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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Dec 24, 2014 - 01:58am PT
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Life is great when you're doing one thing 100%
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SeaToSky
Mountain climber
Vancouver, BC
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Dec 24, 2014 - 08:52am PT
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Climbing continually teaches me how joy comes from gratitude. Climbing always amplifies the things in my life I'm grateful for: friendship, beauty, mountains, exercise, challenges, nature's seasons, god, health, and many other things.
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feynman
Trad climber
chossberta
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Dec 24, 2014 - 09:47am PT
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Taught
Becoming obsessive is easier than balance.
Total commitment to reach high performance is enticing, addictive and validating. Acceptance of mediocrity, but not complacency to it, is, for me, fundamentally humbling and perhaps because of that - more challenging than any other difficulty.
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reptyle
Trad climber
Kali
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Dec 24, 2014 - 10:57am PT
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Really wanna hear? Could go on for a ways...
First thing came from Murphy's laws. Never climb with people who are crazier or braver than yourself. Good way to make a premature exit.
Second, you have the power to rise above your fears and limitations. I have always been a terrible acrophobe, and it took alot to overcome that. I never lost it.
Third, some sad things about human nature and the terrible power of the ego, and the simian that still lives on in all of us.
Sorry to bore.
D-<
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