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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Chatsworth
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 18, 2005 - 02:35pm PT
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Vahalla 5.10d Suicide Rock - Hot girlfriend
That runnot thing on Lembert 5.9 - Best friends girlfriend
Whodunnit 5.9- TAhquitZ - Not so hot girlfriend
Right On. 3rd Pitch, the wide chimeny. My future UCLA coed wife.
Leaning Tower Approach - Jeffrey Pappen
Rockstar
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bigwalling
climber
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Mar 18, 2005 - 02:47pm PT
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"Leaning Tower Approach - Jeffrey Pappen"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Mar 18, 2005 - 03:01pm PT
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Royal arches rappel, in the dark.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Mar 18, 2005 - 03:13pm PT
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Uh not to be a stickler on grades and such, but since when has Valhalla ever been 10d? It was the first 11a at Suicide, if I'm not mistaken.
Go give it a go in EBs or Kronhoffers Rockstarr and see how if it still feels that way.
But as to the thread topic. The Red Diehedral on the Incredible Hulk was the last time.
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dmitry
Trad climber
Chita, Russia
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Mar 18, 2005 - 03:50pm PT
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Great thread, Juan!
Quite a few; to the point that I try to avoid climbing anything runout, wider than fists, and harder than 5.9+ when accompanied by girls...
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Gomp
climber
San Diego
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Mar 18, 2005 - 04:06pm PT
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Well, it's a great thread about the cryin' part but there's so many guys that are total freakin crybabys that maybe it should cover both sexes.
On the other hand maybe guy crybabys are kind of special and need thier own thread?
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Mar 18, 2005 - 04:09pm PT
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Standard Route on Whitehorse Ledge, NH. My girlfriend's roomate and I got caught 5 pitches up by a surprize thunderstorm.
After the rain hit us and before the lightning, we discovered that bare feet climbed wet granite slab better than EBs. Then we got nailed by a groundshock that made both of our long hair literally stand on end.
To this day, everyone in my family has heart problems except me. A coincidence? I think not.
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Melissa
Big Wall climber
oakland, ca
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Mar 18, 2005 - 04:10pm PT
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"Quite a few; to the point that I try to avoid climbing anything runout, wider than fists, and harder than 5.9+ when accompanied by girls... "
Sounds like you'd be a boring climbing partner.
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dmitry
Trad climber
Chita, Russia
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Mar 18, 2005 - 04:15pm PT
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No offense meant, Melissa.
I generalize here as I have climbed with a few weak girls.
To be fair, my fiance is a strong climber, so are a couple other girls I know.
Besides, we've all climbed with some primadonna GUY that fell apart on the route or on the approach.
So let's broaden this topic a bit: tell us about the routes you've had GUYS cry on!
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Mar 18, 2005 - 04:59pm PT
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It's too bad Kitty Calhoun doesn't post on this site. I bet she has a list a mile long of all the MEN she's made cry. Jay Smith is about the only partner of hers that comes to mind that probably hasn't cried.
Is whining and crying the same thing? I've got a list a mile long of the routes I've whined on. Don't recall ever crying but maybe I just blacked those routes out.
Carry on...
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OW
Trad climber
Patagonia
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Mar 18, 2005 - 05:52pm PT
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Nature asked:
"Is whining and crying the same thing?"
Of course not. Crying is allowed under some circumstances like when you just dropped the rack or something else important. Whining is never allowed.
"I've got a list a mile long of the routes I've whined on."
The compliance officers will be at your door shortly. Do you have vaseline handy?
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Matt
Trad climber
places you shouldn't talk about in polite company
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Mar 18, 2005 - 06:29pm PT
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last weekend my wife-to-be took a nice leader fall in yosemite and fractured a small bone her ankle when her foot rolled under her.
there was no crying, only this:
"f*#k, i just broke my ankle"
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Ca
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Mar 18, 2005 - 06:30pm PT
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Hmmmm, back on topic:
Trespassers will be Violated - JT
Second Thought - JT
Scorcerers Apprentice - T. M.
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Mei
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Mar 18, 2005 - 08:10pm PT
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Central Pillar of Frenzy -- the girl being myself.
It was during the early stage of my climbing career, I was following the first pitch. It felt very hard and scary. Half way up, a yellow alien somehow unclipped itself from my harness and I watched it in horror fall onto the ropebag. I managed to huff and puff up to the belay without falling. Still shaking, I dropped a camelot while transferring gear, which also landed on the ropebag with the padding of the remaining half of my trail line. I felt very bad and said, in a whiny tone, "I am sorry" repetitively. My partner, my boyfriend of the time, looked at me and said, "Mei, it is OKAY. Would you please stop whining?" That almost brought tears into my eyes because there was no sympathy in his voice. But in the meantime, I learned two things: 1) to some climbers, there is something worse than dropping their precious gear -- whining; 2) do not seek sympathy for doing things of your own choice. Anyway, I gathered myself together, and was already feeling happy when I led the 3rd pitch. Ever since then, I have tried to remember the rule -- no whining allowed while climbing. I didn't whine a single time while doing heavy bushwhacking and shiver bivying through the darkest night after getting lost on the descent of NE Buttress of Higher Cathedral.
I feel grateful (in hindsight) that I got a slam in the face like that, because it woke me up (although once in a while I doze off without knowing it). See, in my culture (I'm generalizing quite a bit here), people normally tolerate girls whining, because girls are weak and meant to be protected. To some extent, girls whining is considered cute. So a girl would grow up knowing that when she feels weak and helpless, she can just whine, and someone will come to her rescue. I have a couple of adult girlfriends who still talk in a whiny tone all the time. I don't think a whiny baby (guy or gal) can become a top notch climber though, because real climbing intrinsically requires self-sufficiency.
P.S. Can't believe I wrote all this. It's raining everywhere again. *sigh*
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Chatsworth
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2005 - 09:02pm PT
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Just to set things strait - Women are the more evolved life form and are much nicer overall then men.
If men cried a bit more on the rocks, maybe they would not be the screwed up, mean, lets get in a dualing match of the 210 fwy, agressive, control freaks, they are.
Men are quite mental really, and this world be a lot nicer place if the women called the shots.
Women keep your men on short leashes, its the best for them.
Love
Juan the Rockstar
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spidey
Trad climber
Sonora
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Mar 18, 2005 - 10:58pm PT
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By no means an exhaustive list, but a few standouts come to mind:
Central Pillar of Frenzy (X2)
Kor-Beck
(must be something about middle cathedral...)
