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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 21, 2016 - 08:41am PT
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@i-b-Gob:
Dunno, with that kind of soloing, I'd be hard pressed to leave the ground.
BAd
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oct 21, 2016 - 08:47am PT
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Way to casual
I never see Ties & tails anymore.
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pec
climber
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Oct 22, 2016 - 09:16am PT
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Just to give a different perspective.
I'm a British climber but was in the US this summer and was really struck by how many people were soloing stuff, far more than I've ever seen on previous trips to the states. Almost everyday I climbed there was someone soloing like its become normalised. In the UK its very rare to ever see anyone soloing stuff apart from short gritstone routes (often only 30' or 40' long) but I know soloing was more common back in the 70's and 80's. Perhaps we've all just gone soft in the UK ;-) but I think soloing is definitely one of those things that comes in and out of fashion.
I'm reading Andy Pollit's autobiography at the moment (one of the UK's top trad climbers of the 1980's) and in one chapter he reels off a list of his friends who died soloing. Its a dangerous game but easy to get sucked into when everyone around you seems to be doing it.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Oct 22, 2016 - 09:33am PT
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So casual people forget to put on clothes, like a day at the beach!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 22, 2016 - 12:12pm PT
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This guy makes it look casual in This video,
The Solo of Marooned 11c-d, ? - ! ( full on 5.12, almost b, IMHO )[Click to View YouTube Video]
The holds all there, but the location of the thing, it has an unrelenting steepness, & is way out of bounds, a long walk, not a place to 'solo for a casual day out for the camera'
'casual?
He floats it,
grabs the no hands rest as if it were above water,
is he even breathing hard?
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 16, 2016 - 03:33pm PT
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WAY solid climber, fo sho. Minus style points for the man-bun, tho.
BAd
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Stan Pitcher
Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Nov 16, 2016 - 03:54pm PT
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No man bun in the link I posted. Just a story about a guy doing a vertical mile of hard soling back east.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Nov 16, 2016 - 04:31pm PT
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What was once special is now commonplace.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 16, 2016 - 05:06pm PT
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ho mahn Donini Spoke
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Nov 16, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
Making soloing look casual and treating soloing too casually are two very different things.
If you don't make soloing look casual you shouldn't be doing it and if you treat soloing too casually you won't be doing it for long.
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Quah,
Then
double dose
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2607974&tn=8360
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Things like calling it Free Solo Friday ? Can that be good?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I'm not prothletizing the very way that one processes when fingers and toes are all that hold you in space is the most special place
Eventually giving it up or it giving you the chop
It is not a race to loose, the time and place to choose is before yo leave the safe ground
the time & place of demise you can choose
be in your own head zone , if you continue to reject the cord and go cordless
Proceed and fvck up the place, then is that a disgrace ? I'm not sure if that is winning or loosing the race.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 16, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
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Making soloing look casual and treating soloing too casually are two very different things.
If you don't make soloing look casual you shouldn't be doing it and if you treat soloing too casually you won't be doing it for long.
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Nov 16, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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This stuff is easy.
If we can elect Trump, we can do anything!
The way that people form beliefs about stuff (like soloing?) is changing in ways that we don't understand.
Moore's law is playing us for fools.
Time will tell whether or not we are fools, just like it did for those omniscient omnipotent dinosaurs.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jun 30, 2017 - 05:57am PT
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^^^ That video bugs me.
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