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- Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:57 pm
- Forum: Trad
- Topic: Looks Like A Good Book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4733
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:24 pm
- Forum: Trad
- Topic: Looks Like A Good Book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4733
Looks Like A Good Book
Some of you ###kers might want to get your orders in. http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Advanc ... P1740.aspx
- Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:03 pm
- Forum: Sport
- Topic: belaying through both parts of your harness
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14047
Re: belaying through both parts of your harness
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?
- Tue Nov 10, 2015 11:06 pm
- Forum: Climbing Community
- Topic: Attention New School climbers
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12445
Re: Attention New School climbers
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.

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.
- Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:14 pm
- Forum: Climbing Community
- Topic: Attention New School climbers
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12445
Re: Attention New School climbers
"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 ...
Re: Last Day
Yeah, Dakota, a long route that's all like the final pitch would be pretty cool, and likely unique for the RRG.
Re: Last Day
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?
Last Day
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.
- Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:26 pm
- Forum: Climbing Community
- Topic: Breaks Interstate Park
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5571
Re: Breaks Interstate Park
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.
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:06 pm
- Forum: Trad
- Topic: Merry, Merry
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3450
Merry, Merry
Merry Christmas mudder humpers!
- Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:33 pm
- Forum: Sport
- Topic: Hanging the Draws vs. Hung Draws
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10745
Re: Hanging the Draws vs. Hung Draws
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...
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:15 pm
- Forum: Sport
- Topic: Hanging the Draws vs. Hung Draws
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10745
Re: Hanging the Draws vs. Hung Draws
caribe wrote: I think there are quite a few of these peculiar notions in the climbing community.

- Sat Nov 22, 2014 12:18 pm
- Forum: Trad
- Topic: Protection Beta for Insanity Ceiling
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5582
Re: Protection Beta for Insanity Ceiling
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. 

- Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:39 am
- Forum: Trad
- Topic: Protection Beta for Insanity Ceiling
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5582
Protection Beta for Insanity Ceiling
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.
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 11:35 am
- Forum: Trad
- Topic: Mid to upper 5.10 trad lines
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11576
Re: Mid to upper 5.10 trad lines
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 ...