Lurking Fear
Standard Route, Rappel Rock, Mount Lemmon
That blue 5.8+ in the gym
To be fair, I've had knee pain bring tears to my eyes on a few descents.
Matt: sounds like she's a keeper.
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Mar 18, 2005 - 11:42pm PT
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Three Penguins/R. Chimney, Arches NP. Wider than fists, harder than 5.9+ , and topropes shouldn't be too runout.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Mar 19, 2005 - 12:34am PT
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I once cried on a route that I was climbing with my (then) girlfriend (I took a HUGE wipper when a knob broke). She had no sympathy and made me the next pitch.
I suspect you know Valhalla ain't 10d. Pretty feeble attempt to impress.
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F'ueco
Boulder climber
San Jose, CA
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Mar 19, 2005 - 01:20am PT
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I cried once on a route. East Crack (Lover's Leap) in a hailstorm. Climbing through a waterfall whilst being pelted by hail is not fun.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Chatsworth
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 19, 2005 - 01:30am PT
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Its a joke man. Throne room of mountain Gods is 5.11a.
Its Issommmnia that is 5.10d. Sorry.
Still trying to catch a Fish Del Largo.
I cry a lot. But not while climbing.
I cry when I watch movies all the time. I was watching Man on Fire last night and cried at the end, when the mother got her daughter back.
I cry when a SAR team saves a lost kid.
Rockstar is a big baby.
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Greg Miller
climber
Sunnyvale, CA
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Mar 19, 2005 - 03:59am PT
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Tears came to my eyes right before leading Triple Cracks on The Shield at the ripe age of eighteen.
Best climb of my life.
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kev
climber
CA
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Mar 19, 2005 - 05:40am PT
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Altitude sickness on lost horse in j-tree (hot chic)
some 5.6 thing on the hogsback (hot chic but a needy stripper)
had a chic almost cry on the 'approach' to goat rock in CRSP two augusts ago (yes it was still the same stripper)
rapping the arches in the dark (a friend of mine but still a chic-the penje killed her)
hmmm I think there must be more but...ask me in a few months ;)
GREAT POST
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Mar 19, 2005 - 10:03am PT
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Mei said " I don't think a whiny baby (guy or gal) can become a top notch climber though, because real climbing intrinsically requires self-sufficiency"
Durnit it... now at least I know what's held me back all these years.
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dougs510
Trad climber
Nashville, TN.
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Mar 19, 2005 - 09:13pm PT
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The decent from Cathedral when she got the rope stuck after insisting on a rappal. I guess I lost my cool and bitched.... then she cried.
I felt bad until a knat got stuck in my throat just as I reached my water after hours w/out any.
just about lost my cookies trying to cough up that knat.
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Brutus of Wyde
climber
Old Climbers' Home, Oakland CA
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Mar 20, 2005 - 01:09am PT
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I cry just about every morning that I'm slated to lead something. Comes out sounding like retching though, so no one knows...
oops...
(sniffs, wipes eyes, retches, wipes eyes again)
Brutus
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 20, 2005 - 01:55am PT
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I think the only climbs I have cried on where very long approaches (and returns) when, generally on return, I wished the whole thing would be over. I remember doing Mt. Owens in the Tetons in a day from the Ranch... since I was wearing plastic boots my feet were hating me at about hour 20. We were in bed at hour 22 but those two hours were not happy.
Also being out on the Saskatchewan glacier for a long time, one day alone, but that was an ego crisis a la a spirit journey...
On rock climbs I can't remember crying, perhaps I'm not putting myself in enough pain? My expressions of frustration are suppressed, don't want to freak out the partners... usually when the mojo gets weird I take it as a sign to bail.
I have climbed with partners who are either scared or frustrated enough to really cry. It's just part of the package with some people.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Mar 20, 2005 - 02:07am PT
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Hey OW - do me a favor... ask the compliance officerETTE to leave the toys behind (no pun intended). I really need to sit in front of my computer and well... sittin' is not an option at this point (again, no pun intended).
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 20, 2005 - 02:09am PT
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If i'm not crying (on some level) I'm not really having fun.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Mar 20, 2005 - 03:05am PT
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I watched Beth Wald scream and cry and kick and punch the rock when she had to hang on Adreneline at the base of Serenity Crack in YV (and I didn't say a thing).
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Mungeclimber
Social climber
N. California
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Mar 20, 2005 - 04:12am PT
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since when is whining not kosher?
jeez, i've had some patient partners then.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Mar 20, 2005 - 04:43am PT
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Shouldn't the title be amended to this to be fair:
"Routes I have had girls and girlie men cry on!"
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OW
Trad climber
Patagonia
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Mar 20, 2005 - 07:25am PT
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Nature said:
"Hey OW - do me a favor... ask the compliance officerETTE to leave the toys behind (no pun intended). I really need to sit in front of my computer and well... sittin' is not an option at this point (again, no pun intended). "
I'll modify her work order...
Note to self: be sure to tell Bobby at Hermaphrodite Compliance Inc. to go down a half size and add more lube on Nature's next treatment.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Mar 20, 2005 - 10:42am PT
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it was Pat, not Bobby that brought the toys. Maybe Bobby is Pat's boss? A switch to astroglide would do wonders.
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Mei
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Mar 20, 2005 - 01:02pm PT
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What does cry have to do with girlie men? If someone tells me matter-of-factly he has never ever cried or felt tears swell up, unless he has some sort of gland disorder, I'd think his heart is made of rock. Besides a natural response to pain, crying can be associated with sorrow, grief, sympathy, extreme relief, and sometimes gratitude. True, to most people, crying often can be a sign of weakness -- life is just not dramatic enough to have so many things to cry about. However, a climber, I'm referring to a climber who pushes himself by climbing harder and going farther, will likely experience extreme exertion that evolves into enormous pain, the scale of which can be beyond a couch potato's imagination. If you are a frequent movie goer, there are always some movies that can pull your strings too -- that is if you do have some soft spots in your heart. The point I'm trying to make is: crying is not necessarily a sign of weakness; but whining is.
Hehe :) I'm also paving my way here. If I break my ankles (knock on the wood) during a lead fall in the future, I can't guarantee that there will be no tears, but I'll sure try not to whine. Who wants to be a girlie girl? Oh wait, maybe I do.
