Some of the best quality rock and hardest lines in Red Rocks are located back in the secluded, boxed-in confines of Juniper Canyon on Rainbow and Brownstone Walls. The several hour approach is considered quite long by Red Rocks standards, thus these routes become ideal objectives when the park is otherwise crowded. The best way to avoid the long hike, however, is to combine the route Myster Z on Jackrabbit Buttress with a route on North or South Brownstone Walls. On my first two trips back to the Brownstone Walls, I have only seen one other party climbing on any of the 20 published routes (2008). The quality of rock on the Brownstone Walls is 2nd to none at Red Rocks in my opinion.
Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, CA, where he writes full time, producing stories, essays, poems, plays and novels. His wide publication record includes work in Picayune Literary Review, Birmingham Arts Journal and MacGuffin. He is a retired urban planner and a jazz and blues guitarist who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
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Considering partygate, Hancockgate, the state of the economy I don't approve of a full lockdown again. It would be too damaging to the country in many ways. Social distancing will be hard to sell to the masses too given Johnson's behaviour.
> Considering partygate, Hancockgate, the state of the economy I don't approve of a full lockdown again. It would be too damaging to the country in many ways. Social distancing will be hard to sell to the masses too given Johnson's behaviour.
I am currently in Japan, thankfully temporarily, for work with my wife and baby where mask wearing is huge and I hate it. If I'm with my son indoors anywhere you feel that you're being judged when you lower your mask to smile at him and he also can't see other people's faces. Seeing faces is crucial for the development of babies brains and I do think that there is risk that Japanese children are going to struggle to fully develop as they are being deprived of a wide range range of faces and expressions to interact with. Wearing masks temporarily when Covid was new and unknown seemed proportionate. Now that we have vaccines it isn't. While I largely adhere to the rules while in Japan there's no way that I'm wearing one in the UK for Covid again (as a guest you should abide by the rules even if they are stupid, if its your own country rebelling is more appropriate if the rules are harmful). Also, they make my glasses steam up which is annoying although a much more minor concern
"Seeing faces is crucial for the development of babies brains and I do think that there is risk that Japanese children are going to struggle to fully develop as they are being deprived of a wide range range of faces and expressions to interact with."
Hopefully we will learn the correct lessons from this pandemic eventually. Probably when the current crop of scientists, journos and politicians die off or retire, and some proper objective work can be done on the pandemic response.
It's interesting you mention that. One key reason I have no interest whatsoever in motorcycling is that it's necessary to wear a full face helmet to be safe enough (and I'd think it necessary whether it was legally required or not), but that helmet is grossly uncomfortable and horribly claustrophobic to me.
Yeah, hospitals and doctors' waiting rooms are full of sick people, so it does make sense to have something that prevent them sharing whatever they've got with each other. Similarly if you know you have COVID and can't avoid popping to the shop put one on, but in that case you shouldn't be going to the cinema or pub anyway!
How would you feel if lead climbing was to be banned to protect people, because toproping is safer? I do find it odd how many people on a climbing forum lack a belief in the principles of individual responsibility for onesself.
I fully believe in people taking individual responsibility for themselves but we also have a duty to take reasonable responsibility to those around us. For instance one might take individual responsibility for driving at 70 mph around country lanes but that has a possible devastating effect on other road users. Again with the drink driving. One might take personal responsiblity for driving while drunk and accept that one might get arrested or crash the car but that doesn't absolve one from the responisbility to others. The mask thing is this, irregardless of whether they are mandated or not. Clearly you don't think the risk of serious illness is great for most people, and I would tend to agree, the new strains while easily spread don't seem to carry the same risk as earlier strains. Which is why I don't think masks will be mandated. However my argument is that if a more deadly strain came in then masks are a less onerous protection measure than say a lockdown. The fly in the oinment of any useful function of masks is unclear advice on what consitutes an effective mask and public compliance. To conclude arguing against masks for lack efficiency is one thing arguing against masks as personal choice is another, arguing gainst masks as representing the crashing of society is really not valid (I am not saying you argue this but others have implied as much). Any mask wearing is a temporary measure as evidenced by how other restrictions have come and gone.
