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helmet
Trad climber
Vienna, Austria
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Sep 16, 2007 - 04:06pm PT
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Sep 16, 2007 - 04:09pm PT
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that's a nice one helmet - a good execution of a really cool function-specific design.
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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Sep 17, 2007 - 02:47pm PT
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this is me with my trusty Lowe sack in the alps
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 12, 2008 - 03:18am PT
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Bump for Big Wally
edit: pretty funny with all those posts that are missing between Lockers posts..... I wonder what was in there? Seems like someone turned "off" the AC.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Yonder
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Jul 12, 2008 - 09:16am PT
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A rope, a rack, & a fat sack(in my pack).
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 12, 2008 - 09:32am PT
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Packs on three pitch routes- I see it all of the time, another sign that the median climbing IQ is at an all time low.
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jstan
climber
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Jul 12, 2008 - 12:33pm PT
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I can’t speculate about people climbing today. But a couple of observations.
I have been told when I first began climbing I caught flak because I did not climb with a pack. No one ever said anything to me, of course. Would not have bothered me. I was not harming anyone or anything. I understand people were pretty generally using the area to practice for their annual trip to the Tetons.
It was while I was snowshoeing through Avalanche Pass in a blizzard that I first considered doing something with the rock. I had been pushing through almost three feet of fresh powder and so was warm despite the wind when I reached the “Hitch-Matilda.” When warm under challenging conditions it tends to make one a little unrealistic. I looked up at the waves of snow sweeping across the face below the Colden Slide and thought how interesting it would be to be up there. Wisely I never did it, but still. There is another level of thinking where you are actually living for an extended time under severe conditions. Rather than take up alpine climbing, I eventually satisfied that impulse by moving to California.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Jul 12, 2008 - 02:33pm PT
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A rack of Bud! Good idea!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Jul 12, 2008 - 03:05pm PT
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yes, I recall back in like '75/76 doing the first ascent
of a 40/50' crack in San Diego called the Fang.
My partner, surfer Dave, led the thing on-sight,
slotting a borrowed #10 hex at the OW crux and
lie-backing; 5.9, it seemed.
Dave wore his red Wilderness Experience Kletter sack,
in it, a glass mason jar of water and the bong, of
course.
We did the thing in Two pitches!!
Mass loads at each belay.
Why we didn't die??
god knows....
funny as hell looking back.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Jul 12, 2008 - 09:03pm PT
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Holy schnikes I had a bit of an epic today in the heat, bushwacking. The pack was the problem...mostly. I had to solo 5.7 out of Aquarian so I just slung my pack , climbed out, and hauled it up.
It's a longer story....
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Yonder
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Jul 13, 2008 - 12:35am PT
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I always try to leave the pack...Climbing with a pack sux(a lot)...
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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holy shite this is funny....
What's in all those packs? was the questoin, then somebody posted up the advert from the FISH website detailing all the goodies to be stored in said FISH pack....
Russ, were you making up all the stuff on the site on the fly?
When I would solo easy stuff in the valley, I'd wear a camelpack, for the water, storage of much needed greenery, and a place to store my smelly sandals for the walk off.... oh yeah, little bita food too
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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And you guys call yourselves TRADS!! Who among you can remember the classic scene of Clint Eastwood in the Eiger Sanction. TRAINING on the Totem Pole..........with a heavy sack on his back. Aspiring no less to a FA with his partner George. When they get to the top Eastwood asks "Why the hell is this pack so heavy?" and George tells him it is because he is carrying the beer.
We carry packs on climbs because by doing so we are better climbers and therefore better people.......and better drinkers. It's TRADITIONAL damn it!! Why go deeper than that?
A rope..........A rack.........a very heavy sack.........
People who don't carry sacks are just WEAK!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Plus some have been known to carry packs - with pillows in them, of course - to annoy Russ. Or so I've heard.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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After this climb, for which I carried a pack because I thought we were going to hang out all day, in the sun, at the top of the second pitch, doing off-width variations, and I'd need the water, I swear I am never climbing with a pack if the route is less than 4 pitches on a hot day, 6 on a lovely day. I am gonna make myself a large chalk bag to hold the essential goodies. Maybe make that a blanket 6 except in some limited cases. Gotta have wiggle room...
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MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
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It's an ape thing - the heavier the load one can carry, the more desirable one becomes to the opposite sex.
The Mountaineers have found the 'ape'x of this inevitable distillation, they always get the hottest women.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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If you have a cool enough pack ya kinda can't help it.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Russ,
WHERE DO I PUT MY BEER THEN? Either I haul the drill, hammer and beers or I pack em!
kev
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Packs CA 1957,1958
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