Steve McGee > Forum Messages

May 4, 2024 Off topic but in response to your username:I suffered from elbow tendonitis for years. I stopped eating potatoes and it went away.  View Message

May 4, 2024 View Message

Apr 30, 2024 Drive up the road slowly, and look off to the sides. This is literally all I can say to help but I also know that it will work. View Message

Apr 28, 2024 I'll take the angles with the SMC shallow angles. Bottom left group. View Message

Apr 26, 2024 Colonel Mustard wrote: But nobody is going to climb: View Message

Apr 12, 2024 Ross Goldberg wrote: My 9.4 Xeros bipattern is expensive but such a bitchen rope. Feeds amazing and the most resistant to fuzziness I’ve found. Also the treatment doe… View Message

Apr 12, 2024 yukonjack wrote: no love for the sterling Ion R 9.4 mm?I got one on sale. I read reviews that it's really kinky. I flaked in end to end 5 times before use, and it's not rea… View Message

Apr 12, 2024 El Duderino wrote: I'm considering taking a job offer in Vancouver, moving from New Mexico.  I was wondering if anyone has made a similar shift (not necessarily that e… View Message

Apr 11, 2024 I'd like the alien with two holes in the lobes, and the #3 if you still have it.Do you have a size tag on the Chernobyl? or at least a back measurement? View Message

Apr 11, 2024 Climbing Weasel wrote: Human=responsible for asshole behaviorDog=just a critter who happens to be within reachI'm not explaining my world view. I'm explaining the law. View Message

Apr 11, 2024 Pickets were on sale last year, or maybe two years ago. View Message

Apr 10, 2024 Climbing Weasel wrote: Seconded; while I understand your methods and applaud them, leave the dog out of this. Better to dangle the offender or their phone rather than an i… View Message

Apr 7, 2024 BD started making a chamfer, or recess around the ball swages after the recall to solve the problem. So if you have an axle housing with a 'seat' for the ball swage, you're fin… View Message

Apr 7, 2024 Frank Stein wrote: I did this to mine, and found that the cable was cutting through the tubing. Hasn't happen to me. View Message

Apr 6, 2024 I learned this from Rock & Ice or Climbing in the early 90’s. Works great, and until the latest generation lightweight stuff came out this was my preferred setup.&nbs… View Message

Mar 29, 2024 My Mythos result in much more pain than my Mariachers... View Message

Mar 28, 2024 Frank Stein wrote: This is actually a bit of a myth. Slabs and weird size cracks feel hard because very few people have actual experience on them. However, many “ste… View Message

Mar 27, 2024 lol. True. But I also remember that 5.8 was hard and very tiring, because it was an offwidth or chimney a lot of the time. Or it was terrifying because it was a slab put u… View Message

Mar 27, 2024 june m wrote: I have to agree with Al on this. It seems that the routes that we put up 20 years ago are all pretty sandbagged.I think this points to Grade Inflation. View Message

Mar 26, 2024 almostrad wrote: Not outer space Not fireworksORBIT. View Message

Mar 22, 2024 The Canadian Rockies View Message

Mar 20, 2024 Actually, you, like many of the "folks" here on MP, need 12 steps. View Message

Mar 20, 2024 I've been using the blue, wide rubber bands from Broccoli and Petzl Strings for years (tried O-rings but didn't like it), and now there's a number of other makers. For example,… View Message

Mar 18, 2024 apogee wrote: Isn't this a little like judging someone's success in life by looking their car/house/other stuff?More like judging someone by the car they lean on in their s… View Message

Mar 18, 2024 Tell me your ego is suffering from self-inflicted assaults on your pride without telling me. View Message

Mar 18, 2024 Interesting design to avoid breaking the holder (Petzl String and other derivatives) but whatever - I have cams with loops to clip now.On old Friends, Camalots, Dragonflys, etc… View Message

Mar 17, 2024 Used it for the first time this weekend and I hadn't noticed the feel of the harness while lowering or rappelling until the 8th or 9th route on the second day. Surprising as it… View Message

Mar 17, 2024 Yeah no need for leashes, and the new Quarks will use the standardized Petzl picks and accessories. View Message

Mar 15, 2024 Which will save you money- not buying the right boots or foot surgery? View Message

Mar 13, 2024 Right on. I'm in a green Blazer and look like an absent-minded old person. View Message

Mar 13, 2024 PM'd about big beaks View Message

Mar 12, 2024 3/16-17 should be HOTI want to climb cracks.  View Message

Mar 11, 2024 They're great cams. I prefer the 'bald' lobes. View Message

Mar 9, 2024 Fabien M wrote: Just back a few hours ago from a day ice climbing and I was putting back all the gear on the wall, took me much loinger that I would have like, and I have a… View Message

Mar 9, 2024 So there’s T that’s part of the riveted mount, and its tabs have the springy metal T tabs that are curved and bent tucked underneath.When the handle is rotated over… View Message

Mar 9, 2024 I just received and this is my impression of the new version of the Edelrid Sendero II. What matters to me in a rock harness in ranking order:Big enough gear loops5th or r… View Message