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macgyver
Social climber
Oregon, but now in Europe
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Mar 22, 2005 - 10:36am PT
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Ok...I will bite.
I have cried EXACTLY ONCE while climbing. True Story.
It was my first trip to Yosemite and my very inexperienced buddy and I were going to climb Snake Dike. I got offroute on the third pitch (ended up climbing the offroute dike for quite a ways), realized I was no longer in 5.7 terrain, decided to traverse left across gnarly and evil friction (WAY HARD) and end up within a few feet of the SECOND bolt on the onroute dike.
Foot skates, I have tons of rope out, I take the skin shredder from hell past my belayer all the way to the 1st pitch anchors. My hands take 3-4 weeks to heal.
I was so upset (not from pain) for letting down my mate because I knew we had to retreat that I choked up as I tried to apologize with blood all over myself and the rock. I am not the type of guy to let down his friends...ever. And here I was the one that compromised the route.
My partner, the best climbing partner you can imagine, rigged the retreat, helped clean my hands at the base, cracked open our summit beers at the base, and made the descent down without ever saying a bad word. He even had the grace to make me feel like I was the tough one.
So there...my own crying story.
McG
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Mar 22, 2005 - 10:24pm PT
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The last time I remember climbing with someone who cried was my wife on RNWFHD. She had been climbing a little under a year and managed to follow me up that 20+ pitch sucker. Mad props to her for jugging so many pitches. She fell twice following the Thank God Traverse and sprained her ankle. She cried more out of exhaustion than anything since she didn't complain at all during the whole hike out. Less than a year later we went back to the Valley and she lead every pitch of WFLT, what a champ!
"I try to avoid climbing anything runout, wider than fists, and harder than 5.9+ when accompanied by girls..."
My wife has lead stuff that meets all that criteria in J-Tree. She rules!
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Claude
climber
where I'll end up
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Mar 23, 2005 - 11:26am PT
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uh... the 5.7 beginner route at the gym... my wife.
sweet.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 23, 2005 - 12:23pm PT
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Four or five pitches up on Osiris, at Lumpy Ridge. My then-girlfriend got sand in her contact lenses. As she was trying miserably to clean them with nothing, a fall blizzard hit.
That was many, many years ago, but she still reminds me about it now and then. Along with other stories of this type.
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Fungus Amongus
Big Wall climber
Single Cell
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Mar 23, 2005 - 12:36pm PT
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My significant single cell-mate emitted some moisture while leading The Souvenier (.10d) at Tahquitz. Me? Runout and whipping to the deck on 'Unknown' at JT. .... Boo hoo!
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Pewf
climber
san diego
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Mar 24, 2005 - 06:45pm PT
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Maybe I've cried more than any other climber ever?
All of summer of 1990. Wanted to learn so bad but I was so afraid of heights that I cried on every toprope. Boyfriend used to drop me the first 10 feet of every lower and laugh.
Ankle dislocation at east cottage dome.
Boulder Rock Club trying to climb in cast from aforementioned injury couldn't haul up anything.
Winter season in Josh a few years ago came down with Raynaud's syndrome and had to give up finger cracks then hand cracks and finally cracked and had a tantrum when I couldn't even climb OW without my hands going numb.
Dry heaving and tears, multiple hand warm-up periods ice climbing and from Raynaud's.
Scotland, hiked all the way up to some winter route that I didn't want to leave without. Found that tricep was in fact torn and had to bail after 15 feet.
Mom and I knocked over by lightning peak bagging.
Trying to fall asleep on a wall solo, too scared, missing my cat.
Epicing on some stupid 5.8 flare on Lower Cathedral, belayer commenting on traffic in the valley.
It goes on and on and on and on.
But one time I beat Pappen at pool in Boulder.
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jean
Trad climber
Cardiff-by-the-Sea
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Mar 25, 2005 - 09:28am PT
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I just had this conversation last weekend... It's kind of a joke with those who know me, but I inevitably end up dating a non-climber who professes at some point that he's always wanted to climb. As my eyes roll back into my brain, a little voice screams, "THEN WHY HAVE YOU NEVER DONE IT?" I want to run when I hear them babbling on about how much the love being outdoors, and the men who've fallen into this scenario always get dumped, but I digress...
It's at that moment when my evil side shows up, and I offer to take him on an easy route at Tahquitz. Jensen's Jaunt is my weapon of choice. It's an easy 5.6 with a fun corner that makes most of them whine and has made at least one of them cry. They're always totally spent when they're done with the route, but the cold beer afterward is so sweet to me. (It's generally followed by the, "This isn't really working out for me" conversation.)
I also made a Navy tough guy cry on Headstone rock at Josh, and another guy cried on Walk on the Wild Side. A good friend wanted to cry on Yours at Suicide when we got hit with an unexpected thunder storm on his first climbing trip, but he didn't dig heights. I really thought the same guy was going to loose it two weeks later when we got hit with another unexpected storm on Fingertip Traverse. He didn't exactly cry, but he was pretty close.
Hmmmm... looking back, I guess I made a few guys cry.
-j (some of them deserved it)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
St. Louis
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Oct 24, 2006 - 08:18pm PT
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This thread makes me laugh out loud. And having something to laugh at is really nice right now.
I made a boy cry once. Okay, maybe twice. But I didn't mean to. :)
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Aya
Uncategorizable climber
New York
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Oct 24, 2006 - 08:21pm PT
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I cried on a climb two weeks ago.
I was mad that my second was taking too long.
Damn PMS.
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blackbird
Trad climber
over yonder en th' holler
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Oct 24, 2006 - 08:50pm PT
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lessee...
Routes on which I have cried: pretty much all of them while involved in one particlar relationship that comes to mind... Then I woke up!
Routes on which I have made boys cry: Sanscrit 5.8 T-Wall. Only a couple of times, and completely unintentionally each time, but ironically the same route each time...
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2006 - 09:07pm PT
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Men should not cry as it is a real sign of weakness and confuses the females. If your leg is caught in a Bear trap, okay. But just for 5 min.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Oct 24, 2006 - 09:09pm PT
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Aya- you and every other girl who's ever cried on a climb should hold your heads high. Tell the guys you're with who are too weak to stomach a few tears from a woman, to stuff it. You're in the best of company. Any woman I've done much climbing with, has cried at some point. After the first few times of that happening, and then observing that a few minutes later the girls were good to go again, I quit letting it bother me. Got up some great climbs with some lively partners that way!
