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camhead wrote: drivel wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... Apollo is bi and super poly; he's always stringing a bunch of boy and girls along. So while I can't promise it's just be a double date with me and you and him.... I'm sure he'd love to have you as his nth girlfriend if you'd just give him another chance. He's also way into dynos. Sorry, Lena, but it's just the price of admission. 
For such a gorgeous guy, I might be willing. I am just not convinced that I need it there. Just because Apollo is used to every girl jumping on him, doesn't mean that he won't appreciate something different...
Sigh... I know, I know, I need to just not be such anti-dyno weirdo.
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camhead
May 21, 2012, 12:03 PM
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Oh, conversation from this Friday:
Camhat: Hey Drivel, guess what I did this Friday, since I didn't have to work!
Dribble: You sat at home masturbating.
Camhat: No! I finally got around to creating an 8a.spew page!
Dribble: So, you sat at home masturbating?
I'm the #6 tard climber in the nation! Statistics support this! Wank Wank!
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lena_chita
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May 21, 2012, 12:06 PM
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camhead wrote: Oh, conversation from this Friday: Camhat: Hey Drivel, guess what I did this Friday, since I didn't have to work! Dribble: You sat at home masturbating. Camhat: No! I finally got around to creating an 8a.spew page! Dribble: So, you sat at home masturbating? I'm the #6 tard climber in the nation! Statistics support this! Wank Wank!
GONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
How many tard climbers actually have an 8a.nu score card? I thought it was the sport-wankers heaven
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camhead
May 21, 2012, 12:26 PM
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lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: Oh, conversation from this Friday: Camhat: Hey Drivel, guess what I did this Friday, since I didn't have to work! Dribble: You sat at home masturbating. Camhat: No! I finally got around to creating an 8a.spew page! Dribble: So, you sat at home masturbating? I'm the #6 tard climber in the nation! Statistics support this! Wank Wank! GONGRATULATIONS!!!!! How many tard climbers actually have an 8a.nu score card? I thought it was the sport-wankers heaven
Stop mocking my big-fish-in-a-small-pool-gloriez!
But yeah, Manderson, Bandyjosh, Angry, and several dozen other hard tarders would probably knock me out of the running.
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drivel
May 21, 2012, 12:51 PM
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camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: Oh, conversation from this Friday: Camhat: Hey Drivel, guess what I did this Friday, since I didn't have to work! Dribble: You sat at home masturbating. Camhat: No! I finally got around to creating an 8a.spew page! Dribble: So, you sat at home masturbating? I'm the #6 tard climber in the nation! Statistics support this! Wank Wank! GONGRATULATIONS!!!!! How many tard climbers actually have an 8a.nu score card? I thought it was the sport-wankers heaven Stop mocking my big-fish-in-a-small-pool-gloriez! But yeah, Manderson, Bandyjosh, Angry, and several dozen other hard tarders would probably knock me out of the running.
in addition to trying to list all the tradsters we know who climb harder than camhat (manderson, manderson#2, angry, bandyjosh, mikeyW, patgoodman, unknowable uncountable chattarado hardguys)
we attempted to guess how many people in the US have climbed at least one fiveonethree. Estimates ranged from 500 to 10,000.
much of the discussion hinged on the difficulty of defining "climbers," because one line of reasoning was to guess what percent of climbers have done a .13, but what do you count? anyone who's climbed outside in teh last 6 months? anyone who's climbed outside twice in the last 6 months? anyone who's bought a harness in the last 5 years?
somebody said the industry postulated a number ~1 million, which would indicate the existence of 50,000 people who've done at least one 5.13, if it's a 95th percentile thing (otherwise stated as 1 in 20 climbers have done a 5.13). sitting in hellhio next to the red, 1 in 20 seems like a reasonable estimate, but 50,000 seems like a heck of a lot.
discuss.
