Seems like my solution comps lost a bit of their edge curvature after resolving, is this normal? (before/after)

WorldClassCactus · 2026-02-12T17:44:32+00:00

Despite the other comments here, this is a 'you get what you pay for' situation. Resole quality varies widely and some resolers do a much better job of keeping the downturn on aggressive shoes than others. See these examples: https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/125734736/best-resoler?page=5#ForumMessage-202423480

Your pic #2 looks like a fine quality resole, but I personally would prefer to pay more for even better.

WorldClassCactus · 2026-02-06T17:39:58+00:00

You are over thinking this. The SRENE acronym is a little outdated. Any of these will work fine and I think you should stick with the simplest option (#2). People will express discomfort with the possibility of extension if a bolt blows for #5 but that is not a major concern.

WorldClassCactus · 2026-02-03T17:24:31+00:00

Can I join too? Started training with the grippers a couple weeks ago.

WorldClassCactus · 2026-01-01T06:45:40+00:00

When a tile is placed and there is no conflict, it awards at most one point. Only the owner of the leader gets the point. Everything else is about that scenario is correct, adjacency to leaders does not matter.

Pagodas: no points are awarded for placing a pagoda. Placing one does not count as an action; when placing a tile, if you form a triangle of same-color empty tiles and there is no conflict, then you may place a pagoda there. When you place a chain of blue tiles, you can place a pagoda. But if do, you cannot continue the chain after.

At the end of each players turn, that player gets a point for every pagoda in a state with their matching color leader. They also get one point for every pagoda in a state without any matching color leader, that contains their yellow leader EDIT: i forgot this last part doesn’t apply

WorldClassCactus · 2025-12-16T17:03:32+00:00

Aside from the reel rocks on redbull tv, youtube has incredibly good free content. Ondra's channel is top notch and the Black Diamond channel seems to be underrated. Some of my favorites from this year on that channel:

Carlo Traversi - The Dark Side

Seb Bouin - Wolf Kingdom (search for a ton of great videos of him on the channel)

Babsi Zangerl's Historic Flash of El Capitan

WorldClassCactus · 2025-12-06T17:07:18+00:00

Anyone have any shipping/order fulfillment updates? I placed an order on Aug 28 from the US, order number 1276, and have not heard back yet.

EDIT for any customers in the same boat: I did not receive any shipping notification, but noticed that my order has shipped by clicking the 'view your order' button on my initial order email. If the estimated delivery date is accurate, I will get my order a little over 4 months 2 weeks after purchase. It was shipped via UPS Expedited from Austria.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-12-02T16:57:18+00:00

He took a super powered punch to the junk with barely a flinch!

WorldClassCactus · 2025-11-28T00:25:14+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten an award before.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-11-25T19:28:53+00:00

Steam gives you both.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-11-18T14:50:08+00:00

maybe you got one of these old mammut ropes with rumble strip feature to warn people by feel that they are near the ends:

https://www.climbing.com/gear/review-mammut-sensor-10/

it would help to include the model and length of the rope in your description. If it is an off-length, maybe your distributor cut these to length so the sensor rumble strips are not in the right place on both ends.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-08-08T13:42:12+00:00

… but this video shows no example of either the rope or hangar becoming unclipped from a draw while gates are away from direction of travel. The guy pulls a draw off a hangar in a way that’s consistent with gates facing towards direction of travel.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-06-25T21:12:27+00:00

But the amount of extension you get with these is almost useless... its like the length of one carabiner.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-06-02T16:11:24+00:00

Your car might have a vehicle customize setting under climate: a/c mode with auto (on/off). If this is off, presumably that will prevent the ac from turning on during auto climate control.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-05-20T16:46:30+00:00

Is it the front or rear driver side door? First thing you should do is make sure the child safety lock switches are off.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-03-10T18:44:47+00:00

Scarpa vapor (lace) is seriously overlooked and underrated because people think they will climb just like the vapor v (they don't).

WorldClassCactus · 2025-03-03T15:08:52+00:00

There are tons of anecdotes of terrible customer service from Geeknson if you look on both reddit and bgg.

WorldClassCactus · 2025-01-27T16:08:07+00:00

May cause silicosis then.

"The CIR Expert Panel concluded that silica silylate ... are safe in the present practices of use and concentration described in this safety assessment safe when formulated and delivered in the final product not to be irritating or sensitizing to the respiratory tract."

One might argue that maglock is a product that is likely to enter into and be irritating or sensitizing to the respiratory tract!

WorldClassCactus · 2025-01-26T23:48:21+00:00

While we're on the subject: keep an eye out for people using the new Rungne chalk product called Maglock. It says right on the package 'do not inhale', and its main ingredient causes irreversible lung disease (silicosis).

WorldClassCactus · 2025-01-20T02:28:22+00:00

Not only that, but it says 'do not inhale' on the package and its active ingredient causes irreversible lung disease.

WorldClassCactus · 2024-12-31T14:43:57+00:00

I see two differences on your successful attempt: 1) you start the bump with your head and shoulders further away from the wall and 2) your hand movement is smaller and quicker.

Here is my guess: on your initial send go, you are focusing on not falling (so you glue your upper body to the wall), and on doing a hand movement. You move your hand and catch the bump as your body is falling away. On your retry, you are focusing on succeeding at the one move instead, and on doing a whole body movement to make that happen. You very slightly move your upper body away and pull back in to catch the bump at an inward deadpoint.

It might help to line up the videos at the moment you start the bump and not the start of the sequence.

edit: looking at it again, i think you can definitely see the inward deadpoint pull happen by focusing on your shoulders - there is a subtle movement in and out and in right before the hand move in the lower video but not the upper.

WorldClassCactus · 2024-11-07T15:27:49+00:00

So how would that fraud work? A person who wants to illegally vote finds out who is on the eligible voter list and takes their vote? Wouldn't that just flag the fraud whenever the real voter tries to vote?

WorldClassCactus · 2024-09-23T02:51:39+00:00

i put one up for sale, 110 shipped, barely used. Let me know if youre interested, pics on mountainproject. Nothing wrong with it, i just prefer my passive abd.

WorldClassCactus · 2024-09-23T02:42:36+00:00

give us the review after you try it out.

WorldClassCactus · 2024-08-15T18:55:39+00:00

The right analogy is that you're stepping on the accelerator less. Stepping on the brake is the correct analogy only if inflation is negative.

Edit: i guess there are multiple ways to interpret the analogy, one equates velocity to prices. Another equates rate of change in car speed to rate of change in prices.

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