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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 18, 2008 - 03:37pm PT
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it's bad enough to sleep in the ash pit of camp four.
getting a nite's rest up on the open stone is much more comfortable.
haven't done too many walls, but I can state that I have the book concept.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Mar 18, 2008 - 03:51pm PT
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modern domestic life is too padded. i speculate that as a species we need the stimulation afforded by challenge, fear and risk to be mentally and spiritually healthy. our society averts most discomforts at all tangible costs, though at considerable intagible costs. the walls are a sideways step in life where adversity is welcomed.
i threw up a thread a while ago about choosing hardship in order to live healthier; though some questioned my perspective,
it is one of the reasons i pursue the vertical.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?
topic_id=490922&msg=500547#msg500547
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James
climber
a porch in Chinese Camp
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Mar 18, 2008 - 04:21pm PT
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The aesthetics, the beauty, the fear, the work, the partnership, and the enormity of it all.
Elaborate Klaus
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clustiere
Trad climber
berkeley ca
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Mar 18, 2008 - 04:41pm PT
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With out knowing why we act unconciously. Seems like knowing why provides some freedom of choice in the whole matter of life decisions etc. Being concious beings often we have choice, why not explore that??
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Offset
climber
slc
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Mar 18, 2008 - 04:43pm PT
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q: why do we climb walls?
a: to try and find out why we climb walls
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Mar 18, 2008 - 05:29pm PT
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For perspective. Trouble is that once I have that perspective I can no longer relate to those that:
1. Won't eat any piece of meat with bones in it.
2. Won't eat chicken because of the texture.
3. Will only drink bottled water, and are picky about the brand.
4. Won't pee behind/in a bush.
5. Don't understand how to crap without a toilet (seriously.
6. Sport climb (though I often wonder why the opposite doesn't happen?).
7. Won't eat a banana with any sort of blemish on it.
8. Must have the latest wizbang cell phone.
Basically too many folks I run into have never truly tasted hunger, exhuastion, thirst, or true discomfort. Wall climbing is a huge contrivance to attain those, but it does remind you to keep your perspective just the same.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jan 29, 2018 - 05:59pm PT
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Aint no wallrat but agree that the singularity and aloofy-ness linked inextricable with wall stuff allows for a singularity and a refuge pure and clean.
Human excommunication pales, confronted with the exposure and competence of self in the lone new challenge life
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jan 29, 2018 - 06:30pm PT
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I hate wall climbing less than I hate being on flat ground.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 30, 2018 - 05:02am PT
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Why do you climb walls?
'Cause it feels SOOOOO good when I stop.
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Don Paul
Mountain climber
Denver CO
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Jan 30, 2018 - 11:22am PT
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To get to the top of course!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Jan 30, 2018 - 11:27am PT
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Because they are a fine place to drink beer.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 30, 2018 - 12:06pm PT
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I did Mescalito for my first and last big wall. I was a total blast, except for the night after the seagull traverse. It was just getting dark and my partner, Rob Brown passed me the pipe. Without thinking I partook. I went full on paranoid. I remember thinking about reversing the traverse if we had to get off. My mind went somewhere like “God dammit Kris, WTF are you thinking being up here. You're 50 years old. You ought to be sitting in the Ahwahnee drinking white wine and eating salmon.” The next day the sun came up and up we went. I never said a word about my panic attack to Rob.
It was October and the first winter storm hit the day we got down. I remember us standing in the meadow with Bridwell watching a team of three doing a very competent job of backing off from above the shield roof. Anyway I did it for the experience. It was one of those things I knew I had to do, and the right opportunity presented itself. But I like free climbing a lot better.
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Jan 30, 2018 - 02:35pm PT
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According to common knowledge (as defined at Degnan's Deli), to justify an extended hang in the valley you must climb at least one pitch a day(on average). By climbing one wall a month it becomes much easier to maintain, or to exceed, the minimum daily requirement(M.D.R.) while still having sufficient time for chasing curry girls, swimming, canning and hanging at the deli
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jan 30, 2018 - 04:44pm PT
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What Mike said...
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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That is one of the stangeset things I have ever seen. It is also hilarious.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
West Slope of Powell Butte, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Why?
Cause................. things and stuff. It’s complicated.
Plaid
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gunsmoke
Mountain climber
Clackamas, Oregon
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Big wall climbing is something of a polar opposite to sport climbing. It's mentally committing, isn't fully in your control (weather, rockfall, etc.), and tests your resolve. I like sport climbing, although sport climbing has had no effect on who I am as a person. I embrace big wall climbing because big wall climbing has affected who I am as a person.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Walls are sport climbs now.
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gunsmoke
Mountain climber
Clackamas, Oregon
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Walls are sport climbs now. Some walls.
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