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bobruef
Nov 9, 2005, 3:20 PM
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caughtinside-
are you getting in another squable?
-Bob 8^)
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lewisiarediviva
Nov 10, 2005, 2:54 AM
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In reply to: 3,470 posts / 731 days = 4.7 posts per day, EVERY day for two years. .......
Hmmm. Maybe takes an hour a day. So that is 731 hours out of what (731x23) 16813 hours left to climb and kayak and sleep and such.
Really, this portion of this thread is lame- but I saw math that I understood, I had to respond.
Cams getting stuck. I have found that when I place a cam, and decided to remove it- I actually expect it to be removed easier than I would expect a nut to be removed. So when it doesn't come out I get all in a huff and it knows that I am not happy with it so it just stays put like a naughty puppy. But that, to this point in my life, is so far my only issue with them.
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granite_grrl
Nov 10, 2005, 11:59 AM
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One of my worse habits for placing cams is that I like them to be fairly deep in a crack. Eventually I'm going to have one of these walk far deep into a crack, never to be seen again.
The other posibility is that my larger hand partners will be forced to take out their nut tools, poking and proding trying to latch the trigger properly and break a trigger wire or two.
I've been climbing with my boyfriend a lot lately and he has massive hands. I've been trying to place them so they're easier to retreive if only so I don't have to hear him curse me out. But sometimes that nice deep placed cam is so reassuring......
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caughtinside
Nov 11, 2005, 2:21 AM
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Status/spray:
I have climbed the last 4 days in JTree, and have fixed no cams. Further updates to come.
:P
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esoteric1
Nov 11, 2005, 2:40 AM
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4 days and no booty in josh?
ive pulled 300 bucks worth of gear out of tahquits in a season, i dont question it. hell, i pulled a cam out of a ground route that had been there for weeks....
leave em if ya can afford em....
mark
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angry
Nov 11, 2005, 3:33 AM
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Gullshit19, how long have you been climbing?
How hard do you climb?
How recently have you climbed a hard offwidth?
Do you think for one second you are a better climber than Caughtinsideplanningoutmoregridboltedroutes? Are you that much better of a climber that you can freely dis him?
How about this? I've onsighted 5.12 offwidths. I've soloed wide cracks that'd make you cry. I went through puberty with stacked fists. And I am the very person Caughtintoulomnewithsomereligiousfanatickid mentioned that fixed a cam on a 5.6!
Believe it, nobody here is perfect.
And now some helpful advice. On granite or anything less than parallel, try to leapfrog or remove and place higher. Yeah, it's spooky at times but sliding a cam up and into constrictions is probably the best way to fix a cam.
Place the cam shallow and run a sling on it so the rope stays outside the crack. It won't be as easy to fuck up with your foot.
Big Bros - Sorry I couldn't resist adding that one. But if used correctly they go in pretty easily and they never eat a rope.
Don't place the cam when you are all stressed out. Try to do 2 more moves and get stable before you place. Don't worry about the "run out", those extra moves probably only equals a couple inches in the offwidth realm.
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gullwing19
Nov 11, 2005, 3:47 AM
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tradren.....I heard that in poland little kids go up to the Americans and with puppy dog eyes ask them if we really make fun of them back in the States.
Maybe all of your hostility towards someone you don't even know stems only from our multi-national relationship as joke teller and the respective butt of.
Ah hell. I feel bad for laughing, but it's only funny cause it's true.
And as far as questioning my skill level tradren why don't you criticize me after you start leading harder than 5.7. It IS an impressive list of 5.6 and below however. Lots of good beginner routes.
Supa dupa!
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angry
Nov 11, 2005, 3:53 AM
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In reply to: And as far as questioning my skill level tradren why don't you criticize me after you start leading harder than 5.7. It IS an impressive list of 5.6 and below however. Lots of good beginner routes. Supa dupa!
Dis me, I mother fucking dare you!!! C'mon, tell me how I can't climb anything, especially wide. Do it, do it, do it.
Caughtchippingholds, I got your back!!
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gullwing19
Nov 11, 2005, 4:00 AM
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HAHA dude, Angry...that was all for Tradrenn...but since you were wondering......
I climb about a solid 5.9....dipping into the 10.a / b gear stuff. Props on climbing 5.12 offwidth. That's gotta be some nightmarish stuff.
I try to climb at least twice a week and yes, I did climb today. Nice cruise up three pitches of beautiful 5.7 granite hand cracks.
As for offwidth, I climbed a nice 5.8 pitch of offwidth just last week. Didn't even get a cam stuck or nuthin. Oh, and I've been climbing bout 6 years now an NO, I never said I was better than Caughtinsideorwhatever.
Hope that answered your questions!
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tradrenn
Nov 11, 2005, 4:26 AM
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Po pierwsze to nie "Supa dupa" tylko jezeli juz musisz no to "Super dupa"
Jak kurwa nie znasz polskiego to sie kurwa nie odzywaj, ok dupku.
A jak jestes Polak to powinienes miec jaja i ujawnic sie.
