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dutyje
May 6, 2006, 1:37 AM
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Including taxes and shipping: $4,906.52 since September 2003.
Monthly Gym Membership
8 classes
10 books
Pack
Camelbak
3 pairs shoes
4 resoles
Harness
Chalkbag/Chalk
Helmet
Gloves
16 Locking Carabiners
6 Quickdraws
53 other assorted carabiners
1 rope
3 cordalettes
3mm, 5mm, and 7mm cord
3 double runners
20 single runners
188' webbing
Daisy chain
2 belay devices
Nut tool
20 stoppers
8 tricams
15 cams
Does not include consumables (Clif Bars, Sunscreen, etc) and things I already owned (first aid kit, GPS, assorted other garbage)
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climbingnurse
May 6, 2006, 3:24 AM
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I would consider myself a trad climber, but I've done it all. Here's what it's cost me.
-~$5000 on gear, but that's a complete guess.
-Whatever it cost me to get a 2nd BS (in nursing) so I could have a job that allows me to live wherever I want and have 4 days a week off to climb.
-A couple girlfriends
-Money spent on porn due to lack of girlfriends
-4 operations to remove ingrown toenails
-Gas, plane tickets, car maintenance, etc for all the roadtripping
-Camping and park entrance fees I feel I shouldn't have to pay to use land that I, as a taxpayer, own
-Relationships with normal people
-Hundreds of dollars on beer
And what I've gotten:
-Happiness
-A better perspective from which to view the world
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carabiner96
May 6, 2006, 5:26 AM
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ah gosh, well i just dropped $300 at the leaders sale at climb high....added to the $400 from last semester, plus about another $500 at least for other random shizzle (ya know, extra rope, few pairs of shoes, helmut, some uber sexy climbing clothes...
and the $250 per class i'm missing out on when I skip class to go climb... :)
live on the edge, mon!
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anykineclimb
May 6, 2006, 6:12 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: My soul Cash value, $12.06 I left my soul in Himalayas, I need to go back to either get it or to stay with it
What a coincindence. Mine happens to be in the Karakoram. I think somewhere between Askole and Paiju, who knows where the heck its wandered to now
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cal_gundert05
May 6, 2006, 6:18 AM
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bouldering 15 months, starting tr
2 pair shoes-- 120
hangboard-- 60
harness, belay gear-- 50
tr package-- 160
total-- 390
realizing that i'd better make it all worthwhile-- priceless :)
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threefox
May 6, 2006, 6:39 AM
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As previously stated, I'd be embarrassed to know!
Looking through the replies I started running a check list in my head. Oh man, I think I've spent as much as most and more than I would like to think about.
Amazing when you give it some thought.
All the cash that's been dumped into little shaped pieces of metal, attached to 10 cents worth of nylon, which if successful will keep you 300 feet above ground not falling towards it.
Then there are the other purchases, shoe's that don't fit but you gave a car payment for them.
Ton's of rope but not the kind you WANT to get tied up in.
Several different styles of nylon chastity belts, which, at times can feel like a 6th grade wedgie.
There are ice axes, pitons, bolts, biners, lockers, cams, stoppers, chocks, nuts, friends, atc, eights, swamies, D's, ovals, wire gates, twist locks, screw gates, bent gates, straight gates, hexes, tubes, tri cams, blah, blah, blah.
Then you have at least 3 packs of similar size because you didn't know what you were doing when you bought the first two. Rope bags, chalk bags, shoe bags, gear bags....when will it end. I even have a brand new Osprey with the tags still on it, I think it's at least 4 years old, no way in hell I'm telling you how much that cost.
How about clothes? Yea lets not go down that road. All in all it's a bill we don't want to remember but one we'll often brag about.
8^)
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james_climber
May 6, 2006, 1:22 PM
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some money
but i invested time of my relationship and my grilfriend broke me up
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kyote321
May 6, 2006, 2:03 PM
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gas $ too? ouch.
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rendog
May 6, 2006, 3:11 PM
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come to think of it the vehicle I bought in the winter, I bought specifically for getting into remote climbing areas like the ghost....
nevermind how freakin much that cost PLUS the fuel to run....especially at $1.12 a liter of gas up here in canuck land
OUUCCCCCCCCCCH!
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majid_sabet
May 6, 2006, 5:54 PM
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Girls should not be part of the our climbing investment and do not ever get them involved. When they dump us over school, over Mommy and their once in a lifetime trip to Europe we say nothing but they get upset over our climbing and they commonly hit us with
YOU LOVE THAT DAM ROCK MORE THAN YOU LOVE ME
MAY BE YOU ARE MEETTING SOME ELSE HAVING FUN WITHOUT ME
I AM TIRED OF YOU GOING OUT EVERY WEEKEND
HOW COME I AM NOT IN YOUR LIFE
WHY YOU SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON THESE METALS AND ROPES
YOU ARE CRAZY
I AM WORRIED ABOUT YOU COME HOME NOW ( in the middle of Denali )
CALL ME EVERY HOUR ( yaa right , I will email you from 1/2 Dome)
YOU TAKE THAT DAM ROCK OVER OUR RELATIONSHIP
OUR MARRIGE IS FALLING OVER THIS ROCK
YOU PROMISED ME NOT TO DO THIS AGAIN
What did I miss?