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lena_chita
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May 21, 2012, 1:35 PM
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drivel wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: Oh, conversation from this Friday: Camhat: Hey Drivel, guess what I did this Friday, since I didn't have to work! Dribble: You sat at home masturbating. Camhat: No! I finally got around to creating an 8a.spew page! Dribble: So, you sat at home masturbating? I'm the #6 tard climber in the nation! Statistics support this! Wank Wank! GONGRATULATIONS!!!!! How many tard climbers actually have an 8a.nu score card? I thought it was the sport-wankers heaven Stop mocking my big-fish-in-a-small-pool-gloriez! But yeah, Manderson, Bandyjosh, Angry, and several dozen other hard tarders would probably knock me out of the running. in addition to trying to list all the tradsters we know who climb harder than camhat (manderson, manderson#2, angry, bandyjosh, mikeyW, patgoodman, unknowable uncountable chattarado hardguys) we attempted to guess how many people in the US have climbed at least one fiveonethree. Estimates ranged from 500 to 10,000. much of the discussion hinged on the difficulty of defining "climbers," because one line of reasoning was to guess what percent of climbers have done a .13, but what do you count? anyone who's climbed outside in teh last 6 months? anyone who's climbed outside twice in the last 6 months? anyone who's bought a harness in the last 5 years? somebody said the industry postulated a number ~1 million, which would indicate the existence of 50,000 people who've done at least one 5.13, if it's a 95th percentile thing (otherwise stated as 1 in 20 climbers have done a 5.13). sitting in hellhio next to the red, 1 in 20 seems like a reasonable estimate, but 50,000 seems like a heck of a lot. discuss.
500 is way too low, obviously. And 50,000 seems way too high.
My vote is for 5,000. Yes, I am sure of it, 5,000 and not a single more! Well, at least until dribble sends, anyway...
You also have to take chronology into account... There are those badass back-in-the-day when 5.12 was the top of the chart climbers, who probably climbed 5.13 as we know it now, or would have, if there were any around them. And so many that maybe climbed one 5.13 back 6 years ago, when they were training hard,but now are only climbing 5.11 adventure climbs, because that is what they like... Still counts as 5.13 climber?
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drivel
May 21, 2012, 1:49 PM
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lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: Oh, conversation from this Friday: Camhat: Hey Drivel, guess what I did this Friday, since I didn't have to work! Dribble: You sat at home masturbating. Camhat: No! I finally got around to creating an 8a.spew page! Dribble: So, you sat at home masturbating? I'm the #6 tard climber in the nation! Statistics support this! Wank Wank! GONGRATULATIONS!!!!! How many tard climbers actually have an 8a.nu score card? I thought it was the sport-wankers heaven Stop mocking my big-fish-in-a-small-pool-gloriez! But yeah, Manderson, Bandyjosh, Angry, and several dozen other hard tarders would probably knock me out of the running. in addition to trying to list all the tradsters we know who climb harder than camhat (manderson, manderson#2, angry, bandyjosh, mikeyW, patgoodman, unknowable uncountable chattarado hardguys) we attempted to guess how many people in the US have climbed at least one fiveonethree. Estimates ranged from 500 to 10,000. much of the discussion hinged on the difficulty of defining "climbers," because one line of reasoning was to guess what percent of climbers have done a .13, but what do you count? anyone who's climbed outside in teh last 6 months? anyone who's climbed outside twice in the last 6 months? anyone who's bought a harness in the last 5 years? somebody said the industry postulated a number ~1 million, which would indicate the existence of 50,000 people who've done at least one 5.13, if it's a 95th percentile thing (otherwise stated as 1 in 20 climbers have done a 5.13). sitting in hellhio next to the red, 1 in 20 seems like a reasonable estimate, but 50,000 seems like a heck of a lot. discuss. 500 is way too low, obviously. And 50,000 seems way too high. My vote is for 5,000. Yes, I am sure of it, 5,000 and not a single more! Well, at least until dribble sends, anyway... You also have to take chronology into account... There are those badass back-in-the-day when 5.12 was the top of the chart climbers, who probably climbed 5.13 as we know it now, or would have, if there were any around them. And so many that maybe climbed one 5.13 back 6 years ago, when they were training hard,but now are only climbing 5.11 adventure climbs, because that is what they like... Still counts as 5.13 climber?
wasn't trying to measure the much-more-amorpheous concept of "a 5.13 climber," just estimate the number of people who have redpointed at least one 5.13 route. not counting boulderers, not adjusting oldskool 5.12 hardmen for inflation, not counting the ghosts-of-5.13-future, and not ignoring the once-and-now-a-5.11-adventure-climbers.
our discussion wobbled around 5-10 thousand as a reasonable estimate..... but that still seems high to me. We tried to count how many people in representative-of-the-country-io have done at least one. we came up with 8 from here, including K+ a guess of "2" for VA and 0 for the university wall. Round up to 10 for generosity of counting. Allow for three times as many 5.13 climbers in sinsinati and double in (hack=cleave) hackland because of the chiclets. That brings us up to all of 50 in the state, and we sit right the fuck next to the friendliest area in the country to snag one 5.13.
assuming enough regional variation for CA to cancel out ND, ect, that would put the estimate for the country at between 2 and 3 thousand.
