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Apr 29, 2025 Lori Milas wrote: On my return, I visited this route which has been closed because there are supposedly petroglyphs and no matter how many times I’ve searched I don&r… View Message

Apr 26, 2025 Old lady H wrote: ...Edit to add, for Kristian, Idaho's submarine base!https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/Bayview-Idaho/To quote Mr… View Message

Apr 25, 2025 Bb Cc wrote: Potemkin by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a very interesting read for the regions including Ukraine.Awesome tip. Thanks, I looked this up and it's right up my all… View Message

Apr 25, 2025 Terry E wrote: I have been thinking this too. I haven’t read any suggestions or demands for anyone to leave this forum because of differences in politics. I als… View Message

Apr 24, 2025 Speaking of politics...I saw this yesterday in the parking lot at the Albertson's market here in Gillette. It's a mint 1970 Chevy. The owner kind of reminded me of Willie Nelso… View Message

Apr 20, 2025 Thanks, and as a longtime lover of the slab, I tip my hat to DE Griffith.  View Message

Apr 19, 2025 Jack Leitner wrote: Abyssal Agony v12 located somewhere around Coopers Rock, a true slab highball. FA done just the other day. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn11… View Message

Apr 19, 2025 I did quite a bit of climbing with Mike Caldwell, father of The Tommy, back around 1980. Mike was no slouch either, an extremely strong man. We climbed in Estes Park, Devil's T… View Message

Apr 19, 2025 GabeO wrote: This is awesome!  You must be so proud. Just ... wow! Also where's the rope on your Gohegans pic?  Nice looking route!  Was it part of a s… View Message

Apr 17, 2025 rgold wrote: I couldn't lift 420 lbs if I had a hoist to help me.  Sometimes in the gym I have to move an empty olympic bar (45 lbs I think) out of the way.  Ever… View Message

Apr 17, 2025 Guy Keesee wrote: Going to dig up BITD photos. I’m enjoying the memory lane. Here are a couple for ya...Guy Keesee atop Trash Can Rock, Joshua Tree, way back whe… View Message

Mar 29, 2025 amarius wrote: Here is Mussy Hook that has been specifically modified for rock climbing  - climbonequipment.com/en-us/… Modification - using wire gate spring i… View Message

Mar 26, 2025 apogee wrote: The political impacts of events like these are one discussion…the human impacts are a very different discussion. Assuming that a comment about the form… View Message

Mar 26, 2025 apogee wrote: This is going to sting like Biden’s Afghanistan moment...Your use of the words "sting" and "moment" make for a clever statement that trivializes what ha… View Message

Mar 21, 2025 Old lady H wrote: OLH does not/did not know Charlie Crist, but he sounds like someone  I would have liked.However?  Crist rang a bell. Crist. Gallery. Was that th… View Message

Mar 18, 2025 Nick Goldsmith wrote: What a  wild story Kris. I hope your friend Charlie has had a good life. No one should have to go through that stuff but then again many young me… View Message

Mar 18, 2025 I was at the Needles (CA) when those guys were putting up Titanic. Charlie Crist and I rolled into the campground late on a Friday night, threw down a tarp, got in our bags and… View Message

Mar 18, 2025 "They didn’t need to be known outside their immediate circle. Self-promotion would have been an embarrassment."There are lots of great and accomplished climbers who fit t… View Message

Mar 15, 2025 The Devil's Tower NM website:https://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm View Message

Feb 11, 2025 Jiggs and Alan,I climbed up there a lot, summer/fall/winter 1977-80. Never heard anyone call the area anything but the Ad's. But that's just me...We probably crossed paths at P… View Message

Feb 10, 2025 What's up with you young 'uns? I'm 71, and I sleep all night just fine without getting up to pee. The exception is if I have a beer or tea late in the evening, then I usually n… View Message

Feb 10, 2025 I got really annoyed when the nickname for the Adirondacks got changed from the "Ad's" to the "Dack's." Who thought that was an improvement? View Message

Feb 4, 2025 Nobody in the press corps is being banned from the Pentagon or having access limited, beyond what it already is for security. A limited number of physical offices, which have b… View Message

Jan 29, 2025 Brad Young wrote: Damn, Kris. Glad you know how to fall and weren't hurt worse. There's nothing quite as bad as taking a step... and what you expected to be there isn't.Tha… View Message

Jan 29, 2025 Lori Milas wrote: Kris, I hope you repost your earlier post. I couldn’t be more thrilled to have these two new things I can do for my body.  I don’t know w… View Message

Jan 26, 2025 Phil is an amazing talent. He has major sculptures installed in front of buildings, I think mostly in AZ. He won't tell you about that though. He's beyond modest. I don't… View Message

Jan 24, 2025 Lori Milas wrote: Guy, Tony is on his way to the gym as we speak. He goes through moods, sometimes thinking he’s making no progress and then he gets dark, sometimes… View Message

Jan 22, 2025 Pretty good live coverage of the Hughes Fire here:https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/la-wildfire-hughes-fire-castaic-5-freeway/3612218/ View Message

Jan 22, 2025 Oh crap! Is that the fire I'm hearing about in Castaic? View Message

Jan 11, 2025 Ed Bannister had indoor climbing walls in his shop, The Art of Climbing, just down the street from Stoney Point, before 1987. It was a great asset for the locals, especially wh… View Message

Jan 9, 2025 We've sunk $11B of Fed and State money into a high speed rail program that has a projected (and always growing) cost of $135B to completion. With $11B spent, we have a 1,600 fo… View Message

Jan 9, 2025 Gary Thomas wrote: Half of the budget cut came from eliminating vacant administrative positions and the other half came from the overtime budget. Neither of these things h… View Message

Jan 8, 2025 Phyl, that sucks. Sorry you two are going through that. At least they didn't get the car keys. No phone, cards or car? Yikes! I'm watching these fires with baited breath.… View Message

Jan 6, 2025 That was my first thought. Happened back around September 23. Sadly, a young man rapped off the end of an improperly centered rope. View Message

Jan 3, 2025 Lori Milas wrote: Kris, could you share what your Pilates, Yoga and or strength training routine looks like day-to-day?  I’m trying to imagine a program…&… View Message

Jan 2, 2025 Nick Goldsmith wrote: The wild west was straight up genocide. Its romantic to sugar coat it and lots of the folks involved probably didn't understand what they were really… View Message