Lee Chandler > Forum Messages

Aug 28, 2025 Thanks for saying this, I was going to, but figured I would just be opening myself up to some roasting, lol.They are not remotely the same, as the petroglyphs probably represen… View Message

Apr 25, 2025 "Marty Maps" And yup they are easy to carry and great for the value, plus a little humor and art. They go for 5.00 dollars are available at local hiking stores, climbing gyms,… View Message

Mar 24, 2025 It was in October so hot, but not hot enough to alter climbing plans too much, apart from starting at first light. Carrying the water is the hard part, we had to carry enough w… View Message

Jan 30, 2025 Thanks! This reminds me that I need to get back into shape, lol. View Message

Jan 23, 2025 I am not sure why I read your article and chose violence. I will reflect on that. I have read through it a couple of times since. You did a fair job of describing people intere… View Message

Jan 23, 2025 Well after Andrew's fair point that I did not read his article well, I will admit to giving it another look and I will say he clearly says something to the extent of petroglyph… View Message

Jan 23, 2025 Noted and I acknowledge I probably could have found a more civil way to publicly say I disagreed with your article FWIW.  View Message

Jan 23, 2025 Oh no what will I do a month old coward account with a fake name is calling me whiny :( View Message

Jan 23, 2025 Edit to respond, the long winded opinion has already been reposted.Kevin.Yes I am aware of the stealing of panels and it def still goes on sadly. But I don't think most in the… View Message

Jan 10, 2025 Ropes left on climbs bad, ropes left hanging in the brush on steep terrain for hand lines good. View Message

Aug 7, 2024 That is a pretty common reply to someone when they are griping about nonsense. It wasn’t meant to be of great offense to you. I mean you are complaining about women&rsquo… View Message

Aug 7, 2024 You sound like you are a lot of fun to be around. Also why is this in the general climbing forum?  View Message

Aug 23, 2023 Thanks for some more perspective, its been one of the most frustrating things I have dealt with and its impacting the quality of my life at this point. Before seeing my ortho,… View Message

Aug 21, 2023 On top of some stenosis, I picked up a displaced disc and a protrusion into my c5 or c6 nerve root, I am just forgetting which one now. It rocked my world, I went several month… View Message

Aug 17, 2023 Of course some did it, lol. I am clearly not that dialed into the CO scene. We drove up a couple weekends ago for one, apart from hitting a deer coming over Wolf Creek Pass, it… View Message

Aug 17, 2023 I def did not do anything near your feat of doing them all self propelled in one summer. But one year I backpacked half the CT and did seven 14ers along the way, it came out to… View Message

Aug 10, 2023 I guess I am not as dialed in up there as I thought I was. Who tracks this? lol So because this young lady from CO logged her time in an app she can call herself the faste… View Message

Jul 26, 2023 Fixed if for ya Groggy! :) View Message

Jul 25, 2023 One of the most interesting things I have read on MP. You don't see a lot of  references to Shiva or the Canyon on here. I was actually asking around about that "log cam"… View Message

May 3, 2023 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climber-dies-fall-guadalupe-mountains-national-park-texas/ View Message

Apr 27, 2023 TLDR. View Message

Mar 31, 2023 More non sense from the Canyon, top right bolt is a classic "no gud" bolt circa bandito era. View Message

Mar 31, 2023 Standard Superstition Mountains hardware from yesteryear. Biners could prob use some reorientation.Bolt found on an obscure route in the Grand Canyon. Placed by some banditos I… View Message

Mar 2, 2023 Kind of an odd piece of "journalism." The entire premise of the article is that the lack of bolted anchors is some how contributing to deaths and making the park unsafe. Then o… View Message

Feb 22, 2023 Ooops it looks like you went with the colonizer name for this area, I am sure you meant traditional homelands of the Tongva, Payomkawichum and Acjachemen. No biggie though, I g… View Message

Nov 17, 2022 I feel you on this one man. I was basically your age as well when I got my surgery  and as mentioned up thread, I did not seem to recover as quickly as advertised. I think… View Message

Oct 20, 2022 Nice stuff. We got up a bit of a classic out there a couple springs ago, the hype is real, but I also found it a little terrifying, lol. Going on 11 years myself down here in t… View Message

Oct 19, 2022 Looks nice man. The GF and I enjoyed our little stop there a few years back, hope you recoup some money for your effort. And here I was thinking for a minute there that you wer… View Message

Oct 12, 2022 Ha Ha no taxes funded his transport don't worry. Where there is a will there is a way. We got him home on donations and with the help from a British non-profit that was helping… View Message

Oct 12, 2022 I I brought Blanco back from Afghanistan in 2011. He’s a little slower these days and we use a pet ramp to get him into the 4Runner when we can, but he’s still enjo… View Message

Oct 3, 2022 This.The thread clearly has a different direction than the other more recent fatal accident threads on here. It is hard to articulate why, but its def different, a lot of ego a… View Message

Sep 28, 2022 lol calm down groggy, you won’t even put your real name behind what you say, nobody on here believes you are chopping up anything. And Even if you had a blade, I’d… View Message

Sep 8, 2022 I mean pretty much, ya. View Message

Aug 31, 2022 The Canyon is a bit of an acquired taste and the climbing might be a little too meh for someone with your experience, but you could get pretty creative with some obscure summit… View Message

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Aug 26, 2022 We own three dogs ourselves, they also don't really ever go to the crag with us, unless its some one star crag in the middle of nowhere, where we know we won't see anyone. Dogs… View Message