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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jun 17, 2014 - 03:49pm PT
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Ask for rock climbing gear for your birthday and Christmas, how else?
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Jun 17, 2014 - 03:51pm PT
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Xmas never worked for me. I couldn't even beg a helmet. Zero enabling for this dropout.
Flip Flopout
All stories are on a 1 year delay. They think that I stopped climbing about 15 years ago. ( actually.....I did)
How annoying is it to be referred to as " he's a big climber"?
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dave729
Trad climber
Western America
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Jun 17, 2014 - 04:04pm PT
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Correction: How NOT to tell Mom you rock climb.
You say rock climbing to a parent that has spent
their entire lifetime earnings just to raise you and
all their brain hears is: Mom you've raised a complete idiot.
Why did you f#ck up so badly that I had to start rock climbing?
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Lambone
Big Wall climber
Ashland, Or
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Jun 17, 2014 - 04:07pm PT
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justr show her one of Alex Honolds soling vids and tell her this is what you are up to lately.
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Scott Patterson
Mountain climber
Craig
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Jun 17, 2014 - 04:12pm PT
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The first photo is my daughter, back when she was 5:
http://www.summitpost.org/rock-scrambling/530574/c-530562
Now that she's 10, she climbs at 5.9.
Anyway, how'd you come across that photo? I'm not complaining by any means (I don't really mind sharing photos with people), but was just wondering where/how you found it.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jun 17, 2014 - 04:15pm PT
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Jun 17, 2014 - 04:17pm PT
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When someone finds out I rock climb, these are the usual questions:
"What's the tallest mountain you've climbed?"
"Do you free climb? Like that guy on TV?"
"Have you climbed anything I've heard of?"
My go-to answer for the last one is usually "Manure Pile Buttress". Then they get a puzzled look, and there aren't any more questions.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jun 17, 2014 - 05:20pm PT
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So dope, Wesley. Mom shouldn't know.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 17, 2014 - 06:06pm PT
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I think my way was the best when she got the helo rescue bill. Yeah, I had some splaining to do.
I told her to ignore it just like the ranger told my mate.
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Jun 17, 2014 - 06:29pm PT
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No mom, there are ropes being used.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 17, 2014 - 06:52pm PT
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lol
my mom started technical climbing b4 i did.
still has her ebs.
yerian hung in her old whillans harness when he was working on the deck.
in hidnsight, she mustve been relieved when i started climbing. it was way safer, healthier and more legal than everything id been doing up to that point.
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Jun 17, 2014 - 06:53pm PT
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I have learned the best way to explain is drag someone along. They don't have to climb really. Just tell them you want to show them another side of Yosemite. I did this with my friend Adam at work. I took him along with myself and my partner for a morning of cragging at bunny slopes in Tuolumne. Dude had a dslr and took some amazing shots, got jazzed up about the approach, and had a great day. I offered harness and shoes and he backed down and said next time. He told everyone at work and showed pics and now no more silly questions or weird looks when trying to explain what you do for "fun".
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jun 17, 2014 - 08:17pm PT
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Don't tell her. You'll just break her heart.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Jun 17, 2014 - 10:55pm PT
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I could break the news (among other things) to Jeremy's mom for him.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 18, 2014 - 12:50am PT
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Once, as a teenager, I tried to show my father what "rock climbing" was all about by taking him to the crag. We pulled off at Pywiack Dome and started climbing the Dyke Route. He stood down at the car screaming at us, "Get the F*#K down, right NOW!"
I never made that mistake again. Don't tell your parents ANYTHING.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jun 18, 2014 - 06:56am PT
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I'm waiting for Whitemeat's post on this subject.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jun 18, 2014 - 08:00am PT
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I forced my folks to endure watching at Smith Rocks many times, including a retreat from Abraxas in a snow storm.
My mother offered to buy me golf clubs, HA!
Then they watched me, Lesher and Lepton for our final day on Tribal Rite. They knew there was no cure after that......
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jun 18, 2014 - 11:21am PT
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chill - I think that could be an answer to any of those questions. Especially the first ;)
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