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MisterE

Social climber
Topic Author's Original Post - May 27, 2010 - 01:16pm PT
There's a couple of other threads on "overheard", but one is about dumb stuff:

Stoopedest-thing-you-overheard-while-climbing

and the other is Facelift-specific:

Overheard-at-Facelift-Freelance-Reporting

Hey, if Climbing can do it...

I have two:

Climbing at Smith rock in the late 90's, me and my buddy ended up next to a French couple. They were talking to another duo of climbers next to them about coffee. The French guy was telling him about how much the French love their coffee. One of the other guys commented he was from Seattle, and it was a big coffee town. The French guy looks at him with complete disdain and says:

"Zees iz not a coffee town, zees is a milk town!" (apparently a reference to the "latte")

The Doctor and I were working on a few new routes in Sedona with a group, and David is trying to work out some sequences on top-rope. He is calling out to be lowered a bit at a time, and I heard:

"Little bit lower...little bit lower...STOP! Too far, UP!"

The belayer instinctively put all his weight on the device, but it did little. We all started laughing...up...hahaha
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
May 27, 2010 - 02:37pm PT
was just looking for an 'overheard' thread. ahaha good timing man


just saw this posted by a solid wall soloist...

[BW] Soloing has to be the biggest mind f*#k ever. Probably worse than girlfriends.

I'll let him cop to it. But I cracked a big old guffaw. funny becuz it's true.


MisterE

Social climber
Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2010 - 01:17am PT
Apparently, me and Mungie are the only ones that have overheard anything climbing-related that wasn't stupid or Faceliftcentric.

Carry on.
corniss chopper

Mountain climber
san jose, ca
May 29, 2010 - 01:38am PT
OT - but very memorable and in Yosemite so..
Met a couple, going up, post holing our ski track, a mile higher than the bridge above the Snow Creek switch backs. w/ day packs!
They asked us how long it would take them to get to Half Dome.

Asked them if they had a map but they said they forgot it.
Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
May 29, 2010 - 01:46am PT
tourist at yosemite (1980s):

"they all have names, but it just looks like rock to me."
bergbryce

Mountain climber
Berkeley, CA
May 29, 2010 - 01:51am PT
A friend overheard a dad in El Cap Meadows say to his family... "you know, all those climbers are a bunch of dirtballs, but you gotta admire what they do."

Stupid touron, we're dirtbags, not dirtballs.
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Jul 16, 2010 - 10:11pm PT
Heard a pretty good one today:

I love how the guy who says: "It's all about footwork," has forearms the size of tree trunks.
mac&cheeze

Social climber
sl,ut
Jul 17, 2010 - 02:07am PT
zion, more than once in a day
"so you pound those clamps(cams) into the rock?"
sac

Trad climber
spuzzum
Jul 17, 2010 - 02:26am PT
Whyyy... dang it...just the other DAY... at the crag...
I OVERHEARD someone:

"What kind of OIL did you put on your BOOTY !

Yep.

Good thing it was a "climbing related" question...

Yikes.
MisterE

Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 17, 2010 - 03:29am PT
Thanks for the bump, Cintune.

At Smith Rock, ran into a tourist who eyed my friends 'biners and quipped:

"I got snap-links just like those on my tractor back in Iowa!"

climbingtrash

Trad climber
Virgin, Utah
Jul 17, 2010 - 08:04am PT
While at Indian Creek a few years ago...

Male climber steps away from the crag to water a Juniper.

Female climber calls out: "If I can guess what you got in yur hand can I have a lick?"
Gersh

Trad climber
San Diego, Ca
Jul 19, 2010 - 01:48am PT
Mid 80's at Cochiti mesa with Mickey the Japanese scientist who had just arrived on U.S. soil, hired by Los Alamos National Laboratory for something he couldn't be "too revealing with". We were in high school and rolling the first J he ever saw. "Illicit cigarette?...I never tried..." as he takes a couple of huge-@ss gackin' hits of some high quality and takes off into the northern New Mexico twilight. Police might have been involved later.

Same weekend, the Santa Fe hard-man Jean de Lataillade first notices us, as we drink some afternoon beers in the shade. (with ultimate distain)..."Cheap beer for lunch? No wonder you Americans are such shitty free climbers."
Fuzzywuzzy

climber
suspendedhappynation
Jul 19, 2010 - 12:07pm PT
"Up rope......up rope.....UP ROPE, I AM NOT MOVING!!!!!"

"Watch me.... I'm going vertical".
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jul 19, 2010 - 02:06pm PT
I was about 40 ft up and I hear a loud stage "cough" from my belayer. I look down and see all 3 of my copperhead placements (hate those things!) have popped out and slid down to his rope hand (yes, they all should've had runners on them). He says, "you might consider putting something GOOD in, as soon as you can!"...as he steps to the side to not be in my direct fall line.
happiegrrrl

Trad climber
New York, NY
Jul 19, 2010 - 03:56pm PT
"Junior(I forget the name of the kid) - Remember what we said about being in the wilderness; no yelling!"

Said to toddler who was playing on the Welcome Boulder at the Gunks, and exclaiming his happiness in a voice which most would consider a normal child volume, and not yelling in any way.

Of course that wasn't "wilderness," but the parents were teaching their child something important, something that so many neglect - to be respectful when in natural settings(I had written "when in nature" but....well, that creates some strange imagery.
pc

climber
Jul 19, 2010 - 03:58pm PT
"How'd you get the dope up there?"
Jingy

Social climber
Nowhere
Jul 19, 2010 - 04:04pm PT
I always liked the mid-crux yalp of "uh, that holds off route!!!!"



there goes that on-site attempt!!!
Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
Jul 19, 2010 - 05:15pm PT
Which Dope?
The one on lead or the sack in the pack?
;-)
MisterE

Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2011 - 11:00pm PT
Two from the ladies:

1. Kelly, a friend of Skip's yells down during a lead:

"fuuuuk! I need a cam as big as my head!"

2. Our friend Alicia. Quiet, girl-next-door type...until she gets gripped on a climb - then she turns into the Tourette-syndrome girl. Yelled at us from a particularly gripping lead:

"Fuk me gently with a chainsaw!"
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Mar 6, 2011 - 01:05am PT
thanks for the flashbacks!!!

Never knew those posts existed



(or maybe I found out late again)
Jul 19, 2010 - 01:04pm PT
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