Mediocre climbing accomplishments

Climbed a 5.8 barefoot one time

Keith Swrote:

Climbed a 5.8 barefoot one time

I out-mediocred that—did a 5.5 barefoot!!!!

Edge wrote:

On my first trip to the Valley, I wore through the instep of my E.B.s until I was climbing barefoot. On a dirtbag budget, I wore them on the opposite feet for a couple weeks to access good rubber, climbing up to 5.10, until I got money wired for a new pair at the Mountain Shop.

Just before getting the new pair, I got rained on and my dilapidated shoes got wet. I completely cleared out the bathrooms at Housekeeping Camp by drying them repeatedly under the forced air hand driers.  

Well done! More respectable than mediocre

Did the second ascent of the entire Central Pillar of Frenzy, and didn’t rap after five pitches like everybody does now.

Kevin Worrallwrote:

Did the second ascent of the entire Central Pillar of Frenzy, and didn’t rap after five pitches like everybody does now.

Kevin none of these are mediocre, I think you missed the OP intent, but that's what you were going for huh

Darren Mabewrote:

Kevin none of these are mediocre, I think you missed the OP intent, but that's what you were going for huh

so glad that i haven’t really seen a lot of the “yeah my low point was redpointing this alpine 5.12  and a yeti stole my cam” humble brags when i was strictly lurking this thread. genuinely relish reading through a discussion reminding me that not sucking at things means you have to suck at them for a long time, or have to suck at them even if you didn’t suck at them in the past but had to stop for a while. 

Well Wiled Man,

CP of Frenzy’s rated 5.9, pretty damn mediocre by todays standards, and out of my climbing accomplishments, I’d call it mediocre, but an accomplishment, nonetheless

If you don’t know me, I tend to think outside the box. Let me try to be one of the herd:

I led Surprise at Suicide rock in kronhoffers

I lived in Camp 4 for 5 or 6 years

I pulled a motor in the Camp 4 parking lot, and reinstalled it a month later, rebuilt by Chuck Pratt

I belayed Ron Kauk on Magic Line

I’ve taken a dump in the Camp Four Bathroom more times than anyone else on MP

Kevin Worrallwrote:

Well Wiled Man,

CP of Frenzy’s rated 5.9, pretty damn mediocre by todays standards, and out of my climbing accomplishments, I’d call it mediocre, but an accomplishment

If you don’t know me, I tend to think outside the box. Let me try to be one of the herd:

I led Surprise at Suicide rock in kronhoffers

I lived in Camp 4 for 5 or 6 years

I pulled a motor in the Camp 4 parking lot, and reinstalled it a month later, rebuilt by Chuck Pratt

I belayed Ron Kauk on Magic Line

I’ve taken a dump in the Camp Four Bathroom more times than anyone else on MP

the point is; while you are an excellent climber, this is a thread for genuine mediocrity, because being mediocre is fine so long as you don’t present a safety risk to yourself and others. climbing culture is incredibly self-critical by nature. think “i tripped on an approach and chipped my tooth but sent that 5.7 like nobody’s business” or “i somehow dropped a biner with a third of my rack down a chimney halfway up a 3 pitch wall, and while it took me a long ass time, i did eventually finish”

there is no triumph here. only the startling self awareness of our own skill limitations

Kevin Worrallwrote:

Well Wiled Man,

CP of Frenzy’s rated 5.9, pretty damn mediocre by todays standards, and out of my climbing accomplishments, I’d call it mediocre, but an accomplishment, nonetheless

If you don’t know me, I tend to think outside the box. Let me try to be one of the herd:

I led Surprise at Suicide rock in kronhoffers

I lived in Camp 4 for 5 or 6 years

I pulled a motor in the Camp 4 parking lot, and reinstalled it a month later, rebuilt by Chuck Pratt

I belayed Ron Kauk on Magic Line

I’ve taken a dump in the Camp Four Bathroom more times than anyone else on MP

That's the thing, Kevin, you don't have to be so coy. The name- dropping (climbers/routes) is not very mediocre and yours is well known. Mediocre would be if you belayed me (a no-name in your eyes) on a new 2 star 5.8 I put up traditionally and then you got the first repeat ascent of it. We shared a ham and cheese sandwich without mayo or mustard afterwards.

Pratt rebuilt the motor, pulling it was mediocre in comparison

Kauk led Magic Line, eventually. My attempt at toproping it was mediocre in comparison.

Still too lofty?

