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pinkamy
Jun 15, 2003, 12:22 AM
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Climber: (Me trying to clip while holding on to a very tiny chip with my last clip about ten feet below me and like twenty five feet of rope out)
Belayer: Hey... uhhh... make sure you get that clip okay... come on you gotta get it! (Cringing and bitting nails)
Climber: (clip) got it, Take!
Belayer: (lets climber down) if you would have not gotten that clip, you would have been like... here (points to a spot about two feet above the ground)
This was my first lead. Ahhhh!
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climber49er
Jun 15, 2003, 12:51 AM
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Hmmm, if that didn't factor rope stretch he should have been pointing about 6 feet underground. :D
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tradmanclimbs
Jun 15, 2003, 2:30 AM
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All True stories:
while soloing under another soloist. I am at the crux and he yells FALLING!!!!
About to gain the belay at the top of pitch 5 of MOBY GRAPE, I reach up to grab a flake and pull myself up to the ledge and my girlfriend/ belayer says "don't pull on that, it's my belay :shock: " I belive she was refering to the fact that cannon is a chosspile :lol:
Just prepareing to lead the 3rd pitch of Moby Grape and the woman says "we need to talk"
Can't we just be friends? :roll:
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ptone
Jun 15, 2003, 5:29 AM
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Here's a true one--
The sound of little feet thumping under me just as I peel from a high boulder problem :shock:
(Yeah, I flattened her :roll:)
No injuries, just high blood pressure!
-p
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micahmcguire
Jun 15, 2003, 6:05 AM
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"hey dude, get solid real quick"
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drkodos
Jun 15, 2003, 6:10 AM
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Overheard at the Gunks three weeks ago:
Climber (35 feet up, on lead, at the crux): "watch me here, I might pop."
Belayer: "Um, hold on. Let me get you on belay."
:?
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wandt
Jun 15, 2003, 10:03 AM
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Haven't heard it, but I've said it, way above my last clip, staring at a sharp arete and jutting ledge of doom: "How are you at running backwards?" (he jumped into a ravine and saved the day.)
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lpclimber
Jun 16, 2003, 12:31 AM
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Climber: "Back Clipping!"
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weedy
Jun 16, 2003, 12:59 AM
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dude, it's cashed.
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halcyon
Jun 27, 2003, 9:16 AM
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"This could turn epic real quick"
or possibley
"I don't think I like you as much as I used to"
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sanctuary
Jun 27, 2003, 12:59 PM
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"OFF SPOTTING"
When a high ball problem got to high for my spotter. :twisted:
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c_kryll
Jun 27, 2003, 2:41 PM
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH..............................................." Heard coming from the top to the bottom at Seneca.
I didn't personally hear it but a close friend did and told me the story.
Chris
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pehperboy
Jun 27, 2003, 3:01 PM
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"Just a minute!"
Was on one of my early outdoor climbs, maybe a 5.6 but exposed just below the summit, and in what felt like a precarious spot (in hiking boots) when my belayer yells this out. It was not what I wanted to hear just then. The blue streak I let go got down the mountain and back to the car long before we did.
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alpinerock
Jun 27, 2003, 4:14 PM
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when buildering "hey you get down from there"
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sillymnkee
Jun 27, 2003, 5:31 PM
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"Hey, let's throw rocks over the edge and see how long it takes us to hear them to hit the ground."
Or...
"Look at that colorful ribbon (webbing being used as a TR anchor)."
"Cool. Let's take it."
Both heard as I was climbing.
And my favorite, "How dare you talk to my son like that!" After I told some brat how I felt about him kicking a shower of rocks over the edge while I was climbing.
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robmcc
Jun 27, 2003, 5:47 PM
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In reply to: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH..............................................." Heard coming from the top to the bottom at Seneca. I didn't personally hear it but a close friend did and told me the story. Chris
Been there, heard that. :(
High pitched, unmistakably female scream. Somehow that's more upsetting than a male one I think. That whole protection thing wired into the genes, I suppose. The worst part wasn't the scream, it was how it stopped. Think how usually when you hear a scream it trails off. Loud to quiet to stopped. This one just stopped dead mid scream. Sobering. No, chilling. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA(SILENCE)" Too far away to hear the impact. Good ending, all things considered. From what I was told, she survived with broken bones and such, none of which included spine, skull, etc. Could have easily turned out much worse.
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scottharms
Jun 27, 2003, 5:48 PM
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being on a detached column of melting ice about 180 ft up and 25 ft above last screw and hearing it fracture on a placement with another 25ft to lip out. Scary.
Cheers
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jumpingrock
Jun 27, 2003, 5:59 PM
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"Tell my wife I love her"
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snowrocker
Jun 27, 2003, 9:43 PM
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Belayer: Um..... if you die can I have all of your gear.
Climber: Why?
Belayer: Well this dosen't look too good
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lpclimber
Jun 27, 2003, 11:43 PM
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Belayer: Dudel, if u die climbing can i have all your gear?
Climber: Ya sure.
Belayer: Off belay!
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tnchief
Jun 28, 2003, 12:32 AM
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As I am from Tennessee, this may not suprise many of you.
The infamous Redneck death mantra heard from around an arete above me:
"Dude, watch this!"
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rockclimber_gurl
Jun 28, 2003, 12:39 AM
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ummmmmm i can't hear you but your off belay
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thedesertnomad
Jun 28, 2003, 2:03 AM
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True Story:
Dude, I can see your van from here.... hey I think someone is breaking into it!!!!
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fieldmouse
Jun 28, 2003, 3:24 AM
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hey look, curt and bvb are on their way over here...
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rendog
Jun 28, 2003, 6:01 AM
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"DUDE I JUST DROPPED THE WEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
or even worse...
we are out of beer
shudder
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