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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Oct 11, 2014 - 09:42am PT
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Moose, I fear for you.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 11, 2014 - 09:54am PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 11, 2014 - 09:29am PT
You need a harness to climb that?
Lol! No.. This!
ST photo
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 11, 2014 - 10:56am PT
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Unreal climber
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Oct 11, 2014 - 02:11pm PT
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Guys, you see what has happened when we let women have the right to vote and to be climbers?
They vote and they climb.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 11, 2014 - 04:41pm PT
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Sweet! Tami has a car and I have a cave!
Need a couch for the cave.
I thought it was funny but I am sick that way..
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Oct 11, 2014 - 04:47pm PT
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My climbing pants have 7% Lycra, but I don't think I qualify for the cool club.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Oct 11, 2014 - 07:26pm PT
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One rap of 1" nylon sling around your waist.
... Only a real climber can do this. Tell it to Tobin - who ran it out with the rope tied in a noose around his neck.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 11, 2014 - 08:33pm PT
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Let's cut to the chase....on this forum you're a real climber if you actually climb.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 11, 2014 - 10:52pm PT
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^^^^^ HARSH!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Oct 11, 2014 - 11:33pm PT
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Well…it’s a free-for-all, isn’t it. But J-Do is right: if you actually climb, you are,—what?— a real climber. I think however, many of us are wondering if maybe some of these efforts, these climbs, might just be a little bit more than a home movie? I do sense some begging.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Oct 12, 2014 - 12:16am PT
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Only wusses used swamis. Real climbers/men just tied directly in to the rope. Why waste good webbing?
Jack the Sack doing his thing.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 12, 2014 - 08:21am PT
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so... you're an imaginary climber if you just post about climbing (without necessarily doing it much, anymore)
and a complex climber if you do both?
so we can define a quantity of magnitude and an angle designating how much "imaginary" and how much "real"
to make it more complicated, negative values of "real" climbing are the lapses of our real climbing (e.g. confusing "french free" with "free"), and negative values of "imaginary" climbing are the various forms of slander and lies we tell...
Climber = √{ real² + imaginary² } x sinφ
some of us live lives with 0 ≤ φ ≤ π/2 and large magnitude...
[sorry, written on a day I should have been out climbing, but am not... φ = π/2, or maybe -π/2]
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 12, 2014 - 08:22am PT
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lol ^^^^
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Oct 12, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
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How did we get from real climbers defined by swamis and lycra to instead real climbers defined by climbing and posting? Oh well...
On another topic, Ed, best not to write formulas when you wish you were out climbing. If that is supposed to represent the complex exponential, it is missing a term and a factor...
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MH2
climber
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Oct 13, 2014 - 08:28am PT
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Many real climbers I have known were missing a term and a factor.
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2014 - 12:10pm PT
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Let's cut to the chase....on this forum you're a real climber if you actually climb.
...when in a group of 4 or more climbers...wearing lyrca...
Just sayin'!!
I'm waiting folks... :)
Rgold, thank you for all the wonderful pictures. This month, I'm watching the Aspen's change and reminiscing of past Gunks fun. And I think that Lycra HAS to be at the discretion (or lack thereof) of the wearer...whatever works!
and thank you everyone else for the awesome pics. I do love them!
Cheers
LS
ps - hee hee hee
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 13, 2014 - 12:14pm PT
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Most of us are real climbers, but there's some unreal ones. Donini is one of them, and here's another:
as is:
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Oct 13, 2014 - 12:20pm PT
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Hobnails, hemp and a bowline on a coil
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 13, 2014 - 02:55pm PT
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Real climbers get in and out of belays quickly...a lost art today.
Real climbers take common sense shortcuts not found in any "how to" book.
Real climbers are adverse to the "herd instinct" and seek adventure far from the maddening crowd,
Real climbers commit to themselves and their partner and don't bail at the slightest opportunity.
Real climbers update their gear and don't use "old technology" as an excuse for lowered performance.
Real climbers understand the three things you need for alpine climbing:
a plane ticket
duct tape
the RIGHT partner
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 13, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
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I love the Warbler's and Donini's lists, except for this one:
"Real climbers don't let their SO cut into their climbing time too much."
That one proves I'm not a real climber, I'm afraid.
john
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