The most notable example would be when Catherine Destivelle and I made the second free ascent of Trango Tower. She cried a couple of times on that climb. Once when she was jumaring over an overhang with a heavy pack (I discovered then that she'd never jumarred before!), and another time up high when she was following a 5.11 crack pitch in deep cold and she was getting the hot aches. Plenty of times like that I've wished I could cry easier - it might help! Catherine, of course, is the fireplug who soloed the Bonatti Pillar in a few hours; did a new 9-day big wall route on the Dru, also solo, climbed the north face of the Eiger alone in winter in 16 hours and made the 2nd winter solo ascent of the Bonatti route on the north face of the Matterhorn - among too many other incredible climbs to mention.
Thanks to people like Lynn Hill, Beth Bennet and Catherine, I lost my sense of male superiority several decades ago!
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GoMZ
Trad climber
Paradise
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Oct 24, 2006 - 09:34pm PT
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Bears Reach (on her B-day)
Royal arches
Trial by fire
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Oct 24, 2006 - 10:06pm PT
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It's easy to make partners cry on routes male or Female.... Tough males, just make them do offwidths with a lot of exposure. One time ( in bandcamp) Jugging a ratty 9 mil off El Cap spire first thing in the morning, twirling around in space, watching orange fuzz come off this clothes line running over an edge 75' feet above me I lost it. After 30+ minutes of the deepest soul searching and smoothest jugging I'd ever done I'd made it up to the belay crying and completly histarical. My partner slapped me... and life continued on for a day, until the sleet and snow storm on the block....
Hey Juan do you have any useful beta on Telescopes?
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
Sacramento, CA
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Oct 24, 2006 - 11:08pm PT
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Fantasia 5.9R.
Army boy from Alaska. I was rather disapointed, I mean he defends our country.
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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Oct 24, 2006 - 11:39pm PT
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Not while climbing, but once my girlfriend decided we should have a big relationship talk on the way to a winter kayaking run. We were both new to Class IV paddling, so it was a big deal to us. We had only run Chamberlain's on the N. Fork American a couple of times before.
Anyway, she was so worked up by the talk that she couldn't concentrate on her paddling. Of course that led to her not paddling well which only compounded the problem. Frustration on top of some fear and she had a little meltdown in an eddy. We had a friend who was leading us down the river. He checked in to see why we weren't moving down river, saw her tears and decided to wait downstream.
Lesson learned by both of us: have that talk AFTER the run or on a non-paddling day.
Phil
P.S. Great thread!!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Oct 25, 2006 - 02:28am PT
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old girlfreind of mine had a meltdown on the 4th pitch of "union jack" on cannon. the "half-moon" offwidth pitch. summer of 1980. pretty much the end of our relationship.
my lovely wife filled that void a few months later. she's kind of gnarly and badass, and so has never shed a tear on a climb, although she reduced me and tarbuster and watusi and others to tears as we stood on the ground, convinced she was about to kill herself, and watched her sketch her way through her first leads, all of which were 5.10 routes at suicide....
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kubko
climber
Slovak Republic, Europe
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Oct 25, 2006 - 03:27am PT
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My girlfriend:
on the first pitch of East Buttres of El Cap
on the half Dollar pitch of Free blast
on the 3rd(?) pitch (OW) of Central pillar of frenzy
and a few other routes that you've probably never heard of.
A bit too often for my liking, but unfortunately physical strain, stress and a bit of exposure cause the attacks of panic that she can not control. To her credit it must be said that she allways pulls through and once the panic is over, the climb continues as if nothing happened. Moreover, she mostly manages to cry and panic in a climbing position and refuses to hang on the rope or gear. Astonishing - if only I had that much endurance!
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smidogg
Trad climber
berkeley
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Oct 25, 2006 - 03:52am PT
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A buddy of mine told me a story about a time on Snake Dike when he had a girl he just started dating climbing with him for her second time ever.
At some point she slipped and took a pendulum fall on second and just froze up completely. My buddy yelled and yelled at her for like 10 minutes while she dangled there curled up in a ball weeping about 60 feet below him.
Finally he tied her off and rapped down to try and get her to come out of it. Talking, turned to heated talking, turned to yelling in her face.
After about 10 more minutes, in a pure fit of rage, said friend literally hauls off and rails the girl with a full swing slap to the face.
Immediately she stops crying and looks him dead in the eye and says
"holy sh#t, what the f*#k just happened"
After that she was supposedly the ideal partner and finished the climb no big deal.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Louis
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Oct 25, 2006 - 08:20am PT
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Mark Miller! I am crying laughing at that description - orange fuzz. Why I find that so funny I don't know!
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PMS
Social climber
Woodland Park, CO
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Oct 25, 2006 - 10:42am PT
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Aya said,
"I cried on a climb two weeks ago.
I was mad that my second was taking too long.
Damn PMS"
Sorry kiddo, but I wasn't climbing with you two weeks ago.
PMS
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addiroid
Big Wall climber
Long Beach, CA
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Oct 25, 2006 - 10:51am PT
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My current non-climbing girlfriend after the "fun hike up the Zodiac talus approach". She's scared of heights and looking out over the valley was just too much. I kept assuring her that it was just a bit further and that there is a GOOD trail right at the base of el cap that we could take back to the nose instead of reversing the talus.
She asked where the trail was, I ran ahead like 20 feet and stood on the "trail" that is like 10 feet from the wall and said, "Look, here it is!". She came up and said, "THAT's the trail?!?! Call the Search And Rescue!" I calmly said, "Ok I see you, the Search is over, now get on my back and I'll carry you out, that will be the Rescue." She was pretty cute laid up in the fetal position with tears coming down, then butt-scooting down about 10% of the trail that we walk on with 100 pound pigs.
Other time was with this girl who hadn't done much trad climbing, but I said we could do WFLT if she wanted to. Well my stupid ass forgot to bring enough thin sh#t for the P5 traverse (my regular partner has most of the gear between us) and I had to bail back to the belay when I was almost done b/c I didn't have much in and didn't want to take a whipper and put her in danger. So we spent the night on the Awhanahee Ledge. All night I thought of ways to make this work without her doing much of anything. So I rigged her up to ride the pig, and I went down on the rappel. Got to the belay on P2, anchored the rope, and she came down. Then I re-rigged everything for her and me and set off getting myself and her end of the rope down the overhanging P2 and P1. I got to the dead tree and she came down about 50 feet away from the wall. Pulled her in to the anchor and it was finally over (after I shuttle loads across the 4th class). Tears were coming down after that rap. I just felt bad for being the bone-head and not bringing the right gear. That was my first bail after success on 15 Grade V's or VI's. I've never actually topped out on WFLT or SFWC, the two "gumby" walls of the valley.
