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bradhill
Dec 13, 2002, 7:47 PM
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Watching Jack Tackle talk about his incredibly committing and hardship and challenge filled Alaskan epics got me to thinking. I've been having a good time and climbing at a good level for me lately, but it's been a long time since I pushed my limits, and I miss that. I'm a safe climber, first and foremost. Doing stuff you shouldn't is stupid, but one can go beyond one's comfort zone and still be safe;
that's courage.
When's the last time you committed to something big and uncertain, pushed yourself technically above where you've been before and streched your physical and mental endurance to the point where you could feel really proud of it?
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holmeslovesguinness
Dec 13, 2002, 8:04 PM
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When's the last time you committed to something big and uncertain, pushed yourself technically above where you've been before and streched your physical and mental endurance to the point where you could feel really proud of it?
Getting out of bed before 1pm to go bouldering at the gym last weekend really felt full on, dunno if I would do that again anytime soon.
Don't think I've ever done anything that qualifies as epic. My first multi-pitch trad experience was at Lovers Leap ('94), my wife and I just jumped into it with both feet, had never really led much trad or done anything multi-pitch. First route we did was scaaaary. Not really smart in retrospect, but we were both stoked as hell after finishing that first climb.
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stevo
Dec 13, 2002, 10:06 PM
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[ This Message was edited by: stevo on 2002-12-16 08:07 ]
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agrauch
Dec 13, 2002, 10:17 PM
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Well, I'm pretty proud of my August '02 ascent of the Grand Teton's North Ridge.
It's not exactly huge or remote or extremely technical, but I'm happy about the style in which we climbed. I stuffed all my bivy gear, food, water, and hardware into a 2200 ci day pack. We went without ice gear despite the fact that we knew the route has ice on the approach. Just had to trust that we could find a way past the ice (this isn't as stupid as it sounds, we were climbing late in the season during a drought). Rather than doing the fairly standard approach from the south via Valhalla Traverse, we approached from the north side of the mountain and carried all our gear up and over.
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jtcronk
Dec 13, 2002, 11:00 PM
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The last semi-out-there thing was more unsure on the overall effort and not technical difficulty. My climbing partner and myself attempted the West Rib-in-a-day thing on Denali. We had to downclimb back to the 14 camp due to weather front coming in, so we didn't get to top out. Good day though. A little committing doing a longer route on a big peak in cold weather, knowing we had limited time and nothing to eat but Gu.....
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jhump
Dec 14, 2002, 2:24 AM
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jtcronk,
Did you try to go from the NE fork of the Kahiltna to the summit in a day? That's a big day. Or, did you climb from Genet Basin 14k and go for the summit? If you did the real, full West Rib climb from the NE Fork, how was the technical stuff just off the glacier, i think that steep colouir is called the Chicken?
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camhead
Dec 14, 2002, 2:34 AM
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I rode my biike in rush hour dallas traffic last week. that was pushing limits.
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climbingjunky
Dec 14, 2002, 3:50 AM
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Today I lifted weights for 1.5 hours, cardio for 1 hour, climbed for 2 hours, played ice hockey fo 2 hours. I guess that's pushing the limit.
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epic_ed
Dec 14, 2002, 3:58 AM
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I made it until NOON today without a cup of coffee. Now that's pushin' it.
Ed
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climbingjunky
Dec 14, 2002, 4:44 AM
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Ive been going out with my gf for 8 yrs. Now that's pushing it! (Only kidding)
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