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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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