How do you become a dirtbag?

I'm really into climbing and this summer I was thinking to get into dirt bagging around some crags. I would appreciate your all ' s advice since I'm new to it.

step 1: not have internet.

Just make climbing the first priority, and the rest will follow.

1. Look homeless
2. Smell homeless
4. have a giants rack (nuts not boobs)
5. climb 5.13 (minimum)
6. your diet consists of pasta and very little else
7. live out of what ever vehicle you currently own
7a. if you don't own a vehicle hitchhike
8. make a instagram account and post non stop

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT my top 8 ways to be a dirtbag, it's the same thing to get sponsored though, just make 5.13 to 5.14.

Cool! How do you get the money to travel?

Wash dishes, clean bathrooms, beg, hustle, don't spend.

Tim Lutz wrote:hi Hellenor!

I think you're right!

brad schierer wrote:Wash dishes, clean bathrooms, beg, hustle, don't spend.

Define "hustle".

Don't forget to spray!! And allways talk about yourself and what your working on, or what amazing thing you just sent..
;)

Kauait wrote:Don't forget to spray!! And allways talk about yourself and what your working on, or what amazing thing you just sent.. ;)

I do that already! Hahaha

Be like these guys:

youtube.com/watch?v=eAUT9dA…

vimeo.com/34482694

Billy G wrote:I'm really into climbing and this summer I was thinking to get into dirt bagging around some crags. I would appreciate your all ' s advice since I'm new to it.

I believe its similar to becoming a prostitute.

On the off chance this a real question..

1. Make it work. There will most likely always be good reasons to wait, but at some point you have to make it happen.
2. Get thrifty.

A lot of vague answers. Prostitute, really? I though climbers were the best at that "dirt bag thing", the quintessential dirtbags so to say.

Always camp for free.

Sure! I would like to hear some real stories from people who actually have done it themselves, not all that hear say.

Food Stamps and life hacks. Just get out there and learn from other dirtbags

Jake C wrote:Food Stamps and life hacks. Just get out there and learn from other dirtbags

Now, that's what I'm talking about!

Billy G wrote: Now, that's what I'm talking about!

Yeaa dude, I have buddies that have done and dabbled in the lifestyle. You just gotta know which bakery will give you their leftover bread from the day, which hotel you can easily sneak into the locker room for a shower (if you really care to shower) which crag is easiest to camp for free or has great blm land for the taking real close. Lots of ways to do it, van, tent, cowboy camp, cave. Just make it work, roll with the punches and go for it. If you want to do this for mre than a season, it gets a bit harder but I work some summers as a wildland firefighter, I make enough each summer for 3 months that I could surely afford to dirtbag around the other 9. Just see what works!

Well hellenor, since your a transgender goat, you could do this...
Dream job: Farm needs you to cuddle its little baby goats
mashable.com/2016/01/12/goa…

If someone needs to be taught how to live on the road cheaply, it's likely they are not qualified to be a "dirtbag." A Fauxbo(a word I have coined which stands for "Faux Bohemian"), certainly, but a genuine dirtbag, no. I suggest this because, part of genuinely living on the cheap comes out of necessity, and necessity is the mother of invention.