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Aug 7, 2025 Western MA > Mormon Hollow > Mormon Hollow - Right… Welcome to Camp Hamp Hope 5.7 ● I have never heard this name, and I have been climbing at Mormon since soon after it was developed in the l… View Comment
Aug 7, 2025 Western MA > Mormon Hollow > Mormon Hollow - Right… The Ramp aka Cursed Slab 5.7 ● While this climb may originally have been a 5.7, erosion has definitely altered the holds between the first… View Comment
Aug 7, 2025 Western MA > Mormon Hollow > Mormon Hollow - Right… The Janitor’s Cadillac 5.10a ● The slab this route finishes up is not the finish to Phoni Maroni, which is further left on the other side… View Comment
Aug 5, 2025 Western MA > Mormon Hollow > Mormon Hollow - Right… Unknown 5.8+ ● Both of these were initially top-ope routes. The left one - starting up a ramp then traversing left past th… View Comment
Aug 4, 2025 Western MA Sunbowl ● Thanks, Mark. I posted as a lengthy comment, but I mentioned to one if the listed Admins that I'd done so a… View Comment
Aug 3, 2025 Western MA Sunbowl ● A couple of months ago, after multiple encounters with people confused by the inaccurate information on her… View Comment

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General > Memorial Reply: Pete Cleveland Dec 6, 2025 Wow, I'd love to see those slides!!! Jim and Dave's crew---the Racine Crag Rats, definitely had their ' rowdy moments', along with doing a lot of very impressive climbing. One… View Message
General > General Climbing Reply: Alone, developing, dropped gri gri from anchor, wh… Dec 5, 2025 I didn't do big walls in the pre-harness days ( and only one since!!!) but others surely did---though most rigged some sort of Swiss-seat or other improvised leg-loop system to… View Message
General > General Climbing Reply: Alone, developing, dropped gri gri from anchor, wh… Dec 5, 2025 I'm glad that I learned to climb in the 'dark ages', when we learned 'the basics' , because those basics were pretty much all that were available. Then, over time, as new techn… View Message
Regional > International Reply: Kalymnos logistics Dec 5, 2025 As Eric said. The airport on Kaly is on a small plateau close above one of the ends of the island and is subject to fairly frequent high winds, even more so in winter. As a res… View Message
General > General Climbing Reply: Help me pick a warm winter rock climbing destination! Dec 4, 2025 Is heading overseas a possibility for you? If so, I highly recommend El Chorro in Spain. While mostly ( overwhelmingly) sport, there is a great amount of both single and multi-… View Message
General > General Climbing Reply: New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #40 Dec 4, 2025 Good morning Buck, No, I haven't climbed Smokestack or anything beyond low-level cragging on the Eastside--though love Daniel and James's ( and others) beautiful pho… View Message