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granite_grrl wrote: His trip was a bit dissapointing I think. Frank threw out his back so they couldn't do the wall together. After a looking around for partner options and finding none he was decided that he’d head up solo. So he lugs the rest of his gear up to the start of the climb, jugs up the lines they fixed on the first three pitches, and by mid afternoon on Wednesday finally ready to start. After contemplating how tired he was, how far it was to his first bivy and how late in the day it was he came back down and starting packing stuff out. While I think he would have been fine going up solo he just wasn’t sure with the time he had and decided that he didn’t want his first big wall to be done solo. Anyway, he just did a bunch of shorter stuff with instead and enjoyed hanging out with his friend Frank. In the end I think he had a pretty okay trip, but I haven’t even talked to him much this past week.
That sucks, but it sounds he made the best of it.
In reply to: We have to get to bed early tonight but it’ll be nice to have a quiet evening with him. *dreamy eyed* 
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tripperjm
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wanderlustmd wrote: granite_grrl wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: lena_chita wrote: carabiner96 wrote: drivel wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: drivel wrote: lena_chita wrote: snoopy138 wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: Do you know where you guys are staying yet? Where we're staying is up in the air. Joe's place is out, but I'm not sure if I want to hit up Jung, since we're going to stay there with a crew on Memorial Day wknd. What's going on with Joe? I wonder if Neal would let us stay... Or it might be Brian's place, after all. I think that's where Jeff and Tim would be. ...and which crew are you talking about for Memorial Day? the one camhead excluded you from, apparently. The burn doesn't hurt half as much, after I put some salve on it.  you me camhat jeff t&m, poss others? camping in the yard, for sure. oh, & who's Neal? You know, short guy, originally from CLE area, lives down there. I am pretty sure you have run into him... Anyway, looks like Jeff and Tim and I are staying at Brian's campground this weekend. Jeff is not in the game for Memorial Day, and I will be only coming for two days, if at all, bc Alisa has gymnastics show on Saturday, and I have the kidlings with me all weekend. Oh yeah, I remember Neal. I just scored the guest suite at the Jung compound. You guys are welcome to stay. Erie guardless, we'll meet up. Score at jung compound for this weekend? Something tells me we would still go to Brian's because Tim won't go to jung, and Jeff won't leave Tim, and I am sharing the ride and the tent with Jeff, so... I am going to give it a try though. you don't say. . That sounds really disgusting, when you put it that way! And dribbling, no, I don't say. But you and I will have a lot of time to hang out this weekend, because I was in persuasive mood, and jung compound it is. so you and jeff with be at the compound and tim will be at the camground? Everybody would be at the compound. I better clear it with jung though. Hmm, gonna be crowded. Seriously, we should all contribute $5-10 apiece to give to Jung, to go toward utliities for the house. I have a feeling Banz is going to wind up there, too. So, right now, biggest possible numbers: Me, dribble, Lena, Jeff, Tim, Lisa, Jansen, Wollsty. Add Naom ( Tim's friend) to it, too. And yes, I am pretty sure Banz will show his face, but he would sleep in the car. You and dribble are claiming a futon in one of the bedrooms? I don't know about that, we will probably get there before you you can fight for it. You got the guest room last time at Joe's! (seriously though, I don't care about the futon, but J. and I are claiming one of the bedrooms) Futon is in the main living room. We still claim it. Ah, the sotries that futon could tell.... Hey Becs, how was Chossy's trip to the valley? He doesn't post anymore, huh?
Thing iz... nau that chossy iz teh pegbored champ, he thinks he's better than us and kan't be seen hanging owt with us any more.
Course, teh porblem is.... than when his partner bailed, he'd burned so many bridges with us, that nobody wus willing to step up and be there fer him. It got so bad at home, with chossy dancing around in his grots in front ov teh mirror screaming 'I'm teh GREATEST!!!!' that GG had to move owt ov teh country two gets away from it.
