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Although a bit of walking is required to get there, Glory Be is excellent.

This is really disappointing. In some ways it is hard to believe that we lost Torrent and have not learned a lesson. I was not there, but unfortunately I'm not surprised. Just out of curiosity, however, how many people wrote a note and left it on one of the offending cars? Nothing rude - but we, as ...

It is hard to make an arguement that hold getting further apart is the primary source of difficulty of a climb (ie why taller climbers are at an advantage). The other source (holds getting worse) is also important, and is probably the primary limiting factor in many cases. If you cannot hold the hol...

Shorter climbers will, generally speaking, have an easier time climbing than taller people. If two climbers are the same shape (ie shorter not stockier than the taller climber) then the shorter climber is at a distinct advantage, and here is why. As a climber gets taller the climber's mass goes up a...

Since there is no standard on how high the first bolt on a route "should" be, what if the equipper of 50 Bucks had decided not to put in the first three bolts, effectively making what is now the fourth bolt, the first bolt. The prerequiste for the climb would be either a very long stick, o...

I talked to the climber who removed it, he was able to pull it out with his fingers.

I was at Torrent on Sunday when John fell. He was at the anchors of Recoil and fell going for the one of the final holds. Several other climbers and I were watching John as he neared the anchors and so I don't think anyone was watching the belayer. I saw the grigri after the belayer had unclipped fr...

Oh yeah...

Registration Fee: Mandatory $10 Donation to the Access Fund

After 7 years the old UT climbing competition (which some of you still remember) has been revived as a bouldering competition to benefit the Access Fund. Registration will begin this Sat. at 10am in the HPER Building on the campus of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). The competition will cons...

I think you may be misinterpreting Susman's reseach. While it may be true that modern humans have more muscles in the thumb than do chimpanzees (and if Randal says we have more then I am prepared to believe him), you should not equate more muscles with greater strength. The additional muscles provid...