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jitterjepp
Aug 10, 2003, 4:29 AM
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You might be an ice climber if....
sitting on a tropical beach with your toes in the sand sounds boring.
you use your ice axes to remove ice dams on your roof.
there are only two seasons in your world. Ice climbing and Ice climbings coming!
you think "DAMN THIS HEAT AND GREEN STUFF TO HELL!!"
your air conditioner is a cooling unit for a walk in freezer from Cub.
you've got the dream of buying that little hobbie farm not to raise chickens, pigs and grow your own veggies but so you can run a garden hose up that silo in the winter and have your own ice climbing palace in the winter.
you take you crampons when you go ice fishing.
you over hear your coworkers talking about how they cant wait for the snow to melt and you think "idiots"
you say you broke one of your picks and you don't own a guitar.
your ice boots are the most expensive piece of clothing.
you can walk around in a t-shirt when it's forty degrees.
you are a guy wearing bright yellow boots and no one walking by would call you a sissy.
and the number one reason you might be an ice climber....
you live in Minnesota and go to Canada for vacation. IN THE WINTER!
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oudinardin
Aug 10, 2003, 6:40 AM
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your 30 yrs old, feel 20, single (partly because of "the problem"), yet you can still put everything you own in the wagon in less than 2 hrs and move recieving your deposit in the mail. And according to my doctor my arms have stretched a bit which is typical with climbers having climbed over 10 yrs. It wont go away but it runs my life. I let it have the last say at least. Next move, overseas? Oh yeah,and I get free gear now. Friggin Yippe! Peace, Michael. Oud out, dude. Now if I could just find her. Ah, I can still dream.
"I feel the pain of everyone, then I feel nothing." Dino Jr.
Leave it up to me and my scrawny ass will be contorted this way and that after sleeping in my Suburu. I'll be 70 in my 40 year old car checking out panty lines on geriatrics during their marathon to the craft show..
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bonesz
Aug 10, 2003, 12:17 PM
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You bragg about taking a whipper............
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renobdarb
Aug 10, 2003, 3:51 PM
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,,,you've been arrested for climbing the county courthouse.
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tradmanclimbs
Aug 10, 2003, 5:18 PM
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You just might be a climber if the reasons you posted on this forum are all true. I know mine were 8)
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veggieclimber
Aug 10, 2003, 6:41 PM
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You can't understand why people keep asking you why your legs are always so scraped up.
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oldhippywithdog
Aug 10, 2003, 7:04 PM
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you might be a climber if you hear the word "flapper" from across the room and quiver.
...if you are a cashier and still have hands rougher than a carpenter.
...if when typing you think about how your actually training your tendons.
...if you moan and complain about people getting gear placement wrong in the movies and not when a single bullet blows up a car.
...if on vacation in France you admire more curves on boulders than you do on women.
...if every time you drive under a bridge on the highway you almost pull over to try and arch it.
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emtclimber
Aug 10, 2003, 7:35 PM
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In reply to: Sorry but here is another link, some of them have already been done but they have plent of lines only climber would laugh at. http://www.gdargaud.net/...Climber.html#MightBe You might be a climber if: --Reading these makes you feel "normal". --When you hear the word "Climax" refering to a point in a story you perk up thinking somone said "Climbmax" the local gym. *guilty of both. :roll:
Careful using this link.........my computer went f---ing crazy as soon as I clicked it.....might have been a typo??
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hishopper
Aug 10, 2003, 8:30 PM
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if .... you read this whole thread to this point.
if .... rc.com is your homepage. (Well, it did say might be).
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sustainedclimber
Aug 11, 2003, 5:36 AM
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You know you're a climbing family when....
Your dad sets up an anchor from your bed and uses a prusik out the window to paint the house.
Your parents get excited when you suggest building a climbing wall in the living room on the white walls.
Your parents both quit their jobs to work at ropes courses part time and climb on their days off.
The whole family crowds around the mirror comparing newly formed muscles.
crux, arete, stemming, and pumped are all commonly used words in dinnertime conversations.
I just want to say that these are all true, and that my parents are awesome. Oh, and this is definitely my favorite thread on the entire site.
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boris
Aug 11, 2003, 8:13 AM
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...you fix your car with tendon tape
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hellclimber
Aug 11, 2003, 10:13 AM
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... you have buildered campus buildings.
... you dream of climbing campus buildings, summiting on the roof.
... you boulder on the coat rack in the office when you're alone.
... you boulder on the same coat rack when co-students are present.
... your escape plan in case of a fire is rappelling out the window.
hellclimber
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watersprite
Aug 11, 2003, 1:55 PM
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[quote="
...using harnesses, and rope with your significant other has nothing to do with BD[SM]...
or it does!!!1
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arrettinator
Aug 11, 2003, 3:04 PM
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When referring to your friends you use their RC.com and B.com usernames.
A highball isn't a cocktail glass.
Your forearms are bigger than your biceps.
When going to the Gym doesn't involve weights or treadmills.
You can make it from your car to your attic w/out touching the floor once.
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cupofjoe
Aug 11, 2003, 3:13 PM
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....you turn a room in your house into a bouldering cave. 8)
.....climb your classroom walls at college. :D
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organic
Aug 11, 2003, 3:26 PM
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...the clothes you are currently wearing have chalk on THEM! <-- ME!@*&^
...you do things that require a "crash pad"
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hishopper
Aug 11, 2003, 3:42 PM
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If... you're missing the passenger seatbelt in your approach vehicle... and have a 2" webbing swami that matches the interior.
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dano
Aug 11, 2003, 5:14 PM
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Your neighbors lock themselves out of their loft this weekend and instead of calling a locksmith you rap off the roof, through the open window and right on top of their roche-bobois couch in your tevas...
of course - they might be climbers if they think it's a great idea!
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metoliusmunchkin
Aug 11, 2003, 5:46 PM
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...you climb.
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hoppinbig
Aug 11, 2003, 6:30 PM
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You have found a placement for all of your cams in your house
1.75 DMM - Mail slot
#1 camelot - bookshelf
#2 camelot between the fridge and the cabinet
#3 camelot - night table and the wall
etc etc
Oh - and you encourage your friends to do the same thing.... and they do
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sharpender
Aug 11, 2003, 6:32 PM
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You know your a climberbabe when you get excited cause a guy has micro-nuts. Your a hopeless climberbabe if you go with him right now cause he knows how to use them. :lol:
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jipstyle
Aug 11, 2003, 8:10 PM
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In reply to: When referring to your friends you use their RC.com and B.com usernames. When going to the Gym doesn't involve weights or treadmills.
With all due respect ... those have nothing to do with being a climber
;)
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alpinerock
Aug 11, 2003, 8:28 PM
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When your parents drops you off at the mall to shop for school you head over to REI and almost spend your whole budget on a new rope,
OR
when your parents drop you off at REI to shop for school!
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halcyon
Aug 11, 2003, 9:37 PM
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You keep a stash of money in a jar labeled harnass money (not necisarily for a harnass).
You know you're a hopeless climber when you spend your whole harnass money jar on taco bell.. 3 TIMES (about $30 in there each time).
Your parents red Dodge Durango's (think of the towing capacity) tow hitch has only been used as a rappell anchor.
You havent been climbing in weeks so you use the durango and rappell off your deck (true story).
You dad is explaining what he is going to do with the sprinler system by saying "then we'll run a pipe here and blah blah...." and you cut in and say "Then we can run a peice of webbing from this tree to this deck pole and have a slackline".
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bumrush
Aug 11, 2003, 10:14 PM
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You pull a couple good moves at the gym and the owner trusts you to watch the place for a few hours 8)
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