Mediocre climbing accomplishments

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”

abandon moderation wrote:

One day, when I was climbing with Tommy Caldwell... well, actually, when I walked past him while leaving the Village grocery store with my bag of Doritos... I felt so strong after passing through his aura that I went on to send 5.9.

Here's my top mediocre climbing accomplishment: I once saw TC at the Denver airport baggage claim, and I showed the self restraint to not interrupt his trip and let him live his life. That's like 5.13 for a climbing nerd.

I’ve eaten more shit than anyone on MP

I saw Hans Florine in the lovers leap parking lot and he gave me a “do hard things” sticker after I told him I did Corrugation Corner IAD. 

Ive been a member of MP since when it was climbingboulder.com

I left my shoes in the car and had to follow 5.10 Barefoot. Schist is really sharp. Ouch

KW, all joking aside, I think most of us are pretty jealous of the adventures you have had!

Not so mediocre...

Honestly, my greatest mediocre climbing achievement is creating a new zigzagging route between other routes at a local crag. The utter thrill of being the first to find a new sequence was freaking amazing. When I can’t sleep at night I literally relive the process in my head. 

ryan climbs sometimes wrote:

is that really an accomplishment?

Nope.

But is mediocre AF

John Edwinwrote:

I’ve eaten more shit than anyone on MP

Are you a crag dog?

Darren Mabewrote:

Ive been a member of MP since when it was climbingboulder.com

I remember when you didn’t need a password. Make a comment and scroll down through a list of names to choose who was saying it. Good times.

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsionwrote:

I remember when you didn’t need a password. Make a comment and scroll down through a list of names to choose who was saying it. Good times.

I definitely posted under the wrong name at least twice because of that.

My mediocre accomplishment was climbing one of Kevin W routes in the valley

Mine is having recently realized that Kevin Worrall and Kevin DeWeese are different people.

Today I used the Texas Rope Trick around a tree to avoid rapping from webbing of an unknown age that was cut about 1/4 way through.

If I had any cordage or webbing I would have backed up the current anchor, but the longest thing I had was a 48in dyneema sling that was just barely long enough to get around the tree after clipping some carabiners to each end so I wouldn't be dragging my rope directly across the sling.

Back in 1971, while in Leysin Switzerland, I got royally drunk with Dougal Haston, and a bunch of other climbers.  I was with another UK climbing buddy, and we were all pounding the booze down. There was one guy sitting directly across from me, with a fag in his mouth, just kind of following the conversation.   Back then I was kind of into hero worship, being a young, eager climber. and I asked my buddy,  in a whisper, " are there any other famous climbers in here".  My buddy replied in a whisper that the guy with the fag in his mouth, directly in front of me was Don Whillans.  

I'm sure Whillans heard every word, and I felt like a complete ass.

I let Alex Borrow my guide book in Zion so he could free solo shunes butt

l let Matt Segal borrow a cam so he and Jessie Huey could attempt to free the diamond in winter (I was on broadway) toot toot