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| Hanging out between belays on Super Nova. | CharlesR : Photo Album | | Apr 10, 2006 |
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Location: CO : Boulder : Boulder Canyon : The Sport Park
By: CharlesR When: Apr 28, 2003 | view comment >> | Comments: Thanks for correcting my factual errors. I just think its interesting that a small proportion of the climbing community thinks they are so much better than sport climbers becasue they take more risks. They define traditional climbing to be what it means to them, and that's fine. But in reality, **most** traditional climbers today take far less risk than climbers 40 years ago (or however many years ago it was) merely because of the opportunities afforded to them. So for those who draw the lin... more >>
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Location: CO : Boulder : Boulder Canyon : The Sport Park
By: CharlesR When: Apr 26, 2003 | view comment >> | Comments: Just a point of clarification: When we speak of "traditional" climbing, are we talking about the climbing of the 50's when you just had some stoppers and a set of hexes? The hexes were strung on soft perlon or hemp with holes drilled in them because to be strong enough, they had to be made of the heaviest damn metal in [the] shop. You can forget about Friends, much less [Aliens], TCUs, wires, screamers, drill sets for the pinches, those nice three bolt 3/4 inchers at the top of many of the pi... more >>
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : The Whale's Tail : West Dihedral (5.4)
By: CharlesR When: Aug 22, 2002 | view comment >> | Comments: Climbed this route last week. At the anchors I was swarmed by wasps/bees. About 10 of them were flying around me, but I downclimbed quickly and didn't get stung. Not a fun surprise!
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