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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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I've seen bvb sport climb... he's right, it sucks!
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Bouldering...it's just not real enough, like that picture above clearly demonstrates.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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No pad. You know like all the bitd climbers must point out. Haha.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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boldering is neither
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Posted this before, but it seems appropriate (by the way, the "boulderer" here is actually a very fine "trad" climber)
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Feb 26, 2015 - 08:44pm PT
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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Feb 26, 2015 - 10:04pm PT
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"I think the 'friction of styles' is a manufactured fart cloud perpetrated mostly by OUR generation."
I'm with Dingus on this one and think it's a good thing!
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Feb 26, 2015 - 10:11pm PT
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Nobody boulders anymore.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2015 - 10:36pm PT
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Roger that Biotch!
Funny thread rereading that.
"I'm going to start a munge climbing fad, 51% of the route
must be covered in moss or rapidly decomposing
choss to qualify.
Hope to have the website up later this year.
It's gonna be huge!"
Goatboy, post up the URL!
Or if you're ready to buy...
http://www.californiabouldering.com/
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 27, 2015 - 08:17am PT
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Fit young women walking around with mattresses strapped to their backs...what's not to like?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Feb 27, 2015 - 10:05am PT
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the fad of bouldering has left us...with boulderers..
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Feb 27, 2015 - 10:10am PT
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Bouldering will outlive the fad. Maybe even the pad . . .
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Feb 27, 2015 - 10:12am PT
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Fad? You can't be serious!
(From www.johngillnet.com)
I've been climbing since 1957. I started bouldering with the good Professor Gill in the early sixties. Camp 4 bouldering was also in full swing by then. Gill's site has bouldering references going back to the Victorian era, and it is clear that bouldering was a full-blown activity in Fontainbleau by the 1920's. There's nothing new about bouldering as an activity.
Of course, bouldering has gotten a lot more popular. It has enjoyed the same kinds of training, technique, and equipment innovations that have made all climbing easier and safer. (For example, a glance at the picture above shows that there have been substantial improvements in spotting technique.) Just as with other styles of climbing---and indeed with athletic pursuits in general---bouldering has responded with developments in difficulty that eclipse the achievements of the pioneers.
So it is a fad of a century-and-a-half's duration, and no, it isn't going away.
A more interesting question: when will that fart cloud leave us?
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Feb 27, 2015 - 12:06pm PT
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Left us? Heck, I want it to rev up even more!
More people bouldering=fewer people on the tall stuff. That's okay with me.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 27, 2015 - 01:48pm PT
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Closest to my house, A perfect bike ride Starting with a mile long down hill then another mile more that is split by ups and downs.
This, a bit farther away an example of small rock hell. If you believe like some, rocks have souls, then think what it must have been like as a rock to have sat Here
show some go yo, lets see some of the best sit in parking lot and down dirty roads.
favorite 'Pebble' or 'small stone,' on the side of a vista'
or to an ironic location Hell, any thing small.
This sits 600feet up left of a car wash by a very busy highwat full of grocery stores and car dealer ships, Think Dunkin Donut, and Jiffy Lube .
$%five years before it was the case and the indians had march by,befor white man.
Now though, I kid you not, it stares at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. ( no Picture)
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Apr 18, 2015 - 11:20pm PT
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Got gear?
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Apr 19, 2015 - 05:21am PT
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So a few years back there were two Germans and a Swiss that hung out in my climbing gym and bouldered here for a couple of weeks while on a South American bouldering trip. These guys were probably strongest non-Argentines to visit so far and the only visiting foreigners (to my knowledge) to "put up" (ha ha) a relatively hard new problem (that had been a bit of a project for us). Anyways they spent a couple of weeks at Tuzgle afterwords and later told me Balcarce ruled over Tuzgle. Just saying.
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