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Hey Paul-- do you remember when that happened to you three times when you were climbing Supercrack?? And that's just one route! Imagine the possibilities! I'm done with trad. Can I have your crashpad?

If you're done with trad Yasmeen can I have your rack?

Yasmeen wrote:Hey Paul-- do you remember when that happened to you three times when you were climbing Supercrack?? And that's just one route! Imagine the possibilities! I'm done with trad. Can I have your crashpad?

man, i do remember that but only bits and pieces. i was solid up until the cupped-out hands then next thing i know i'm in horatio's arms and he's carressing my hair and saying that my leg will grow back soon. i shook it off, welded my cams back together, and jumped back on only to fall in the solid hands section. this time i remember hitting the ground but and tumbling down the cliff. that's when the rope caught and dragged horatio down the hill with me. it was so romantic like in the movie "the sound of music" except the nazi's were in utah in our version. after that we had a serious chat about the future of our relationship and it's relevance to post-modern hungry. i made some dahl and poured curry on my face and horatio ate it with some garlic naan. the paneer didn't sit too well with me so horatio showed me his favorite poo spot. that's where i found the magic hexcentric nut. i put my leg in a traction splint, sacked up, and started climbing again. this time the left side of the rock fell off. the hex fell out and hit horatio in the temple, knocking him out, which was good because then he didn't feel the pain when i landed on him. if you look closely, he still has a small scar on his left temple. often at dinner in the park we'll drink mimosas and put lipstick on our eyes and remember the good old days of climbing in the creek.

take home lessons: trad is extremely dangerous and always have lentils handy.

and I thought I knew Paul

lordjim-- sorry, but I've invested way too much money in expanding my rack. I can't part with it that easily, whether or not I'm touching it on a regular basis.


Paul-- I'm impressed, my friend. Very, very impressed.

I'm sure we can find people to touch your rack on a regular basis.
Volunteers, anyone?

No worries, Huggy-- I'm not taking volunteers on this one. <Forest Gump voice>Seat's taken!</Forest Gump voice>

that brought tears to my eyes paul and is inspireing me to go dig my dusty rack up out of the bottom of my pack...

If you look at the animated sequence you'll see him holding one of the pieces that failed. You can probably tell what brand it is. Looks kind of like the piece might have been too small for the crack it was placed in. Cams on one side appear to have inverted.

My # 5 metolius is always like that.I have to bang it on the rock to get it straitened out