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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Sep 24, 2016 - 06:31am PT
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Very funny. TFPU
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Sep 24, 2016 - 07:07am PT
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Gawd help us!
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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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Sep 24, 2016 - 07:24am PT
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Ha ha ha dying laughing at this!
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Sep 24, 2016 - 11:06am PT
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My "fashions" are good enough for the girls I go out with.
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The Alpine
climber
The Sea
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Sep 24, 2016 - 11:52am PT
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WTF!?
Talk about losing all street cred...
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Sep 24, 2016 - 12:49pm PT
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I likes my clothes crunchy...
and my womens smooth.
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Sep 24, 2016 - 03:40pm PT
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Treez,
A Comeaux cap is the finest there is.
Comes in lots of cool prints
Has a soft flexible brim
Short brim doesn't get in the way
Designed to be worn under a helmet
Can be worn backwards comfortably - even under a helmet
All cotton and absorbent
Can be tossed in the washer and the dryer
Keeps the sun off my bald head
Some are reversible
They come in actual sizes so I can fit my fat head
Made in the USA
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Sep 25, 2016 - 07:21am PT
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Wow a $3000 vest. How many of us have spent $3000 total on clothes over the last 10 years?
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 25, 2016 - 07:32am PT
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Maybe if you are an 'Adventure Visionary', $3000 vests that look like something a Sherpa made are reasonable.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Sep 25, 2016 - 08:50am PT
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Roskelley said he went 68 days on K2 without ever removing his one-piece long underwear or shorts. I'll bet those were some crunchy clothes.
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 25, 2016 - 10:30am PT
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If i told you, it wouldn't be crunchy anymore
I'm thinking it is crunchy like 'granola', or 'hippie' by GQ standards
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Sep 25, 2016 - 02:15pm PT
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Thank you for posting. I was hoping someone would do this.
As one who is clawing his way towards becoming a member of the top 1% from living happily far below the poverty line so many years ago, I super enjoyed both for the right reason.
Looking forward to being a GQ man with $700 pants $800 shirts and $2000 sweaters.
For now I'm more of an OR man sometimes wearing clothes that double as a halloween costume.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 25, 2016 - 03:53pm PT
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Crunchiest?
Just ask any self-disrespecting hAngel how he collected his red wings.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Sep 25, 2016 - 04:47pm PT
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Maybe it's a Crunchy Black reference
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Sep 25, 2016 - 06:06pm PT
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Omg, thank you Outdoor Research. That was hysterical!
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Sep 26, 2016 - 07:59am PT
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When I first saw the GQ story I was astonished at the sexism. I had really hoped that we had moved beyond that. The macho rock climbing guys in their fancy clothes with the girls who sit there and swoon over them, half-naked. It's disgusting. Am I the only one who had this reaction?
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Sep 26, 2016 - 08:51am PT
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The clothes in the GQ spread aren't that different from what's regularly featured in Outside magazine.
Outside of the 70s and 80s was awesome. Read each issue cover to cover. Now, I have a subscription to support my daughter's scout troop. Big disappointment. Lots of ultra-athletes and mud runners. Very little on backcountry pursuits.
The products featured are for the 1%ers. $50 t-shirts. $300 sweaters. $400 camping knives. WTF?
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Sep 26, 2016 - 01:30pm PT
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Maybe I'm the only one who got ZBrowns reference, but it's both funny and gross at the same time.
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perswig
climber
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Sep 26, 2016 - 02:35pm PT
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zBrown's a sly one, alright, Brandon.
Voodoo sez you're tied to that woman for life.
Ups the ante a bit more, no?
Dale
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 02:54pm PT
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I was thinking that $3000 vest looks a lot like the gingerbread man Halloween costume I made for my daughter a few years back, with some felt from Joanne's Fabric and Crafts. I think it was about $5-$10 per yard of material. Plus it had a variety of more compelling colors and it was super insulating! Maybe too much insulating?
That come-back article is hilarious and nails the idiocy and antiquated messaging from the first.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 04:37pm PT
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When I first saw the GQ story I was astonished at the sexism. I had really hoped that we had moved beyond that. The macho rock climbing guys in their fancy clothes with the girls who sit there and swoon over them, half-naked. It's disgusting. Am I the only one who had this reaction?
Yes I think most of us did have that reaction. But thank you Mike, for saying it out loud.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 26, 2016 - 05:47pm PT
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When I first saw the GQ story I was astonished at the sexism.
