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Demented
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 17, 2004 - 06:05pm PT
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You asked for it (ok. maybe you did'nt).
Tori Allen
Grid Bolting
LEO's (i.e. Tools with Guns)
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atchafalaya
Trad climber
California
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Nov 17, 2004 - 06:53pm PT
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dry-tooling aid routes to claim free ascents
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Ben Wah
Social climber
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Nov 17, 2004 - 07:19pm PT
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"working" routes that are far beyond your grade; endlessly toproping them and hangdogging them and (oh, abomination!) minitraxioning them, so that on the 50th or 500th try you can say, "yeah, I've led 5.12"
This is not climbing
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dufas
Trad climber
san francisco
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Nov 17, 2004 - 08:03pm PT
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yeah, why just the other day I saw a cadre of slimy lawyers in a black Cadillac Escalade with tinted windows driving around looking for crags where climbers were enjoying themselves, just so they could sue the landowner. scumbuckets. from the way they carried on, this, apparently, is fun to them.
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funkness
climber
So,Ca.
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Nov 17, 2004 - 10:37pm PT
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When the "NO CAMPING" signs got put up at the Black Velvet Trailhead.
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montgomery wick
Trad climber
Baltoro Glacier, Pakistan
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Nov 18, 2004 - 10:20am PT
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i am a lawyer working pretty hard and spending my own money to help an lco open crags...so you say there are lawsuits out there related to crags? well damn, i quit and am headed over to the over team
asshat
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Mick K
climber
Northern Sierra
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Nov 18, 2004 - 04:08pm PT
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Crowded Sierra backcountry climbs
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Nov 18, 2004 - 04:12pm PT
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worse yet Mick, guided Sierra backcountry climbs. They should stay the hell of things like the 3rd Pillar of Dana, Red Diehedral etc. Also they should keep their noob clients on Horsetail Falls and not clog up Lee Vining canyon.
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atchafalaya
Trad climber
California
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Nov 18, 2004 - 04:38pm PT
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agreed... guiding in LV (bringing the masses to a limited amount of ice)sends a F@#$% you to all other climbers, placing their climber-for-a-living lifestyle over all others. We should have seen it coming when top-rope anchors (bolts)were installed at the top of every single pitch and variation... sad
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Mick K
climber
Northern Sierra
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Nov 18, 2004 - 05:46pm PT
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Jody:
I am guessing you job allows you to take weekdays off, whichis always an advantage. Unfortunatly some us don't always have that option. When I used to work weekends crwods were never a problem. I don't know why I complain, it is not like I get out climbing at all.
I do agree, hike a little farther. But let me tell you it sucks when you hike for miles only to be thwated by some ass who can't get up a backcountry 5.6 and prevents me from doing the climb. On the other hand running into competent climbers in the backcountry is a real treat.
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Mick K
climber
Northern Sierra
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Nov 18, 2004 - 05:50pm PT
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Ice guides should farm their own ice and leave the public ice to the public.
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Ted Shred
climber
deep inside the green room
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Nov 18, 2004 - 07:33pm PT
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gyms
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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The worst 20th Century climbing phenomenon? Gotta be aid climbing.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Pad People.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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lycra
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Ghost! shut yer mouf! ;)
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Bad tatted, pierced, shirtless, beenie wearing, pad people , milling about like zombies, yelling, "do it dude!" and 'send".
Ugh!
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Climbing access-sensitive formations, and bringing a video crew.
I also agree with OfBlinkingThings.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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internet forums
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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^^^
Luckily, ST didn't get going until September 2001.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Once again, I think Jstan nails it. I would only add that there are a few that can or have, pulled it off. That climbing means something, but usually at best, it's a part of a bigger, better something.
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jstan
climber
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I deleted my post. Upon looking at it a second time it seemed irrelevant.
Edit:
Sorry about that. I'll try and fix the error.
Many of the things we are doing are caused by a subliminal or conscious expectation that climbing is important in the grand scheme. It isn't. What we do has effects but they are pretty generally located only in the mind of the climber.
If we simply stopped thinking the clouds will part on our command because of something we did on the rock, a lot of good things would follow.
I felt it was irrelevant to say this because I have no expectation good can come from it being said.
My apologies W.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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O.K. great. Leave me hanging, I've had worse. I still think you had a good point, irrelevant as it may seem.
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Frogjamm
Trad climber
San Francisco
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20th century? I'd say the nadir was the advent of technical roped climbing.
Oh, and then it went downhill.
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Richard
climber
Bend, OR.
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The stick clip
....and stick clipping
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Disaster Master
Sport climber
Arcata / Santa Rosa, CA
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Can't we all just smoke a bong.... er , I mean get along?
This thread is starting to sound like the late 80's, early 90's in climbing. That, or my family reunion.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Those dirty Hippies, who was that now.... Bridwell, Long & Westbray? Long hair, drugs, and...fast climbing.
Belay devices, starting with the Stich plate by Salewa.
Crash pads...now I'm tearing at the last few gray hairs on my head.
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Paulina
Trad climber
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"Get along": what he said. Also: what's wrong with Tori Allen?
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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Tube socks
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flakyfoont
Trad climber
carsoncity nv
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summit registers
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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FFA- first female ascent- does that mean this is first male ascent?
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Oct 19, 2012 - 12:02am PT
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Not climbing
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Oct 19, 2012 - 01:25am PT
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Grumpy old men.
