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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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