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Prod
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 26, 2013 - 01:29pm PT
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Thanks Larry for the subject.
So who else out there has puked while climbing? On route, on belay, approach?
My first was Flying Buttress with Hank and Tarbuster. I was the 3rd, fortunate for them. When I finally got myself into the squeeze chimney section, I hurled. Hank was above yelling, "HURL ON DECK< HURL ON DECK... OH man that is heinous, HURL ON DECK" That was the only time on route.
Time 2 was o the approach with Tarbuster to Turn Corner on Lumpy Ridge, felt much better after that purge.
3rd was my first Elcap route day 1 belays I was so nervous that I was dry heaving anytime I tried to eat anything. That went away.
Cheers,
Prod.
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Reeotch
Trad climber
4 Corners Area
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Sep 26, 2013 - 02:01pm PT
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"If you ain't puking, you ain't tryin' hard enough . . ."
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Sep 26, 2013 - 02:31pm PT
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ah'll rsvp our party
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 26, 2013 - 03:14pm PT
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'78 vendetta, after a thirty odd hour blizzard infested, vw break down, prone cross country, cross top drive. Just a dainty little puke on lead, barely slowed me down.
2011(?) late fall, on Tr on The dragon's Lair, in long cnyn, had just completed a course of antibiotics for pneumonia, and declared myself fit to climb. Puked a huge volume of antifreeze green powerade, from a stance, mid pitch missed the offwidth goddess by that much! Felt much better, sent the route without weighting the rope!
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Sep 26, 2013 - 03:17pm PT
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I've climbed with a guy who's climbed and puked. Twice.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Sep 26, 2013 - 03:21pm PT
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Strong work Jaybro.
I've got a few good puke stories but I don't want to offend Tami.
Steve Seats aka Roadie wrote a nice little puke story years ago in an earlier Alpinist. It's pretty funny.
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CClarke
climber
La Paz, Bolivia
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Sep 26, 2013 - 03:46pm PT
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I get sick above 18,000' about half the time if the route takes more than 12 hours. Unfortunately, it's just part of the deal for me.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Sep 26, 2013 - 03:49pm PT
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I never get sick above 18,000ft.
Ain't never been...heh...
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Sep 26, 2013 - 03:51pm PT
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On approach/descent but never on route and only at altitude...so far...working on a plan to change that.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 26, 2013 - 04:07pm PT
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hey there say, all...
ahhhh, the ol' human-body, and its discomforts, :O
something NEW climbers need for their list-of-things-to-know,
AND 'don't be surprised if's :
:)
and HERE, i thought only parents needed to be on-guard for this,
when they start having kids, ;)
seriously, though:
it is interesting how various physical 'push the body into high-gear mode'
can affect folks in different (yet at time, similar, but in various degrees, from different triggers) ways...
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Sep 26, 2013 - 05:40pm PT
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I woke up early and hiked up to the east buttress route on el cap with my buddy Mike. We huffed and puffed our way past a spanish couple that looked like they were goin for it too. Upon arriving at the base I hurried and just started up the chimney. Well, half way up, while stemming across on some little nubs, my stomach goes all shaky on me. I get the chills all over, and my heart rate goes up. I wiggle up to a decent stance, just start breathing hard to steady myself. Meanwhile, the spaniard starts up the chimney too, placing gear right next to mine, leading the same pitch I was still on. When he gets up to about 15 ft below me it just starts coming on, I know im going to puke. I look down at this huffing spaniard and yell, "dude, you need to move, im gonna puke!"
He just looks up with this awkward grin, doesn't understand a word I said.
boom, it comes out, hard. Breakfast gone. I try and aim for the back of the chasm we are in, but the dude gets rained on.
I finish the pitch, he comes up and builds a belay right next to me, clips some of my pieces, and calls his girlfriend up.
I let em through, only to lead them off the route at the end, when he pussed out on the 5.8 runnels pitch.
great route.
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Prod
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2013 - 07:51pm PT
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Karodrinker for the win! So far.. Great story.
Prod.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Sep 26, 2013 - 08:35pm PT
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AJ puked on me while we were on a FA at Josh. I thought it was raining!
I guess it was. It was raining puke.
You know him here as "friend."
Yes Karo for the win. Sweet revenge!!!
Weeg and Lock for photos, NICE.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 26, 2013 - 09:20pm PT
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Proud work Karo!!
Larry do you know if Marie or Justin have hurled on a pitch?
I think we should have full staff up to that standard!!
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sheepdog
Trad climber
just over the hill
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Sep 26, 2013 - 11:01pm PT
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One early morning after the night before, we did Reeds Direct and then Stone Groove, he got to the top and from my view was seriously backlit by the morning sun when his breakfast rushed for the exit. It looked pretty in flight, we referred to it as "breakfast comets"...
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Sep 26, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
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30 years ago Clance and I decided to take a trip to the Leap. We piled in his Mercury Cougar and proceeded to down multiple oil can beers,read Fosters, on the drive up. These were the days before a "real" campground was established and when we arrived at the end of the road in Strawberry we passed out where we sat.
The next day we awoke, both doors open, with key alarm slowly going ding........ding.............ding............ Just then a Sierra Club Hiking group walked by and the leader pointed to us with disgust and said, "There...are the climbers."
We decided that we needed to go to the Lodge for breakfast. I was too hung over to eat and settled for coffee. Chuck went for the full monte and had scrambled eggs with the works.
