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Re: [sungam] Best and worst date climbs?:
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angry
Feb 13, 2009, 10:34 PM
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sungam wrote: petsfed wrote: Its a really long story, and I haven't had the time to type it out. Fair enough. Some time, though.
I've got a few.
Early on, my HS GF. She was an OK climber, usually able to follow anything I led. I got up a really thing 5.10 corner (hard for me at the time) and even though she followed it cleanly, she whimpered about the whole time. I finally snapped at her that you're only allowed to scream if you need a rescue.
Later that day while walking out in the dark, we missed the trail I didn't want to ford the beaver ponds. I knew that between us and the highway, which I could see, was the road that led directly to where we parked. It was a bit further than I'd hoped and it was a pain in the ass bushwhack. I got bitched at every moment of that walk. The whole day sucked.
Other shitty situations.
I took a girl over to "The Center Route" on the Cynical Pinnacle. She told me that she loved 5.9 trad and loved crack climbing. I led the first pitch of 5.8 and it took her half the day to follow. We bailed and I never called her back.
On the ridge traverse final bit of the 1st flatiron, I had a girl totally freeze up. I was able to build an anchor and lower her to the ground. I soloed to the rap anchors and met her a minute later. It wasn't a big deal.
A friend of mine in college tried to set me up with this girl. We went out and had fun and planned to climb a day later. She bailed because of a hangover, I was left without a partner, and I never called her back. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't take such a hard stance on stuff like that. I'm pretty mellow but I feel that partners need a pretty good reason to bail.
Those are just off the top of my head, there's others, but I'll just leave them. Maybe edl will post up about the time he got stranded at Vedauwoo.
(This post was edited by angry on Feb 13, 2009, 10:35 PM)
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Post edited by angry
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