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AAA

Big Wall climber
The great America!
Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 11, 2015 - 07:36pm PT
Here is a public service announcement. MP is where it is at. Supertopo forum looks like it was made in 1985, back when Windows 3.0 was big. Time to move on. That is all, carry on ladies.
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
Apr 11, 2015 - 07:39pm PT
FREEZE THAT MF'er!!!!!!!!!!!!1669
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Apr 11, 2015 - 07:42pm PT
Hmmm must be a different Mountain Project thAn the one I've delt with.......
Batrock

Trad climber
Burbank
Apr 11, 2015 - 07:43pm PT
MP is where I learnt how to make a 16 point equalized anchor only using the gear I carry and all my partners gear.
feralfae

Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
Apr 11, 2015 - 07:48pm PT
MP looks like it might be a great resource.
This is not an either/or situation. :)

Thank you
feralfae
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Apr 11, 2015 - 07:52pm PT
The how to guide for designing the next forum in depth for past and present climbers is available through me, exclusively.
limpingcrab

Trad climber
the middle of CA
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:14pm PT
It's not California-centric enough.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:24pm PT
He that is not with me is against me,
and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
thebravecowboy

climber
Lost Park
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:39pm PT
So I need a PAS for this?
GDavis

Social climber
SOL CAL
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:39pm PT
Mountainproject is a library and Supertopo is a bar. If you wanna hang out in a library all day, cool...
kaholatingtong

Trad climber
Marcus McCoy from somewhere over the rainbow...
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:40pm PT
as feralfae intimated, : an incredible resource. Especially if you are climbing in places that have no guides, but you aren't doing FAs.

Great metaphor Greg.
mtnyoung

Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:42pm PT


Mountainproject is a library and Supertopo is a bar. If you wanna hang out in a library all day, cool...


That's just a great comment.

It's not only funnier than hell, it's spot on.
thebravecowboy

climber
Lost Park
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:42pm PT
well-put GDavis.


I s'pose I'd rather pickle myself with a bunch of opinionated old picky-dicks (speckled with a few youthful stalwarts like you and Vitaliy), than a pool including the totality of, well, the youth.

F*#k. So yeah, tendonitis...

EDIT: you want trusty, talk to Clark J or Phil. Not like my current pard who has bouldered "everything V4 and down, here" but can't be coerced to be ready, roped and harnessed and shoed up when time counts and there are pitches to climb. I love MP. Probably rather rope up over here though.

Wait, is this a personal attack? [WITAPA?]
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Apr 11, 2015 - 08:50pm PT
hey there say...

the nice thing, here, about supertopo, is:
it is fast and easy to click,read, and find things, for those that are very busy, and need to get a lot of other chose, done, etc, at home or yard, or work-areas, etc...


not sure is that is an old set-up thing from way-back or not, but it is very nice and practical here...

:)

easy with just a few tabs, and can switch back and forth, nice...

and read a good long simple and neat front page, :)



oh my, well, am busy and got to get back to chores...

sometimes, the older format, or ways, are good:
is this what was meant... not sure?

but it works very very well, :)
Byran

climber
San Jose, CA
Apr 11, 2015 - 09:33pm PT
A big complaint i see here is that people seem to want two different forums to separate the climbing content and the OT threads. But that sort of thing just isn't possible on the Windows 3.0 tech which the taco is running. But the Proj is so futuristic it's got 38 sub-forums. I bet a lot of the old-timers around here wouldn't even know what to do with that many forums.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Apr 11, 2015 - 09:39pm PT
telemarkers suck too... along with snowboarders, sport climbers, boulderers, and anyone who eats gorp.

and racers..

I rule!
christoph benells

Trad climber
Tahoma, Ca
Apr 11, 2015 - 09:44pm PT
you can make alot of money selling gear on that site.

I would take a well made supertopo guidebook over mountain project hearsay though any day. Look at some of the books supertopo has made, the Puryear Alaska Climbing book is the bible for AK climbers.
mucci

Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
Apr 11, 2015 - 09:49pm PT
Gdavis nails it.

Best comparison, ever noted.

micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
Apr 11, 2015 - 09:50pm PT
GDavis for President. Best line of the year.
briham89

Big Wall climber
santa cruz, ca
Apr 11, 2015 - 10:04pm PT
GDavis yes!!!!

