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I'd move back if someone opened a gym off Leestown road with 90's splatter paint walls and red floors. Hey, you don't know how hard it was to get all that painting done ... Not to mention the thousands of T-Nuts I drilled and hammered. Believe me everyone talks the talk, but when it comes to patron...

L Day wrote:It was fucked by '81

It was long before that, Larry ... I remember ragging on people to clean up their tape piles ...

Here we go again ... In the days of yore, it was the highest compliment your partner could pay you by letting you belay them. It meant that they totally trusted their ass to your hands. Placements break, Bees swarm, Shit happens, but a good belay can halt most tragedy. It amazes me how peeps that do...

michaelarmand wrote:Ahhh, I see. How many different shacks were there at Miguels?

Only one ORIGINAL "love shack" !!! Yum .... Many's the times I slept a bit LATE there.

Was Dead of Winter ever repeated?

It's an Anal Fist Clencher

A given move on any rock is a given "difficulty" IMHO. If I can send a 5.12 move on sport then I should be able to on Trad. The fear factor does not count on Trad.
The Fear does not raise the grade, gumbies.

On occasion I've been known to just read

I do believe that first pic is the day Martin, Bill Wade and I hung out up there.... Terrific climbing in wet weather.

"whats that beaner doing next to your tie-in knot? " -- QuickDraw placement for the next move and "plug it quick before your ass falls!" " is the rope wrapped around you waist? " -- Nope, running from the harness over the right leg to a piece ... Nasty off-widths result...

L Day wrote:... a stopper wedged near the bottom of the crack, wish I could remember for sure.

Getting old's a beatch, eh?