And as for whining? I whine every time we go ice climbing. Yes, it's a sign of weakness for sure. God it's cold.
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Aya
Uncategorizable climber
New York
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Oct 25, 2006 - 11:37am PT
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Oh, PMS... didn't you know? We hang out every month. I only cry when you're around - it's how I know you're around!
No, seriously... hard climbing and bad situations has never made me cry. Inevitably, I cry because I'm mad at myself for being mad at something or other.
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veryveryoldman
Social climber
The Bronx
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Oct 25, 2006 - 11:47am PT
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Some moisture emission on White Punks on Dope. But all was well by the time she finished her peach...
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Oct 25, 2006 - 01:45pm PT
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Kicking the rock, whining, crying and screaming - famous climber's girl friend - "Adrenaline" (5.11b), October 1983.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Oct 25, 2006 - 04:21pm PT
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Frigid Air Buttress, Red Rocks, 5.9+.
Retribution, Cathedral, 5.9+.
Must be something about that grade.
GO
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Louis
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Oct 25, 2006 - 08:23pm PT
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It is the "+"
Don't you know that to a woman a + means pregnant! I'd cry too.
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Anastasia
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Oct 25, 2006 - 09:37pm PT
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My first tears was on my first trad climb. It was a cold January day in Joshua Tree. My partner refused to wear a jacket because he didn't want it to impede his motion. I demanded him to at least carry it and again was refused because he thought it was unnecessary weight. Then during the climb when he was freezing at the belay point and I was having problems cleaning a piece... He became sick of waiting in the cold and started to haul me up. The feeling of being yanked away like a haul bag just when I was about to get the piece. The knowledge of why he was being impatient made me so frustrated that I had to cry.
Let us just say that my partner didn't like me that much after that trip.
One of my other moments was when I was climbing a route which FA was done by a deceased friend.
As for whining... I hate jumping over anything. Rock jumping across a river or a boulder field is my greatest weakness. I hate being hungry and I hate being cold. I whine... Luckily most partners are good at ignoring me at such moments. When they don't ignore me, I cry...
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Oct 25, 2006 - 09:53pm PT
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I don't cry much, but here are a few over about 6 years:
-Cried when I whipped off of Roseanne.
-Cried when a rock hit me in the face at Church Dome a month or so ago.
-Might have shed a few tears at the roof on Hoodwink, though I had such terror-vision that I don't remember much else!
-Cried lowering off the first pitch of WFLT when I realized I just wasn't ready for it. Was very disappointed in myself and don't like failing myself or my partner.
-Cried when a route reminded me of an ex-partner, though it was before I roped up, so does that really count?
-Cried at a moment I'd rather not remember out of embarassment - just couldn't do a stupid little step-across on a 5.5 route. I hear ya, Anastasia! Just keep at those step-acrosses, it does get better!
That's about all I remember...and I DON'T whine. I hate whining.
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phillygoat
climber
portland,
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Oct 25, 2006 - 10:18pm PT
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Recommended Moonshine Dihedral (Smith Rock) to my wife- told her she'd hike it if she were on toprope. Takes good gear, I said. Now, keep in mind, this gal is strong, but the gear freaks her out, even though she's caught me on the same stuff.
Well, she heads up... into a mini epic- takes on every piece, the tears freely flowing. Of course, I volunteer to finish the route and of course she refuses. She cried the whole way up. But had to finish.
There's a lesson in there somewhere- Maybe on how the tears and toughness coexist... But I'm just a dude- what do I know?
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Standing Strong
Mountain climber
a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago
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Oct 26, 2006 - 12:55am PT
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i have cried AFTER a couple of particularly bad/upsetting climbing days, but i waited until i was alone. i almost cried on a route once, but i didn't let myself because i didn't want to freak out my partner. maybe the tears would have relaxed me a little more.
i don't understand why people think it's so bad to let themselves cry, in general. it cleans out your eyes. plus, it can be a good release. one that can help people send? possibly.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Louis
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Oct 26, 2006 - 08:33am PT
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Whoa! I just remembered a good cry on a climb.
I don't recall the name, but it was a warm-up at the Red River Gorge. It was a week after the catching-falling-climber-on-my-head accident. Following that incident, I was stoic and pretty much playing the "No, I'm perfectly okay" bit. "No, nothing is hurt". "No, I'm not freaked out."
I was doing a pretty good job of fooling myself.
The following week, I went to the Red, hiked up with Wes and Ray and started up what should have been an easy, fun climb. Almost immediately I start shaking uncontrollably, getting gripped, and then it happened - uncontrollable sobbing. I couldn't stop. Very embarrassing. But it just goes to show that that sort of emotion will come out one way or another.
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TradIsGood
Fun-loving climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Oct 26, 2006 - 09:34am PT
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None! Including several who were outdoors for their first time.
Is there something wrong with me?
Please advise.
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oldtopangalizard
Social climber
ca
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Oct 29, 2006 - 07:51am PT
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The attempted route to the Andy Gump, from some obscure rock outside of Jumbo Rocks. Circa 1978, when only a real super hairy hardman could enter those old wooden 'toilets' at 3:00 A.M.
JT boxes back then were real character builers. More so than any runout.
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v10gripper
Boulder climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Oct 29, 2006 - 11:15am PT
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im crying right now.....
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Oct 29, 2006 - 11:34am PT
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"Jugging a ratty 9 mil off El Cap spire first thing in the morning, twirling around in space, watching orange fuzz come off this clothes line running over an edge 75' feet above me I lost it. After 30+ minutes of the deepest soul searching and smoothest jugging I'd ever done I'd made it up to the belay crying and completly histarical. My partner slapped me... and life continued on for a day, until the sleet and snow storm on the block..."
That's one of the more classic paragraphs in American literature.
JL
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 25, 2010 - 02:14am PT
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Yes, but we're still married.
And, yes, I did whimper (a little) trying to appear nonchalant following Ellie Hawkins up the Apron, she in her EB's and me in my RR's.
