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Nov 20, 2015 Reasonable discussion, although I'm relatively certain this thread would have been much more entertaining to read back in the era of regular posts from the likes of "ac" and "a… View Message

May 16, 2015 Go do Skyscraper above all the snow. It's good practice for a true summer send ;) View Message

May 16, 2015 The first picture appears to be the South Face of the complex of rock Pat Ament called the Erasable Boulder maybe 40 years ago. There are a few problems and variations there. I… View Message

Dec 2, 2013 I picked up the latest Climbing at DIA on November 27th. Didn't count the pages, but it was approximately the size of a Mountain Gear catalog. Hope they can salvage something,… View Message

Feb 9, 2010 A lot of locals and others continue to weigh in on this issue that the environmental impact of temporarily stashing gear or pads is deminimus or negligible. Provided the animal… View Message

Feb 4, 2010 Glad you got your pads back. That said, stashing crashpads in a National Park and on the boundary of an officially designated Wilderness Area is poor form and not cool. To say… View Message

Feb 4, 2010 I do not know where these boulders are exactly, but the Tucson Bouldering website (link provided above) says the boulders are WITHIN Saguaro National Park. A quick google searc… View Message

Feb 4, 2010 ... or Mount Evans for that matter. And I'm not so sure it would be fair to characterize what happened in Colorado as AN incident. It was a saga. Fortunately, we've policed our… View Message

Jan 10, 2010 YAawwwn-n-n-n ... zzzzzzzzzzzz. View Message

Jan 10, 2010 Spearfish Canyon, SD. Spearfish Canyon Lodge took care of us big time. Excellent sport, trad and bouldering in the area and a lot of non-climber stuff to do in the Black Hil… View Message

Jan 2, 2010 BWAHAHAHA ... you are both ordered to come clean up my workspace. By zee time I recover from reading zee the first response ... Ben's zinger sent me spiraling over zee edge, la… View Message

Dec 31, 2009 The problem with this thread is its premise, best explained by Ernest Hemmingway ... "There are only three sports - mountain climbing, bullfighting, and motor racing - all t… View Message

Dec 15, 2009 This question is impossible, as Pink Floyd is about the album experience. Nevertheless, if I could only have one Pink Floyd song on a desert island, without question it would h… View Message

Aug 5, 2008 A few points ... I do not know Bob, although I did meet him briefly a couple years ago. In fact, only a handful of folks I've climbed with have ever seen him out at the boulder… View Message

Aug 31, 2007 ^ Proof positive that land managers are not the enemy. Some folks showed their true colors over this issue on this and other forums, some anonymously and some not so much. H… View Message

Aug 7, 2007 Unfortunately, there are plenty of folks who still do not agree with Ken and Malcolm's wonderfully eloquent posts on the subject. I remain hopeful for the future of bouldering… View Message

Aug 3, 2007 Jason, maybe there is too much hype. Glad you are having fun in the South Platte now. As more people have finally gotten up to Evans, seen what there is to see and gotten on th… View Message

Aug 2, 2007 Wow indeed Mr. Cochran. Guideline #1 Mr. Cochran says don't be a jerk. Not only that, the uninformed should probably just keep their mouths shut. You've done nothing with your… View Message