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climbingcam
May 6, 2006, 6:55 PM
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Seems to be the trend but i'd simply say far too much.
Although one can't put a price on what I got out of it either.
the hedonic calculus that one navigates in the domepiece is a purly fuct process.
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carabiner96
May 6, 2006, 8:06 PM
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Hey, if this evens out the playing field...I lost (well, gave up) a BOY friend for climbing... :)
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dr_feelgood
May 6, 2006, 8:27 PM
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$230 more as of today... All 6 Ultralight TCUs 25% off at REI... too bad it'll be 7 months till i use them.
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tgreene
May 6, 2006, 11:31 PM
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$30k+ when I shattered my back and broke my leg, and I stopped counting about then!
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anomaly
May 7, 2006, 2:08 AM
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Moved from Mississippi an area accessible to rock (Woodstock, GA) $300,000
Trad Rack $800
Garage climbing wall $4000
Slack line $50
4 pairs of shoes $300
Sport climbing gear $450
Crash Pad $150
MRI on left rotator cuff $1600
Having the passion to push myself beyond what I am currently capable...priceless.
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epoch
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May 7, 2006, 2:20 AM
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An honest assessment...
Gear: Roughly US$7500
Trips: About US$24,000 (+/- 500 or so)
Skill building tools (Courses, guides): US$2300
Literature: $800 - 900
Categorically speaking.... Not enough!
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shanz
May 7, 2006, 4:15 AM
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lets see---
3 ropes
4 sets of shoes
3 full sets of nuts
1 set of cams
3 harnesses
40 carabiners
15 slings
3 tents
climbing gym mempership for training
pvc for hang training
1 apartment we were renting that we threw out our couch and turned our living room into a bouldering gym(not sure the cost on that yet, still gotta see if the landlord is going to sue us)
more webbing than i could possible tie my partner up with (shes my wife)
more fights than i can count
even more bottles of various hard liquor
60 sirloin steaks
11 MRE's
3 moves just this year to get closer to the crags
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and the real winner is
the thirty thousand dollar durango that we bought because our crappy dodge shadow continually got stuck in the mud
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shanz
May 7, 2006, 4:18 AM
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forgot to mention - alot of blood, sweat, and a lifechanging thing called climbing
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pancaketom
May 7, 2006, 5:41 AM
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Most everything but ice climbing for me, although wall climbing and alpine falls far behind the holy trinity of bouldering, sport, and trad.
The few K in gear and more in gas and travel can't even come close to the financial cost of not working for the last 7 years.
Of course there has been a lot of good climbing in great places to compensate.
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styndall
May 7, 2006, 7:05 AM
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In reply to: My soul Cash value, $12.06
In Athens dollars, that's about two good burritos.
I've had moments when two burritos would beat an immortal soul, hands down.
'specially if they're heavy on the cilantro...
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euroford
May 7, 2006, 1:34 PM
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i could never even begin to tell you. i mean, could probobly figure it out, but i really don't want to. one thing i do no, right now i'm paying with something more real than currancy. the raw rubbed pads on my fingers are getting burned by my mildy warm coffee cup and every time i bend them to pick it up the wounds on my nuckles tear back open. good stuff.
one i thing i do know. compaired to other intrests i have in life, climbing is really quite dirt cheap. if i look at what i spent on my trad gear compaired to what i spend on my saltwater aquarium or what i spent on the engine for my race car, no compairson. climbing is one of the least expensive intrests i've had, and thats comming from a guy who plans on doing a big wall in a couple of months!
but whatever the price, its sooooo fuking worth it man!
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mhh35
May 7, 2006, 1:55 PM
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I climb with my kids (FOUR) (17 to 10)
6 harnesses
16 non-locking binders
10 locking binders
2 nut tool
6 belay devices
12 quick draws
4 50 feet of 1" webbing for tied slings
2 25 feet of cordage
5 chalk bag (kids)
6 pair of rock shoes 2pair for me 4 for the kids
5 helmet
2 extra large pack
2 rope
2 rope bag
several guide
instruction books
Around 5,000.00
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majid_sabet
May 7, 2006, 6:03 PM
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mhh35
[quote="mhh35"]I climb with my kids (FOUR) (17 to 10)
6 harnesses
6 belay devices
5 chalk bag (kids)
6 pair of rock shoes 2pair for me 4 for the kids
5 helmet
If there was a family climbing award, you defiantly deserve the golden award.
Majid
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crimpstrength
May 7, 2006, 6:18 PM
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I have spent a lot of money on climbing.
Climbing has given me more back
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