Climber Dating

Since you brought up climbing AND skiing,  if a gal invited me on a spring ski and climb of the Petite, I would feel obligated to have sex with her. 

Long Ranger wrote:

An easy hike is nice. No need to epic on the first date. 

Well, nobody would argue that epicing on a first date isn't memorable.  Although most folks don't need to go climbing to epic a first date.

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion wrote:

Other "dates" in that first month - Bologna Pony, Yellow Wall (diamond), The Wasp, Pump O Rama, Mississippi half step, you know, chick climbs.

The first climb I did w/ one of my female partner was Bologna Pony, we then cooled down on Naked Edge the next day. Some of the others firsts w/ female partners include Pretty Girls with Long Knives, Scary Canary. Of course, then there are the ones I did w/ my now wife in the first month like Rostrum, Medicine Man, Wunsch's Dihedral. All chick climbs...

Balogna Pony, Pump O Rama, Pretty Girls with Long Knives... Are we still talking about climbing, or are these euphemisms?

Although, now that I think about it, my wife and I are big fans of the "Bedroom Amphitheatre" in Devil's Lake, including such gems as "Friendly Banter", "Foreplay", "Cliff's Coitus", "Orgasm", "Second Coming", so who am I to judge?

Carry on!

Am I wrong? Or is it tough for some climbers who are dating to find things to talk about other than climbing? No experience dating climbers here. Just curious. 

Em Cos wrote:

Hmm, most perfect date - quick-witted, open-hearted, easy-going, finds the fun in everything. I'm a sucker for a good smile. Ideally clean-shaven and omnivorous - which I realize really narrows the pool for me around these parts, but you said "perfect" so I'm dreaming big. 

Now, if the question is acceptable date, lately I feel like I'd be happy with "can get through an entire hour without doing or saying something super weird." 

Sorry Em, taken!   

...and an hour is an eternity!

Ken Graf wrote:

Sorry Em, taken!   

...and an hour is an eternity!

Agreed! Half the time (or more) I'm the one being super weird before the hour is up... 

Guess I'll be a taste of something different when I move out to Fort Collins in July. Im curious to see how the girls like my Kentucky accent :)

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion wrote:

Other "dates" in that first month - Bologna Pony, Yellow Wall (diamond), The Wasp, Pump O Rama, Mississippi half step, you know, chick climbs.

Yellow Wall as a first date sounds awesome

To that point, we're all kinda weird. ;)

To a separate point, I lived in Boulder for 5 years. I run trails, climb sketcky normal ish rock sometimes, and am a messenger who built an tiny IT empire. To that end in Boulder, I was social like anyone else and didn't really reap the benefits of living in such a unique and special area, especially since the M/F ratio of Boulder is askew. So, I don't know how to help this thread and from experience, when I move back to Denver, I'll happily ride bike, climb and hug rocks, and run trail races, to go home and ... think of an alternative reality that one day may be a reality.

Em Cos wrote:

Nothing wrong with that... we all know there's weird and then there's ...weird. ;)

Em Cos wrote:

Agreed! Half the time (or more) I'm the one being super weird before the hour is up... 

How exactly are you acting weird? Do you talk endlessly about accounting or something?

Em Cos wrote:

Now, if the question is acceptable date, lately I feel like I'd be happy with "can get through an entire hour without doing or saying something super weird." 

Define weird?

Em Cos wrote:

Now, if the question is acceptable date, lately I feel like I'd be happy with "can get through an entire hour without doing or saying something super weird." 

I'm a female, but you (Em Cos) write some of my favorite things on MP.  The key is to find someone who enjoys all the weird things you say.  Two people censoring themselves creates a watered-down date, both parties walk away thinking "that was bland" when it could have been so fun if you just let it fly.
*Disclaimer - I'm not a dating coach

You just need to find someone who shares your same frequency of weirdness   

Em Cos wrote:

Now, if the question is acceptable date, lately I feel like I'd be happy with "can get through an entire hour without doing or saying something super weird." 

I admit that I came here for the humor, but I wonder... If I can't clean the OJ out of my keyboard and it gets sticky, do you owe me a new one.
This needed a NSFBIFOKB warning.
(Not Safe For Breakfast In Front Of Keyboard)

One of my partners has been dating and has shared with me some of the "gems" that she's dealt with, or received as messages from a dating site and all I can think sometimes is that I'm happy that I'm married and out of that scene...

sherb wrote:

I'm a female, but you (Em Cos) write some of my favorite things on MP.  The key is to find someone who enjoys all the weird things you say.  Two people censoring themselves creates a watered-down date, both parties walk away thinking "that was bland" when it could have been so fun if you just let it fly.
*Disclaimer - I'm not a dating coach

I'm reminded of the movie Deadpool... you need to find someone whose crazy matches your crazy. Like a jigsaw puzzle; all those weird curvy edges, but you put them together, and you can see the picture on top.

climbing friend,

as stated previously, for obvious it involves leaving trail of luna bar from the crag back to your manly camp, myahhh, adorned with wooden sculpture tributes to the gods, once she arrives, she will look on you shirtless bench pressing massive boulders, perhaps running at high speed to prove your fitness, and/or caring tenderly for your small furry animals family of pets, playing lyrical viking melody on your lute, or perhaps emitting deep sense calming universality and compassion with dreamy look from the eye from your many hours of silent meditations, or perhaps display your intelligence with rock art scratchings in your cave, at all times flexing your muscle meat as much as possible. She would become quite engaged by your high caliber masculine energy and most elevated way you are preparing your top ramen, yes, for romantic fireside dinner.

Aleks Zebastian wrote:

climbing friend,

as stated previously, for obvious it involves leaving trail of luna bar from the crag back to your manly camp, myahhh, adorned with wooden sculpture tributes to the gods, once she arrives, she will look on you shirtless bench pressing massive boulders, perhaps running at high speed to prove your fitness, and/or caring tenderly for your small furry animals family of pets, playing lyrical viking melody on your lute, or perhaps emitting deep sense calming universality and compassion with dreamy look from the eye from your many hours of silent meditations, or perhaps display your intelligence with rock art scratchings in your cave, at all times flexing your muscle meat as much as possible. She would become quite engaged by your high caliber masculine energy and most elevated way you are preparing your top ramen, yes, for romantic fireside dinner.

We don't play lutes.  The shrieks of our victims in battle are all the music we create.  

Andrew Krajnik wrote:

I'm reminded of the movie Deadpool... you need to find someone whose crazy matches your crazy. Like a jigsaw puzzle; all those weird curvy edges, but you put them together, and you can see the picture on top.

And by "Deadpool" I assume you mean the recent Marvel superhero film and not the 1988 Dirty Harry travesty "The Dead Pool?"

Stich wrote:

And by "Deadpool" I assume you mean the recent Marvel superhero film and not the 1988 Dirty Harry travesty "The Dead Pool?"

You assume correctly!