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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 15, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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I love aretes: the position, the exposure, the techy element of them and the tricks that help one get through the difficulties.
Thin finger cracks too, which is weird because I have fat digits. Go figure.
Yours?
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 09:45pm PT
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I like exploring the mountains, and climbing is just a means to that end. The actual climbing part is fun but not the goal. Soooo remote, random, long, and in a cool place.
Hence my draw to obscurities and repulsion from yosemite (1.5 hours from where I sit).
Oh and type of climbing: Rock
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Nov 15, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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Not that any of it ever mattered, nor that anything I have to say about what I used to do means anything…
For what it's worth.. to answer the question:
In the beginning it was anything crispy and slabby.
Then it was anything vertical and crimpy.
The it was anything with pockets.
And ended with outdoor multi-pitch solos, and indoor plastic yankin.
Holy Sh#t Edit:
Thin finger cracks too, which is weird because I have fat digits. Go figure.
I forgot to mention the constant love of the crack. How, in the right crack I felt like I could go for days. The good cracks never seemed long enough.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Nov 15, 2012 - 09:51pm PT
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With some good friends.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Nov 15, 2012 - 09:53pm PT
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Don't pose a question if you don't like the answer.
It's ALL good, twerp.;-)
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lars johansen
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:01pm PT
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Are we having fun yet?
lars
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:03pm PT
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Clean
Granite
Lines
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:05pm PT
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Skully nailed it!
But to narrow it down I like climbing granite rocks with cracks in them!
4 more weeks of school until winter break....I'm going crazy!!!!!!! Then one more semester and then my ass is moving to the valley so instead of just thing about climbing all the time, I can climb all the time!!!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:15pm PT
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hey misterE.
Kind of hard to nail it down for me.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I'm with you on finger cracks and aretes, though.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:32pm PT
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Favorite - well featured slabs, knobs, cobbles, pockets. Aesthetically fun movement without the stress. FA of said type is the best!
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mctwisted
Trad climber
e.p.
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:36pm PT
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pretty good stuff
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Michelle
Trad climber
Toshi's Station, picking up power converters.
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:44pm PT
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I am constantly on the search for the most fun 5.2d r/x on the planet.I mean seriously, who hunts for that kind of glorious FA? of course, I might need to actually travel. Or maybe climb. Jordan looks fun.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:44pm PT
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Let's see... definitely cracks... fist to hands. Chimneys, and easy OW (does that exist??? Ha ha!). Learning to make friends with face and slowly improving. Aretes and ridges, fer sure. But I like it all in general... sport, bouldering, plastic. All in it's context... and my given context at the time!
Then there are solid snow climbs when you know what lies underneath is tortuous scree and talus!
Eric
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ncrockclimber
climber
The Desert Oven
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:48pm PT
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It is all good when shared with friends and family! Being in a beautiful place and sharing an experience with people you like is at least 1/2 of the fun of climbing for me.
That being said, I usually prefer plugging gear in cracks over clipping bolts, and prefer almost anything over runout friction slabs. I am just beginning to develop a fetish for the wide to go along with my crack addiction, so I would be remiss to leave out OW climbing from my list of favorites.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 15, 2012 - 11:16pm PT
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slabs, edges, & overhanging hands.
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Andrew Barnes
Ice climber
Albany, NY
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Nov 16, 2012 - 01:16am PT
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Isn't there anyone who likes pulling on gear (aka aid climbing)? C'mon, be honest.
Pulling on gear is like an illicit pleasure - many like it, but few admit it.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Nov 16, 2012 - 01:18am PT
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heck I like aid climbing! especially when it's to get up something really big!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 16, 2012 - 01:19am PT
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Sport climbing, 'cause I like being a pussy...
Uh, I guess I meant sporty.
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10b4me
Boulder climber
member since 2002
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Nov 16, 2012 - 01:20am PT
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always been partial to slabs
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 16, 2012 - 01:22am PT
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Borut
climber
french
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Nov 16, 2012 - 01:42am PT
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My preference is wall climbing.
Borut
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Nov 16, 2012 - 01:52am PT
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Old school Class 3 in the Sierra, like Cathedral Peak (and summit block). Or, like Ritter-Banner traverse. Destination oriented with little or no gear. Where I usually go, if I need a rope, I'm off route.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Nov 16, 2012 - 02:35am PT
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Face climbing - on sight, ground up, new routs, big scale. Great for high voltage out on the lead while your homies down at the belay talk smack about you not running the rope out sufficiently to "keep the fluff off."
Those were high times and I wish I had done more of it.
JL
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Nov 16, 2012 - 02:44am PT
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Splitter 5.10 hand cracks.
Or funky, loose alpine schwag.
Hell...it's all good.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Nov 16, 2012 - 02:59am PT
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Hmmmm, tough question. Maybe some easy solos with the rising sun, followed by breakfast then maybe a few pitches of sport or a multi pitch before grabbing a late lunch, then hitting the boulders until your fingers don't bend any more is the best for me. Doing more than one discipline of climbing in a day i guess is my favorite type of climbing. Mileage climbing. Places like Squamish, Tuolumne, Jtree & red rocks where it's possible to do are my favorite to visit.
Rock climbing & lots of it = favorite type of climbing.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 16, 2012 - 06:43am PT
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moving into the mystery on something previously unknown, as quality
as the famous, but with it's prospective for rediscovery left intact
edit: easily infatuated, hardly fussy ... i tell ya charlie, it's a curse!
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Nov 16, 2012 - 07:47am PT
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^^^Hoo, the question wasn't about women! ;^)
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