Indeed not; there are many other variables in play. Being now of an age where I get the flu jab i'm still not sure whether i regard it as a good thing or not, but having had a very unpleasant dose of Covid last year despite being fully vaccinated, I tend towards it being a good thing, as I didnt want to think too long about the consequences of the dose of covid i had if i hadnt been vaccinated (quite close to hospitalisation, 2 weeks utterly bedridden, lost 11kgs and it took many months to regain any sort of basic fitness). The healthcare peaks are an odd one; before flu vaccines, the spread of deaths across wintertime was reasonably even, but now, with much more variable weather (especially temperature), there are more marked spikes (I was for a few years the FC ofthe UK's largest coffin manufacturer......) within smaller cold snaps. In november this year the mild temps will have suppressed deaths, but the cold spell in dec. will have seen them spike significantly.
> It's interesting you mention that. One key reason I have no interest whatsoever in motorcycling is that it's necessary to wear a full face helmet to be safe enough (and I'd think it necessary whether it was legally required or not), but that helmet is grossly uncomfortable and horribly claustrophobic to me.
I also have another helmet for my bigger (and faster) bike - full face only when the lift-up visor/chin cover is down (and clipped into position). Has the advantages of an open face whilst stationary/ slow moving, but the advantages of a full face when on the move.
Doesn't go across my face or eyes. Though I have spent out quite significantly for a very lightweight and well ventilated model (forget what they are without going and looking, though the climbing one is made by Petzl) for both my climbing and cycling helmets, my first climbing helmet was a classic plastic Black Diamond Half Dome and I hated it.
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It\u2019s a fast enough ride to Lily\u2019s, and by the time they\u2019ve warmed up in the car, they\u2019re climbing back out into the winter night once again. Nora offers Olive her hand and keeps hold of it as they head up the steps and into Lily\u2019s apartment building. It\u2019s a single brownstone that Olive can only dream of living in, and it\u2019s beautiful inside, spacious and modern and covered in beautiful Christmas decor.
Olive nods, choosing her words carefully. \u201CI don\u2019t think I really knew it until that night,\u201D she says. \u201CBut I\u2019ve been a mess ever since. I thought I ruined everything before I could even tell you that I have feelings for you, too.\u201D Olive smiles when Nora\u2019s mouth falls open in pleased surprise.
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Peak is a climbing addict in trouble with the law. But he gets to join his estranged father on an expedition to climb Mount Everest. The catch is that his dad just wants to use Peak as a promotion for his climbing company. Peak has to navigate complex relationships, all while trying not to die. I loved the adventure, but also the window into why so many risk it all to reach the top.
Doug Thorburn: In general, I think that shorter pitchers too often get pigeon-holed into relief roles, and I further thing that downhill plane is largely over-rated.Plane matters, but it is far more important to impact the angle of the pitch at the point of contact - on other words, stuff! The impact of initial trajectory is minimal - in fact, if you raise a pitcher's release point by a full foot of height, you only increase the angle of declination by ONE degree. In a vacuum, this results in 0.5% more groundballs. I would much rather that a pitcher has an effective sinker than a tall release point. Great point on the low-in-the-zone, Ken, but this is true of all pitchers - it is much easier to coax grounders with a pitch at the knees than one at the letters, regardless of plane.I think that the bigger issue for shorter pitchers is one of release-point extension, with shorter arms and legs that limit release distance. Almost all of the successful starters who were of shorter stature also had excellent momentum to help overcome for the height deficiencies - including Lincecum, Oswalt, and Stroman!On the jukebox: Iron Maiden, "Two Minutes to Midnight" 2ff7e9595c
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