Edit: Nah, on second, thought, I love them too. They give me a good laugh. Plus, for some reason, Sophia Loren hangs around them and you can't complain about that!
Eric
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mountainlion
Trad climber
California
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Oct 19, 2012 - 01:33am PT
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LEO's otherwise known as TOOLS
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 19, 2012 - 02:03am PT
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Too many climbers!
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Oct 19, 2012 - 02:54am PT
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The commercialization of Everest.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Oct 19, 2012 - 03:17am PT
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Saying "proj"
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BruceAnderson
Social climber
Los Angeles currently St. Antonin, France
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Oct 19, 2012 - 03:43am PT
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Climbing in jeans, unless you're Kauk.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Oct 19, 2012 - 03:58am PT
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The sale of Rock & Ice at Whole Foods' checkout stands pretty much sums it all up nicely.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 19, 2012 - 09:12am PT
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"The commercialization of Everest"....hands down, IF it were climbing.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Oct 19, 2012 - 09:15am PT
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TPR and Hueco Tanks
Urban Climbing Magazine
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Prod
Trad climber
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The internet.
Prod.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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The sale of Rock & Ice at Whole Foods' checkout stands pretty much sums it all up nicely. No freakin' way.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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I wasn't the climber my Mom wanted me to be. Ok, so maybe that's second behind Maestri and Cerro Torre...but from MY vantage, not by much.
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Nice one Randisi! I seem to recall a cartoon of that nature from Tami.
Ms Knight to the White phone pleeze...
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Gerg
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jack Osbourne climbing El Cap
Fisticuffs on Everest
Climbing in expensive jeans bought at climbing shop
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
California
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The sale of Rock & Ice at Whole Foods' checkout stands pretty much sums it all up nicely.
I think that's only a problem in portland and boulder. here on the dirty side of tahoe we still got globe and enquirer at the checkouts.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Me of course.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Referring to boulder problems as 'routes.'
Direct causal link to the fall of Western civilization.
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Onewhowalksonrocks
Mountain climber
In the middle of the ocean
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climbers afraid of falling. ie: sport climbers and boulding only people.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sponsored climbers.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Speed climbing, gym climbing, naked dulfersitzing on overhanging cliffs FOR FREE JUST CUZ YA LIKE IT.
No dogs allowed signs.
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Tami you may be in the 'wurst' thread, but in my opinion yer the BEST!
If I ever catch the rascal that took my copy of Vicious Lies.. right off the back of the terlet! Geez.
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The Mayor
Social climber
Billings, Montana USA
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Slacklining, sponsorship, blogs, gopro videos...
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The Mayor
Social climber
Billings, Montana USA
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Close enough.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Harnesses. Made it too damn safe and comfortable and then everybody wanted to do it!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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SPRAY
unless it's mine
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Use of the verb "to send" to mean something other than mailing a letter.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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The sale of Rock & Ice at Whole Foods' checkout stands pretty much sums it all up nicely.
I still think Joe has the winner, because this confirms that climbing has become a mainstream activity for the well to do, fashionably countercultural elite. Lycra is a close second. The climber's misuse of the verb "to send" and the noun "beta" are up there, too.
John
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Bad Climber
climber
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Use of the word "project" as a verb to mean working on a project. Gah!
Oh, "splitter" as an adjective for anything good as in "a splitter day." It's ONLY acceptable--just barely--for describing good cracks.
As a bonus Gah! I'm seeing "blue bird day" all over the place these days.
Kill the cliches! Kill the cliches! Kill 'em dead.
BAd
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Has anyone mentioned the movie Cliffhanger?
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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The Internet.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I bet Hermann Buhl never took his dog climbing.
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jabbas
Trad climber
New River, AZ
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Those colored chalks , cuz of non-climbers freakin out about white spots on the cliffs !!
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deschamps
Trad climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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The development of the attitude that "climbing used to be better back before [insert offensive climbing development here]" and a lack of realization that those offensive modern developments led to the growth of the sport.
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jopay
climber
so.il
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Hands down the "daisy chain", and suddenly en-mass everybody had to have one girth hitched to their belay loop, sometimes two of them. We had a guy at Jackson used to walk around with one between his legs clipped to his rear loop, plus he was short, so you get the picture.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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climbers afraid of falling. ie: sport climbers and boulding only people.
I fall a lot more sport climbing than I do on gear routes.
Your point fails.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Hands down the "daisy chain", and suddenly en-mass everybody had to have one girth hitched to their belay loop, sometimes two of them. Daisy chains rock, but they clearly have their place. If I'm not a wall though, you'll never see me use one.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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The mentality that tard climbing is superior to boldering or spurts climbing just because grumpy old men can sew their way up a 5.8 crack without risking more than a 3' fall at any given time.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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amen!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Hands down the "daisy chain", and suddenly en-mass everybody had to have one girth hitched to their belay loop
AKA
The human funkiness device
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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I hate those little 3' falls.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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grumpy old fuks criticizing Sharma's lack of technique when his feet cut on sh#t they couldn't hold if their lives depended on it (circa 1996).
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Circa 1996 was twentieth century, but also close to twenty years ago.
Why are we discussing dumb sh#t from at least thirteen years ago?
Are you people stuck in the past?
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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The stupidtaco asked, I answered.
I wish I was stuck in 1996!
Damn, almost 6pm... I wanted to be high by noon and I failed miserably!
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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The word "Trad"
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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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Down climbing climbs for fun....i.e. I just down climbed an 11a on TR boy I'm cool....
Stevo
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