Win.
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff.
it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff. it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you.
I heard it was a 10 foot tight hands roof with x rated pro. Is the offwidth after that?
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff. it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you. I heard it was a 10 foot tight hands roof with x rated pro. Is the offwidth after that?
the offwidth is the x-rated hands-only roof.
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Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff. it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you. I heard it was a 10 foot tight hands roof with x rated pro. Is the offwidth after that? the offwidth is the x-rated hands-only roof.
What about the futuristic overhanging RP seam on a prow? where is that?
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff. it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you. I heard it was a 10 foot tight hands roof with x rated pro. Is the offwidth after that? the offwidth is the x-rated hands-only roof. What about the futuristic overhanging RP seam on a prow? where is that?
DUH! It hasn't been chipped yet!
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johnwesely
Apr 30, 2010, 5:53 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff. it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you. I heard it was a 10 foot tight hands roof with x rated pro. Is the offwidth after that? the offwidth is the x-rated hands-only roof. What about the futuristic overhanging RP seam on a prow? where is that? DUH! It hasn't been chipped yet!
Well get on it. I want to get the onsight when I get there.
Ps. Make sure the RP slots are really solid. I want it to look R rated for the sponsors, but don't go overboard.
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edge
Apr 30, 2010, 5:56 PM
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff. it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you. I heard it was a 10 foot tight hands roof with x rated pro. Is the offwidth after that? the offwidth is the x-rated hands-only roof. What about the futuristic overhanging RP seam on a prow? where is that?
I think you are talking about Sylvia. She waitresses at the New Paltz Diner in between, um, gigs.
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edge
Apr 30, 2010, 5:58 PM
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sungam wrote: edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer. I will never, NEVER take a cable car. I go climbing to climb, not to sit on my ass.
I've just been bitch slapped by a Scottish person on the intardweb!!!!!1!1!!!!!1
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Gmburns2000
Apr 30, 2010, 6:06 PM
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johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: johnwesely wrote: I am going to climb all of the famous splitter cracks. johnwesely wrote: Like High Exposure. hopefully my jamming skills are up to snuff. it's the offwidth on the third pitch that really gets you. I heard it was a 10 foot tight hands roof with x rated pro. Is the offwidth after that? the offwidth is the x-rated hands-only roof. What about the futuristic overhanging RP seam on a prow? where is that? DUH! It hasn't been chipped yet! Well get on it. I want to get the onsight when I get there. Ps. Make sure the RP slots are really solid. I want it to look R rated for the sponsors, but don't go overboard.
I just worked on it. They're solid all the way up except for the third placement. That's where the chisel broke. Don't worry, though, it's only about 40 feet up.
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sungam
Apr 30, 2010, 10:43 PM
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edge wrote: sungam wrote: edge wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: Fuck. This expedition just went through the "cost explosion phase", the most devious, shitty, and depressing phase of planning any expedition. Rob a bank. We got a better idea - climb in europe. I would pick the Alps over Alaska any day for climbing, and I have been to both. Where else can you take a telepherique to avoid the slog in, hit up a 12 hour climb, and be back in town for happy hour? Certainly not Alaska. Throw in the topless beaches and the ability to rinse and repeat the next day, and it's a no-brainer. I will never, NEVER take a cable car. I go climbing to climb, not to sit on my ass. I've just been bitch slapped by a Scottish person on the intardweb!!!!!1!1!!!!!1
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johnwesely
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Have any of you guys known someone who died climbing.
How did you deal with it?
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sungam
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johnwesely wrote: Have any of you guys known someone who died climbing. How did you deal with it?
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johnwesely
May 1, 2010, 1:10 PM
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Have any of you guys known someone who died climbing. How did you deal with it? crying a little and stepping back for a while until I knew it was still what I wanted to do.
I feel the exact opposite. I have that get back on the horse feeling.
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sungam
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Have any of you guys known someone who died climbing. How did you deal with it? crying a little and stepping back for a while until I knew it was still what I wanted to do. I feel the exact opposite. I have that get back on the horse feeling.
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johnwesely
May 1, 2010, 3:07 PM
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Have any of you guys known someone who died climbing. How did you deal with it? crying a little and stepping back for a while until I knew it was still what I wanted to do. I feel the exact opposite. I have that get back on the horse feeling. Do it, then.
I am worried that it won't actually be that easy once I get out there. I was just scrolling through my facebook and saw a picture of the route it happened on and my heart literally dropped through the floor. When Majid makes some stupid post about it, I don't know what I will do.
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donald949
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Have any of you guys known someone who died climbing. How did you deal with it? crying a little and stepping back for a while until I knew it was still what I wanted to do. I feel the exact opposite. I have that get back on the horse feeling. Do it, then. I am worried that it won't actually be that easy once I get out there. I was just scrolling through my facebook and saw a picture of the route it happened on and my heart literally dropped through the floor. When Majid makes some stupid post about it, I don't know what I will do.
JW, sorry to hear about your loss.
Do what you feel comforatable doing. Either climb or not. Climb with friends in his memmory, or take time by yourself.
Best wishes for you and prayers for the family. Don
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johnwesely
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Thanks Don and Haggiz Don for the advice.
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johnwesely
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On a brighter note,
Did anyone get out climbing this weekend?
Anyone send any sick futuristic projs in perfect conditions?
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Lazlo
May 3, 2010, 1:48 AM
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johnwesely wrote: On a brighter note, Did anyone get out climbing this weekend? Anyone send any sick futuristic projs in perfect conditions?
I bought a bike for 10 bucks and went for a ride with the fam.
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johnwesely
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: On a brighter note, Did anyone get out climbing this weekend? Anyone send any sick futuristic projs in perfect conditions? I bought a bike for 10 bucks and went for a ride with the fam.
Nice. How did you manage that?
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Related. I went on a bike ride yesterday and thought I was in ungodly superman shape, but then I realized, I wasn't wearing my backpack.
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sungam
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johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Have any of you guys known someone who died climbing. How did you deal with it? crying a little and stepping back for a while until I knew it was still what I wanted to do. I feel the exact opposite. I have that get back on the horse feeling. Do it, then. I am worried that it won't actually be that easy once I get out there. I was just scrolling through my facebook and saw a picture of the route it happened on and my heart literally dropped through the floor. When Majid makes some stupid post about it, I don't know what I will do.
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johnwesely
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sungam wrote: johnwesely wrote: Related. I went on a bike ride yesterday and thought I was in ungodly superman shape, but then I realized, I wasn't wearing my backpack. I thought I was in pretty good shape, but then the guys from Anywhere Fit came by for a couple days and did all ungodly things like sets of handstand press-ups on top of mountains and doing squats with me in fireman's lift...
If your not on the edge, your just taking up space.
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