When I first saw it, the thing that astonished me was that they hadn't asked me to participate...
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2016 - 04:14am PT
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kneepads are always in style for aspiring 'Adventure Visionaries'
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cleo
Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
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Sep 27, 2016 - 07:27am PT
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I was enjoying it until I noticed they added 2 women... who weren't climbers.
Oh well. There are so many beautiful lady climbers out there, I don't really get it.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 28, 2016 - 07:28am PT
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I'm with Freddie, sheesh!
I just now looked at this for the first time, appalling!
I'd seen the OR one a few days ago, without having the lame, real deal one, for context. I thought it was sort of dumb, now that I see what they were parodying I think it's pretty clever, and funny.
That other one though, it's like early MTV of something.
Can't sink too low to make a buck, I guess.
Flat out depressing!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Sep 28, 2016 - 08:05am PT
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Sep 25, 2016 - 03:53pm PT
Crunchiest?
Just ask any self-disrespecting hAngel how he collected his red wings.
Still chewing on this I was raised on wonder bread
Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
Sep 26, 2016 - 01:30pm PT
Maybe I'm the only one who got ZBrowns reference, but it's both funny and gross at the same time.
perswig
climber
Sep 26, 2016 - 02:35pm PT
zBrown's a sly one, alright, Brandon.
Voodoo sez you're tied to that woman for life.
Ups the ante a bit more, no?
Dale
Still so left wondering?
Scratching my head at the whole thing.
We wore down jackets patched with tape of many 'genres'
Not just ~ but grey cloth duct, tape would save the world .
Black electrical came cloth or a cross, or all plastic.
some wore it thicker than others.
To this day my pajam bottoms see my best dressed days,
the worst dressed days are the most regular and always include
a dirty but ripped pair of of kaki cargo pants. They need a patch already tis year.
Ive always loved to blend. I spent dollars to by green and grey and because it fit Quartzite
and Granit, variations from black to white.
There was a always a tie dye if the splash of color fit , I had a old pic of my rugby ? It was that off yellow, almost 'mustard' colored, kinda, subdued border of grey then the white stripes. . . .
I can't find the picture? .
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2016 - 10:01am PT
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Can't sink too low to make a buck, I guess.
Flat out depressing!
Think the 'Adventure Visionaries' are based out of Boulder?
I'm thinking this the problem.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 29, 2016 - 07:29am PT
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From the same culture that brought you Trump!
Go figure.
" it's classy, throw some boobs in there, I'm the king of good taste."
And to be fair, DMT, as hired guns, they didn't know how it would turn out. I'd like to think they wouldn't have done it, if they could have seen the finished result. It's certainly not going to help their credibility from here on out. Their climbing credentials are impeccable, but their judgement will now always be in question.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Sep 29, 2016 - 07:51am PT
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That's interesting. I wondered about that. Did they really not know how it would turn out or did they just sell out for the money?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 29, 2016 - 08:04am PT
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Its not porno after all. It's not? Maybe just obscene?
Good question, Mike. We'll never really know. I've worked on a number of movies, photo shoots, interviews etc. and you never know what spin the final decider is going to put on it.
They might not have known they were pimping themselves for GQ, or that that was a $3500 dollar sweater, etc even.
Dick Cilley got like Fifty bucks to be in a photo in French Vogue on a bike with two flats, with a pile of gear in Josh. He took what he could get....
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2016 - 08:21am PT
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Its not porno after all.
at least porn is blatantly sexist. I have a hard time buying that they didn't know there were female models that were paid to be eye candy.
They degraded the sport of climbing and marginalized women as objects at the same time.
They would be stupid to not know the type of mag GQ is.... and they turned out looking like total D-bags. Hope the cash payoff from the 1% was worth selling their souls for.
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2016 - 08:28am PT
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I said porn=sexist, where do you get sexist=porn?
However, there is women produced porn now, so one could make the case that porn isn't necessarily sexist.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 29, 2016 - 08:30am PT
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You want to elaborate on that? How as this particular example, not, porn? Total objectifying of women, they didn't climb, they just posed with their shirts open. How is that, Not, porn? Albeit soft core.
offwidthist style man
Hmmm? If they gave me one of those sweaters I could sell it to put a new motor in my 4Runner!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Sep 29, 2016 - 09:30am PT
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Just so you know, patrick compton: that kind of logic will be highly frowned upon in math class.
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