Kinda a sad story....
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camhead wrote: granite_grrl wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: lena_chita wrote: carabiner96 wrote: drivel wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: drivel wrote: lena_chita wrote: snoopy138 wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: lena_chita wrote: Do you know where you guys are staying yet? Where we're staying is up in the air. Joe's place is out, but I'm not sure if I want to hit up Jung, since we're going to stay there with a crew on Memorial Day wknd. What's going on with Joe? I wonder if Neal would let us stay... Or it might be Brian's place, after all. I think that's where Jeff and Tim would be. ...and which crew are you talking about for Memorial Day? the one camhead excluded you from, apparently. The burn doesn't hurt half as much, after I put some salve on it. you me camhat jeff t&m, poss others? camping in the yard, for sure. oh, & who's Neal? You know, short guy, originally from CLE area, lives down there. I am pretty sure you have run into him... Anyway, looks like Jeff and Tim and I are staying at Brian's campground this weekend. Jeff is not in the game for Memorial Day, and I will be only coming for two days, if at all, bc Alisa has gymnastics show on Saturday, and I have the kidlings with me all weekend. Oh yeah, I remember Neal. I just scored the guest suite at the Jung compound. You guys are welcome to stay. Erie guardless, we'll meet up. Score at jung compound for this weekend? Something tells me we would still go to Brian's because Tim won't go to jung, and Jeff won't leave Tim, and I am sharing the ride and the tent with Jeff, so... I am going to give it a try though. you don't say. . That sounds really disgusting, when you put it that way! And dribbling, no, I don't say. But you and I will have a lot of time to hang out this weekend, because I was in persuasive mood, and jung compound it is. so you and jeff with be at the compound and tim will be at the camground? Everybody would be at the compound. I better clear it with jung though. Hmm, gonna be crowded. Seriously, we should all contribute $5-10 apiece to give to Jung, to go toward utliities for the house. I have a feeling Banz is going to wind up there, too. So, right now, biggest possible numbers: Me, dribble, Lena, Jeff, Tim, Lisa, Jansen, Wollsty. Add Naom ( Tim's friend) to it, too. And yes, I am pretty sure Banz will show his face, but he would sleep in the car. You and dribble are claiming a futon in one of the bedrooms? I don't know about that, we will probably get there before you you can fight for it. You got the guest room last time at Joe's! (seriously though, I don't care about the futon, but J. and I are claiming one of the bedrooms) Futon is in the main living room. We still claim it. Ah, the sotries that futon could tell.... 
Good reason to not bring the UV light...
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camhead wrote: caughtinside wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... You really have to wonder what these guys are thinking when they do a dangerous intentional fall. Are they really just hoping for the best? How about you use your brain, determine if the fall is safe, and then go? I mean really!! If you can't fall safe when you can dictate the fall, WTF is going to happen to you when you just fall? Jesus fucking Christ, I don't understand the popularity of "practice falls." They make sense on, say, overhung rock, but like tick marks, projecting, and outspoken opinions, they just filter down to the lower ranks of gumbies until someone gets hurt. Nice job on Control, too, Lena! That route had your name written all over it. I would have onsited it last year, but I got on it while it was wet. Carp.
I like to take practie falls, falling still scares me and it helps give the brain a flossing sometimes.
But no, they should not be done anywhere and at any time.
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lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: caughtinside wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... You really have to wonder what these guys are thinking when they do a dangerous intentional fall. Are they really just hoping for the best? How about you use your brain, determine if the fall is safe, and then go? I mean really!! If you can't fall safe when you can dictate the fall, WTF is going to happen to you when you just fall? Jesus fucking Christ, I don't understand the popularity of "practice falls." They make sense on, say, overhung rock, but like tick marks, projecting, and outspoken opinions, they just filter down to the lower ranks of gumbies until someone gets hurt. I don't think it was a "practice "fall, from what I understood it was more of a -dude, shit, I'm going to fall, you got me? -dude, watch you foot, the rope! -O.K, I'm falling, you got me? -dude, the ROPE!!!! SMASH!!!!! The guys kept talking about how he ALWAYS wears helmet, but today he decided that he didn't need it. Like, shit, what a co-incidence! You really should wear helmet at all times! And i kept thinking, no, really, you should just freaking not fall intentionally with the rope behind your leg.