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Two Pack Jack
climber
The hills
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Apr 25, 2010 - 02:40am PT
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I was climbing fantasy in the New river gorge in WV. Dragged a girl up the first pitch, she passed out from dehydration or something at the belay. I caught her and held her by the harness for a few min before she woke up
promptly puked on my rope
and started crying.
That and after the first route I soloed after my bud jeff maurer passed.
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dfinnecy
Social climber
'stralia
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Apr 25, 2010 - 08:42am PT
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Don't count - tons of summer camp kids on 'wilderness experience' topropes. Those 12 yr olds, once one breaks down on her way up you can guarantee the rest will too.
Girl I thought I was gonna marry: Corrugation Corner
Girl I did marry: Charlotte Dome, Nutcracker, and a whole bunch of stuff here in Aus. Not sure why I kept bringing her up these climbs, but I am glad she kept coming out.
Now that we are hitched she really doesn't climb anymore. Heh.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Apr 25, 2010 - 12:03pm PT
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Calling Jobee....and Tami...........
and a few of the other Hard Women.
I wanna hear what you have to say!
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Lost Arrow
Trad climber
The North Ridge of the San Fernando
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Apr 25, 2010 - 02:44pm PT
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To funny this reappeared. I wonder if I posted this before my mental breakdown 5 years ago?
Juan
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 25, 2010 - 02:53pm PT
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Since this thread originally appeared, I've shed a few (or more) tears.
The most memorable being Ancient Art. The pebble crimping crux down low was fun. I even scooted across the walk which I was surprised I could do. Next up was the problem. Not sure what it is about that move - the one you are suppose to get up on the corkscrew thingy at the top. I tried (at least I worked hard at looking like I was trying) several times. Then the lower lip started quivering. I crawled back over, and it was all over. I sniveled and whimpered. It was so unpleasant that I don't ever want to try that stupid thing again.
You know, come to think of it, lots of crying is associated with desert sandstone.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Apr 25, 2010 - 03:40pm PT
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That's a classic Crimpie!
Can't wait for the sequel....Whympergirl on the Matterhorn.
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brat
climber
El Portal
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Apr 25, 2010 - 04:14pm PT
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I had a boyfriend cry while he followed me up the first pitch of After Six.
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lucander
Trad climber
New England
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Apr 26, 2010 - 07:59am PT
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Been with my dear lady for almost nine years and we've been climbing for six or so. Here's a brief sampling of her greatest hits. A general rule is that:
1 cry = pretty good route
2 cries = a great route
3 cries = all time best...but don't do it again
Grand Teton: walking out after Complete Exum. She saw a trail sign indicating that our estimate of distance to the parking lot was off by .2 miles.
Pingora's Northeast Buttress (IV, 5.8+). "Grounded" for two hours some 8 pitches up while lightning, thunder, and hail surrounded us.
Wolf's Head's ridgeline. She cried her way up the sidewalk pitch, which was peculiar because she has followed 5.11 slabs on multiple occasions. This 5.3 pitch threw her off.
Joshua Tree: Solid Gold (.10-). I think she cried at the fist crack start of Rubicon (.10) but she floated through the upper crux. Pretty sure she also cried on The Flake (.8).
Cannon: Whitney-Gilman Ridge (6 pitches, 5.7).
Endgame (.10-, 5 pitches) at Cochise. Tears started when she fell at the final roof of the very long first pitch. They kept falling the rest of the climb. She also fell asleep belaying pitch 5. It was our fifth day in a row.
Gunks: Maria (.6), Lady's Lament (.8), Transcontinental Nailway (.10b), Harvest Moon (.11-), Directissima (.9), Coprophagia (.10-), Pink Laurel (.9), Keep on Struttin (.9), Something Interesting (.7), Strictly From Nowhere (.7)
Cathedral: Nutcracker (.10-), Don't Fire (3 pitches, 5.10b), Diedre (5 pitches, 5.9+++), Recompense (4 pitches, 5.9), The Prow (6 pitches, 5.11- A0 on wet spots). A red cam was dropped, she fell on the roof, and all hell broke loose. It was a long day and we were proud.
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Teti
Trad climber
Phila, Pa.
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Just yesterday. High E in The Gunks when she Lost (dropped) my Purple Camelot from the 3rd pitch.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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I had a boyfriend cry while he followed me up the first pitch of After Six.
um, awkward
moving on...
lots of crying going on in the last couple descriptions, like, if someone is crying that much. Why keep doing it?
Assuming here not tears of joy.
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roadman
climber
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It's too bad Kitty Calhoun doesn't post on this site. I bet she has a list a mile long of all the MEN she's made cry. Jay Smith is about the only partner of hers that comes to mind that probably hasn't cried.
Is whining and crying the same thing? I've got a list a mile long of the routes I've whined on. Don't recall ever crying but maybe I just blacked those routes out.
Carry on...
Funny! I climbed with kitty in Ouray a long time ago and she told me a story about climbing on Denali and how some guy was spent long before the climb was over... As I recall she had to carry his ass off the mountain! She is one tough climber....and nice ta boot!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Lucander, who's your wife, Meryl Streep?
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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I took my future ex-wife on Far West on Stately Pleasure Dome. Thought it would be a nice multi-pitch intro. Unfortunately, she got her foot stuck in the crack. When I say stuck, I mean sttuuuccck.
It started off as enough cursing to make a mule skinner blush. People climbing the other routes were going WTF is going on over there! Then it turned into tears. I had to tie her off, climb down and unlace her shoe and pull her foot out. Then I reclimbed the pitch.
As I waited for her to get to the belay, I was dreading the fallout. Once she got there, she stood up, looked around and said "that was one of the greatest things I"ve ever done" :-)
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Mr_T
Trad climber
Northern California
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Aztec at Senior Wall/Table Mountain. Sirena was clipping the chains, pulled a 2'x2'x2' block loose, whipped 15' (with block flying next to her). It was more a little girl scream, than a cry (no tears actually).
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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"...laughing and crying,
you know it's the same release"
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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I cried on my very first climb, "Child's Play" at Cathedral. I fell 10 times before getting off the ground and was totally gripped/immobile in the middle. It was then that I fell in love with the sport.
I cried on Split Piller on the Grand Wall. I could not jam that thing - it was tooo wide. It was a very long layback, and I fell, repeatedly. I expected to flash it, but struggled so hard. When I finally struggled to the top, my partner said, "you're done", and I cried on the rappel. I don't like quitting - ever.
