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eli poss
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May 12, 2017
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Durango, CO
· Joined May 2014
· Points: 525
"it's a good kind of pain" -me "I couldn't sleep, many aid section lay above, possible death and to make things worse I had lost my glasses. But I would wake, try or fall and die, there was no bail in my brain at that time. Dave just snored away and I was getting so pissed at him, that I threw a rock to wake him up, "What's wrong Coz." "I'm gonna die tomorrow and all you can do is sleep." "You can sleep too, just relax, you'll be fine, it's not up to us what happens." And with that he started to snore again as I toss and turned and dreaded the raising of the sun." -Scott Cosgrove "A door would open, we'd walk inside and the key to all knowledge would be printed on the walls" -Galen Rowel
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mbk
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May 12, 2017
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jul 2013
· Points: 0
"It's a complete withdrawal into an excellence that is valid in and of itself. You learn to live in a vertical world and when you're up there on that rock you just don't want to know about anything else." Jim McCarthy
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Aaron Mc
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May 12, 2017
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jul 2013
· Points: 80
"I'm not off-route, I'm doing a first ascent" "In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can't." "A climber's day always starts at the crux: getting out of bed."
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Eric Danner
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May 12, 2017
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The People's Republic of Bo…
· Joined Feb 2015
· Points: 0
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Jason Todd
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May 12, 2017
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Cody, WY
· Joined Apr 2012
· Points: 1,114
"Sport climbing is like sport fucking, a lot of fun and not much commitment." - Jim Bridwell
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rgold
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May 12, 2017
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Poughkeepsie, NY
· Joined Feb 2008
· Points: 526
"Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end." ---Edward Whymper
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Old lady H
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May 12, 2017
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Boise, ID
· Joined Aug 2015
· Points: 1,375
"Try harder" from my soon to be throttled son who is probably also being yelled at in language not particularly appropriate to be shouting at your belayer.
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Nickgrai
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May 12, 2017
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jun 2015
· Points: 415
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer. Dean Potter.
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Backstep
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May 12, 2017
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Redlands
· Joined Aug 2016
· Points: 5
[overhead at local sport crag] "At the gym, they teach this convoluted method of belaying where you always keep your brake hand on the rope." -JT 512 "I've seen 5.11 divided into 11 different grades of increasing difficulty, as follows: 5.11a, 5.10d, 5.11-, 5.11b, 5.11, 5.11c, 5.9 squeeze, 5.11+, 5.10 OW, 5.12a, 5.11d" - Brutus of Wyde "I love climbing because it feels so good when I stop..." - Karl Baba
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Suburban Roadside
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May 13, 2017
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Abovetraffic on Hudson
· Joined Apr 2014
· Points: 2,419
Backstep wrote:[overhead at local sport crag] "At the gym, they teach this convoluted method of belaying where you always keep your brake hand on the rope." -JT 512 "I've seen 5.11 divided into 11 different grades of increasing difficulty, as follows: 5.11a, 5.10d, 5.11-, 5.11b, 5.11, 5.11c, 5.9 squeeze, 5.11+, 5.10 OW, 5.12a, 5.11d" - Brutus of Wyde "I love climbing because it feels so good when I stop..." - Karl Baba And of course one can fill ten pages with Golden Sentiment, information and rye wit from The Professor Richard Goldstone! //quote// Nowadays, the real issue is rappel slings. Personally, over the many years I've climbed, I've come across several rappel slings tied with water knots in which one end (it is always the top end) had either worked completely inside the knot or was just about to. I'm not dead because I checked the knots, but either the party before me didn't, or the knot suffered a lot of tail creep during the last set of rappels. Either way, wittingly or unwittingly, they were playing Russian roulette.\\quote\\
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Muscrat
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May 13, 2017
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Oct 2011
· Points: 3,625
Context: Imagine the end of a long day of climbing, 5 guys and one young woman crammed into a Tacoma, taking the long drive home. It's silent, all lost in thought of our accomplishments and flails. Suddenly, out of the silence, she, the one lone woman in the midst of 5 stinky, tired guys says, and i quote, "I haven't been laid in a while, but that sure felt good". Jubilation and hilarity ensued.
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Mark Hudon
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May 13, 2017
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Lives on the road
· Joined Jul 2009
· Points: 420
My own motto, I feel, is pretty good. "If it ain't fun, it ain't done"
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Dave Morgan
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May 13, 2017
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New Paltz, NY
· Joined Jan 2012
· Points: 0
To the question. What matters most in life?" he paused a second, then quickly looked around the room...He was not thinking about what the answer would be. He knew it cold. Rather he was scanning the images running across his mind: a catalogue of heroic ventures. Of firsts to be: El Cap, The Diamond, the Eiger, and others. Layton leaned forward across the table, his elbows sliding over the many oaths, and fantasies carved into it, looked me square in the eyes and said "The big walls, man, the big walls". And he meant it. Wayne Goss on Layton Kor
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SMarsh
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May 13, 2017
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NY, NY
· Joined Sep 2013
· Points: 37
Big B, does everyone else know that's from The Eiger Sanction?
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Jeffrey Lash
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May 13, 2017
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Baltimore, MD
· Joined May 2012
· Points: 251
"I may not be very good at climbing, but the one thing I don't suck at is bailing." - Steve Richert
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Kristen Fiore
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May 13, 2017
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Burlington, VT
· Joined Sep 2014
· Points: 3,378
"Your first time trad climbing is like your first time having sex. It's awesome, but you're not."
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Allen Sanderson
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May 13, 2017
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On the road to perdition
· Joined Jul 2007
· Points: 1,203
Whillans: You guys going up? Japanese climber: Yes, yes, we go up. Whillans: You may be going a lot higher than you think! Don Whillans, to a Japanese party, while retreating off the north face of Eiger in a storm
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Muscrat
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May 13, 2017
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Oct 2011
· Points: 3,625
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Daniel Tocci
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May 13, 2017
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White Plains, NY
· Joined Jul 2013
· Points: 45
"Its not an adventure unless something goes wrong" - Yvonne Chouinard "Always do what you are afraid to do" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "All good things are wild and free" Henry David Thoreau
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Christopher Roberts
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May 13, 2017
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Boulder, CO
· Joined Apr 2002
· Points: 80
“We climbed it because it won’t always be there,” Kor famously quipped.
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