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Weather is looking treat right now!

Climb with who you wish, not hurting my feelings any.

Orange Crush

Look into the Sony Alpha Series cameras, also Pentax cameras are rated for water resistance. Sony has a few nice features. Auto eye start and image stabilized bodies. Sony also accepts Minolta lenses. Pentax is made more rugged and will cost a little more than the others, but if you really want grea...

If the climbing wall is closed, doesn't that generally mean no climbing at all?

JR wrote:You have either been watching too many Sharma videos or not enough. I just can't figure out which.

I must not be watching enough, because I have only seen a couple.

I do agree with the statement above that it doesn't matter what you call it everyone will call it what they want!

Agreed, well said. However if you find a route outside that totally inspires you, say a wicked featureless slab climb, and you suck at slab climbing. Wouldn't climbing slab routes at the gym be an effective way of "training" to send the real thing. Isn't identifying your weaknesses, focus...

My main point is I never climb with the training mentality. I just climb to climb, and climbing should never be training. Every day you get on the wall it is a learning experience, but I still consider it climbing.

When I go the red, I do either miguel's or backcountry. I did not have any problems at miguel's, pizza is amazing! Backcountry I did not have any problem either, but we did not leave our tent in one place. We just packed up and moved as we went. Allows for a lot of flexability.

To me if you go to the gym to Train you are in the wrong frame of mind. If you are going to train you are automatically in a frame of mind that is critical of your movements and how you preform during your visit. Going to the gym to climb enables a climber to fully enjoy the experience no matter how...