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You could attach another super short loop to your belay loop and that would reorient the Grigri to the orientation your prefer. It would place the device maybe an inch away from the built in belay loop, but it doesn't seem like that would be a big problem. Know how to tie a water knot in 1" webbing?

You didn't build much of a rack on gear I left behind.
Nobody was better at cleaning gear than me. I was a notorious tight wad, if my second couldn't clean something I'd rap back down and get it myself. Other than a few rap slings on trees, I left next to nothing.

"Finally I gave up and became a trad climber." I like that. Gear left on a trad route has always been fair game. It's called booty. Pull it all down and take it home with you. You have my permission. Tell 'em "Larry made me do it". If you're feeling extra special nice, you can let the dickwads know ...

Yeah, Dakota, a long route that's all like the final pitch would be pretty cool, and likely unique for the RRG.

I'd love that, Arthur. Have fun, and be careful. You've done it, Dakota? How hard do you think the first pitch is? I thought the crux was awesome. I just don't know how hard it is. 10a? 10c?

Any of you guys like wide cracks? It looks like nobody ever does Last Day. I'd enjoy hearing what you think of it. Is it really 10c? It felt pretty hard to me, but then I didn't really know how to do off-width, I just thrashed and went at it as hard as I could.

My great great uncle, Kelly J. Day of Kentucky and Colonel Lee Long of Virginia were the leaders in the effort to establish Breaks Interstate Park, way back when. I drove all the way from Montana a few years ago just to get a look at the place. It would be cool to see climbing accepted there.

Merry Christmas mudder humpers!

I'm not even a sport climber, and I know the answer to this one. Of course it's harder to hang your own draws, because it's extra work, both in terms of weight (which may or may not be terribly significant) and in terms of the extra time and effort required, which is likely more significant. It's sc...

caribe wrote: I think there are quite a few of these peculiar notions in the climbing community.

Excellent! Two wires and a micro cam then? See the wire you didn't clip? That's about where I placed one that I didn't clip either.

I've been asked for protection beta, and I wasn't much help. On the FA, I got in a good cam in the roof then a nice wire in the headwall above which I was too weak to even clip. Got anything to add? I'd hate to see anybody do it the way I did.

Steve_BSU - Climbing in the gym and working hard sport routes might well alter the time line for today's climbers, but most everybody I knew peaked sometime in their 30s. It likely would have been the in the 40s for a lot of us had it not been for the commitments of work and family. Gyms help a lot ...