I sewed leather sidewalls on my EB’s with a Speedy Stitcher in the Lodge Lounge.

I rappelled with a brake bar (1), I have also rapped with  just a Munter hitch. I have successfully Dulfersitzed

I Tyrolean traversed the river to Short Circuit

I slept in my van in the C4 lot without getting harassed 

I spent 3 days on the RNWFHD with one gallon of water when I was 16

I resoled 5 pairs of climbing boots in Komito’s shop

I got pulled over with Jeff Lowe in my van, and he got arrested but I didn’t

I lived in an apple orchard in Eldorado Springs for 4 months, rent free

I soloed the Bastille Crack and The Bulge in Eldo on sight and didn’t get scared

I climbed with females and didn’t get paid

I forgot my harness and climbed with a bowline around my waist

I ate tuna from the can with a knifeblade as a spoon

I used a coiled rope as a pillow

I led the pitch to Long Ledge with a flashlight in my mouth

I climbed El Cap with only pitons

I got horrendous rope drag on the Left Ski Track at Tahquitz

I witnessed Charlie Porter climbing the Shield Triple Cracks on the FA

I drank from the Merced River, unfiltered

I had sex with a Curry girl in a mud bog in Leidig Meadow and got crabs

I had sex with a cowgirl in the stables bunkhouse and didn’t get my ass kicked by the cowboys 

I had sex with a girl from Sonora in in her toyota Corolla in the parking lot behind the lodge dorms, and her brother wanted to beat me up, but I talked him out of it

Had sex twice with some girl I met in camp one day, we were going at it in my tent within an hour, and her boyfriend appeared outside right after round two. She told me not to worry, and she slipped out, I never saw her again.

I dried my sleeping bag every night in the girls’ K and L dorms across the street from Camp for a dime during the winter, and crawled into a toasty bag for another night in the snow.

I got a staph infection in my knee while climbing the Direct on Half Dome, and went to the hospital on acid the day after I got back to the Valley Floor. Doc said I was lucky I didn’t wait any longer

Hitchhiked from San Diego to Yosemite

Drove into Camp Four to car camp

Soloed and named the Peyote Cracks in Josh while on peyote

Watched a rescue chopper crash at the base of the West Buttress from a hanging belay high on the Magic Mushroom

Ate buttons on Chickenhead Ledge afterwards

Never used a wag bag

Are any of those ok with you guys?

Kevin Worrallwrote:

Pratt rebuilt the motor, pulling it was mediocre in comparison

Kauk led Magic Line, eventually. My attempt at toproping it was mediocre in comparison.

Still too lofty?

I sewed leather sidewalls on my EB’s with a Speedy Stitcher in the Lodge Lounge.

I rappelled with a brake bar (1), I have also rapped with  just a Munter hitch. I have successfully Dulfersitzed

I Tyrolean traversed the river to Short Circuit

I slept in my van in the C4 lot without getting harassed 

I spent 3 days on the RNWFHD with one gallon of water when I was 16

I resoled 5 pairs of climbing boots in Komito’s shop

I got pulled over with Jeff Lowe in my van, and he got arrested but I didn’t

I lived in an apple orchard in Eldorado Springs for 4 months, rent free

I soloed the Bastille Crack and The Bulge in Eldo on sight and didn’t get scared

I climbed with females and didn’t get paid

I forgot my harness and climbed with a bowline around my waist

I ate tuna from the can with a knifeblade as a spoon

I used a coiled rope as a pillow

I led the pitch to Long Ledge with a flashlight in my mouth

I climbed El Cap with only pitons

I got horrendous rope drag on the Left Ski Track at Tahquitz

I witnessed Charlie Porter climbing the Shield Triple Cracks on the FA

I drank from the Merced River, unfiltered

I had sex with a Curry girl in a mud bog in Leidig Meadow and got crabs

I had sex with a cowgirl in the stables bunkhouse and didn’t get my ass kicked by the cowboys 

I had sex with a girl from Sonora in in her toyota Corolla in the parking lot behind the lodge dorms, and her brother wanted to beat me up, but I talked him out of it

Had sex twice with some girl I met in camp one day, we were going at it in my tent within an hour, and her boyfriend appeared outside right after round two. She told me not to worry, and she slipped out, I never saw her again.

I dried my sleeping bag every night in the girls’ K and L dorms across the street from Camp for a dime during the winter, and crawled into a toasty bag for another night in the snow.