Can you imagine a bar full of supertopoians???? That I would like to see. Although I wonder if the lack of somewhat anonymity would make it less fun....
Flip Flop

climber
salad bowl, california
Apr 11, 2015 - 10:24pm PT
Are those guys as stoked as we are right now. I think not . This is f*#king awesome.


If we were all in a bar, tickling would be on. Only way to prevent catastrophe is some pile-ons and tickle torture.

( I'd be holdin RA down while we force him to admit that Michelle Obama is hot. You know the president would prefer Supertopo to those pinched boulderites.

Semper Farcissimus
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Apr 11, 2015 - 10:34pm PT
Wonder if MP is full of dadz too. Hmmm.. I wonder?
GDavis

Social climber
SOL CAL
Apr 11, 2015 - 10:34pm PT
Can you imagine a bar full of supertopoians????


Well there is this...



mcreel

climber
Barcelona
Apr 11, 2015 - 10:37pm PT
This thread has devolved into the opposite of a personal attack on GDavis. Will it evaporate?
Flip Flop

climber
salad bowl, california
Apr 11, 2015 - 11:13pm PT
Yeah,
You gals go check it out and get back to us. Maybe we've got friends over there having a blast and missing us right now. They made it big in tech and they want us to drive the bus.
We're the fun crowd, right?
Dickly

Social climber
KY
Apr 12, 2015 - 06:13am PT
Mountainproject is a library and Supertopo is a bar.

A library where the kids are learning and getting better and a bar where a bunch of has beens cant stop blabbering about BITD?
Flip Flop

climber
salad bowl, california
Apr 12, 2015 - 07:10am PT
How to prehang gear in Kentucky maybe. But we've got Tami.
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Apr 12, 2015 - 08:03am PT
we even have
a secret satan,
though now my
cover is blown
and my glow
is leeking from
my exothermic eyes
and the skeletons
that hid in my closet
are now out
on the rug turning
up the volume knob
and flooring
the keg key;
dancing on high out on the
tip of god's middle finger.

while over at mountain project
unfolds yet another
mild morning
of knot practice.
Capt.

climber
some eastside hovel
Apr 12, 2015 - 08:13am PT
^^^ Roger that. ;-)
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Apr 12, 2015 - 11:18am PT

More like triple 000!

He knows nothing.
MisterE

Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
Apr 12, 2015 - 07:20pm PT
SummitPost gets no respect...
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Apr 12, 2015 - 07:41pm PT
Supertopo is a bar that doesn't card people for emotional maturity (which has the potential to make it more entertaining).
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Apr 12, 2015 - 07:42pm PT
Yeah: I go for route descriptions for Idaho climbs on Mountain Project, which may or may not be correct.

Re. Their forum: it is a library, but I was astounded to see Idaho climbing legend Dave Bingham giving advice there tonight.

Maybe not every posteur wants to post in a bar?

Although Museo de Jamon in Madrid would have been fun to post from.

goatboy smellz

climber
लघिमा
Apr 13, 2015 - 10:39am PT
It's just another climbing website, the xenophobia displayed here is kind of sad and pathetic but not unexpected.

"Eww, ewwww, another website that talks about climbing? How dare they? We are sooo much better than them." [/Saucerboy]

Seriously people pull your head out of the sand and realize there is a big demographic out there that loves climbing around the world and can share it anyway they want.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
feralfae

Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
Apr 13, 2015 - 11:58am PT
Davis said
Mountainproject is a library and Supertopo is a bar. If you wanna hang out in a library all day, cool...

I sometimes think of this place as a resource made up of part true technical climbing info, part great stories of climbing, and part of the time as Callahan's Saloon.

So, yes, maybe this is a bar with a marvelous reference library built into the walls, and one of those very neat rolling ladders so all the stacks are accessible to anyone who can climb a ladder or has excellent spider skills.

feralfae
Roots

Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
Apr 13, 2015 - 12:07pm PT
Mountainproject is a library and Supertopo is a bar. If you wanna hang out in a library all day, cool...

Can we buy T-shirts with this on it? Pretty awesome!
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