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mar_leclerc
Feb 13, 2009, 1:27 AM
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I know lots of people do the occasional mixed move but how many of you guys actually like serious mixed climbing? I personally love steep bolted mixed routes but it doesn't seem very popular around here....
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esoteric1
Feb 13, 2009, 1:48 AM
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i pretty much call myself a hiker, mostly cause i straight up hike routes.
do you really need a sub label below your main label?
just tattoo i clim roks on your forehead, nobody will care if you bust out with a super sick drytool move every once in a while.
more than likely theyl just realize you play on rocks durring the weekend and roll their eyes.
btw, i announce to everyone I meet that im a single pitch aid climber, that wont be bothered with the significant walls of the world, because im too bussy not reporting my single pitch a6 hook fests, in rock quarrys,
usualy they think im pretty cool.
good luck
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climbingtrash
Feb 13, 2009, 2:16 AM
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mar_leclerc wrote: I know lots of people do the occasional mixed move but how many of you guys actually like serious mixed climbing? I personally love steep bolted mixed routes but it doesn't seem very popular around here....
Mixed crimming iz AID...
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forkliftdaddy
Feb 13, 2009, 3:02 AM
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esoteric1 wrote: i pretty much call myself a hiker, mostly cause i straight up hike routes.
That's funny.
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gargrantuan
Feb 13, 2009, 6:24 AM
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only when i am wearing fruitboots.
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devkrev
Feb 13, 2009, 12:39 PM
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I'm a mixed climber, because I always climb with my ice axes, even when I'm in the gym, its great because if the hold is too small, I can just hook it with the pick thing. During the summer too, sometimes I can't hang on so I just use the ax, so that way I can still climb hard. It makes bouldering easier too.
Not to mention the respect and admiration I get for having more widgets hanging off my harness than everyone else.
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granite_grrl
Feb 13, 2009, 2:37 PM
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I really do enjoy mixed climbing, and from the sounds of it I get to do it a lot more than the OP. I would not call myself a "mixed climber" though (even if I labeled my self as any one type of climber....lame!!!) 'cause I'm still kinda too scared to lead most of it.
Fortunally, I'm married to a guy who pretty darn good at mixed climbing and I use as my rope gun.
We have made a few trips out to Pont Rouge and St. Alban (St. Alban is OMG fun drytooling) and have a couple little areas near by where we practice....and yes, I think I probobly still need a lot more practice lol.
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epoch
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Feb 13, 2009, 2:58 PM
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As of right now, I've done more mixed climbing than ice climbing. So, yeah... call me what you want.
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dingus
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I would never call myself a mixed climber. Closest I've come to all that is mountaineering and some mild alpinism.
Not my cup of tea at all... the lack of mixed ice routes is perhaps the biggest obstacle to overcome.
I DO call myself Mixed Up.
DMT
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Gmburns2000
Feb 13, 2009, 3:31 PM
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dingus wrote: I DO call myself Mixed Up. DMT
so does everyone else 
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kachoong
Feb 13, 2009, 3:49 PM
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A true mixed climber is someone proficient at BOTH steep ice and drytooling... I'm sure there are lots of self-called mixed climbers who may drytool well up bolted faces, coz they can sport climb 12's, but would shit themselves on steep ice.
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nikmit
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I’m almost mixed climber- almost because I’m mixing not rock and ice but rock and turf, the routes are trad with no bolts, not too difficult 5+/6- UIAA but they are mentally exaussting- sometimes you place only 2 protections per pich,  most of the times you cant go sh@ttin’ for days after the climb  , and every climb is an epic. I’m havin’ the time of my life. 
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mar_leclerc
Feb 13, 2009, 4:28 PM
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kachoong wrote: lots of self-called mixed climbers who may drytool well up bolted faces, coz they can sport climb 12's, but would shit themselves on steep ice.
That is very true... I've heard of lots of people who will style the M8 lower overhanging part of a route only to fall off/bail on the grade 4 ice above lol....
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chossmonkey
Feb 14, 2009, 12:57 PM
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kachoong wrote: A true mixed climber is someone proficient at BOTH steep ice and drytooling... I'm sure there are lots of self-called mixed climbers who may drytool well up bolted faces, coz they can sport climb 12's, but would shit themselves on steep ice.
I don't label myself as anything but a climber even though I spend most of my "ice climbing" time scratching up the rock. Mixed climbing is just a natural progression of ice climbing. Hard ice routes are normally so thin that they are more like drytooling than ice climbing anyway.
That said I love mixed climbing.
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chossmonkey
Feb 14, 2009, 1:24 PM
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This thread is worthless without pics!!!
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wanderlustmd
Feb 14, 2009, 4:09 PM
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You forgot the best one:
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chossmonkey
Feb 14, 2009, 4:25 PM
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Ooooops!!!
My bad.
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suilenroc
Feb 14, 2009, 5:29 PM
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WTF does "yoursleves" mean?
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sungam
Feb 14, 2009, 6:58 PM
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*swoon*
[falsetto] oooooooh chossmonkey! You could "shootz me in the fayse" anyday! *giggle*[/falsetto]
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chossmonkey
Feb 14, 2009, 7:25 PM
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sungam wrote: *swoon* [falsetto] oooooooh chossmonkey! You could "shootz me in the fayse" anyday! *giggle*[/falsetto]
#15
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sungam
Feb 14, 2009, 7:33 PM
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chossmonkey wrote: sungam wrote: *swoon* [falsetto] oooooooh chossmonkey! You could "shootz me in the fayse" anyday! *giggle*[/falsetto] #15
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