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Not trying to be a dick, but is this just a thread you created to see how many people have been climbing longer than you have (1 year), but have not reached that 5.12 level. A way to toot your own horn per se.

I tried to send a package to someone in Columbia once...epic, definitely harder than my normal method of FedEx or USPS stateside. I think I'd been climbing 12 years at the time.

Ive done one 13b la violencia in el salto been climbing one and a half years.

I sent a few packages to my home in the states while I was traveling in China. I forgot that I had put them in the mail and three months after I got home, bam Christmas in July. That was a pretty crazy send. I had been climbing for about a year at the time.

I had a really epic send in Squamish. I tried to send a big box of my rope and rack to the B&B where my wifey and I were staying for our Honeymoon. Declared its value, the fucks at UPS said it was all good to go.

It never showed up, we spent the first three days of our trip waiting for it (not a huge deal since it was raining anyway), and after several hours of phone calls, it turns out it was just sitting at the customs warehouse in the outskirts of Vancouver, where they would not deliver it until I had signed a bunch of stuff. Had to make a special drive down there from Squish, wait in some lines for a few hours, and then pick it up. UPS, those specialists in international logistics, never apologized, never gave me any refund, and seemed completely confused as to why this had happened.

Definitely my hardest send.

Last year I sold a piece of really expensive electronics via insured UPS and when the box arrived, it looked as though UPS had tossed it off a cliff. Turns out they actually ran over it with the truck. Then they tried to wrap the whole thing back together with red duct tape.

The buyer and I spent approximately 4 months going back and forth with UPS trying to get them to pay out on the insurance claim.

Hardest send by far.

I had been climbing over 10 years at that point. 4 months of e-mailing, gone to waste. I could have been out climbing instead.

Jon H wrote:Last year I sold a piece of really expensive electronics via insured UPS and when the box arrived, it looked as though UPS had tossed it off a cliff. Turns out they actually ran over it with the truck. Then they tried to wrap the whole thing back together with red duct tape. The buyer and I spent approximately 4 months going back and forth with UPS trying to get them to pay out on the insurance claim. Hardest send by far. I had been climbing over 10 years at that point. 4 months of e-mailing, gone to waste. I could have been out climbing instead.

Taxes man. Not the send itself so much as the preparation, so much spreadsheet endurance and financial technique required. I had to change my whole style, definitely a game changer for the american climber.

4.15a........ In 8" heels and mini skirt and 1" finger nails.....

I've climbed for a really long time.....

It should be ..whats your hardest on sight. Most people can work a route to death and climb way beyond there actual comfort zone. I feel that onsight climbing represents ones true consistent ability.

Will S wrote:I tried to send a package to someone in Columbia once...epic, definitely harder than my normal method of FedEx or USPS stateside. I think I'd been climbing 12 years at the time.

Keith Beckley wrote:It should be ..whats your hardest on sight. Most people can work a route to death and climb way beyond there actual comfort zone. I feel that onsight climbing represents ones true consistent ability.

"This post violated Rule #1. It has been removed by Mountain Project."

Can someone direct me to the "Rule Book".

I've only seen "Guideline #1". Sounds like there is a guideline, ie, suggestion. But, if in someone's mind it has not been followed, then it is a rule and subject to long arm of the mp law makers. This is a serious question. I want to know where the rules are and if I have unknowingly agreed to them. I did read the "terms" of this site but still no rule #1.

Greg D wrote:"This post violated Rule #1. It has been removed by Mountain Project." Can someone direct me to the "Rule Book". I've only seen "Guideline #1". Sounds like there is a guideline, ie, suggestion. But, if in someone's mind it has not been followed, then it is a rule and subject to long arm of the mp law makers. This is a serious question. I want to know where the rules are and if I have unknowingly agreed to them. I did read the "terms" of this site but still no rule #1.

No. I meant to post it here where it would actually get seen. Not there will it will disappear and not be seen. But, thanks for thinking you knew what I meant to do.

Last summer I was in the US for a few months on a climbing trip and took the opportunity to get four pairs of shoes resoled for $40 instead of £40. But when I packed my bags to fly back to London I had bought so much stuff for my wife that I couldn't fit them in, and decided to stuff them into a small flat rate box and post them instead of paying extra to fly w/ an overweight bag.

Little did I know that the UK Customs Agents would try to tax me on shoes that I already owned! OLD shoes at that!

Sneaky bastards make you pay the taxes before you can appeal (you have to have the customs form that is attached to the package). So I had to pay £30 in customs duties just to get my old climbing shoes, then I had to go through a week long telephone battle to get my £s back!

Anyways, it all worked out in the end. I think I've climbed in every pair of those shoes at least once since last year :)

Had to send my girlfriend flowers...wouldn't say it was my hardest send, but certainly the most expensive.

My proudest send was getting a black and tan coonhound by airmail from Oregon about 19 years ago. I didn't even start climbing until 4 years ago.