I might wear a halmet more often than a lot of people in this thread, but people who ALWAYS wear a helmet should be watched out for.
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SylviaSmile wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: caughtinside wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... You really have to wonder what these guys are thinking when they do a dangerous intentional fall. Are they really just hoping for the best? How about you use your brain, determine if the fall is safe, and then go? I mean really!! If you can't fall safe when you can dictate the fall, WTF is going to happen to you when you just fall? Jesus fucking Christ, I don't understand the popularity of "practice falls." They make sense on, say, overhung rock, but like tick marks, projecting, and outspoken opinions, they just filter down to the lower ranks of gumbies until someone gets hurt. I don't think it was a "practice "fall, from what I understood it was more of a -dude, shit, I'm going to fall, you got me? -dude, watch you foot, the rope! -O.K, I'm falling, you got me? -dude, the ROPE!!!! SMASH!!!!! The guys kept talking about how he ALWAYS wears helmet, but today he decided that he didn't need it. Like, shit, what a co-incidence! You really should wear helmet at all times! And i kept thinking, no, really, you should just freaking not fall intentionally with the rope behind your leg. I know I am going to be one of those people who compulsively wears the helmet at all times . . . stories like this just feed the impulse. It seems like it would be that one time that you're not wearing the helmet that you would take this kind of fall or some large-sized rock would fall from the crag onto your head or something. I'm sure he didn't MEAN to fall with the rope behind his leg!
I'm sure you didn't MEAN to post here. feel free to pretend like you didn't.
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May 22, 2012, 9:59 AM
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snoopy138 wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: caughtinside wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... You really have to wonder what these guys are thinking when they do a dangerous intentional fall. Are they really just hoping for the best? How about you use your brain, determine if the fall is safe, and then go? I mean really!! If you can't fall safe when you can dictate the fall, WTF is going to happen to you when you just fall? Jesus fucking Christ, I don't understand the popularity of "practice falls." They make sense on, say, overhung rock, but like tick marks, projecting, and outspoken opinions, they just filter down to the lower ranks of gumbies until someone gets hurt. I don't think it was a "practice "fall, from what I understood it was more of a -dude, shit, I'm going to fall, you got me? -dude, watch you foot, the rope! -O.K, I'm falling, you got me? -dude, the ROPE!!!! SMASH!!!!! The guys kept talking about how he ALWAYS wears helmet, but today he decided that he didn't need it. Like, shit, what a co-incidence! You really should wear helmet at all times! And i kept thinking, no, really, you should just freaking not fall intentionally with the rope behind your leg. I know I am going to be one of those people who compulsively wears the helmet at all times . . . stories like this just feed the impulse. It seems like it would be that one time that you're not wearing the helmet that you would take this kind of fall or some large-sized rock would fall from the crag onto your head or something. I'm sure he didn't MEAN to fall with the rope behind his leg! I'm sure you didn't MEAN to post here. feel free to pretend like you didn't.
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May 22, 2012, 10:09 AM
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SylviaSmile wrote: snoopy138 wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: caughtinside wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... You really have to wonder what these guys are thinking when they do a dangerous intentional fall. Are they really just hoping for the best? How about you use your brain, determine if the fall is safe, and then go? I mean really!! If you can't fall safe when you can dictate the fall, WTF is going to happen to you when you just fall? Jesus fucking Christ, I don't understand the popularity of "practice falls." They make sense on, say, overhung rock, but like tick marks, projecting, and outspoken opinions, they just filter down to the lower ranks of gumbies until someone gets hurt. I don't think it was a "practice "fall, from what I understood it was more of a -dude, shit, I'm going to fall, you got me? -dude, watch you foot, the rope! -O.K, I'm falling, you got me? -dude, the ROPE!!!! SMASH!!!!! The guys kept talking about how he ALWAYS wears helmet, but today he decided that he didn't need it. Like, shit, what a co-incidence! You really should wear helmet at all times! And i kept thinking, no, really, you should just freaking not fall intentionally with the rope behind your leg. I know I am going to be one of those people who compulsively wears the helmet at all times . . . stories like this just feed the impulse. It seems like it would be that one time that you're not wearing the helmet that you would take this kind of fall or some large-sized rock would fall from the crag onto your head or something. I'm sure he didn't MEAN to fall with the rope behind his leg! I'm sure you didn't MEAN to post here. feel free to pretend like you didn't. Hey, I am trying, but you are making it hard!
lemme make it easier: fuck the fuck off.
