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fluff head
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Jun 6, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Sep 2011
· Points: 65
Ok, fess up, MPers!!! Who here has actually ever climbed? I mean actual outside, technical climbing type stuff with the funny shoes and harness and all? Personally, I've toproped in a gym twice, climbed at a 20 ft. cliff in NH once (also TR, but HARD!), and dabbled with free soloing (more like glorified scrambling! Ha!). Sometimes I feel like maybe i don't have the experience and general intelligence to contribute to this site, but I do anyways! Anyone else here fall into this category?!?!?
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Benjamin Chapman
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Jun 6, 2013
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Small Town, USA
· Joined Jan 2007
· Points: 19,012
We climbed outdoors for thirty years before we ever heard of MP. MP is a time pit like Facebook or FarmVille.
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Josh Kornish
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Jun 6, 2013
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Whitefish, MT
· Joined Sep 2009
· Points: 800
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Rob M
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Jun 6, 2013
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Shangri-LA
· Joined Jun 2010
· Points: 20
9 years. I like the beta pics.
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Matt N
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Jun 6, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Oct 2010
· Points: 415
Outside? That's crazy talk, man.
I climb in a controlled environment where all the holds are labeled for me and the temperature is just right for shirtless + beanie sending - you know, like 90% of the 'climbers' out there.
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teece303
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Jun 6, 2013
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Highlands Ranch, CO
· Joined Dec 2012
· Points: 596
Wait, this is a climbing site? I thought it was about gardening. No wonder I'm so confused... If I told you how I long I'd been climbing, then you'd know how old I am. Screw that! You young 'uns would laugh at me. But yes, I've climbed outside, for more than one season. On my own. On lead even! It's crazy, man! :-)
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Brad Caldwell
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Jun 6, 2013
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Deep in the Jocassee Gorges
· Joined May 2010
· Points: 1,400
Hilarious! Never really considered that most folks on MP are just a bunch of noobs and gym climbers, but it makes the plethora of moronic posts make a lot more sense. Been climbing outdoors for over 20 years and only climb in a gym every Xmas season while visiting family in Portland (most gyms really suck but The Circuit gyms are pretty awesome) I've climbed/led single & multipitch trad and sport, FAed a few easy single pitch trad/free solo routes and near 1000 boulder problems in several southeastern states, primarily SC.
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FrankPS
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Jun 6, 2013
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Atascadero, CA
· Joined Nov 2009
· Points: 276
If you really rock climb, you can get hurt. That's insane, man. I saw that Alex Handhold guy on TV once. How do they get the rope up there? How do you get back down? With one of those wingsuit thingies?
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Mark E Dixon
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Jun 6, 2013
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Possunt, nec posse videntur
· Joined Nov 2007
· Points: 974
Brad Caldwell wrote:Hilarious! Never really considered that most folks on MP are just a bunch of noobs and gym climbers, but it makes the plethora of moronic posts make a lot more sense. Hey, it's dirty outside and there's no coffee.
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Ken Noyce
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Jun 6, 2013
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Layton, UT
· Joined Aug 2010
· Points: 2,648
VerticalUrge wrote:Ok, fess up, MPers!!! Who here has actually ever climbed? I mean actual outside, technical climbing type stuff with the funny shoes and harness and all? Personally, I've toproped in a gym twice, climbed at a 20 ft. cliff in NH once (also TR, but HARD!), and dabbled with free soloing (more like glorified scrambling! Ha!). Sometimes I feel like maybe i don't have the experience and general intelligence to contribute to this site, but I do anyways! Anyone else here fall into this category?!?!? Sometimes I look at pictures of people climbing outside on the interwebs and I daydream that it is really me, does that count?
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Norse Force
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Jun 6, 2013
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Nederland, CO
· Joined Nov 2012
· Points: 0
Closest I have gotten to real climbing is as a stand in for the movie "Vertical Limit".
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mountainhick
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Jun 6, 2013
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Black Hawk, CO
· Joined Mar 2009
· Points: 120
Must be a 34 year hallucination, this climbing nonsense.
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Morgan Patterson
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Jun 6, 2013
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NH
· Joined Oct 2009
· Points: 8,960
VerticalUrge wrote:Ok, fess up, MPers!!! Who here has actually ever climbed? I mean actual outside, technical climbing type stuff with the funny shoes and harness and all? Personally, I've toproped in a gym twice, climbed at a 20 ft. cliff in NH once (also TR, but HARD!), and dabbled with free soloing (more like glorified scrambling! Ha!). Sometimes I feel like maybe i don't have the experience and general intelligence to contribute to this site, but I do anyways! Anyone else here fall into this category?!?!? Most of the photos on the site are Photoshop'ed don't be fooled.
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Garret Nuzzo Jones
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Jun 6, 2013
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Salt Lake City, UT
· Joined Feb 2012
· Points: 1,436
CaptainMo wrote: Most of the photos on the site are Photoshop'ed don't be fooled. Human beings can't actually climb vertical rock. What would you even stand on? Pretty obvious that it's a sham.
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M Mobley
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Jun 6, 2013
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Bar Harbor, ME
· Joined Mar 2006
· Points: 911
I'm still waiting for my yoga pants and beanie to show up from REI before I'm climbing anything and I have an appt. next Monday to get a tribal band tattooed on my arm. By a week from Friday I think I may be ready. What do you guys think about Link cams? I'm thinking I should buy a set or two as well.
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cjdrover
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Jun 6, 2013
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Watertown, MA
· Joined Feb 2009
· Points: 355
I went sport rappelling once. On a related note, I am listing 14 figure 8's for sale, $50 each.
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Woodchuck ATC
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Jun 6, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Nov 2007
· Points: 3,280
Benjamin Chapman wrote:We climbed outdoors for thirty years before we ever heard of MP. MP is a time pit like Facebook or FarmVille. LOL!! That's an accurate evaluation. Friend of mine directed me here years ago,,now he's not on site anymore but I still hang out here between real world rock climbing tours.
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Greg D
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Jun 6, 2013
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Here
· Joined Apr 2006
· Points: 883
VerticalUrge wrote: . Sometimes I feel like maybe i don't have the experience and general intelligence to contribute to this site, but I do anyways!?!? Why?
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Matt N
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Jun 6, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Oct 2010
· Points: 415
VerticalUrge wrote: Sometimes I feel like maybe i don't have the experience and general intelligence to contribute to this site, but I do anyways!?!? Greg D wrote: Why? If everyone self-policed their posts like this, MP forums would have no content at all!
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Hamilton Kibbe
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Jun 6, 2013
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Somerville, MA
· Joined Apr 2010
· Points: 71
Benjamin Chapman wrote:We climbed outdoors for thirty years before we ever heard of MP. MP is a time pit like Facebook or FarmVille. I always thought of climbing as a time pit like Facebook or Farmville, you know, something to waste the time you could be spending on MP
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sherb
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Jun 6, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Dec 2012
· Points: 60
Hahahh well defn I've seen a lot of the trolls who post and don't climb. They are usually spreading dysfunction and ire around MP. I always know someone doesn't climb if they ask me if I rappel. For some reason this is a common question non-climbers ask me. Well yes, I do, but it's just the way to get down after the climb and not the highlight, at all (sometimes more like a chore). If you climb, you rappel.
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