Made a man cry on his first rappel. Leaned over the edge and held his hand, telling him he could do this. He didn't like that first, second, or third step one little bit.
Made two men cry bailing off Cathedral in a lightning storm. They didn't quite get how to be lowered, and we didn't have time to discuss the fine points. Dropped to the ledge at the bottom of Upper Refuse, ran across the ledge and into the woods with the hair on our arms standing on end. Inspiring.
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Crimpie that is classic! How bout boys crying--me! Uh, East Face of Castle Dome, dislocated shoulder on that second roof (at least I was seconding my hard girlfriend.) I don't know if it was actual tears, but not good...she blew out her ankle on the descent.
With one gal on East Face of Lovers, she got totally freaked by the exposure and started balling....but we finished.
My wife a bunch of times rappeling and also climbing.. East Arete/ridge on Wolf's Head. She rallied. Also on Mt. Lyell, she rallied again! She is a trouper!
Cryin' time...I'm not going back there either, I would cry...
DR
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Unfortunately, she got her foot stuck in the crack.
This happened to my SO on one of our first climbs together -- Cussin' Crack in Boulder Canyon.
She was wearing blue Robbins shoes, and got one hopelessly stuck. Not a crier, though, she unlaced it and climbed the rest of the crack with one shoe and one wool sock (this was back in the day). After she safely reached my belay, I rapped down and used my piton hammer (yep, carried those too BITD) to reach inside the crack and bash her shoe out from within.
Lucander's sweety has a different theory, sounds like it works fine too!
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Tattooed 1
Trad climber
Sebastopol, Ca
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I think my wife has cried on every climb I have ever taken her on. I keep asking myself and her why we keep doing it. It is almost always class II fun for her. But she is always so proud of herself later. I am proud of her as well. I don't think I would keep doing anything that scared me like that. The last time was on this 5.4 thing in J tree that I thought was pretty solid for 5.4. I knew it was bad when through the sobs I heard her ask " Oh God why?!!"
Tim
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Tan Slacks
climber
Joshua Tree
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I have some found memories of a female climbing partner that never cried while climbing with me... However, I did find her crying one day on a route...
Let's just say the route was out near split rocks and the young man that had put up the FA was very proud of this route. Unfortunately he had recently broken the heart of said female and she had decided to seek revenge on his stellar FA.
As I was out on a hike in the area, I heard crying in the distance.. I rounded a corner and there she was, half way up the route crowbar in hand weeping... I asked what was wrong? All she could get out between the tears was that she wasn't strong enough to chop the bolt!
This story is from many years ago and all parties involved are doing very well now
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Chip
Trad climber
Sittin' Pretty in Fat City
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Happens about once a weekend on Shockley's Ceiling in the gunks.
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allapah
climber
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Nutcracker, Pitch 1, the middle variation I think, on a 105° day in July- Kimberly gets on a hand traverse with no footholds, and her hands start to burn up... she can't let go or she'll swing...
she cried...
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Tattooed 1
Trad climber
Sebastopol, Ca
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Last year as we were camped below the Incredible Hulk we watched 2 guys hiking down the scree gulley on the descent. The first guy was really trucking and was obviously trying to get back out of the canyon before dark. The second guy was wasted. From our camp several hundered yards away we watched him slip and fall repetedly grunting and swearing louder each time. By the about the 10 time he fell he began to cry. It was sad to hear the poor bastard sobbing off into the distance. He partner wanted nothing to do with it.
Tim
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Tattooed 1
Trad climber
Sebastopol, Ca
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It's ok. We really love you man.
Tim
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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pitch 2 on the South Face of Cathedral Peak up East Camino Cielo Canyon, Santa Barbara, and when the weather came on the tears turned to profanity. It wasn't pretty.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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May 20, 2010 - 10:26am PT
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^^^ that's the one
edit: all said it's a good adventure, big approach and somewhat nice climbing. Awesome views for sure
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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May 20, 2010 - 10:38am PT
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nice posts Mei.
Rob, you left out at least one quite memorable occasion from your list...
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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May 20, 2010 - 11:59am PT
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We were on Dream of the Wild Turkeys rapping off. In the quiet we hear a young lady sobbing @ pitch 5 or 6 or where ever the crux was. The dude is insisting she can do it, as her sobs turn to crying. Which just went on and on and on....
Broke my heart to hear it. Dude should have calmed her down, then lowered her off to the lower belay and called it a day.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 20, 2010 - 12:08pm PT
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This is exactly why I love climbing. Your financial worries, parental issues, politics at work all fade away. You become completely absorbed in the moment. Can I see the move? Will I fly or die? Puts a lot in perspective.
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kc
Trad climber
lg, ca
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May 20, 2010 - 12:31pm PT
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"I................hate..................you.............!!!!"
That's for you, buddy! ;)
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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May 20, 2010 - 06:47pm PT
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A funny/ not so funny thread.
No big drama but I found it funny:
Out climbing recently and my (male) partner is starting into a runout, sloppy, sand stone, face, crux...
He looked back down at me and said:
"Bear with me here...
I might start to getting emotional!"
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Rudder
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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May 21, 2010 - 12:06am PT
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Boulder2 steps (downclimb) at Stoney Point. 2-1/2 feet off the ground. My friend's wife, Brenda.
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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May 21, 2010 - 01:19am PT
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Would you rather...
Have a partner who cries? or a partner who really loses their crap and gets really angry?
I am guilty of both: Anger transforming into defeated tears. Anyone looking for a partner this weekend? :P
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Chief
climber
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May 21, 2010 - 02:12pm PT
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Reed's Direct and Lunatic Fringe same day.
Then it was my turn when we broke up.
The Harding Slot has had me near tears every time.
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Binks
climber
Uranus
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May 21, 2010 - 02:39pm PT
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Bishop's Terrace worked for a girl that had never climbed cracks. Wahhh wahhhhh wahhhhh. But she pulled thru and was happy afterwards.
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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May 21, 2010 - 03:09pm PT
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My wife has cried on every multi pitch route we've ever done. It's part of the deal.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Oct 30, 2014 - 07:48pm PT
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Where's Lost Arrow?
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 31, 2014 - 10:50pm PT
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Frickin classic!!