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snoopy138
May 22, 2012, 12:53 PM
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drivel wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: snoopy138 wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: caughtinside wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... You really have to wonder what these guys are thinking when they do a dangerous intentional fall. Are they really just hoping for the best? How about you use your brain, determine if the fall is safe, and then go? I mean really!! If you can't fall safe when you can dictate the fall, WTF is going to happen to you when you just fall? Jesus fucking Christ, I don't understand the popularity of "practice falls." They make sense on, say, overhung rock, but like tick marks, projecting, and outspoken opinions, they just filter down to the lower ranks of gumbies until someone gets hurt. I don't think it was a "practice "fall, from what I understood it was more of a -dude, shit, I'm going to fall, you got me? -dude, watch you foot, the rope! -O.K, I'm falling, you got me? -dude, the ROPE!!!! SMASH!!!!! The guys kept talking about how he ALWAYS wears helmet, but today he decided that he didn't need it. Like, shit, what a co-incidence! You really should wear helmet at all times! And i kept thinking, no, really, you should just freaking not fall intentionally with the rope behind your leg. I know I am going to be one of those people who compulsively wears the helmet at all times . . . stories like this just feed the impulse. It seems like it would be that one time that you're not wearing the helmet that you would take this kind of fall or some large-sized rock would fall from the crag onto your head or something. I'm sure he didn't MEAN to fall with the rope behind his leg! I'm sure you didn't MEAN to post here. feel free to pretend like you didn't. Hey, I am trying, but you are making it hard! lemme make it easier: fuck the fuck off.
this is kerect.
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climbingtrash
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fuk ewe Gerks!
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climbingtrash
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gawd I'm 50+ pages behind.
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only one thing to do and that's skim-badger teh shit outta this thread.
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caughtinside wrote: drivel wrote: caughtinside wrote: I will be at the slightly overhanging slabby area tomorrow. Got straight seshed in Josh today. Baby Huey Smokes an Anti-Pipeload... is no warmup. Nearly perished free soloing up The Nose In A Day, the silly 5.9 next door. It didn't look so bad from the ground, but then all of a sudden I'm on a chickenwing, my knee is stuck below a constriction, I have no right hand at all and I'm standing on a tiny foot in sloppy moccasyms... in the sun. I'm nearly greasing. got to the top and started shaking. Woo! so you solod the nose in a day? Yes. Right after I soloed the Salathe Free.
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dr_feelgood wrote: tripperjm wrote: tripperjm wrote: caughtinside wrote: I will be at the slightly overhanging slabby area tomorrow. Well, I wood have been happy to join ewe gays... and gun sum rope, ifs ewe hadn't texted me yore plans at 10:30 last nite. With a day or so notice, I can makes thing happen.. but last minute joe... won't awlways werk. Hope teh tick list werked owt fer ewe... Whut did ewe gets on? Oh... and I awlmost fergots. I checked my guide, did teh Baby Huey in 1985. That's funny. I was born in 1985.
wuts knot funny iz that ewe thinks that's funny.
