Photos by russman

So, after 30 years of never ownign a dog....I finally broke down and got a 10 week old Lab puppy for our kidz.

I figured I woudl get a dog when the kidz were old enoggh and I owned my own house....well, here she is...ALLIE, the new climbing buddy and all aroudn house dog for us

Here are the side view plans for a shed I am building..
using this pic in conjunction with this thread

Here is another section of my extended 25' of webbing to reach my anchor (phone pole).

Just behind the black buckle, I have the webbing wrapped thru the pre-sewn "rap-Ring" and laced back towards the carabiner, and then to the buckle as a tightener. So I guess that is giving me a 2:1 ratio on that end.

Here is a shot lookign down the length of my line. long way to the other end for a back-yard line

I Had to buy some more webbing to be able to tension my line to the Phone Pole 20' away from the end of my line.

OK, so I set up my line and it is a little too long and short fro my fat arse to walk, but my 3 YO who weighs in just over 40 lbs. loves to walk it.

Next summer, I am sure he will be wanting daddy to set it up more and play more.

Here was my original dilemha. I had the line streched the full length, and was still short of my final anchor by about 25'.

A quick webbing order later, I rigged it up, but it still took a bit. Still not tight enough for my to walk, but I will figure that out over teh winter.

OK, here is me, still tryign to get my line tight enough for my 180 lbs to walk on it....this was about 8 feet from my solid tree anchor...

When I finally did get it tight enough to walk a littel bit, I would 'zing" right off. I need to figuer out a way to shorten the line to make it more walkable.

Here is a shot of my solid anchor end. It is wrapped aroudn a tree about 5.5' up the base...

Showing the Ethos tension right here

This is what happens when you leave BOTH of your ropes behind an Hour and a Half away...and so you drive 10 minutes to buy a NEW rope....

You get the pleasure of the first untangeling at the base of the climb.

It took Hanger and I around 10 mintues to flake that new beauty....glad you bought the 60m Hanger:)

Thanx to nikegirl for the pic

Here I am fondeling my band new rope...kinda looks like a n00b askin, "What do I tie in this? And what is all this Krap hangin on my shoulder?"

thanx for the pic T

Here is the look of a FOOL that throws 2 ropes in one rig after a day of climbing, then takes the other truck to the crag the next day, and didn't realize that the ropes were nowhere to be found until we were 45+ miles away.

Thanx for the pic T.

Here Hangerlessbolt is teaching me some Trad. We Top Roped this route (10a for a trad go, first time, I am a freak) and then I would go up and set the pieces and Robert came behind to check out the placements and such.

Was pretty cool, a fun route too....I will get to the top next time, and not just 10 feet away:)

Pic by nikegirl

Here Bobbi and I are watchign Robert show us some other important steps to figureing out placements and such.

This was my first time to really play with Trad gear and learn soemthing. Most do it again, Thanx Robert

pic by nikegirl

This pic was taken 3-21-04. Ryann is just over 6 months old. We were not paying attention to her big brother very well.

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