Favorite phrases or slang

Pebble wrestlers- Boulderers

Wind chime- Someone not at the base of a crag wearing a full rack.

Square-back or Flat-back - Boulderer

Cowbells - Hexes

Just want to clear the air on Brownpoint as this style of climbing involves hiking to the base of a route, getting scared, and then taking a shit near the base before hiking off. Honestly the more deuce piles you see around the base of a route the more telling its an R/X route than the guidebook might suggest.

Doug Kinsman wrote:

Just want to clear the air on Brownpoint as this style of climbing involves hiking to the base of a route, getting scared, and then taking a shit near the base before hiking off. Honestly the more deuce piles you see around the base of a route the more telling its an R/X route than the guidebook might suggest.

Just want to dirty some hot air on the whole brownpoint thing:

I always thought this style of climbing involved either being so scared that you make a "brownpoint" on yer britches OR you somehow have managed to pucker up so tight your butthole closes up tighter than a bear trap. 

Ron Bull wrote:

LDE....laat ditch effort. When you are really f'ed for a hold and can't hang on any longer put your lips against the rock. Suck hard. Also put your hands in your armpits an flap real hard.  Fly or die. 

My goodness who are you?  I started to cry reading this for the second time.

Minging tiny holds

Roller: A piece of pro that does not prevent a ground fall, instead it prevents you from rolling down the hill after you deck.

Kakueki teisha (kakutei) - "local train"; working your way up a route hanging at every bolt

Mochikaeri - "take home" (usually used for carry-out food); get the send 

I have always heard and used brownpoint to denote a clean toprope ascent. As was explained to me, it's like a redpoint, only slightly shitty.

Climbing by Braille  Holds so small you can't see them, you have to feel them. Usually on hard steep slab.

Ground-floor - Get me off this route, now. When your shoes are too tight, your bleeding, or just need to take a....

Kind of regional...OGE= outdoor gear exchange- follower giving gear to leader.

Getting sent (by the route) - being well shut down by the route, either by being unable to finish it or having to hangdog.  Contrast with sending the route.

"Send or be sent"  

FML

How does that pertain to climbing? Not gettin' enough and tired of being an adult...

Like. Whenever it's nice enough to climb outside.

Somewhere.

Best, OLH

"Ice cream's at the top!"

My son, motivating me. Which often results in a bigger "try hard". Which....

.. leads to considerable use of pc incorrect terminology linked in anatomically dubious phrases, directed at the Rock, myself, my kid, when I am getting pissed off enough.

"On delay" when I'm dithering before actually starting up the thing.

"Revenge of the short people" routes set by me in the gym that are easy, with two handed jugs for tiny hands, less than one hand for bigger people.

"High step" a mythical move executable by people with young knees.

OLH

We used to say “Why don’t you take two weeks off and then just quit”.

Tronsight: top rope onsight (first time I heard this we saw some guy belaying with his head straight down staring at his feet the whole time, when we gave him a strange look he said he didn’t want to ruin his tronsight attempt.)

Trash: top rope flash 

Wobbler: throwing a tandrum after failing on a route while still dangling from the rope wobbling about.

Bad Ass or Dead Ass? - A reference to another party Swimming up a route one just bailed from after a Safety Meeting.

Spray vocabulary:

Sloper: a large hold that your partner is too weak to use

Crimp: a small hold that your partner is too weak to use

Jug: a hold just past your partner's reach

Gaston: a hold that your partner will not be able to weight correctly

Perfect fingers or hands: tips/thin or rattly fingers or hands.

C. Seaton wrote:

Greenpoint - to send a route/problem after participating in a safety meeting.

they were all greenpoints....

vertical kitty litter = extremely loose or chossy

nipple rash = what happens when you fall on a slab without a shirt on

self cleaning pro = gear that falls out before it is cleaned

mental pro = gear that you know is shit, but you place it and climb ahead looking for something better

splitter = such a splitter adjective braj

Gitsch- (verb) to fail on a route after all of the hard climbing is done and you should be cruising to the anchor.  It has absolutely nothing to do with my last name...