Quick Hits 8.19.08

The new issue of Climbing Magazine has an article about Thompson Creek in the section focusing on Access Issues. It’s a good take on the situation, which hopefully will be resolved sometime next year. We had to go climb somewhere else on Sunday because we got there and 9 people had signed in ahead of us. Oh well, at least it’s not too far to the Narrows from there.

Patagonia has a nice article on taking care of your waterproof shells. You mean we are supposed to do something other than beat the hell out of this stuff?

Jason Huston has an appropriate rant about the selfishness of climbers. Specifically, he’s talking about a situation out at Rifle, but it happens all over, and it’s certainly something I’ve touched on before. When it comes down to it, we have to realize that climbers are, after all, just people. As much as we want to think that as a group we are different from everybody else, truth is we have the same problems as the rest of the world. Maybe it’s time to find a new crag? No shortage of unclimbed limestone in Western Colorado…

And lastly, if you left your stuck rope at the Industrial Wall at the Narrows recently, I’ve got it. Drop me a line at bj AT splitterchoss.com and you can get it back.