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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2008 - 07:15pm PT
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moof I hope that was in a gym and not rock climbing.
Not so stupid but I'm sure everyone here has had the "Did you climb up here" question when you're doing a walk off carrying all of your gear and a rope.
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Michelle
Trad climber
El Frickin' Paso
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Oct 13, 2008 - 07:26pm PT
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not the stupidest but probably the scariest...
"dude. Did YOU bring the lighter??"
a grim day indeed
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Oct 13, 2008 - 07:37pm PT
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jbar,
Nope, outside. The dude was actually a good climber, but let it slip out before he realized it, as he was asking about a face hold while gripped in a crack. He didn't live it down.
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Dr. Rock
Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
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Oct 13, 2008 - 10:42pm PT
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Weird how many hikers never look up.
I was workin on Pyramid at Castle, almost at the top, just hangin out, here comes a hiker.
Stops right underneath and starts talkin to himself:
"Lets see, milk, mayonaise, ground beef, chicken, tampons..."
I don't know what he was planin , but I stayed silent til he moved on down the line.
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
Fannie's Crack, AZ
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Oct 13, 2008 - 10:58pm PT
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Michelle,
that is scary..not having a lighter.....Once while climbing at a sporto crag we were puffin down and this guy yells down asking us to stop smokin' and having a good time, he was "gripped". A few extra puffs up his way got him up the route @ 5.10c. Lesson learned SMP at 5.10c!
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Dr. Rock
Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
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Oct 13, 2008 - 11:19pm PT
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Go windproof.
Colibri has a nice catalog.
Bic gets the flint wheel wet and your screwed for 8 hours.
You can blow on it like Linda, your still gonna be a walkin jones.
http://www.elighters.com/colibri-lighters.html
I always carry 3 lighters, one for backup, and the other for....backup.
Only needed the third backup once, but hey, I'm jus sayin, you like being lame like george strait, or cool like Bob Marley?
Sure, I wear JC Penny cut rate casuals and work Wall Street.
Got short hair and glasses too.
I am a cool college grad with a degree in Advanced Ignorance.
Got two beautiful kids and a white picket fence.
Drive a Big Mexican Weiner, and drink white wine with fish, red with beef. Always.
Just an American Capitalist doing what mom and dad wanted.
Frequently.
Barf out, man.
Spark me up.
"All my ex's live in Texas"
What a line, soo funny!
Ah George, cut it out, your killin me, man!
Not.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 14, 2012 - 11:03pm PT
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Overheard today at New Jack City:
I could get this one if it were indoors!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 14, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
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After hiking to Outer Mongolia in JT and entering the final boulders.
B: "You have the rope right?"
MTNMUN: No, I reply, I have the gear, you have the rope."
B: You said you have everything.
Mtnmun: I have all the gear, do I look like your Sherpa? You don't have the rope?
B: Oh sheet.
It was a pleasant hike. LOL
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Jan 14, 2012 - 11:59pm PT
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"that can't be a route, there aren't any bolts"
I could get this one if it were indoors!
Climbing has changed SŲ Much!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Jan 15, 2012 - 12:08am PT
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At Lost City: Heard a guy trying to impress the hot girl in the group, upon getting back to the car, with...
"You're doing really well, but you tend to over-crimp on your hand jams."
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Jan 15, 2012 - 12:49am PT
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OOOOPS!
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Macronut
Trad climber
Fresno, Ca
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Jan 15, 2012 - 12:49am PT
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Stuck at a belay station on Cathedral peak with some blowhard telling me every line of b.s. He could come up with I think. I was afraid my shoes might slip on the next pitch. Most memorable "I was gonna go to med school but I was too smart to get in.". One my worst days in the mountains stuck on a beautiful piece of granite with a bunch of yahoos. I later came to a belay with a guy in aviators and a members only jacket complaining the whole time with that being his first time outdoor climbing.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jan 15, 2012 - 01:09am PT
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Hans to Yuji as they stride rapidly past me down the road from their car towards setting a new speed record on The Nose:
"Do you have the rope?"
"No, don't you have the rope?"
(the rope is sitting on top of their car behind them)
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Jan 15, 2012 - 01:21am PT
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-I'm just going to cut this MF!!!
-NOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo
-Pigs really do fly....
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Ryan Tetz
Trad climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 15, 2012 - 06:50pm PT
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Clifton, Maine. Noob belayer and sketched out 5.9 leader on runout:
"Watch me here!"
"You want me to pull down on the rope now!?" As he starts pulling down on the rope with both hands from the ground
"God damn it stop stop WTF don't pull me!"
We cracked up for about 20 minutes watching these guys.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 15, 2012 - 07:27pm PT
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I was soloing the Kain route on Bugaboo Spire many years ago and encountered an Alpine Club of Canada party at the crux pitch, a very exposed 5.6 slabby thing. One party had just finished leading the pitch the second said I could climb through. On the next pitch I encountered the trip leader who started to give me sh#t and said something like "you could have fallen and pulled one of the roped climbers off" I encountered the guide on the next pitch who was totally cool and asked if I had considered guiding
Background for those Americans: The ACC usually has a senior club leader and a certified guide in a group. The senior leaders are sometimes dolts with no ability who get to play big man and impress the young climbers. Maybe I ruined his dream climb.
Stupid thing I said once at the top of a fierce looking pitch that turned out to be OK "piece of cake" My belayer thought I said "take" and started pulling in the rope.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Jan 15, 2012 - 08:53pm PT
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At lover's leap, 2 pitches up and one route over the leader yells (among other things)
"F*%k you bitch! This relationship is over!!!"
hahahahahahahaha- didn't wait to see if she killed him....
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 15, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
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Well known SoCal climber, after blowing off the same boulder problem for the umpteenth time: "It's a trivial move, I'm just cranking into it wrong."
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 15, 2012 - 09:47pm PT
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"I think this thing would be easier in EB's." -- Moi, bvb, circa 2001, after failing miserably on some Mike Call microedgefest.
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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Jan 15, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD!!!
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