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Feb 1, 2026 Anyone who thinks Trump is going to increase staffing and funding for public lands has been asleep for the last 10 years, and especially over the past year. When Trump leaves o… View Message

Jan 30, 2026 Since I consider you a serious person who is open to taking in different points of view, I'll try.I think people like Honnold and other famous climbers are not just monetizing… View Message

Jan 18, 2026 Why does anyone here even care?Most of us who climb just want to get outside, have fun, stay safe, and maybe challenge ourselves.Why should we care about people who monetize wh… View Message

Dec 18, 2025 Maybe they're anticipating the ridiculously low-ball offers people make here all the time and trying to establish a higher starting point. More than once, I've posted lightly u… View Message

Dec 2, 2025 Sweeping generalizations probably provide smug self-satisfaction and score points in places that care, but that doesn't make them true. View Message

Nov 28, 2025 If you don't want people to take your gear, don't leave your gear behind.It's really that simple.Puffing up your chest on the internet might feel good, but it doesn't change th… View Message

Nov 11, 2025 Trango recently switched to the BD color scheme. View Message

Nov 5, 2025 I can't believe some of you are giving serious responses to this obvious troll. Love the sarcastic responses, though! View Message

Sep 21, 2025 Man, I hate self-promotional spam here. View Message

Aug 30, 2025 I don't know a single climber who actually likes that movie. View Message

Aug 22, 2025 San Antonio doesn't have rope gyms, so if you don't consider bouldering to be real climbing-- always a productive discussion-- we have a winner. View Message

Jul 23, 2025 Humans definitely need to do better, but when horses are banned from trails or their riders or responsible for cleanup, that's when I'll consider packing out my own shit. In th… View Message

Jul 6, 2025 Locked threads by moderators are pretty lame most of the time, but far worse is someone starting a thread, seeing it go against his/her plans, and then locking it. That's some… View Message

Jul 1, 2025 Project draws View Message

May 24, 2025 You're correct that AMGA guides and providers teach how to use a single sling and that they teach redundancy. I've taken some AMGA courses and exams, and if I'd built the ancho… View Message

May 23, 2025 It doesn't look like a Sliding X to me, either. Your assessment that the whole thing would fail if either anchor point or any part of the sling fails seems to be correct. That'… View Message

May 20, 2025 That was my thought as well. If everyone else has been happily TRing it all this time, why bolt it if top access is easy and safe?At a polished limestone sport crag near me, th… View Message

May 19, 2025 I teach my clients the same thing. A "friend" I no longer climb with, who had a habit of taking confidently and braggartly (not a real word, but you get it) the lead and then b… View Message

May 19, 2025 It's not a death anchor, but it's a stupid anchor. There are so many single points of total failure. Each is unlikely, but all it takes is one. We've all built sketchy trad anc… View Message

Apr 21, 2025 As someone who spent most of his life in Virginia and now lives in Texas and hates it, I encourage you to get out as soon as you can. Also, people here have this weird obsessio… View Message

Apr 2, 2025 Those poor kids having to grow up with those stupid names... View Message

Mar 26, 2025 I tie it the same way you do. It's how I was taught and how I teach it to others. Almost everyone I see does it that way as well. View Message

Mar 23, 2025 It seems that it's a slippery slope to discuss slippery slopes. View Message

Mar 14, 2025 Since it's quite a hike and predominantly a sport area, I'd say go ahead and bolt it for sport. I doubt many trad climbers will want to go to all that effort for 2 trad routes… View Message

Mar 14, 2025 Also, posting a climb here when all the person does is copy a sentence or two verbatim from a guidebook. View Message

Feb 17, 2025 They dropped on Day One as promised! And the war in Ukraine ended that day, too, also as promised! Didn't you hear? View Message

Feb 7, 2025 This thread title had so much potential for great replies. View Message

Feb 4, 2025 Alpine upskirting? View Message

Feb 1, 2025 I've come to expect some good entertainment whenever someone pulls webbing from a pack. View Message

Jan 3, 2025 Found a Black Diamond helmet with names of Seneca routes written on it in the Orange Peel area at Enchanted Rock in Texas. If it's yours, you can find it at the park office. View Message

Jan 3, 2025 Found a Black Diamond helmet with names of Seneca routes written on it in the Orange Peel area at Enchanted Rock in Texas. If it's yours, you can find it at the park office. View Message

Jan 3, 2025 Found a Black Diamond helmet with names of Seneca routes written on it in the Orange Peel area at Enchanted Rock in Texas. If it's yours, you can find it at the park office. View Message

Dec 6, 2024 You don't. The post I quoted wasn't yours, but your name attached to it. I removed that.  View Message

Dec 5, 2024 Yury is a far-right-troll I've been familiar with on another site he was been banned from due to his lies and hateful personal attacks.It's okay that he's on the far right. Tha… View Message

Nov 30, 2024 This a thousand times. The dude has become comical at this point. Whoever stuffed him into a locker long ago was onto something. View Message

Nov 29, 2024 Yes, that bothered me as well. I wouldn't want to be a wrongfully accused defendant in that judge's court. There's plenty of evidence not just that eyewitnesses make mistakes b… View Message