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[MasterBlaster]

Ha!

 

[pantheraba]

He might be a Word Wizard after all!!!!

 

[cory]

All these rave reviews for a RR, guess that'll be next for me.

So btw, has basically everyone gone mechanical or are there still some friction cord folks out there?

 

[SeanKroll]

... if a guy is not climbing in the rain, like we do here about 75% of the time...

Pure exaggeration and skewing of statistics.

Western WA climbing/ working weather breakdown.
1% 'snow flurries' or 'snow'
1% 'sleet'
5% 'downpour'...finish the job.
5% heavy rain...the last 5% before the aforementioned downpour.
20% 'rain', TOPS!!
20% 'rainbow weather', raining on you when you see the sun in the distance and turn your back to it.
10% 'drizzle'.
18% 'cloudy'
10% 'partly cloudy/ partly sunny'
5% 'maritime layer morning fog, burns off to sun'
3% ' It's hot!'
2% 'other'

 

[Burnham]

 

[Jed]

U.K. Rich!!!! Speak da TROOF!!! Really good to read ya Mate.

Kyle: You definitely beat me to the chicanery joke. Jake Rogers at Eastside bought one of those, and he absolutely hates that piece of...

Sean: LOL times 1000. Yeah... I did exxadddurate. I'm going to have to refer back to your list, man, that was hilarious, AND true.

Cory: In my little, inbred neck o the woods, if by "friction chord," you mean bee-line prussic/hitchclimber DMM type stuff, then, no, definitely not; HOWEVER!... and this may suprise you... there ARE two straight up, closed system, non-split tail, Blake Hitch guys who can get it done with the best of them. 1) Chris Maragulia (The Philidelphian transplant to Whidby Island, I told you about, and, 2) Noel. Some friend of Jake's who used to work at Eastside, and is a fast, young competition level climber.

I'm a total weirdo. I never depart from the RR except for brief, aesthetic/nostalgic excursions, when I climb on a straight-up Taught Line. I find that the time expenditure to do so is hardly appreciable in the long run. It is a bit slower, but who really cares. If that 12 minutes on a big tree is going to break the bank, then yer bookin yerself too tight, and she's underbid.

 

[treebilly]

Truth spoken.

 

[cory]

Good stuff, Jed. Great to have your insight and perspective back here at da House.

I can see using a well-dialed in taut line, but closed system? I'd have to see that to see it being safe as well as productive. Maybe those guys are tooken it to another level

Sean, I like the list! Uh, there was no category for "Sun?"

 

[SeanKroll]

10% 'partly cloudy/ partly sunny'
5% 'maritime layer morning fog, burns off to sun'
3% ' It's hot!'
2% 'other'

Some combo of these.



I'm from Chicago. My first day as a bike messenger, in my 20's was spent racing around polluted-downtown Chicago, in 107 degree peak heat, and 500 people died that day. Once, in the winter as a young kid, it was -80*F wind-chill factor. During a cold snap this winter, my mom's house hovered at 52 degrees, with the newer furnace running non-stop. I've cut stumps at 104*F in Death Valley, with chaps, double-knee carharts, and no shade. Didn't get hypothermia for 3 weeks in the Colorado mountains, with inadequate gear, in October, 10,000' plus.

At least partially, that's why I've been called a cyborg. I'd think more Energizer Bunny. Just keep going, and going, and going. I mean, cyborgs don't drink coffee or eat like having a tapeworm, I don't think.

"Coasties" start to melt when the sun comes out and think "its hot". Below, 30 degrees, "it's so cold". Ya, try climbing a dead tree on the top of the eastside hill, at 17* and breezy, and tell me it cold on the ground.

Obviously, there are hard-core people in the PNW, like Justin and his logging crew on the coast, real-deal hand-falling all winter.

 

[squisher]

I was a logger(I was a rigger/climber too, a super logger lol ), not a faller. Basically scum of the forest, instead of the cream of the crop.

Fallers don't work when it's to windy or snotty out. Loggers do.

Now I'm soft as f-ck in the plywood factory. I lol at the whining and snivelling that goes on there. It's to cold, it's to hot. Give your head a shake waterasses.

 

[pantheraba]

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[Burnham]

Lot of water!

 

[MasterBlaster]

That would give me a headache!!!

 

[cory]

Now I'm soft as f-ck in the plywood factory.

Are you doing any extra fitness stuff to make up for the less physical job?

 

[squisher]

Basically I kick ass all day everyday. I'm in decent shape. Push ups, sit ups and street and dirt biking. About 190, 180 would be fighting weight for me.

Lol.

I just stay active.

 

[cory]

If you are really into pushups, you might consider these https://www.dragondoor.com/products/neuro-grip/ , I got a pair and they are a lot of fun

 

[pantheraba]

Fun!??? Gotta make for a tough pushup...cool idea.

Dragondoor has been a good place for fitness ideas and "stuff".

 

[cory]

 

[Burnham]

Sheeit...I pat myself on the back every morning when I pull 50 regular old school pushups. Wow.

 

[MasterBlaster]

My days of strength are long gone.

 

[Burnham]

You have a pretty decent excuse, boss.

Really, mine too, compared to what was.

 

[Jed]

DANG! 50 push-ups, B?... I couldn't even touch that!

 

[Jed]

3 Akimbos at Eastside now. Might get to climb on Davin's tomorrow.

 

[treebilly]

They’re fun Jed. Once dialed in they are beautiful.

 

[levi 2.0]

what's old school push ups?