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When you hike up the hill at the top of the steep 4wd road then you have to cross a shallow drainage before you get to the easy side-drainage entrance to Poison Creek just before the top of the good...

I wish I had his job.

You must mean the PMI 9mm max-wear sport rope. Pit rope is 11mm, just the one size available as far as I know. The max-wear ropes are very very tough and will last a long time. Think of them as a...

No, certainly not. With even the most static of ropes, if you have several hundreds of feet above you then you have a fair amount of stretch.

I find the stretch to be the most noticeable when ascending (I'm also a caver so I do a fair bit of that). It can be frustrating at the bottom of a big pit when you have to ascend up 20 feet of rope...

I think that most of the water weight is water that clings to the rope due to surface tension rather than actually being from the saturation of the material. Dynamic climbing ropes tend to be made...

Besides the problem of harnesses and lower and the rope groove issues that tend to go with lowering, there is also the problem of slot with "V" shaped bottom. There is plenty of it in Larry, same as...

I normally leave a plan when going out without the kids. I have certain responsibilities with regard to them until they become independent and I can't fulfill those obligations if I'm dead in a...

If the ACA doesn't have fine print then they are above the crowd. Everyone should approach all photo contests with the expectation that they are acquiring usage rights in the process unless proven...

Thank you!

We tried tying a mountaineering coil with the rope and then splitting the coils half over one person's far shoulder and half over the other person's far should with the knot part of the coil hanging...

Minimal, just a bit through Civil Air Patrol way too long ago and not thorough enough. I would like to get some good training and I think I can justify the cost. I have read some good books on the...

Maybe a pair of thrift store shorts over the top too. Seems like my back side gets it worse than my knees and elbows.

I've used Goop plummers glue with success on just about everything--shoes,...

Everything in the area flashed on Wednesday night. More rain on Friday? We left Friday morning. I thought the storms were clearing out.

I guess you didn't walk up to the tent site by the cliffs at...

Last Tuesday I had some family out in Bloodhound canyon, selected because it is simple, short, and has some short rappels to keep the kids entertained.

At the coaxing of my father-in-law, my...

We just got back to Idaho from camping at Sandthrax and realized we left a bag of stinky dirty kids clothes at Sandthrax camp up in the tent area by the cliffs. If anyone is out there and finds it, I...

We're not necessarily everything you are looking for. There may be better options. We have 7 newbies, including 5 kids, so we will be moving extraordinarily slow. I'll be too busy managing people to...

I will be camped at Sandthrax for hiking next week on Sept 12-15. East Lep is on the list for one of those days. Come by and talk. We're the big group (10) with all the kids.

I was there in 2006. According to the time stamps on my pictures the loop from Cathedral to Cathedral took about 2 1/2 hours. That was done leisurely with 3 people and included time to put on...

At the Bluejohn big drop you can always reverse the route and exit up the West Fork or one of the many other exits if you can't figure out an anchor.

But really, basic anchor building is more of...

Been there done that. Last fall I rolled my old beater Sony A100 about 50 feet down a scree slope on the slog up to Cable Canyon. A bush caught it before it went over the brink. I got some great...

Adobe Swale is well published but we found it to be not worth the effort EXCEPT for the hike out. It is really odd to think about, but if I did it again I would be looking forward to the long hot...

I'm hoping someone can help me. Are there any good primitive campsites out on Ticaboo Mesa east of Ticaboo? I'm looking for a base camp for Good Day Jim, Hard Day Harvey, and the Warm Springs canyons...

Depending on the camera I'm packing I use a Pelican or an S3 case (basically the same as a Pelican). No worries about leaking. These days my wife and I usually pack two cameras, but before that I...

On Monday, June 1st (a week ago today), a few of us hiked through the main fork of Leprechaun. Okay, "hiked" is a stretch--we heal-toe jammed through. The weather was clear and hot. We came out at...