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Mar 24, 2026 I never meant to say grades were objective or even could or should be, just find it funny that slapping bolts on an intermittent crack could maket he route become perceived as… View Message

Mar 23, 2026 I'm saying adding bolts creates a perception that a route should get a harder grade (because sport grades are inflated - see above) - even though if that same route was fully b… View Message

Mar 23, 2026 ...but plenty of new "11a climbers" would love to argue that!25 years ago I set a goal to remain fit enough to be able to show up at a destination crag and lead the classic 10a… View Message

Mar 23, 2026 Sometimes I'll be developing a mixed route with face holds and intermittent cracks that is mainly gear, perhaps 1 to 3 bolts, so in my head it's more of a trad route than a spo… View Message

Mar 19, 2026 Hey Topher! For years I've been in the habit of pulling off the cam-racking-biner and adding it to the rope side of the long sling, then opposing, to create a locking biner equ… View Message

Mar 18, 2026 Are there skateboarding/surfing/curling/figure skating website forums where they navel-gaze in a circular firing squad with this degree of intensity and verbosity about whether… View Message

Mar 9, 2026 Anyone who thinks climbing needs to actively be made more inclusive should, logically, also be working to make fencing, hockey, golf, scuba diving, and wilco concerts more incl… View Message

Mar 4, 2026 Same here. 26 years into climbing it's not the temporary ego boost of an achievement (and let's knock achievements, I'd be lying if I said they don't feel good for a bit) that… View Message

Feb 25, 2026 If you max out on your 3 posts per day on multiple threads, almost each and every day, for years on end, becoming an almost inescapeable presence, feeling an apparent compulsio… View Message

Feb 23, 2026 Something rarely talked about in lead climbing - this may even be heresy -  is that it's arguably 50-50 fault when the leader gets short roped. Instead we have leaders pra… View Message

Feb 19, 2026 Without knowing the route, I don't know how people can sit in their armchairs and confidently decree whether or not a ground fall is likely from a fall at the second bolt of th… View Message

Feb 12, 2026 A few thoughts on why, from someone who, like most, considers slab to be a weakness:Lack of experience on slabs: True slabs are rare in non-granite areas and therefore hard to… View Message

Jan 26, 2026 I probably spent 12 to 15 days climbing at J Tree over the years before I realized that while I'd led 30 or 40 pitches there, not a single one was a fully bolted route. Not eve… View Message

Jan 15, 2026 Most routes will be seeping. Depending where you live you can do a recon mission and see which look dry, though. Rocky butte is dead to me November through March, and I love th… View Message

Jan 7, 2026 I love this thread, great question. Was testing out whether a red totem would hold on a mixed (trad and bolts) route I was putting up. I was using my left hand, as the placemen… View Message

Dec 29, 2025 Merry Christmas to you too, but for all you know I'm Jewish! or Buddhist! (Dude, the preferred nomenclature is "Happy Holidays.") PS: Good guess, because although my famil… View Message

Dec 29, 2025 I feuded with Eric on some other thread years ago, as our politics are pretty polar opposite. But I'd rather get a beer with Eric than many of my fellow liberals here who, yes,… View Message

Dec 18, 2025 I've enjoyed 7-10 beers a week the past 20 plus years. I recently cut that consumption to about half - 33 beers in 43 days, I track it with pen and paper - once I weighed 200 p… View Message

Dec 18, 2025 I just turned 50, been climbing nonstop since 1999. Like Salamanizer above, I've had injuries but always climbed around them. I tore my rotator in 2003 and never got surgery -… View Message

Dec 11, 2025 10d Reason To Be, short, stout and classichttps://www.mountainproject.com/route/105806903/reason-to-beWell, this says 11a, it was 10d when i did it View Message

Dec 9, 2025 Understood. Though there are many threads on that issue already. But the climbing population keeps exploding and it's nice to have obscure crags to climb at in relative peace a… View Message

Dec 8, 2025 Noted, and I made an edit above. I award you 2 points, and I'll dock myself 2. For what it's worth I did once date someone I met at a climbing gym. It shouldn't be a news artic… View Message

Dec 8, 2025 Based on the people's names that aren't initials/cryptic, I don't think a woman has posted on this thread yet (besides the OP), which is interesting and almost statistically im… View Message

Dec 8, 2025 He's in the over 50 crew that has hijacked this thread (and so many others) to laud themselves and tell all their stories. Which I truly love to hear! And as of yesterday I'm i… View Message

Dec 5, 2025 That was my takeaway as well, this is a blind spot for me I need to address. I'm sure the people flaming me here have their own blind spots when it comes to knowing CPR or wild… View Message

Dec 4, 2025 I did say I expected to get flamed, I've been on MP almost 20 years! I usually post not just for myself, but for other people. I've been climbing 26 years, putting up routes, m… View Message

Dec 4, 2025 I knew there had to be something! Can you do this with a single strand? (My rope was too short to get down with double strands)My two second wiki search makes it seem like… View Message

Dec 4, 2025 This didn't actually happen to me. But the scenario went through my head as I was at an anchor, and whigged me out a bit. The other day I was alone, jugging a fixed line with a… View Message

Nov 15, 2025 Since the 90s I simply turn one battery the wrong way while it's in the headlamp, so it can't accidentally turn on. Does nobody else do that? I also carry extra batteries, thei… View Message

Oct 29, 2025 Those of you who are retired, you could be volunteering and sharing your wisdom with real people in person, instead of arguing with an insincere stranger online. All you're get… View Message

Oct 20, 2025 Where are you finding these people? Without blaming your climbing skills and knowledge (your tick list is impressive) it does seem like you constantly travel to climb (goo… View Message

Oct 19, 2025 Pipeline at Beacon is a 11ish finger crack splitting an arete at Beacon, can't believe I forgot that one, It's striking, and shockingly overlooked.  View Message

Oct 19, 2025 Well, I was mainly trolling...Smith has some great 10s, but I do stand by the fact that a lot of 10s at Smith are pretty mediocre. Many were put up pre-1995 and therefore spars… View Message

Oct 19, 2025 Crazy Horse at BeaconNouveau Riche at MadroneTip City at BroughtonFree For Some at BeaconSheer Stress at BroughtonTorpedo at BeaconPeach Cling at BroughtonDozens if not hundred… View Message

Oct 14, 2025 In about 2 minutes (the time it took you to post this) you can view the OP's impressive tick lists, and comments, and conclude that they are a real person. Is it all true, I do… View Message

Oct 13, 2025 You've been climbing 20 years, you should be able to trust your gut by now. If your gut tells you this is a nice guy but he doesn't seem to be internalizing and fully appreciat… View Message