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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 12, 2008 - 10:43pm PT
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Had a fun time climbing this weekend!
So I'm at the second belay ledge and a guy on a really easy slab section down from me yells to his buddies "hey, I think I'm gonna Australian rappel" then proceeds to hook a figure 8 to his haul loop and rocket down the rock.
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tooth
Mountain climber
B.C.
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Oct 12, 2008 - 11:19pm PT
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Great TR! now how was the rope drag after you got over that lip? Or was that the guy who rapped off of his haul loop?
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Strider
Trad climber
one of god's mountain temples....
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Oct 12, 2008 - 11:26pm PT
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Good eye tooth, I thought the same thing when I saw the rope pinched underneath that roof because of the short QD's.
Stoopidest thing I have heard while climbing was from my partner/belayer. I was in a squeeze chimney with my feet trashing about and my hands groping everywhere for a hold to help pull myself through the squeeze part. He says, "Looks like a squeeze to me..."
Maybe you had to be there but I was ready to clock him upside the head with a #6 when he came up to the upper belay.
-n
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Oct 12, 2008 - 11:33pm PT
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Guy explaining the grigri to gal friend. "They make these cause alot of belayers don't pay attention and this way the climber doesn't get hurt." Yikes !
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Sherri
climber
WA
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Oct 13, 2008 - 12:09am PT
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"You mean we could have just WALKED up?!" Spoken by a noob upon learning there was a walk-OFF.
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Darren D.
Social climber
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Oct 13, 2008 - 12:25am PT
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Tooth only noticed the rope because that's one of his stunts...at least every time I went climbing with him.
While climbing one of the ski tracks at Tahqitz, the one with the step around move, my partner (Tooth), clipped the fixed pin, ensuring horrendous rope drag. But instead of fixing it with a runner, he tried to make the move anyway, but alas, the drag was worse than rope drag...it was rope stop. So the climber (Tooth), yells down to me, "give me some slack, I'm going to jump across..."
I always thought that was pretty stoopid,,,miss you Tooth! :)
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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2008 - 01:26am PT
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Hey tooth thing is thats the only place for pro and I was too chicken to skip it so I had to back climb and pull those two cams once I got one in up higher. I went straight over the roof from there so drag wasn't that bad. Never seen anyone on the route before and I thought I'd give it a go. Turned out much easier than I thought it would be.
At the top of the 1st pitch of a climb I yell down "off belay" hear back "belays off" and begin pulling the slack out of the rope. Right about when I see the end of the rope coming up I hear "oh, did you want me to tie in?"
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Oct 13, 2008 - 01:30am PT
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Stupidest: After watching a guy take a fall on a sport route and almost hit a tree, a nearby climber said "man I spent 2 hours cutting that branch off....maybe I should cut the whole tree down."
Maybe you should CLIMB ONE OF THE OTHER 300 ROUTES.
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theEcstasyofhistory
climber
LA, CA
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Oct 13, 2008 - 02:42am PT
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A guy on a 5.10 sport route at Owens was climbing over a ledge with the rope wrapped around his leg. His friend said "hey you should watch the rope around your leg," to which he replied "when you climb as hard as I do, then you can tell what to do..."
Not only was he lacking basic skills, he was an as#@&%e.
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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2008 - 03:22pm PT
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One time I saw this guy in a gym talking to a really hot girl while his buddy frank was getting ready to climb. Frank said "you got me" and they guy says "yeah", then looks down and realizes the rope isn't through his belay device! What an idiot. Can't remember what his name was but he looked a lot like me.
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Shrug
Trad climber
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Oct 13, 2008 - 03:40pm PT
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"Guy explaining the grigri to gal friend. "They make these cause alot of belayers don't pay attention and this way the climber doesn't get hurt." Yikes ! "
Heard that as well.
I also heard in a popular area in the midwest:
"I don't know how to make an anchor, i'll just tie some webbing to a tree"
From a passing hikers:
"F-ing climbers, always up here"
"How do you guys make the rope stick to the wall?"
I wish I could move...
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macalpin
climber
UT
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Oct 13, 2008 - 03:47pm PT
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"that can't be a route, there aren't any bolts"
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Oct 13, 2008 - 05:33pm PT
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Some guy at Smith Rock, on top of Five Gallon Buckets, yells down to his buddies, "Hey, how do you tie that knot again"?
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Oct 13, 2008 - 05:59pm PT
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Good one, Mark!
Also, at Smith...while bolting "Equineimity" on the Fourth Horseman, some noob on Cinnamon Slab yells at me:
"Hey! You can't do that!"
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Oct 13, 2008 - 06:01pm PT
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Not stupid, annoying:
Climbing at Hemingway Buttress while a doofus on some nearby routes keeps singing "Keep on rocking in the free world!", not the song, just that line, every two minutes for several hours.
...Aaarrrghhhh!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Oct 13, 2008 - 06:02pm PT
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Inside CRSP, after boyfriend makes first clip on sport route he ask his lounging girlfriend, "I'm on belay, right?".
She replies, "Did you wanna be on belay?".
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nature
climber
Santa Fe, NM
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Oct 13, 2008 - 06:04pm PT
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HEy Bro... here... hold my beer and watch this....
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 13, 2008 - 06:04pm PT
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Asked by a novice below a crack climb in Squamish's Little Smoke Bluffs, which I made the first ascent of: "Did you set this route?"
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Oct 13, 2008 - 06:06pm PT
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Fat Dad, are you related to Skully ?....Aaarrrghhh.
EDIT: From several pretty darn good climbers after "surviving" longish climbs. "I really didn't think we'd need that much H20".
(And they never learned... what can you say : D )
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Oct 13, 2008 - 07:12pm PT
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"Is this hold on?"
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