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if you are worried about the ascender comming off, once you are off the deck (top roping), tie a figure 8 in the bight and clip into it! yes, you have to "take" to do this, but it is worth it. problem solved.

The croll can damage the rope even for short toprope falls. I use a rescuscender which doesn't have teeth and has a lot of contact surface area with the rope. Likewise a prusick will burn the rope even with a short fall. i've always used a petzl basic and it has never damaged my rope. they are perf...

basecamp looks pretty cool. nice dihedral on first pitch.

yeah, sorry, danny and I did cruisemaster in two. it should be three. let it be known that there is just a small* amount of drag if you do it in two. i thought it was funny as hell watching danny trying to pull lengths of rope before every move. he would yank and pull and yank and pull, then move a ...

i like hiking through all the beer cans and bottles.

Cruisemaster... second pitch... get it together.

adventure is the way to go. climb sans beta.

once upon a time i tried to find frenchburg overhangs. we never made it. but, we did find a different crag, though to this day i am still unsure what we cllimbed there. could someone help me out? looking out from the fortress pulloff towards the other side of the valley it was more to the right, the...

yes... Rebar is a fun finger crack. the finish left me winded/desperate/scrambling/etc. it is all there though. also, Hen's Nest has a some nice finger cracks. there is Finger Lickin Good, clean, runout, nice. you can see a bit of it on the left side of danny's sultans of stem photo. sultans has som...

As far as the last overhang goes... If you can stay in the OW, props. If you use the face , pray. Yes the route is a bit dirty in certain spots, and yes, the rock is questionable under the last overhang (and yes the chimney is velvet-lined), but as a whole Gold Digger is by far one of the most fun c...