Will my wife kill me?

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Big Mike

Trad climber

May 21, 2015 - 02:05pm PT

Come on up Chris! Squamish is hovering in the 70's this weekend bud! ;)

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2015 - 02:25pm PT

Dooood! ^^^^^^^I'd LOVE to come up. One of these days it will happen ;)

Hmmmmmm. Think I will have to take L's advise and not do it. Sigh, looks like another Woodson Weekend.

Gunkie. You took your wife out to Barbados for guaranteed reef beatings? Ouch, inside on the reef man lol. Not really funny but.... What the hell, I yelled at my wife for the deer in the headlights syndrome on a boogyboard in the line up. I was bad...made her cry I did. I'm much more patient now; was horrible back then.

Gunkie

climber

May 21, 2015 - 03:05pm PT

Gunkie. You took your wife out to Barbados for guaranteed reef beatings? Ouch, inside on the reef man lol. Not really funny but.... What the hell, I yelled at my wife for the deer in the headlights syndrome on a boogyboard in the line up. I was bad...made her cry I did. I'm much more patient now; was horrible back then.

And took her up 'Chitlin Corner' during our honeymoon on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia NP in Maine. First pitch is 5.7. Second pitch is a 5.10a corner roof. She started weeping at the hanging belay below the roof. I should have run those pitches together and told her it was 5.7.

And on the way to Nova Scotia on our honeymoon, I was talking to some surfers on the overnight ferry because there was a swell building, she started to cry. She thought she was going to be a surf widow. I had two boards with me, climbing gear, and mountain bikes.

In the end, she won. And we're still married.

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2015 - 03:43pm PT

Ohhh my. Nova Scotia on a nice Fall hurricane swell that is well positioned and moving slow/generating. Never got to experience that; overhead backside aggression session in a spring suit of all things. I actually had dreams about that for a summer. Never going to happen for me now.

Gunkie, glad it all worked out for you. It's worked out for us too, lol! And she is no longer ever a surf widow. Occsionally a climbing widow tho ;).

skitch

Gym climber

Bend Or

May 21, 2015 - 06:34pm PT

Do you think J-tree will be busy this weekend?

Mtnmun

Trad climber

Top of the Mountain Mun

May 21, 2015 - 08:12pm PT

Go solo no drama.

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

May 22, 2015 - 03:07am PT

But wait, Mad Max wine party?! With the phamily Phylp?

Do that part for sure!
Could be Percfect for sublimating tensions after a day of cold fingertips!

I just saw it, you won't think about cold for days, trust me!

I don't want to give anything away, but; Sandpunk! Action, beautiful cinematography, me jagon, enough creative inventive desert survival imagery to fuel burningman theme camps for the next fifty years!

Mine, was a positive experience! Bring a can of silver spray paint! You'll know why later, sort of a rocky horror throwback audience participation thing.....

climber

California dreamin' on the farside of the world..

May 22, 2015 - 06:52am PT

Climbing's way more fun and you get a lot more done with the boys.

Warbler, that's a pretty g'hey statement right there. :-)

You've got to ask yourself: Why do you choose to climb with crybabies? I've climbed with tons of women and the only time I saw someone cry on a climb--it was a guy. Seriously.

Luckily he was on an adjacent climb, or I might've dropped him...wink wink

apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

May 22, 2015 - 07:46am PT

Scrubbles, that's just hilarious.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

May 22, 2015 - 08:00am PT

One of the few times I tied on with a goil I almost cried, from the humiliation. I watched
Ellie Hawkins walk up something on the Apron in her new EB's. Then I thrutched up to
her in my RR's, crimping and edging and desperately trying to look cool and composed,
like she actually was. I still cringe at the memory.

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

May 22, 2015 - 08:07am PT

yea hopefully her commitment
and love sentiments exceed
her desire to impart upon you
fatal harm.

good luck, brother.

phylp

Trad climber

Upland, CA

May 22, 2015 - 11:01am PT

Warbler, your list was really funny! Made me LOL.

I just saw it, you won't think about cold for days, trust me!

I don't want to give anything away, but; Sandpunk! Action, beautiful cinematography, me jagon, enough creative inventive desert survival imagery to fuel burningman theme camps for the next fifty years!

Mine, was a positive experience! Bring a can of silver spray paint! You'll know why later, sort of a rocky horror throwback audience participation thing.....

JAY I SAW IT YESTERDAY!!!!!!
LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT!

Phyl
(she who can get whiney when it's cold)

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

May 22, 2015 - 10:03pm PT

Too funny Phyl! Glad you liked it!

Gunkie

climber

May 23, 2015 - 09:19am PT

When a guy cries on a climb, you know there's something seriously wrong.

Oh my gosh. Climbing the Nose more than 20 years ago we had this red-hot German climber just firing pitches coming up below us. He had two guys jugging with packs. One stoic German fellow and one talkative Canadian dude. The two followers were obviously there to just belay, clean and jug.

So we let them pass high on the Stovelegs. The Canadian guy begins complaining about the German guys. Finally it's his turn to lower out and jug with this heavy pack full of water. So he lowers out and begins to get sucked over backwards by the weight of his pack. Now he's weeping uncontrollably. We're yelling to him that he needs to fashion a chest harness out of a quick draw and his pack shoulder straps. he finally gets the chest harness together and just hangs there. The lead German guy is getting pissed.

Now we've been waiting for a while. So while this hodad is quietly sobbing, I take off on the lead and pass the German guys, who were belaying in a small alcove 20 feet below Dolt Tower ledge. Our lines are all over the Germans, but the leader was very understanding. We eventually passed and got to El Cap Towers for our bivy and they climbed into the evening and bivied on the loose, dirty ledge at the base of the Texas Flake. Seemed very quite up there that night. The only conversation I heard was in German; I'm pretty sure the Canadian dude didn't know what they were saying. We didn't, but suspected what the conversation might have been about.

Anyway, they got up early and stayed ahead of us for the rest of the climb and we finished uneventfully.

I'm pretty sure that Canadian guy never climbed with those German guys again.

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

May 23, 2015 - 09:36am PT

Climbing with chicks is fun except when they get mad at you which seems to happen a lot....

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2015 - 07:53am PT

Well, there was no Tahquitz for us this weekend :(. It was just some Woodson (Aithough I love Woodson) and Plan B. Here is a trip report for Apogee on the Plan B part.

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