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umm training...whats that??? i just climbed all summer outside....it was fun, and i sent my hardest redpoint during the summer.....hopefully that eqviates to climbing strong in the fall...even tho im not climbing as much outside... And what are those of us who have a mortgage, insurance and bill su...

Bueller? Anyone? Well, to answer your q, bcombs, anyone who's 'a climbing' is a climber in my book--"it counts", but unless you've done the big stone, not by my friend's. He was pretty adamant, even bombastic, about "big walls, big bawlse"...especially after popping his grade VI ...

The orange route in the gym says 11+ and is kinda slabby. I think that counts! Touche, combs. For a second there I thought we mebbe needed an 8a scorecard smackdown...mebbe JR will post his. :?: I tend to climb a bit harder on climbs with holds than those with "none"... All this quasi-eli...

bcombs wrote:real hard 11d slab climbing.

Bwahahaha. I'm guessing you don't get "out" much....

I've got a big handicap when golfing....I've also done a ton of runout slabs up to 5.11d, grew up left coaster son, where the slabs are tall and scary...cal domes, yose, tuo, as well as places short and scary like josh and woodson. I've found that the 'slabs' in this region actually do have holds a...

gotta be the real deal..uses all the cool kids abreviations....josh, yose, tuo....sounds like a bunch of Mexican partners.... nah, just lazy to spell it out. "all" climbers should know where they are/what they are, even if they've never done a pitch there.... Edit: I'll take the cool kids...

Golf is like slab climbing??? Analogy FAIL. point not taken...I can't even score you a mulligan.... notice I said "hard slab climbing", not "slab climbing" --both are extremely technique dependent as well as have a mental component to success...certainly at the top flight levels...

Golf is extremely demanding mentally (at his level)-kind of like climbing hard slab,...there's a "belief" involved as well as perfection of technique, just pure power doesn't cut it. Any lapse in focus and concentration is detrimental, which to me, Tiger is an epitome of. Lots of strong ki...

Hi Phil,

Thanks for doing what you are. I am from out of the area, but I'll drop by next time and buy a snack. I agree with SCIN, and would pay premium for a cold sugar free Red Bull or Monster.

"Ronald McDonald could climb El Capitan with a big enough cheatstone."

-John Sherman


Dave MacLeod feels shorter climbers have a bit of an advantage, having less body mass to tug up the rock, etc....