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Cat's claw is a whispy looking shrub that can move and blow in teh wind. It looks soft and willowy, but about every inch or so along every biut, and in every direction is a sharp barb/thorn shaped adn sized strikingly like the claw of a cat. Once you get one hook in you. movement tends to hook more,...

Personally, I prefer a cordalette. true equalization is over-rated since if any one peice fails, your anchor moves significantly and shockloads quite a bit. A well-applied cordalette won't move more than a few inches if a peice fails and shifts instead of shocks. The last thing on earth you need whe...

If you guys are seriously afraid of rhotodendron, you should go to Cochise Stronghold and enjoy the cholla, or to Jtree, for the wickedest plant ever, the cats Claw shrub. Ahhh- ever feel like you got in a fight with 20 house cats at once?

Personally I find cheap cams to be a pain in the butt and clean more abandoned cheap cams than good cams. Rock Empitre cams are NOT on the top of my list for quality or untility. If you have or will have the money to do so, my advice would be to buy a better product and save for more when needed. It...

Not from the original crew that was there. John and I just tried one I beleive I recall being to the left that we called "Arms M. Bargo." It's listed on this site. Which turned chossy and I ended up pulling on gear the night before I left the red for my last time... That route, once cleane...

What part am I supposed to recall? You can see where I said it was 11+ and you can see where it says 12b/c. On the First attemp, by which I surpassed the crux (after a hang) by grabbing my shoe, which was locked into a dish and a scum above the roof and pulling up on it, I believed the rotue to be 5...

Actually, You've got your facts wrong. I NEVER rated it 12a. I rated it 11+. Other folks upgraded it. And what about "Missing the Obvious" Which someone intially graded 5.10 after failing to climb it free. I ended up down-grading to 5.8+. My point is the same, that particularly for NEW rou...

If you make it so that any 'rating' of a climb can not be off by more than 2 letter grades, then what happens to Ray's "not harder than 11a" rating of "Boogered" (originally 11d)? That's 3 letter grades. Frankly, I think he's sandbagging, but the original grade was for a dirt-fil...

It's not necessary to climb int he 'heat of summer' in the red. Get up just before sunrise and hike to the crag. Be there at the crack of dawn. It won't be in the 90's, more likely the 70's- perfect climbing weather. Around 11AM it's good and hot- I used to go back to Miguels adn get some icecream a...

A few years ago I went up to the Zoo, or at least I think that's where I was, Maybe it was Pocketwall, which I hit on the same trip. Anyway, I saw at the far left end a hugely overhanging crack that went quite a ways. Best info I had at the time was that it had not been done. Has it yet? First off, ...