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Mar 1, 2026 I've posted on this forum over the years asking for recs on rock climbing coaches/trainers, and I've worked with a few local people (with mostly good results!), but a new servi… View Message

Oct 22, 2025 If anyone ever says "Mark Hudon" I immediately think of free climbing exploits and not hard aid lines.  I guess because a lot of people have done hard scary aid routes on… View Message

Oct 2, 2025 I'd be gutted if Honnold died. View Message

Aug 21, 2025 https://www.jeffco.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2444Weird kink.  Why?? View Message

Jul 30, 2025 Pretty sure Jamie Logan equipped Milkbone since she's working on it.  I asked her about the ethic of leaving draws and she didn't seem to think anyone cared, but if that's… View Message

Jul 11, 2025 Dungeon and Mt Royal are in the "Front Range?"  Hmm, then Rifle is as well?!  Or is that pushing things too far?I'd add "Tracks are for Kids", a seldom-done really co… View Message

Jul 7, 2025 I said I felt "surprised."  I don't feel attacked.  Not in the least.I didn't move any goalposts!  My original question still stands.  If you say, "well, I… View Message

Jul 6, 2025 I used "responsible" in the thread title, but that seems to have triggered a lot of people (several invoking some kind of legal definition).  But I did want to ask the que… View Message

Jul 3, 2025 Are you "responsible" for catching your partner if she falls?  Do we need to dissect the word "responsible" in order to answer that question?The courts are a poor instrume… View Message

Jul 3, 2025 I TR solo a lot.  And one of the things that really bothers me is that I don't have another set of eyes to catch any mistakes I might make.   The same kind of situati… View Message

Jul 3, 2025 I've trained hundreds of new climbers (as a guide) and I tell them "you are responsible for your partner's knot as if it were your own."What do you think?  Do you agree? &… View Message

Jul 2, 2025 I showed up to the Leap in 1999 on a weekday morning and fixed ropes down The Line (60m gets you the top two pitches, then a 50m covers the first pitch).  No one else on t… View Message

Jul 1, 2025 My friend Jackie Niles, the badass. View Message

Jun 13, 2025 I'm 62, having climbed up to V8 (indoors) and 12a (in and outdoors), and really would like to tick a 13 before it's "too late".  I'm hoping to find a coach and/or trainer… View Message

Mar 25, 2025 Reading Sarah's description: Marc was scrambling around on terrain with gravel, sand, dirt, some loose rocks.  Probably something everyone reading this has done 10,000 tim… View Message

Mar 23, 2025 I'm so so sorry Sarah.  I hope you are holding together and have your support system around you. View Message

Mar 22, 2025 I feel like a ton of slang originates in the military.  "Good to go" is one example I'm aware of that started in the military.  I wouldn't be surprised if "send" star… View Message

Mar 21, 2025 I'd always assumed it was a term used first by climbers in the 90's.  I hear it all over the place now, so I'd assumed it was appropriated by skateboarders, skiers, video… View Message

Nov 17, 2024 It's often not that hard to cut up a padded floor into modules and you can store a lift in the parking lot if you have a loading door.  (Most gyms do, in my experience). &… View Message

Nov 13, 2024 A lift pays for itself pretty quickly given that you can set a route in half the time.  And I would guess it's safer (though I don't have any stats to back that up). View Message

Oct 30, 2024 Mark, they mentioned you in the interview video!  I don't know if you caught that... View Message

Oct 30, 2024 They don't simul much.  I think they simuled first 10 on HD (because it's like 5.9 ish) but in the interview they said simuling is too tiring.  You'd simul for the No… View Message

Oct 30, 2024 HD was last, because it has a big descent and you stop the watch on top of your last wall View Message

Sep 18, 2024 Not what you asked for, but as someone older (I'm 62) who had a similar gym goal, consider changing your goal.  Instead of more V6's or V7's, drop the grade and try to do… View Message

Sep 2, 2024 Over 20 years of climbing and I've had pain in fingers, elbows, shoulders, but never wrists .... until now.  Working a V8 in the gym that had small pinches, and just refus… View Message

Aug 23, 2024 I have a project that's 5.12 but most moves are 5.10 with a few 5.11 moves at the cruxes, and about 70' at 30-40 degrees overhanging.  What's the best way to train for thi… View Message

Aug 5, 2024 A week later... the photos for Tunnel 4 Roof Routes, as noted above, are still not loading. They do load on the app, just not on the website. View Message

Aug 5, 2024 Not all cracks are suitable for gear (imagine a large flaring crack, say 20cm in width, which is where this bird's nest is).  Moreover, the crack in question is pretty far… View Message

Aug 5, 2024 My guess is it was a cliff swallow, but I'm not expert enough to be sure. View Message

Aug 4, 2024 Went to the proj about a month ago and there was a tag on the first bolt saying "Do not climb.  Bird's nest."  And sure enough I could see branches sticking out from… View Message

Jul 15, 2024 I'd like to start a fund to buy a beer for anyone who packs out someone else's forgotten wag bag.  I just don't know how to validate claims that it's someone else's? View Message

Jul 5, 2024 I've kept an eye out for a while now, and I don't really see plots of land for sale.  Would be a nice place to build a summer home or just have some property up there, but… View Message

Jul 1, 2024 I did tape.  I shaved both calves and then taped from beneath my foot (ie, the sole) around the back of the heel and up my calf.  This prevented hyper dorsiflexion. &… View Message

Jun 29, 2024 Regarding "some pro climbers are assholes", I've met probably more than 100 "pro" climbers over the years... from Ron Kauk and John Bachar, Lynn Hill, Jerry Moffat back in Yose… View Message

Jun 25, 2024 Also, no chalk, no shoes, eating only tree moss View Message

Jun 22, 2024 Take Janja Garnbret as a current example.  She dominates comp climbing utterly and completely right now.  She wins everything she enters, often by a long stretch. &nb… View Message