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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 4, 2012 - 05:32pm PT
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We have had an ecumenic time of it recently.
It's like the Cambrian Explosion and it sure is weird.
We have a lot of likes.
And they each generate some dislike, for the most part.
Christians
Atheists
Gnostics
Tantrics
Chemtrails
Thugs
Bit'ers
Cerealers
Pantheists
Pathetics
Agnostics
Climbings
Nihilists
Plainlifers
Universalists (you may not like it, but they are there)
It's weird, and I'm not sure if God understands how confused I am and why I act so excentric. I try to live a clean life. But the cammers ram their techno-rap down my throat, disparage the hex, slam the stopper, just to get at my wallet. The bishop says gimme for the poor. The pantheists want all my dough. The Mammut guy tells me one thing, the Blue Water guy insists it's three-score ten. And Mikey is over thirty. Who can I trust?
Help me out here, Taco!
Before I get really stretched from stressing over life.
Where's Guy Noir when you need the bum?
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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It's either six of one or one-half dozen of the other.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Whoa is me! I led a good, decent hexcentric life....but then along came a dark stranger with a furtive look and a trunkful of.......cams!!!
I promised my parents I wouldn't get into drugs, but you know the story; it started innocently enough with chalk, then tape and finally....cams!
I just did inventory in my garage, plenty of stoppers but only ONE Hex.
I am truly damned.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2012 - 05:58pm PT
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Righteous, brothers!
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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The hexcentric life? you must be nuts.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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All you guys with all that vintage gear in such nice condition either moved on pretty quickly or don't climb very much.. ;-)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2012 - 06:11pm PT
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Crackers!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Am I forgiven for having lived as a Lowe-life?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2012 - 06:26pm PT
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Depends.[Click to View YouTube Video] Have you accepted St. Steverino as your personal clean climbing guru?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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There is no god but Abalakov and Shataev is his prophet.
Death to infidels and hangdoggers!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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These don't have a scratch on 'em. Guess I don't climb enough...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Titons rool!
I never went aid climbing without a #1 Titon.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Are you guys into the paleolithic diet too?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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You know Mungo like a gud lunch!
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Reeotch
Trad climber
4 Corners Area
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Wait a minute, what just happened???
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2012 - 08:01pm PT
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'Anutomy': The study of the placement of artificial chocks.
Titons were intro-ed just about the same time women's lib really took off. Weird. All this sexual innuendo in climbing. It's all just too weird. Nuts to hookers! Soup to nuts...got crackers? Pecks by the bushel? Ron? Give.
I don't believe you really have a set of zNuts! Dood! IZ NEVAH SEEN SUM! The above animal was ritually slaughtered by the application on his head of a #8 Hex. No, he didn't feel it.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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here's my set, they're all Chouniard, I don't use them much and took some time digging them out of the gear box...
from #1 to #11, with extras in #8, #4 and #1
I used to have another #11 around, but I think it might still be somewhere in 510OW, I was thinking of making a gearshift knob out of it... seemed appropriate...
I am over on the dark side, too, using cams now instead of hexes... but I kept these around to use on alpine routes... you know, one set of cams, one set of hexes... but I seem to always leave the hexes at home.
Eric's got a set of plastic Australian hexes which are really wild!
I think that maybe these should go to Ken and the YCA...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2012 - 01:07am PT
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It is great to see those, Ed. Thanks for the effort of excavatiing 'em.
I had the same set, but liked to take two each of the wireds, 1-5. Same with Stoppers, double 'em up. Easy to carry, be prepared.
I had a couple of wedge chocks, too, one slung on 1' nylon tube and one on rope. Both were old Moacs I found racked on a single biner at Lovers in the early days. We had no cams to leave so these were the "leavers" if need arose.
God knows why I sold the stuff so cheaply. And the Gollancz collection. Plant a boot on my butt.
Nice to hear from you on the origin of that problem, Warbler.
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Tim Camuti
Trad climber
CA
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My number 5 caught this fall
My second that day did not have the cleaning tool. It's still stuck in the crack (and he knows how to stuck placements without a tool). Looking for volunteers to brave the approach and help me go get it.
I LOVE hexes. So often passed over in this day and age, but I love them for their security and light weight and versatility. Now I just need to avoid falling.
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