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I, and my two partners, had gone out to Purple Valley to do gear routes and maybe a few sport. Partner #2 was a Canadian Gunk's climbing who attached himself to us on arrival and was subverting partner #1 from participating in ANYTHING that involved a crack. The latter was getting a fast education i...

That is surely it. The other thread was enough to make me certain. Ahab seems to have a better grasp of diplomacy and tact.

I did not mean it as an insult. I was very interested in doing something other than overhung sport and dealing with overcrowding during rocktoberfest but my partners were not into it. I spent the better part of an hour discussing the large number of rarely done routes in the Red at the base of one o...

Mike Jones wrote:emo lincoln is not impressed

You made a Northern boy laugh, you did.

Just wondering if anyone has gone to the trouble of pulling some of the ancient hardware off of some of the lesser done slabs in the predominantly trad areas. I wish I could remember the names of the routes. My partners were not willing to participate in a ropeless struggle and if there wasn't bolts...