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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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To be honest….
I haven't become one of the grates….
So I can't say what it takes to become one, but only emphasize what it does not take to become one of the grates.
Ask one of the grates.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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You must attempt to solo ridiculously hard routes and arrange so that when you fall and die they put you in a simple wooden box.
You will then be one of the crates.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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I'd study what John Bachar did. As a pup that's exactly what he said. Then he did it. He was already pretty solid when he was 16. He had to figure it out on his own, you can basically follow his training path and what worked for him.
Good luck and have fun!!!
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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It all sounds iffy to me.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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avoid expensive women
Indeed... cheap women are best
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Do something different than everyone else, and do it well.
I disagree. Everyone is trying to be different. The real way to be unique is to be like everyone else.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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I'd shorten it .. do something well consistantly. That's plenty different.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Move to Boulder
Everyone is great in Boulder
Just ask them
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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SEAK AND STUDY THE NOLEGE OF WELD_IT ON THIS FOREM.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Get a really hard pussy-cat and act like that.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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If yer evur clubbing at the emeralds u have to bee karefull they don't open the flood grates
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Do grate reilly Count these dais? I thought't'was allahbout åsåmm.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Hey say you there get offa my blog!
neebee, yer grate now!
It must bee attitude.
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Land of God-less fools
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Many of the grates climb with their belay devices hanging between their legs.
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fosburg
climber
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Dude, come bag the coveted 2nd ascent of our new route, Latent, the Gratin' ( a suitably abrasive body crack completed the day after the real Great'n checked out last week), you'll be well on your way.
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