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The full story behind three draws left on a warmup for days at one of the Red's most popular crags is too sordid to sort out here. Suffice to say I was not surprised to find them gone, I was just hoping for a little more climberly love -- a bail 'biner seems like booty no matter where or when you fi...

Hey all, Left three BD quickdraws on Mona Lisa Overdrive at the Solar Collector just before Thanksgiving. I left them there as directionals for my climbing partner who was toproping the line. Came back on the following Sunday to a large crowd and my quickdraws were nowhere to be found. Anybody have ...

Holds being farther apart is most certainly a primary part of a route being hard. Say you have two enormous two handed jugs and one set of feet below the first jug. Generally, given no silly what-if circumstances, the further apart you place the two holds, the more difficult the move. So, when you c...

What makes one rock climb harder than another rock climb? Two things: 1.) The holds get worse. 2.) The holds get farther apart. It is distinctly reason number 2 that being taller is more often an advantage. However, there is some middle ground. While being shorter than whatever height is a blatant d...

Ledge is clearly off. It's a dab. 12d at the most.

That shit is awesome. Awesome. I always want a chicken breast and have to give something up to him or her to give it up.

dmw, it is, brother, it is. Plus, I kinda just discovered how fun it is to sit at work and get people worked up. Also, these are things that I can sink my teeth into and really waste some time. Vegas is awful, weird, devoid of irony, completely unsustainable due to its location and would shrivel up ...

Blatantly true, Piggie, I agree with you on that count. And I am a flaming "libbie" full of biased responses (we "libbies", like redheads and the term Firecrotch, have reclaimed the term and are now proud and strong!). But a capitalistic economic system (and the psychology a capi...

Iraq was an offensive move to put democracy upon the middle east (and don't get me wrong, I think democracy is the best system around), and as opposed to preventing nuclear weapons, securing oil deposits and cutting off funds to terrorism, well we've gone and created deeper and wider ranging hate. O...

Except that nothing unites people better than a common enemy. They'd probably go after each other, Anchorman style, for a while, and then realize, hey, what the fuck are we fighting each other for, when there are infidels to kill? The other problem would probably be that we would end up with dictato...