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Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I have relevant information here. I've had surgeries on both shoulders to repair torn rotator cuffs (two years apart). My surgeon it turns out is a mountaineer, who doesn't rock climb but does understand what we do. Here is his take on the benefits of weight...

I agree, RRG ratings are soft. The only place I've ever found where ratings are even softer than here is Red Rocks, NV. All the areas around Boulder are stiffer than the Red, Arizona is stiffer everywhere except the Pit, other SE crags are equivalent or stiffer. I haven't been to Yos, someone else w...

So what happened with the guy at the Lode?

Yes, stretching and massage and, especially, ice pack instead of pain killers. I fell in love with my ice pack in those first couple weeks post-op. The Dr. gave me a prescription for Vicodin (aka Oxycontin, aka Hillbilly Heroin). A bottle with 30 pills, and I think I took ten of them total. I was to...

Rags, I didn't have to keep my shoulder immobile for a whole month, only for 10 days or so. After that I gradually start moving it, passive movement at first, and eventually active movement. The first three weeks or so after surgery were the most delicate time - the physical therapist warned me abou...

I've had surgeries on both shoulders now to repair torn rotator cuffs. It runs in my family* - I've had eight (count 'em) relatives, all on my mother's side, who have had similar problems, though a couple of them were able to get by with PT rather than surgery. Both surgeries affected me in pretty m...

Probably three or four feet. It looks to me like the photographer was standing in front of him to get that angle.

I hit a dog while driving in Illinois a couple weeks ago. It happened fast - I was going 65 or so when a dog bounded out of the ditch right in front of me. No time to swerve or anything. It was THUMP of the bumper hitting the dog, and then BUMPBUMP of the wheels going over it. One deceased dog. I fe...

One more ironic point: People who drive their cars 500 miles round trip for a weekend of climbing will then sit at the base of the crag and debate the environmental impact of a trail in the woods.

weber wrote: "almost every one of us would agree that deleterious human impact on the approaches to and bases under many climbs is bad" Mark me down as one who doesn't agree. Erosion is what made the Gorge. Accelerating that erosion in a few places here and there is not going to make a sig...