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As a guide you are responsible for a reasonable amount of safety for the client. Protecting you during the down climb is part of that. My partner and I did the third pillar in August, it is a dangerous decent and would be tough to do it roped up (as he would need to do) without dislodging boulders. ...

Sometimes it's nice to sit back and read the rrgcc bitch session, brings me back! Congrats on the land purchase!

Nice work Bill! Now get out and enjoy some of it.

Oh canhead what little you know of me, perhaps as little as I know of you other then me appearing to you as a "fish". Perhaps you my friend have been trolled. But to answer your question with a question. What difference does it make? Part of the tradition again IMO. You may think I would l...

Clipping preplaced pro in my opinion is sport climbing. There is nothing traditional about it.

You are right piggy, just like when the sport climbers sold-old to pre hung draws and still call it a send!

No word on what happened".........I don't know anyone involved so let's just be asses as usual and start speculating and making up stories. I'll start, the belayer was using a reverse loaded gri-gri while hanging out in the hammock petting his aggressive dog, eating a snicker bar and checking o...

In ten years perhaps a toprope send will be an onsite. Why not continue the "progress" of the "sport". Not saying i haven't clipped plenty of prehung draws. Still get the best feeling having sent something if I hung the draws on the send but that is just me, I'll hang my own mank...

Concrats President Obama! More importantly, we can wake in bake legally in CO in 2013. At least until the DEA busts down the door. I'm curious what other folks think about the state legalization of pot. Is Colorado and Washington a federal test site? I'm guessing the Feds will be scrutinizing all th...

So cows are trying to fly in Muir.........