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MisterE

climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 22, 2014 - 08:00pm PT
722 steps up.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Aug 22, 2014 - 08:05pm PT
Terry Fox ran 3,339 miles in 143 days on 1 leg. His foundation has counted over 600 million in donations(Candian which is kind of like metric)
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Aug 22, 2014 - 08:58pm PT
..used to count the seconds an empty beef stew can
took to fall to the ground from
El Cap tower..
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Aug 22, 2014 - 09:00pm PT
Oh man... If i counted the windows i'd go crazy.
MisterE

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2014 - 09:10pm PT
That is so cool, Mike M.

Mine was the number of steps from base to top at the Middle Gorge approach at ORG...
pb

Sport climber
Sonora Ca
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:06am PT
20 hanks when coiling a 60
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:07am PT
I'm a counter.
Blessing/curse
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:17am PT
Mr E

Happy to know you like your new home.

Do you know who/how the new trail up/down got made?

I owe them....

The old trail was like 2 steps up- one down, two more up, one back, made it hard to count.

Dwain.... Hi, Hi?

mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:20am PT
I find myself counting steps in groups of 100 when suffering a bit when walking out of the mountains. I won't allow myself to look down the trail until a thousand steps. Don't know if it helps, but it seems to keep my mind off my aching feet, back, and shoulders.

Not as good at counting as I was when I was 10. Couldn't seem to get to 100 without losing my concentration on my last trip. Maybe early onset Alzheimer's.
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:57am PT
Intervention group hug :-)
bergbryce

climber
East Bay, CA
Aug 23, 2014 - 10:02am PT
I did traffic counting in rural Alaskan villages at one job. Fortunately it was one of the rubber tube types, so we just set it up and left rather than sitting there counting quads going by. Some of those counts were pretty damn' low.
Rollover

climber
Gross Vegas
Aug 23, 2014 - 10:43am PT
Wow!
Glad I'm not the only one counting steps..
I do it all the time on approaches but never on descents..
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Aug 23, 2014 - 10:47am PT
I once estimated how many eggs that I've cracked. The number made me not want know how many eggs that I've cracked. I'll never do that again.

Other than that I often count my breaths. It a good technique for meditation.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Aug 23, 2014 - 11:14am PT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmomania
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Aug 23, 2014 - 11:44am PT
That is too cool, Jefe. I have another certified disorder for my collection. This has been a good year for collecting. ;0
hippielogger

climber
Townsend,Mt
Aug 23, 2014 - 12:06pm PT
17,746+1
Fletcher

Gym climber
A very quiet place
Aug 23, 2014 - 02:50pm PT
Wapner in 5:28....

Charlie: Who took this picture?
Raymond: D-A-D.
Charlie: And you lived with us?
Raymond: Yeah, 10962 Beachcrest Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Charlie: When did you leave?
Raymond: January 12, 1965. Very snowy that day. 7.2 inches of snow that day.
Charlie: Just after Mom died.
Raymond: Yeah Mom died January 5, 1965.
Charlie: You remember that day. Was I there? Where was I?
Raymond: You were in the window. You waved to me, "Bye bye Rain Man", "Bye bye."
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 23, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
How many dr who's? Even though the one that appaers tonight is said to be the twelvth, 12 is not the number.

Edit:, I mean thirteenth and thirteen
perswig

climber
Aug 23, 2014 - 05:09pm PT
Not as good at counting as I was when I was 10. Couldn't seem to get to 100 without losing my concentration on my last trip.

Flashbacks of land nav. "Ranger beads" are your friend.
Dale
MisterE

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2014 - 09:17pm PT
We also count our climbing days and location every year on a calendar - just forgot that one thing in the house on the move. Oh, well - it's another year soon.

Guy, I was wondering about those steps! I remember the slip-slide...did some searching on-line and came up with not much.

Care to tell the story?
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