I got a staph infection in my knee while climbing the Direct on Half Dome, and went to the hospital on acid the day after I got back to the Valley Floor. Doc said I was lucky I didn’t wait any longer

Hitchhiked from San Diego to Yosemite

Drove into Camp Four to car camp

Soloed and named the Peyote Cracks in Josh while on peyote

Watched a rescue chopper crash at the base of the West Buttress from a hanging belay high on the Magic Mushroom

Ate buttons on Chickenhead Ledge afterwards

Never used a wag bag

Are any of those ok with you guys?

Great stories. Not mediocre. 

Mediocre would be if Ron bragged he was belayed by Kevin Worrall on Magic Line. 

Kevin Worrallwrote:

I climbed with females and didn’t get paid

I don’t undertand the attempt at humor with this comment

One time I was on an MP thread with Kevin Worall!

Kevin is very, very slowly getting closer to our original objective here. (Yes, many good stories there… but rarely “mediocre”.) IMHO, I think the closest he got was this one:

“I’ve taken a dump in the Camp Four Bathroom more times than anyone else on MP.”

But even that one reeks slightly… of humble brag. ; )

BITD I kept purposely popping off on lead on Fisticuffs to get my partner to lead it. I was too afraid to get much higher over my two hexes. It worked, he lead it. :)

Kevin Worrallwrote:

Pratt rebuilt the motor, pulling it was mediocre in comparison

Kauk led Magic Line, eventually. My attempt at toproping it was mediocre in comparison.

Still too lofty?

I sewed leather sidewalls on my EB’s with a Speedy Stitcher in the Lodge Lounge.

I rappelled with a brake bar (1), I have also rapped with  just a Munter hitch. I have successfully Dulfersitzed

I Tyrolean traversed the river to Short Circuit

I slept in my van in the C4 lot without getting harassed 

I spent 3 days on the RNWFHD with one gallon of water when I was 16

I resoled 5 pairs of climbing boots in Komito’s shop

I got pulled over with Jeff Lowe in my van, and he got arrested but I didn’t

I lived in an apple orchard in Eldorado Springs for 4 months, rent free

I soloed the Bastille Crack and The Bulge in Eldo on sight and didn’t get scared

I climbed with females and didn’t get paid

I forgot my harness and climbed with a bowline around my waist

I ate tuna from the can with a knifeblade as a spoon

I used a coiled rope as a pillow

I led the pitch to Long Ledge with a flashlight in my mouth

I climbed El Cap with only pitons

I got horrendous rope drag on the Left Ski Track at Tahquitz

I witnessed Charlie Porter climbing the Shield Triple Cracks on the FA

I drank from the Merced River, unfiltered

I had sex with a Curry girl in a mud bog in Leidig Meadow and got crabs

I had sex with a cowgirl in the stables bunkhouse and didn’t get my ass kicked by the cowboys 

I had sex with a girl from Sonora in in her toyota Corolla in the parking lot behind the lodge dorms, and her brother wanted to beat me up, but I talked him out of it

Had sex twice with some girl I met in camp one day, we were going at it in my tent within an hour, and her boyfriend appeared outside right after round two. She told me not to worry, and she slipped out, I never saw her again.

I dried my sleeping bag every night in the girls’ K and L dorms across the street from Camp for a dime during the winter, and crawled into a toasty bag for another night in the snow.

I got a staph infection in my knee while climbing the Direct on Half Dome, and went to the hospital on acid the day after I got back to the Valley Floor. Doc said I was lucky I didn’t wait any longer

Hitchhiked from San Diego to Yosemite

Drove into Camp Four to car camp

Soloed and named the Peyote Cracks in Josh while on peyote

Watched a rescue chopper crash at the base of the West Buttress from a hanging belay high on the Magic Mushroom

Ate buttons on Chickenhead Ledge afterwards

Never used a wag bag

Are any of those ok with you guys?

LMFAO, never thought I'd see someone in EB's lol.

no no no KW. "I climbed with females and didn’t get paid" I think the P is an L ;)

Oh yeah! I forgot that I forgot my shoes that one time. Wanted to do the naked edge, ended up doing Mickey Mouse Nailup, Body Tremors, Smoke and Mirrors, and E.L. 200, leading half of it.

Who is he trying to impress? This is kinda sad 

Damn Kevin- you climb in Yosemite AND have sex? So rad 

Say, let’s not all pile on Kevin.  He’s keeping it real here and not bragging.  The biggest compliment ever paid to one of his sex partners was,  “She had a nice tooth”