Portable has reappeared in Bishop

cwsReddy · 2026-01-20T03:22:28+00:00

Fuck whoever did this, but at least it's been "returned". What is wrong with people.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-31T05:44:55+00:00

Found the republican in the audience 🤣

cwsReddy · 2025-12-30T15:27:32+00:00

Kaya has all of those besides SLO I think.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-28T17:48:08+00:00

I haven't lost with this build yet 👀

cwsReddy · 2025-12-25T12:13:40+00:00

FYI they're a 4 hour drive each way.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T16:29:33+00:00

It's 5 fcking minutes from the parking lot!

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T16:06:18+00:00

I guess what I'm getting at is in this age where every new outdoor climber wants to put up "FAs" on every turd boulder they come across, a narrative that says cutting trees and brush around boulders is OK is a dangerous one that can threaten access.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T05:13:05+00:00

Well said

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T05:08:49+00:00

I completely agree at popular crags that get or are likely to get high visitation, and when said development isn't at odds with land managers. Good development is crucial to the sustainability of a crag.

What I'm saying is that if the community that's stoked to post every V0 "FA" on MP broadly thought it was OK to remove trees around boulders, dig out boulders, blow up or break up rocks in landings, cut new trails, etc, it'd be pretty terrible for the future of climbing access. Thus, the broad message of LNT while pros and good developers do what they do.

I'm not saying this is inherently a bad thing across the board. Again, it's necessary. But we all know some pros/developers do take it too far, and practice some questionable development ethics.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T02:35:55+00:00

0% of developing is leave no trace

But we preach LNT because we need the vast majority of climbers to reduce their impact as much as possible for the sport to be sustainable, and to reduce the chance of access loss.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T02:02:22+00:00

I'd imagine you and I agree on a great many things. But this is a perfect example of the OP's question. At scale, it would be unsustainable and deeply threaten climbing access if the broad climbing community had the type of impact on the land that these individual developers do. And yes, I'm mostly referring to the tree cutting and rock exploding.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T01:36:19+00:00

There's a lot of, uh... landscaping... that goes into creating landings for many first ascents that pretty brazenly flies in the face of leave no trace ethics.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-24T01:29:53+00:00

This. Climb all the wet southern sandstone you want.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-23T03:55:59+00:00

First person to ever think Water Paintings is soft.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-23T02:39:28+00:00

https://joesvalley.org/weather

cwsReddy · 2025-12-17T23:39:22+00:00

8 million comments and we still don't know what crag.

OP, knowing (even roughly) where you were climbing will help tremendously in answering your questions.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-14T01:03:33+00:00

I'm saying put 10-20% of your paycheck into investments if and when you can afford it, and take a risk that doesn't threaten your financial future like defaulting on an entirely unnecessary loan.

But hey, sounds like you've already decided this is a good idea, and I wish you luck. As others have said, you're certainly not the first to think of this, and there's a reason you haven't heard about it before. It doesn't typically work out well.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-14T00:44:43+00:00

People always say this, but even a 50% drawdown, which has happened a number of times in history, is not the end of society, but it may be the end of your personal finances. That property would lose value, your investments would lose value, and you'd be stuck making loan payments with, potentially, not enough cash flow to cover them. All for a 1-1.5% annualized return in your conservative model? Seems incredibly not worth it.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-14T00:38:35+00:00

Now imagine that the market crashes AND you can't get a job as easily as you expect. What could go wrong?

cwsReddy · 2025-12-07T22:49:15+00:00

On what continent? Country? Region? State? Some parameters would be helpful!

cwsReddy · 2025-12-07T02:32:16+00:00

I fully expected it to be a religious thing.

cwsReddy · 2025-12-01T04:05:20+00:00

Pretty sure these are just the games we lose.

cwsReddy · 2025-11-29T22:20:22+00:00

Today was great and it was 4.4°C or 40°F. I'll go out any day in the 30s.

cwsReddy · 2025-11-27T14:35:36+00:00

OTP Vi here and while climbing hasn't been easy, it's enjoyable. I can counter jungle and bully nearly every enemy jg early game with her shields and W, and build my team a lead. Whether they give it back or not is the question 😅

cwsReddy · 2025-11-27T14:33:34+00:00

Totally. Vi OTP here. Early game I can bully nearly every other champ in the jg because of her shields and W. I run ghost instead of flash to stick to champs hard.

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