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guyman
Trad climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Feb 15, 2006 - 08:19pm PT
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Russ, I saw you leaving the george one time....We be doing well.
This is a pretty good site, the SM stories really jog the memory banks. Next time we be going to Bishop I will bring some beer.
Remember Misa? She still jumps off of the couch every now and then...cranks 11's still.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Feb 15, 2006 - 08:25pm PT
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The only time that I can recall being passed on a route, I was aid climbing...with ladders and full wall regalia...as a woman and her partner simulclimbed (free) around me. I'll bet he wished he was her boyfriend, although I don't think that he was. As for who was working the hardest up there, if time on a pitch is any indicator of struggle, it was probably me. It seemed pretty effortless for them.
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Holdplease2
Big Wall climber
Yosemite area
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Feb 15, 2006 - 08:28pm PT
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The only thing I've ever passed on a route was my pigs when I was going the wrong way at terminal velocity. Twice. Ugh.
-Kate.
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up2top
Big Wall climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:04pm PT
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Kate, is that "lisp" or "limp?" Or both?
Ed
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Holdplease2
Big Wall climber
Yosemite area
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:07pm PT
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You'd know better than I, Ed...
;)
-Kate.
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WoodyS
Trad climber
Riverside
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:18pm PT
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Few women bother to speedclimb because they know that sooner or later the overpowering need to stop and complain about husbands or boyfriends will interrupt their effort.
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Holdplease2
Big Wall climber
Yosemite area
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:33pm PT
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Still other women can hardly resist the urge, as they just want to get back to the deck so that they can give they guy grief to his face.
That, and any simulclimbing that occurs with the guy in the lead is really just him trying to get away. I predict many speed ascents of this type in the future.
-Kate.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:37pm PT
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You've flown past your pigs twice?! What was the other time??
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WoodyS
Trad climber
Riverside
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:38pm PT
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Holdplease,
Hilarious!!!
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Holdplease2
Big Wall climber
Yosemite area
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:43pm PT
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10 Days After (Washington Column)...I hadn't checked the topo and thought the chimney to the left at the base of the second to last pitch was the 5.7 on the last pitch, so I started up.
Brilliantly, with no pro I fell OUT of the chimney, decked onto the ledge, then factor 2ed onto the anchor. (softened, because of the ledge of course.)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I can, in fact, fall out of a squeeze chimney.
I also went below the pigs when I fell off of a ledge trying to change shoes getting ready to free climb on Lunar X in zion. "Sandy, dicy, mandatory 5.8 free." F-that, never again.
Hey, I never claimed to be good at this.
-Kate.
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bringmedeath
climber
la la land
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:47pm PT
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The number of chicks that could go faster than me on the nose is numerous! Something more like ST A3/4ish, well I'm still trying to think what chick teams have done pushes on those. Oh well, I hope some girl will do it soon. Anyone chicks out there thinking about it? I'd be stoked to see it happen, super stoked!
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Ditch Trad
Trad climber
CA
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Feb 15, 2006 - 10:48pm PT
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happens to the best of them (falling out of a squeeze). I used to train wide specifically for a few 'trade' routes and long free climbs.
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alik
Big Wall climber
edmonton
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Feb 16, 2006 - 12:34am PT
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Erica was damn fast. In 2004 she got really psyched on pushing walls, and pushed zodiac, t-trip, eagles way, NA wall, the shield, and the realm of the flying monkeys. Those are just the ones she told me about, so there were probably more. I don't think that she ever pushed anything really hard, but I'm sure that if she had been given more time she would have. She didn't do any pushes with other women, but this was because there weren't any women around who could keep up with her! Of course, most of us men couldn't keep keep up with her either! Climbing the NA with her and scotty in august of '04 as my last climb of the year is one of my fondest climbing memories... She was truly inspirational.
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psychadelic
Social climber
sea of mushrooms
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Feb 16, 2006 - 12:42am PT
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I can't even keep up with myself! I'm screwed I guess, oh well the mind wants one thing the hands want the other. Wait someone say fast women, ya that sounds managable!!!
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Fluoride
Trad climber
on a rock or mountain out west
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Feb 16, 2006 - 01:40am PT
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For sure Alik, Erica had so much potential. She was really hitting El Cap pushes hard that last summer she was there. And she was SO stoked on it too, her enthusiasm was contagious. One of those people you really WANTED to see succeed and push things to the next level cause she was such an inspiration. And so damn tough. She would probably have ended up with loads of female speed ascent records of El Cap if that tragedy didn't happen last July. Her free climbing skills were so high she could free a lot more on EC than most and get her up the rock a lot quicker. And yeah, as far as partners, other than maybe a Heidi or a Vera, I don't think there's many other women who could have kept up with her in a push situation.
Damn, I miss her.
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Jobee
Social climber
El Portal
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Feb 16, 2006 - 12:27pm PT
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Fishy..Fishy..Fishy."he went whereever..i did goe"! -MontyPython
You are such a Devil...nice troll?
"the truth is always paradoxical."
Hey Susan..give him a slug from me..will ya!
'the man's the Devil himself'
...LOL!
jow
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 16, 2006 - 12:39pm PT
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Fast Women
They will kick ass in the near future.
Men are becoming weenies .........
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Jobee
Social climber
El Portal
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Feb 16, 2006 - 01:07pm PT
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Susan: -Wild Thing!
No offense taken on the "somegirls" comment! I'm dyin over here rotf..."so give me all your'e money..give me all of your'e clothes...i'll give you half of everything I own! -stones
"i need one of those guys"
to clarify: Salathe Wall over a decade ago..Celia Bull and I.. she's English and tougher than raw-hide. "not to put down the animals".
It took us the standard wall time..back then which meant 4-EVER! Big ugly storm on (The Block)complete with foam blopping all over us. Very Coooollldddd..soaked and Freezzen while a party of 5 Spanards (who were going for a day ascent)(by the way they passed we girls...Boys that they were)! -anyway they screamed all night above us..I was certain they would be dead when we found them but they managed to summit un-Godly wailing all night and wicked spooky stuff pounding us.
Shield: with Will Oxx..he lead more than half (was not my bf however)-did a swan-dive off the top..most fantastic thing i've ever witnessed -besides- (Danos cart-wheel off the Rostrum) Will was down in less than one minute...me-well.. "reality bites"...enjoyable descent cuz i managed to carry quite a load without buckling over or dyin trying not to.
Almost fell down when I came across Chango who was layin in the dirt..I asked how/why was he up there? (he had jugged some other guys line to the top).. then he asked me to help him carry his load down..."unbelievable" it was so weird to see him there out of the cafeteria...very very weird.. scarey almost!
-great partner that Will was, he met me at Ranger Mt. (aka Manure Pile Buttress -my current office) with fresh juice, muffins, coffee and a giant grin! The guy flys-like-a-swift what a sight!
jow
p.s..- I have the new "LOVEBOAT" call me when you come up,
-same Bucky-Walter#.
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Chewbongka
climber
लघिमा
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Jul 11, 2008 - 05:46pm PT
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Hot damn it's Friday and and I need a fast women.
Any takers?
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Ouch!
climber
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Jul 11, 2008 - 06:10pm PT
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Locker, I think he was talking about fat, not fast women.
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