After eating we had exhausted all our stalling options and had no other recourse but to climb. Chuck had selected Surrealistic Direct for a warm up and so he was elected to lead the first pitch. We staggered up to the base and Clance launched on a magnificent lead. No sooner did he reach the belay when I heard that well known retching sound. I managed the follow with some tension and right as I pulled over the the last moves my hands gripped the crux mantle laced with recycled scrambled eggs.
Retching myself I grabbed the rack and ran up the next pitch as I heard a low "He he he" in the backround.
lars
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Swami Jr.
Trad climber
Bath, NY
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Sep 27, 2013 - 12:18am PT
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I yackerered in Sacherer cracker.
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Sep 27, 2013 - 01:17am PT
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Not episodes I'm proud of...but on the enduro pitch on Astroman, fell lowered down to the belay, heaved, went back up and sent. After putting a "try until you puke" unsuccessful effort on Goldrush. And, on Powerpoint, I had a nutritious and delicious lunch of Mountain Dew and a bag of strawberry jelly filled Pepperidge Farm cookies below the OW corner, led up to the belay with no spare rope left, and up it all came...felt pretty bad for Greg who gets mega burly points for the ultra groady effort of OWing through stylishly on the follow. Alas.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 27, 2013 - 03:16am PT
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No. not me. ever.;)
A buddy of mine puked out the window of his '64 Nova while driving 60 on the freeway. I was the passenger next to him and had my window open and seemed to get bathed in it. I think I was still in high school, because it is a happy memory
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Sep 27, 2013 - 06:35am PT
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Hilarious topic.
Guilty as charged on a lame ass 25' long .9 at Rubidoux. Got the top, set up the belay and hurled. No climbers were struck by the objective hazard.
Now BC skiing in the sierra is a different subject. Nothing like going from sea level to 10k+ in 12 hours with a winter pack. I've fed more than a few scavengers up there.
Now the real question is who has pooped in their pants on a climb? I'm not telling.
Seems there is a common denominator here.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Sep 27, 2013 - 12:25pm PT
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Hmm. Don't know that I can top Dingus.
Some fair number of years ago a friend and I went to do Sahara Terror on Tahquitz. I think it was summer as I remember it being roughly as hot as the Sahara by the time we topped out. And we had run out of water.
To make matters worse, we lost the trail on the walk-off and wandered around for considerably longer than we should have.
By the time we got back to the car, we were both severely dehydrated and probably experiencing heat exhaustion as well. No water at the car, so in to town we went for relief.
I think I bought one of the gallon sized bottles of green Gatorade and managed to drink most of it down in one go right outside the store.
Unfortunately, my dehydrated/overheated system was not prepared to deal with that much cold liquid that quickly. So moments after it went down, it came straight back up in a neon green fountain. Right in front of a crowd of locals and tourists in the street. Who given my haggard state, no doubt thought I was in the middle of a drunken bender.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Sep 27, 2013 - 12:53pm PT
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We were racking up to climb something at Taquitz. My partner whips out these foul smelling energy bars. They had that vitamin smell about them. He had a chaser of some super drink. I probably ate a snickers bar. Luckily I was leading and halfway up a pitch he starts whining. He gets to the belay and starts hurling. I scrambled to get the rope out of the way.
That partner had a history of embarrassing moments. He couldn't make a move and threw an actual tantrum once with so much drama that climbers on another route wanted to know if we needed help.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Sep 27, 2013 - 02:29pm PT
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CClarke
climber
La Paz, Bolivia
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Sep 27, 2013 - 11:47pm PT
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During the summer of 1990, I climbed Erect Direction at the Gunks with Alf or Alfie as I always knew him. We climbed the first two pitches without issue but then Alfie started having an imaginary conversation with his mom and I wasn't sure if he was putting one over on me or not. I tend to think he was just doing it for show at that time.
I started up the third 5.9+ pitch which overhangs a bit and got pretty worked until I managed to pull into a sort of alcove. I was hyperventilating and, sure enough, let fly well clear of a cackling Alfie until I could pull it together enough to either set the belay there or finish the pitch, I can't remember which.
I think that's the only time I got sick on a route not at altitude.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Sep 27, 2013 - 11:48pm PT
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Dingus DUDE, OUCH!
"Say it not brother!
Too funny.
I'm laughing so hard I'm gonna puke right now.
OOPS, sorry, I just did.....and it's 211.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 28, 2013 - 03:53am PT
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My best puke stories will never be told.
Again.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 28, 2013 - 05:08am PT
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Never puked before or on a climb...
But I did puke a lot at a party at a whitewater kayaking festival. Some guy was filming me puking. He said he was making a movie, and was going to match up people's class 5 kayaking descents with video of them partying the night before.
Interesting concept.
The next day I dislocated my shoulder (for the 15th time) on the second class 5 rapid.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Sep 28, 2013 - 10:53am PT
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my spiritual inheritance
that i am involuntarily serving
out is this,
convert hope into memories.
vomit is the asse end of injestion,
hope is food, memories, vomit.
im on track
and my pay scale is escalating.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Soon 2B Flagstaff
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Sep 28, 2013 - 11:28am PT
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Amaretto + lemonade@altitude. Not a good mix.
Another time, I was really pushing it going over Sheperds Pass. Made it to the top of the pass, and then..............
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Feb 11, 2016 - 09:19am PT
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Bump.
For the Dingus tales of phew.
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