"Leaning Tower Approach - Jeffrey Pappen"
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Oct 31, 2014 - 10:57pm PT
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I had my GF crying on the Great White Book
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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I once spent 30 minutes whimpering under the Traitor Horn at Suicide on a cold windy day. My belayer was pissed as he was freezing and wanted to get moving! At 5.8 it was well below my grade. I just couldn't find a way past the horn.
When I finally found the jug around the horn it was easy peasy. I felt pretty stupid. My partner hardly talked to me the rest of the day.
Amazing how those experiences stick with you.
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Da-Veed
Trad climber
Bend Oregon
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Snake Dike walk off. She wanted a belay. There are obviously no anchors and no pro so the belay was out. Talking nice and coaxing got her through.
I had a male partner break down on Sandy Glacier Headwall. We were in a white out and off route in the dark. I don't blame him.
I cried a couple of times mostly after topping out big wall solo. Either relief or happiness, no big deal.
I wanted to cry when my partner dropped the bag with my approach shoes in it on Half Dome. That was a painful walk-off!
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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I cried on the lead on Solid Gold, JT. Couldn't commit to that last crux move, 20 ft. out...couldn't down climb. Finally made the move, swore I would NEVER lead again.
Burst into sudden, spontaneous tears of relief after my first and only ascent of the Naked Edge. I led the first pitch, and then it went downhill from there, especially as dark clouds loomed with an imminent thunder storm.
Probably cried more, but these stand out. Never saw Jack cry climbing...but lots during movies, and when our various dogs passed. When we would get drunk and sloppy and tell each other how much we loved each other..........
Fun thread, by the way!
Pam
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Juan, I know girls, including one of my daughters, that could make you cry. So what's your point?
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thebravecowboy
climber
walking, resin-stained, towards the goal
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Tioga, do you cry a lot when you rock climb?
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Roger, thanks for the heads up. You're a good heart. Apparently, I have just been diagnosed with foot in mouth disease!
I have been known to cry, moan, and whimper when climbing. When it does happen, I usually am in a place where I can't go up, can't go down, and can't hang on much longer and the last piece at least seems so very far away.....
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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Two routes that make me cry
From inside the car to outside on the way to the rock...
The top of an easy gunks climb I got challenged to lead.
But that was nothing compared to having an allergy attack while leading. It's way harder to watch your footwork when your face is exploding.
I don't think I've every made a girl cry other than myself...maybe they hold it in until no one else is around? Where as with the guys, I KNOW they cry when no one else is around...
hee hee
Cheers
LS
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Regular Route on Fairview and on the descent from West Crack down Daff Dome.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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I've had girls cry on my shoulder on Route 1 and Route 66, but I don't think that was the point.
I want to hear about a route that would make (randomly chosen two names) Donini or Largo cry.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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People pretending girls and boys cry equally in all situations?
Girls cry. Boys throw tantrums. Get over it.
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Climbnrok
Trad climber
LA
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30 minutes under Traitor Horn is nothing. The day I finally psyched myself up to do Traitor horn there was a party just getting to the horn, and another party right behind them. I'm thinking that if I start now, they will both be way off the route by the time I get up there. I launch and make quick work of the first part to the place where Jenson's Jaunt splits off left then I run into the traffic jam. The guy that was just getting to the horn when I got to the base was...... still there. He was totally stuck sitting on the horn. I was pretty determined to finish since I finally got motivated and that pitch kind of freaked me out so I decided to wait. No exaggerating, it was at least another hour and a half to two hours of hanging out before the guy finally pulled through the crux and the other party that also waited got through. I didn't hear any crying, but we could hear him and his partner yelling at each other around the corner. The whole experience made me even more hesitant about the move but when I got there I just stood up and pulled through. Go figure.
The one time I've seen someone seriously crying was at the top of the planet of the apes wall at malibu creek when some dude was trying to get his lady to rappel off and she was having none of it.
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nah000
climber
canuckistan
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took my future partner climbing for the first time...
i didn't like the crowds at the crag where i had initially planned to go, so went to a nice 5.6 climb that i'd never tried before and that required a rap into leaving a person to start from half way up the cliff...
storm started coming in...
pro tip: teaching someone to climb, while the fearless leader is at the top of the climb, rain is starting to fall, and there is no good place to retreat to, may lead to tears...
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sDawg
climber
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I cried all the time when I was breaking into leading Yosemite 5.10. I cried at the bottom of Peruvian Flake and halfway up Bombs Over Tokyo (1st pitch only). I might've cried at the crux of Serenity Crack. At the bottom of Waverly Wafer I wanted to cry, but was too intimidated. Good thing I have the Falcon Guide, which still rates it .10c. If I saw the .11b SuperTopo rating, I wouldn't have gotten off the ground.
The most important rule about crying on routes is that if you cry you have to finish the route. Usually not clean, but you have to get to the top. With that rule, crying is part of the process for a lot of people and if you can't deal with it, you may've chosen the wrong sport.
I don't usually cry on multipitch climbs. The Regular Route on Fairview Dome was an exception because I popped a foot, pulled a piece, and bruised my heel on the 2nd belay ledge. For the next 10 pitches (we pitched out the top because my partner hadn't simuled before and I was too exhausted to teach her by then), I climbed in pain, which only got worse when the terrain got less vertical and I could actually weight my heel. I wasn't sure where the topout was so I had myself psychologically prepared for one more pitch when I pulled onto the summit. I cried because I was so happy to be done!
I don't remember how much I cried on the 4th class finish to The East Buttress of Mt Whitney. I dislocated my shoulder maybe 10 ft from the end of the 5th class terrain and I'm sure that as the reality that this was my last climb for many months set in there was some crying.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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North glacier on the approach to Silverhorn (Mt. Athabasca) with my former ex, 25 years ago. I thought it would be a fun intro for her to glacier travel and ice/snow. Unfortunately, she was not as fit or motivated, had never done this before, and after an hour or two complained loudly that she was "tired of being dragged like a dog" and was going to untie from the rope. At that moment one of her legs broke through the snow surface, and when she pulled back up, found herself looking down a hole into a deep crevasse. That was when the crying started. She decided not to untie, and we went down. I gave up climbing for the rest of our relationship, though only after a few more similar episodes.
This story has little to do with he or she though - more related to inexperience on both our parts! The good news is I'm finally in a relationship where we both have similar climbing/outdoor objectives :-)
Wish you were still here with us on the Taco, Juan de Fuca!
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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I'm crying right now cause I can't climb....planter fascilitus has me grounded.
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