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SylviaSmile wrote: snoopy138 wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: lena_chita wrote: camhead wrote: caughtinside wrote: lena_chita wrote: drivel wrote: drivel wrote: cross posted from facespace: weakend report: hands are destroyed. two dime-sized flappers, a couple of smaller punctures. [for this weekend] project 5: dribble: 0. (blood: 5/5). [3 on zaturday, 2 on zunday] 4 one-hang burns with no rest time, 1 time lowering off the crux in disgust when I fell. what are the stages of projecting again? effort, hope, dispair, resignation, sending? I think I'm in "dispair." I may have laid on the ground and cried the real tears Sunday. I don't think i'll be able to go into the gym this weekend, given the state my hands are in. while I laid on the rock, staring up at the proj, leaking the real tearz, I threatened to break up with it. "I wish I knew how to quit you" style. Some of the nearby collesium crue were commiserating with me, going "there there," and they laughed. "Nobody can break up with that one. You'll keep coming back." Sending, like relationships, takes a lot of work and effort. You can't break up the first time you fight. Well, you can, but... you want to send, right? We mostly had fun at Butcher's Branch. Tim sent Lost Souls 2nd go, then he and Norm left. I have no idea when they got to the crag, they are the be-there-at-6a.m. folks. Jeff and I were still doing the warm-ups when they left. Jeff was super-nice, controlled his ground-exit-o-phobia, and hung the draws on Control. I struggled up it bolt-to-bolt, cursing my elbow and feeling weak and miserable, but decided that it was worth another go later. Then we took a long break and spent a lot of time figuring out how serious was the head wound on some dude who flipped and smashed his head into the rock on the 5.10d(b?), the crappy one to the left of Greenpiece. Classic foot behind the rope thing, except he took an INTENTIONAL fall. Apparently belayer was yelling to him about the rope, and he thought he cleared his foot, but... The entire back of his head was drenched in blood, but he was walking and talking and seemed fine. Eventually we washed off the blood, and found a gash over an inch long, and his buddies decided to take him to the hospital. None of them were feeling up to cleaning the draws off that 5.10 after seeing him flip, and for some reason the first thing they did was pull the rope, so Jeff led it and cleaned their gear. Then he decided that he was tired and done with climbing for the day. I didn't use "for God's sake, it's only 5.10" line. Instead I went back to Control, and sent it. Not quite sure how it happened, because the entire time I was zoned out, and not thinking of anything past one move at a time. It didn't feel like 5.12 at all, maybe 5.11a. Then I came back down and listened to a chorus of admiring gumbies who were really impressed with my impeccable technique and apparent ease and lack of grunting sounds. Ha! If only they were there earlier in the morning for my crybaby flailfest! Maybe I need to have a second date with Apollo... Maybe my problem is that i wasn't giving him a second chance? Do you think he would double-date us, dribble? And really, that crimp on Apollo is way bigger than the crimps on Control... You really have to wonder what these guys are thinking when they do a dangerous intentional fall. Are they really just hoping for the best? How about you use your brain, determine if the fall is safe, and then go? I mean really!! If you can't fall safe when you can dictate the fall, WTF is going to happen to you when you just fall? Jesus fucking Christ, I don't understand the popularity of "practice falls." They make sense on, say, overhung rock, but like tick marks, projecting, and outspoken opinions, they just filter down to the lower ranks of gumbies until someone gets hurt. I don't think it was a "practice "fall, from what I understood it was more of a -dude, shit, I'm going to fall, you got me? -dude, watch you foot, the rope! -O.K, I'm falling, you got me? -dude, the ROPE!!!! SMASH!!!!! The guys kept talking about how he ALWAYS wears helmet, but today he decided that he didn't need it. Like, shit, what a co-incidence! You really should wear helmet at all times! And i kept thinking, no, really, you should just freaking not fall intentionally with the rope behind your leg. I know I am going to be one of those people who compulsively wears the helmet at all times . . . stories like this just feed the impulse. It seems like it would be that one time that you're not wearing the helmet that you would take this kind of fall or some large-sized rock would fall from the crag onto your head or something. I'm sure he didn't MEAN to fall with the rope behind his leg! I'm sure you didn't MEAN to post here. feel free to pretend like you didn't. Hey, I am trying, but you are making it hard!
wut does one gay horse say to another gay horse??? Haaay git teh fuck owt!
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climbingtrash
May 22, 2012, 5:38 PM
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meatbomz wrote: dr_feelgood wrote: tripperjm wrote: tripperjm wrote: caughtinside wrote: I will be at the slightly overhanging slabby area tomorrow. Well, I wood have been happy to join ewe gays... and gun sum rope, ifs ewe hadn't texted me yore plans at 10:30 last nite. With a day or so notice, I can makes thing happen.. but last minute joe... won't awlways werk. Hope teh tick list werked owt fer ewe... Whut did ewe gets on? Oh... and I awlmost fergots. I checked my guide, did teh Baby Huey in 1985. That's funny. I was born in 1985. I gradumerated high school then
Giving hand jobs fore passing grades doesn't count as graduating.
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climbingtrash
May 22, 2012, 5:41 PM
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spray it down
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climbingtrash
May 22, 2012, 5:41 PM
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race to teh finish
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