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Just a test to see if I can make the new gallery work:

Nice!! I'm looking forward to this. I've got some gumbie shots that I can upload if you still need beta testers.

Optimally-Primed wrote:Deep,

...3. Ignorance is still not a point of view, let alone a valid one.

Am I misunderstanding your post or are you being unnecessarily cranky to someone who is just putting out their opinion?

Love the new look in general. I'd tone down the blue background a shade or two, tho.

smallman wrote:My drawing abilities, however, primarily consist of stickmen.

That's perfect! Most climbers at the Pet kind of look like stickmen.

First let me say that I'm definitely NOT OK with jacking someone's gear. Having said that... here's the thing. Neat and Cool wall is an extremely public wall in an area who's access is a bit sensitive. Given that, and the fact that its dead easy to rap and clean the route, my opinion is that it's no...

My two cents. Sure hands and feet contribute, but they can't hold a candle to continuous placement and often forceful removal of our aluminum climbing widgets. Uh... really? I think you may be on to something when you mention chalk, but to blame clean pro for the polish on classics is stretching it...

If you don't tape here, then you definitely won't need to there. The rock is softer and less crystally. The cracks are typically pretty broken and varied. Have fun. Don't let the ring road get to you.

AC is way better. Much less walking through the woods. It's more consistent in the grade. More committing. More exposed. More adventurous. Harder to bail. More rewarding at the end of the day.

Get on it early!

Meh... No different than any sunny summer Saturday in the bluffs. There's only about 500 other places to climb around the area. It's just incentive to be more adventurous.

Bah!! Not stuck at a desk, but stuck on beautiful Hornby Island. That's normally not so bad, but on a day like today with all that sticky slab waiting to be climbed, I'm jonesin' pretty bad!

pinner wrote:, and a bunch of home made nuts (real nuts, that is), and stoppers made of sawed-off angle iron and circular iron pipe we squashed a little with a vice.

Luxury!! We made harnesses from our rotten shoelaces and had to short rope all our pitches with a dental floss rope!

I think that the start of BP has changed to incorporate that bolt. The traffic and chalk has cleaned the slab making it look even more like the regular start. That's not a bad thing, IMHO.As you have pointed out in other posts, pretty much anything right of Diedre is climbable at 5.9 or lower, so do...

You don't have to give up the TR. You just have to grab your gear, go for a walk, and check it out for yourself. You'll discover a bunch of new stuff along the way and get a way better feel for the area by exploring without some dodgy beta off the internet. Almost everyone will say that their best d...

Aha! I see that you too clipped the off-route bolt on A Troll's Sonnet, although damp conditions provide a reason. Perhaps time to move it, and the one on the pitch below, also off-route. Ha! I've often thought that bolt was way out of character, considering the scorn you place on nearby bolts to e...