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aimeerose
Mar 29, 2006, 3:03 AM
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Bobbi Bensmen while climbing a sqeeze chimney, "If I keep doing this, I'm going to ruin a $3000 boob job".
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aimeerose
Mar 29, 2006, 3:09 AM
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One of my personal favorites:
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." -John Muir
Also good for those with large "wimp nodes" (a Malcom saying):
"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks." -Helmuth von Moltke
And for those who need more common sense:
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." -George Patton
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boardline22
Mar 29, 2006, 3:32 AM
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"I'd reather be in the mountains thinking about God, then be in church thinking about the mountains."
I read it on this site, forgot who said it though.
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omegaprime
Mar 29, 2006, 3:37 AM
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"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." Yoda.
Ignore that it's a quote from a fictional character, it says a lot about committing to a move when you climb.
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brent_e
Mar 29, 2006, 3:38 AM
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"the church is close, but the road is ice. The pub is far, but I will walk carefully."
- russian proverb, apparently
Brent
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asher84
Mar 29, 2006, 3:48 AM
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In reply to: Overheard at my gym: "Nice job, Niel. You put the 'ho' in 'hot'.
What's awesome about that, is that as soon as I read it I knew who and where. :D
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quasimoto187
Mar 29, 2006, 4:01 AM
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"The woods are lovely dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep"
G. Mallory
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mturner
Mar 29, 2006, 4:36 AM
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In reply to: "The woods are lovely dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" G. Mallory
Uhh...I think that's Robert Frost
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audibletruth
Mar 29, 2006, 4:45 AM
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"Vertigo is not the fear of falling, it is the fear that you will be unable to overcome the urge to hurl yourself into the void" -Milan.
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curtis_g
Mar 29, 2006, 4:45 AM
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"Summit or death, either way I win."
- Rob Slater before dying on K2
"I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have done that if we weren't taping"
- Myself just after a 10 ft gainer flip off of a sand dune.
"Oh man, I'm so scared...I love this s---"
- My friend just before the same gainer flip.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. To front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau.
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audibletruth
Mar 29, 2006, 4:53 AM
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not a climbing quote but a good one.
"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His new born cunning gave him poise and control." -Jack London, The call of the wild.
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jcasper
Mar 29, 2006, 9:24 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: "The woods are lovely dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" G. Mallory Uhh...I think that's Robert Frost
Yup, the last stanza of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening."
There is a good quote from G. Mallory though: "Because it's there" (explaining why he wanted to climb Everest.)
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perp
Mar 29, 2006, 9:43 AM
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
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climbingcowboy
Mar 29, 2006, 9:50 AM
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The first one is one of my favorites.
If you cannot understand that there is something in a man which responds to the challenge of this mountian and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you wont see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. If you have to ask the question, you won't understand the answer. -George Leigh Mallory
I climbed up this north face to experience the masochistic pleasure of fighting for my life. But I had'nt intended to lose. The need for risk has always been inside of me, lurking and threating. If I don't satisfy the impulses, if I let them bulid up untreated, they'll explode with finality. I'd kill myself trying to handle it.--Mark Twight
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oopps
Mar 29, 2006, 1:08 PM
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In reply to: If you have to ask the question, you won't understand the answer. -George Leigh Mallory
I've often used this answer, but never was quite sure where it came from. I thought it was orriginally Sonny Barger when asked why he rode Harleys - guess I was wrong.
Not climbing specific, but one of my favorites
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London
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wzrdgandalf
Mar 29, 2006, 3:17 PM
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"Tall people reach... short people climb." Some guy at my gym
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jdouble
Mar 29, 2006, 4:00 PM
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See last line of signature.
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jdouble
Mar 29, 2006, 4:05 PM
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In reply to: "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London
Wow.
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rockclimbingpyro
Mar 29, 2006, 4:19 PM
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"My father once said that A walk in the woods is the equivelent to church going" -- Adolous Huxley
Gravity is a harsh mistress -- the tick
going to the mountains is going home -- john muir
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gandolf
Mar 29, 2006, 5:27 PM
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Climb hard, or die.
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the_climber
Mar 29, 2006, 5:30 PM
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"I need pain killers, strong ones, none of that T3 SH@#. Something with a dan or a done in it..."
-Can't remember who said it, but it was said after a fall on ice.
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airbender
Mar 29, 2006, 5:44 PM
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"Gravity Works" the bat from ferngully.
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fire_or_retire
Mar 29, 2006, 5:52 PM
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Don't sweat the petty pet the sweaty
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vector
Mar 29, 2006, 5:57 PM
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Never thought of it in the context of rock climbing before, but it applies:
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~Anais Nin
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