How do you know you are hopelessly hooked on climbing?

Tom Sherman wrote:Climbing solves your life's problems, at least it does in your head.

Hard for 'problems' to find you if they don't know which crag you're at!

I know because I've always been terribly mediocre, and now live 5 hours from any piece of rock, and I still read MP all the time...

When you traverse the fake rock while waiting in line for a ride at Disney.

You know you are in hook, line, and sinker when you obsessively plan the next climbing road trips which you will not be able to take! Perhaps it is just me ... a road trip are what gets me to train and watch my weight (esp thru the winter) when it is just so tempting to stay in and overeat/overdrink.

When you are driving to work in the morning and you find yourself searching the woods on either side of highway for potential exposed rocks to climb.

When you live in a van. Less than 4 years after starting climbing.

When you suffer a life threatening head & neck injury that changes your life as a result....have a year to think about it during recovery(while I dont remember the accident), then once healed up, chalk up get right back on it. Climbing is my passion. What almost took my life by my own wrong doing, is a journey back to myself. That's when you know you are hopelessly hooked on climbing.

you know youre addicted to trad when....

1. you have placed cams between your fridge and the wall
2. you fingerlock everything, everywhere
3. you have learned to kneebar a ladder so you can work with both hands

and typically you are broke, dirty, and single. hahahah

caesar.salad wrote:When you live in a van. Less than 4 years after starting climbing.

yep, down by the river.

turd furgeson wrote: yep, down by the river.

Said everyone who has seen my van.

so much humble-bragging it hurts....

1. When you can't fall asleep at night, you go through the beta on climbs on your to-do list.
2. When you look at highway scars and scope them out for route potential.
3. When you clean your gutters on belay (tie off the chimney) rather than use a ladder.
4. When you meet new people, you can't help noticing whether they have a good body for climbing.
5. When you waste countless hours on the Mountain Project forum.

When your friends want to go skiing in January and you would rather embrace the cold and climb. That's addiction.

Well today while setting up Christmas lights I started thinking about route setting a boulder problem based on my house

when you debate with yourself which rope will make a better pillow ?

Nick Grant wrote: 4. When you meet new people, you can't help noticing whether they have a good body for climbing. 5. When you waste countless hours on the Mountain Project forum.

Ha-ha, so true, Nick. LOL.

When you start to think there are only two kinds of people in the world...1) climbers, and 2) all the other lame, boring people

When you will actually read one of the climbing mags with interest.

That period passes at some point, and you may still be climbing.

S. Neoh wrote: Ha-ha, so true, Nick. LOL.

Like how a chic would look in a harness ?

Tommy Layback wrote:When you start to think there are only two kinds of people in the world...1) climbers, and 2) all the other lame, boring people

nailed it!