Sie ma
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iltripp
Nov 11, 2005, 4:32 AM
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In reply to: tradren.....I heard that in poland little kids go up to the Americans and with puppy dog eyes ask them if we really make fun of them back in the States. Maybe all of your hostility towards someone you don't even know stems only from our multi-national relationship as joke teller and the respective butt of. Ah hell. I feel bad for laughing, but it's only funny cause it's true.
Yeah... ethnic slurs are cool...
fvcktard
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tradrenn
Nov 11, 2005, 4:52 AM
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In reply to: tradren.....I heard that in poland little kids go up to the Americans and with puppy dog eyes ask them if we really make fun of them back in the States. Maybe all of your hostility towards someone you don't even know stems only from our multi-national relationship as joke teller and the respective butt of. Ah hell. I feel bad for laughing, but it's only funny cause it's true. And as far as questioning my skill level tradren why don't you criticize me after you start leading harder than 5.7. It IS an impressive list of 5.6 and below however. Lots of good beginner routes. Supa dupa!
From my last post, my point still stands.
LEARN TO READ
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dirtineye
Nov 11, 2005, 1:46 PM
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I love this thread.
It's great to have a new punching bag! Welcome gullable19.
Hey Angry, I bet those offwidths are easy for you cause you are a scrawny rat-like character, who can squirm into stuff that them bigger folk must curse and sweat on. For me, most people's semi-wide is a squeeze chimney. I alsoo get the coveted ring jams and thumb cams where my larger friends are forced to be brave and daring. On the other hand, what is bomber for the fat handed is usually a loose rattley insecure nightmare for me.
I think you should change your name to Angster, rhymes with ganster.
Ragging on people because they don't appear to climb very difficult routes is beneath contemp, unless I'm the one doing it.
Some of the safest climbers I know don't climb harder than about 5.8, and some of the strongest climbers I know routinely do stuff that would make a safety nazi run screaming from the cliff. There are guys out there who have climbed for 30 years who can't place a cam (or anything else except a Titon for that matter) worth a crap.
So caughtinzipper has been chipping holds on overbolted non-routes eh? He he.
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angry
Nov 11, 2005, 3:31 PM
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Normally Dirtinanus, I'd agree with you.
This guy is a little bitch and I used some examples to point it out.
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gullwing19
Nov 11, 2005, 5:27 PM
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Dirt...you bring up some nice points. Thanks for keeping it civil.
And angry, why don't you go back and re-read the posts to see who started questioning each others skill level first. Insults were slung at me to begin with. Was I supposed to just sit there and take it in the ass like like you do? No. I'm going to say something.
So bitch. I guess this is how it works. I insult you. You insult my lack of 5.12 offwidth ability. I insult you back etc. etc. We both hide behind a stupid computer screen and demean each others love, for whatever reason, of this great sport. Isn't the internet great?
Would you say those things to me in person? I don't think you would. Hell, your wife would probably have to jump in and save you anyway because you'd obviously be spent from climbing 5.12 all day, assuming that a 5.12 climber has time to marry.
You're probably a pretty decent guy in person but you're just like all the other internet pussies around here spraying about their rippling muscles and 5.12 offwidth onsites blindfolded with your dick hanging to the right instead of the left. Who the hell wants to hear about how good you are?
Oh, and I'm sorry for the ethnic slurs directed at the Polish kid. I really do know how many Pollocks it takes to change a lightbulb. I was just kidding.
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iltripp
Nov 11, 2005, 6:28 PM
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In reply to: Oh, and I'm sorry for the ethnic slurs directed at the Polish kid. I really do know how many Pollocks it takes to change a lightbulb. I was just kidding.
Newsflash... it wasn't funny.
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dirtineye
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In reply to: In reply to: So caughtinzipper has been chipping holds on overbolted non-routes eh? He he. Unlikely. I just like giving him s---.
Me too!
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gullwing19
Nov 11, 2005, 7:48 PM
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It's only funny to people with senses of humor.
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iltripp
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In reply to: It's only funny to people with senses of humor.
Or idiots... ^
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gullwing19
Nov 11, 2005, 7:57 PM
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Yes I guess idiots would be lumped into those with senses of humor but usually an idiot just laughs at whatever anyone else is laughing at, so I try not to count their laughter as comedically valuable.
I was refering to those like the bland. The boring. The uptight. The whinny. The melodramatic.
You know the type.
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stymingersfink
Nov 12, 2005, 7:45 PM
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:lol:
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iltripp
Nov 12, 2005, 9:31 PM
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In reply to: Yes I guess idiots would be lumped into those with senses of humor but usually an idiot just laughs at whatever anyone else is laughing at, so I try not to count their laughter as comedically valuable. I was refering to those like the bland. The boring. The uptight. The whinny. The melodramatic. You know the type.
I'm not sure I understood that... Perhaps some basic sentence structure would be helpful. Also, when you say, "I was referring to...", there should generally be some preceding statement to which you are referring. However, your last post was about "people with senses of humour". What does that have to do with "bland, boring, uptight", etc?
By the way, look up the definition of melodramatic; it's right up your alley.
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lewisiarediviva
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So gullwing 19, does your statement above mean that you never laugh if others are laughing?
Even us trad climbers have to lighten up sometimes. I was enjoying this thread until you came along. Now it all seems to be about you, and not cams. :( I've noticed this in a few threads.
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