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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Feb 26, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
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I've got kids I teach that could run circles around you in the subject, and at least part of the reason is because of their school experience. You take credit for this?
Do you also occasionally converse with people who climb 5.15 that you'd like to throw at me as well? LOL.
Those kids come from homes where the parents have carefully chosen their toys, their activities, their examples - for their entire lives before showing up to your math lecture. Your effect is nothing in comparison.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose and south lake tahoe, ca
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Feb 26, 2014 - 01:59pm PT
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This has been a fun thread to watch. Well done Mikey. Clint, Ed, et al. are fantastic teachers...
^Yep!
Good job working at it and learning it.
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2014 - 12:09am PT
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anyone want to guess what I got on the math final and final grade in the class?
I will know tommarow!!!!! will inform yall...
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Feb 27, 2014 - 12:13am PT
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I think you got a B or B- in the math.
But I bet fat stacks you flunked the sh#t out of English Comp. The spelling alone probably cost you 50 pts and cost your teacher three red ink pens and a migraine.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Feb 27, 2014 - 12:55am PT
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can someone help me with this>
50 * e^-x - ln x = 0
gee thanks!
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2014 - 10:14pm PT
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alrighty, I got a B in the class!!!!
and..............
I done do have a B in da english!!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Feb 27, 2014 - 10:42pm PT
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My question is whether Ed Hartouni is still up in the Valley firing off climbs for Whitemeat.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 27, 2014 - 11:46pm PT
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I probably got a B on the route we were working...
...very slick water polish, dribs of water here and there (it is spring, after all)
4 pitches up, had to reroute the 4th pitch but not without a fight...
after Eric came down from his attempt I got to try.
Starting from the belay, the first move was a prelude to all those that followed. Pimping off of very slick holds, even the incuts seemed frictionless. But a series of face moves, each delicately executed, gets to the left facing corner with a thin-hands to hands crack, straight in. But even the jams were slick, usually that size would be secure, and the angle wasn't very steep, but without much friction all of it was cautious dancing.
Up to the roof. The crack split the right hand side, but the roof itself was arched like a breaking wave causing the crack to scimitar back towards you. The right hand side of the corner had a few desperate suggestions for footholds, all of them similar in quality to the rest of the pitch, frictionless.
After three moves I could get a great jam in at the point of the breaking wave in that crack, but with no feet and the crack flaring gloriously above the roof, there wasn't a lot in my tool box to solve this particular problem.
I tried to get a chicken-wing into the flare, but with no feet and my left wrist as a pivot point, I couldn't get the necessary leverage to lift up and in.
On another attempt I jammed the right hand in half thinking I could get a foot up and in, channeling Dick Cilley... no go.
The left hand jammed again and the right foot on an impossibly tiny point on a narrow edge was too much for me.
Six different ways and not even getting close... I bailed off a single nut leaving it and a biner.
We definitely thought that this was 5.11 something... not really for this route...
but who knows, we might go back up and top rope it and unlock the mystery of that passage.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Feb 28, 2014 - 12:30am PT
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x ≈ 3.6531
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Feb 28, 2014 - 12:34am PT
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I done do have a B in da english!!
So you've been sandbagging us the whole time!
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