hmm, I wonder if you have to have dropbawx permissions to view them. that would be annoying.

Dropbox just added condi to their board.

*doc shitz pantz in rage*

hmm, I wonder if you have to have dropbawx permissions to view them. that would be annoying.

yeah, I can't see them either.

I haven't logged into dropbawx yet, so I also can't see them. I'll try to fix sometime today.

sure you will...

Can I just say for the record that not having a regular climbing partner sucks?

I was so looking forward to Ed getting better and getting back into climbing again! And now it looks like he would be out longer than we initially thought, because he might need a knee surgery, now that he ankle is finally getting better. He is being his usual positive self, and hopefully the recovery will go well, and we will be climbing again soon, but darnit, I miss the ease and simplicity of knowing who I was climbing with, with minimal fuss, and no complications.

Sigh... that's awl for today.

I've found it really helps to live somewhere with rock nearby, finding partners for day trips is much easier. And can't you go to teh gnu and climb with kamhed?

Went to teh hole on sunday, took an assbeating. Going sport climbing once in the past month takes its toll. Headed to Echo on Saturday with teh Mangler. Supposed to actually be cool.

GG, saw your post on fb about how it's going to be hot in red rocks ... what's the weather like up at Charleston?

I haven't logged into dropbawx yet, so I also can't see them. I'll try to fix sometime today.

Could somebody Francis Sheldon biner's number my way. I want to find owt which window is the best and farthest from the chickens.

it's always the clown's fault.

some animal fotoz:

myself and gf with teh wallab33z



aggressively pestering teh 2x



wombat with sanctuary tour guide



tasmanian devil



apparently the Richmond Bridge is old and famous

heading off towards teh Moai



Fortescue Bay ... Moai is behind the bump on the left side of the entry to the Bay, Totem Pole is around to the right



Bivouac Bay ... basically a side bay off of Fortescue. There's a bunch of campsites here. Near where we came across the snake.



The Moai is down there somewhere. since teh gf didn't rap down with us, still no good pics of the climbingz.



this possum back at camp kind of had a thing for teh 2x agent

sure you will...

Could somebody Francis biner's number my way. I want to find owt which window is the best and farthest from the chickens.

I've found it really helps to live somewhere with rock nearby, finding partners for day trips is much easier. And can't you go to teh gnu and climb with kamhed?

Went to teh hole on sunday, took an assbeating. Going sport climbing once in the past month takes its toll. Headed to Echo on Saturday with teh Mangler. Supposed to actually be cool.

GG, saw your post on fb about how it's going to be hot in red rocks ... what's the weather like up at Charleston?

We've just climbed at RR the last two days. There's a lot of wining going on about our feet. We aren't used to wearing climbing shoes right now.

Well, at least you were probably the only Canadians in RedRocks. The rest of our northern neighbors decided to visit Chocolate factory at the Red.

Holly shitshow! I mean, I THOUGHT I knew all about crowds at the Red. I thought I've seen crowded crags. I thought I have seen hordes of gumbies.

I was mistaken. I have not seen ANYTHING until this weekend. Mobs of people, in groups of 6-20, wandering around looking for something to climb. Complete cluelessness about anything.

My favorite was when we went to Enkidu, there was a guy standing guard under 5.10 next to it, telling everyone that "they were about to get on it". O.K., fine, Enkidu and Gigamesh were both open, and I didn't come there to climb Mr. Pee, anyway, so we got on those. But I got to watch...

20 min later, his buddies came. Then some more buddies came. They looked at the guidebook. They looked at the rock. They asked us to confirm what route it was. They asked us to tell them what routes we were getting on. They conferred... and decided that the best thing would be to have lunch.

So, they sat down under the route, and had a picnic. Long leisurely picnic, during which they told two other groups of wanderers that they were "about to get on it". They finished lunch. They looked at the book again. They didn't believe us that it was a 5.10 called Mr. Pee, even after Ian came down from Gilgamesh, pulled out his iPhone and looked online, and confirmed that yes, it was in fact Mr.P., listed online (as well as in the guidebook they had in their hands), as a 5.10a. He told them that he has climbed it, and it was a 5.10a indeed. And yes, he was sure that it was. Still, they hesitated.

And then a friend of theirs came and said that there was a 5.10 around the corner, a few hundred yards, that someone else told them was a 5.10, and maybe that one was really a 5.10, because they weren't sure about this one. And they packed, and they walked away, to find that other 5.10... without ever climbing the 5.10 they "reserved" for over an hour...

oh, and the crying babies (I don't mean crying for a few seconds. I mean full-out-drawn blood-boiling colicky scream of a 3 months old that goes on for hours and hours... We weren't there for that long, we packed up and left within minutes, but every time we walked past that area later in a day, the poor baby was still screaming his lungs out)

But oddly enough, everything from 11b and up was open. We didn't wait in line for anything... Well, we had heard that there were several people on Swedish Fish, but we heard it before we walked all the way there, so we didn't bother.

The crowds were more of a mental hardship than climbing impediment. But it was a very BIG mental hardship.

But the annual Ontario invasion to the Red at Easter time has always been a head scratcher.