Favorite phrases or slang

Fierce Rope Dragon - maybe speaks for itself (just heard it today from a partner).

Classic Hand Crack: A Vedauwoo specific term meaning you will need 2+ each of #4, #5, and #6 Camalots, a bushel of big bros, and that you better have brought your heel-toe and chickenwing game...BUT somewhere on the climb a single hand jam may be found.

Traditude:  heavy duty trad attitude, often accompanied with an anti sport prejudice.  For example, someone who frowns on or complains about ever placing a bolt next to a crack, even if the crack is a very short section on a long sport route (15 bolts).  They'd rather see the route have 14 bolts & bring one cam or nut, even if the gear is tricky to place or extremely small or large.

Hein:  Short for heinous.  Common expression from the 1980s.

Jingus:  Bad or bogus.  Another way of saying something sucks.  The gear is Jingus. 

Cliff-tied:  Another way of saying the gear is bombproof or perfect.  This was a term that Australian Chris Peisker used in the early 1980s.

Bomber or Bombproof:  Refers to perfect protection that will never fail. 

Whimper:  A long leader fall, often with a jarring & abrupt stop.

Zipper or Zipper Fall:  A fall where several or many pieces of gear pull out,  A zipper fall is more common on hard aid climbs.

Bullshit climbing: dirty and/or chossy and/or vegetated and/or holdless and/or slabby and/or runout climbing that detracts from an otherwise excellent route.

Example: "I wish I could tell you VMC Direct Direct is awesome, but the truth is that other than pitches 2-4 it's all bullshit climbing."

mbk wrote:

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.

Your definitions for those terms are all completely wrong. Those words are all used all the time and if you use them the thought in people's heads will be completely different than what you wrote.

ViperScale wrote:

Your definitions for those terms are all completely wrong. Those words are all used all the time and if you use them the thought in people's heads will be completely different than what you wrote.

It was a joke.... you just ruined it.

eli poss wrote:

It was a joke.... you just ruined it.

Dunno.. the joke’s still funny and now we got something else to laugh at.

Tronsight - Top rope onsight

Top Rope Hero - he's got stars in his eyes.

ViperScale wrote:

Your definitions for those terms are all completely wrong. Those words are all used all the time and if you use them the thought in people's heads will be completely different than what you wrote.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

SteveMarshall wrote:

for sure - to be used when something definitely isn't for sure. as in "there's lots of fixed gear to clip on that pitch, for sure" or "the approach is simple, for sure"

Sounds like my partner's version of "Belay On"

Belay On - said when the rope is in a tangled mess, you're still putting your harness on and about to ask your partner to use his belay device, but he's too stoked to get on the route he's been texting you about for days, so he's already racked up (or not, this technique often involves at least a couple pieces being thrown up to the climber later) and almost to the first bolt (with full confidence that you'll pull it all together by the time he actually might need a belay).

Tristan Mayfield wrote:

Tronsight - Top rope onsight

Top Rope Hero - he's got stars in his eyes.

Assisted Dyno - when you're climbing TR, and your two buddies both clip into the rope and jump back (preferably off a ledge), throwing you up the wall. Not necessarily requested.

Start at 47 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAiOYXC-k0&feature=youtu.be&t=47s

climbing friend,

internet wang-slap - when two lonely men engage in back and forth arbitrarily argumentative posts through tubez of internet, most likely due to sexual frustration

When in doubt run it out. Or if that's not your cup of tea: when in doubt butt scooch it out.

Mud Falcon = Human excrement on a belay ledge

Having fun: any situation where the original plan goes horribly wrong and you are forced to come up with a new plan on the fly

cboss wrote:

Mud Falcon = Human excrement on a belay ledge

no way, you have to make it fly first

Alex Temus wrote:

Assisted Dyno - when you're climbing TR, and your two buddies both clip into the rope and jump back (preferably off a ledge), throwing you up the wall. Not necessarily requested.

Start at 47 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAiOYXC-k0&feature=youtu.be&t=47s

Lmao, the "ground up top roping" is gold

Punting - taking forever because your style is way off, or constantly janky (something your can be proud of if you really own it).

Alpine Knee - smearing on lichen while pulling up on choss to the 20 foot moss ramp to the anchors....throw a knee on some tundra for grip

Choss surfing - climbing on choss

s.price wrote:

Sharter - a move requiring so much core tension the potential to shart yourself is extremely high.

Used in a sentence. You dirt your bro and as he unties he says "That move was a lot sharter than I thought" then turns and walks back to the truck in his climbing shoes. You are momentarily baffled until the aroma hits. He's back in 20 minutes and we burst with crazy laughter. Turned out to be one of the best days of clipping bolts I have ever had. Him, not so much. I'll never forget him walking down the trail to the truck constantly trying to unstick his undies from his ass. What a great trip! 

Never trust a fart on harder than 5.9....

s.price wrote:

Sharter - a move requiring so much core tension the potential to shart yourself is extremely high.

Used in a sentence. You dirt your bro and as he unties he says "That move was a lot sharter than I thought" then turns and walks back to the truck in his climbing shoes. You are momentarily baffled until the aroma hits. He's back in 20 minutes and we burst with crazy laughter. Turned out to be one of the best days of clipping bolts I have ever had. Him, not so much. I'll never forget him walking down the trail to the truck constantly trying to unstick his undies from his ass. What a great trip! 

You've never really tried if you've never pushed yourself past the shart point