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agrauch
Mar 30, 2002, 8:30 AM
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Getting up at 2 AM is usual...
An 8 mile aproach doesn't scare you...
A 9.4mm rope is fat...
You find the need the need to explain your small set of nuts to aid climbers...
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redox
Mar 30, 2002, 8:37 AM
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a power bar and drink of frozen cool-aid is breakfast... all that at midnight.
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apollodorus
Mar 30, 2002, 8:50 AM
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Little flashes of lightning discharge surround you in an otherwise harmless fog cloud.
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estebandb
Mar 30, 2002, 3:48 PM
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if you own a $50 siut and a $1000 Gore-Tex suit
if you see a girl down the street and think "Hmmm, she is a TD+/5.11c
if you climb up the stairs....literaly
if you don't remember the last time you walked down the stairs.....you rappel
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beyond_gravity
Mar 30, 2002, 4:03 PM
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you dont sleep on the "pillow"
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compclimber
Mar 30, 2002, 4:08 PM
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You've ever quoted Mark Twight
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beyond_gravity
Mar 30, 2002, 6:24 PM
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your girl friend get mad when you talk about your incountors with the "Depth (w)hore"
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redox
Mar 30, 2002, 7:45 PM
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bg, what the hell are you talking about?
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goktug
Mar 30, 2002, 8:34 PM
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You start to feel your frozen fingers.
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polarwid
Mar 30, 2002, 8:47 PM
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...you ASK the military to SEND you to Alaska instead of fighting the orders...
...you sleep with the windows open all winter...
...when you are at Home Depot and a mention of POSTHOLING does not make you think of a FENCE...
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jmlangford
Mar 30, 2002, 10:01 PM
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When it is so cold that the water in your Camelback freezes solid...When you get back to camp and swim in a lake with ice around the edges and that is the WARMEST you've been all day...And to concur with the lightning comment above-when the lightning is so close that you hear the thunder BEFORE you see the flash!
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rrrADAM
Mar 30, 2002, 10:12 PM
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You're cold and wet.
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beyond_gravity
Mar 30, 2002, 10:52 PM
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redox, depth hore is a layer in the snowpack.
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peruviansunshine
Mar 31, 2002, 8:12 PM
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-When your climbin and your partners' eye brows are frozen solid and all you can muster to say is "Are you having fun yet"
-While retreating off multipitch madness in white out conditions and you hear you partner vagely say off belay and you know its your turn. you know the winds goin to spank you. While you reflect upon the situation:the frozen gloves, neck gatier, runners,and then you actually realize that you love it all the crazyinees somehow seems like a bizzar peace
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rockjock04
Mar 31, 2002, 9:31 PM
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When you start another, "you know you got it bad when" topic.
When you find your self hugging the wrong woman in bed because you accidentally went to the wrong house again because you are so tired. (does that work? I saw it on a commercial only with a computer guy.)
I got nothin
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bradhill
Apr 1, 2002, 6:43 PM
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You carry four foot long wands.
You wear your boots to the store when buying a pack.
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estebandb
Apr 1, 2002, 8:02 PM
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your friends don't invite you over anymore cuz they are tired of u climbing up the chimney
your friends don't invite you over anymore cuz they are tired of u climbing in their roof
your list of ascents is ten times longer than ur list of friends
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graniteboy
Apr 7, 2002, 8:12 PM
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When you live in a yurt (or your car) all winter long so you can buy gear.
When you have the scars the mountains gave you, and you consider them gifts.
When you can open a beer bottle with your teeth, then you drink the beer and chew the bottle up.
When you don't own any "hiking boots".
When you've had to eat insects to stay alive.
When you've boiled your sox in the cooking pot after 3 weeks in the range, and you still feel good about eating out of the pot, because it added more protein to your diet.
When you can shut up and lead without whining.
When Mark Twight Quotes YOU.
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beyond_gravity
Apr 7, 2002, 11:20 PM
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Your gear melts into a crevasse (I learned that I have to probe the hard way)
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crazywacky
Apr 7, 2002, 11:45 PM
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When you partner says his feet feel like blocks of wood....and you say "That's a good sign" with a grin on your face.
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climber1
Apr 16, 2002, 7:39 PM
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when you actually enjoy alpine starts.
when you don't think you smell as bad as you do. when you enjoy twelve hour (or longer) days
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badger
Jun 10, 2002, 4:48 AM
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When you worry if you are eating enough calories...
You wear climbing clothes to work...
You drive with your hand out the window in the winter until it's comfortably numb...
You've gone into the grocery store with your climbing harness on...
You use your ice axe for household chores (gardening, cleaning, killing bugs)...
You cut the ice axe loops off of your kids' bookbags (since they all seem to have them)...
A Powergel sounds like a meal...
20 degrees sounds warm to you...
You know the difference between a crevice and a crevasse!
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biggernhell
Jun 10, 2002, 3:21 PM
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When your camel back never really thaws out.
When you hear your girlfriend say "I really hate that Twight guy.
When you start considering that three dollar Walmart emergency poncho as a bivy option.
When a two day climb really means forty eight hours on the route
When you name your first born Rienhold.
When you put your beer in the freezer so that it will keep your hands cold enough for you to enjoy drinking it.
If you've ever had to scrape the ice off of yor eye lids just to keep them working right.
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timpanogos
Jun 10, 2002, 4:00 PM
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When the sound of your own counting -
9 steps, 1 breath
7 steps, 2 breaths
5 steps, 3 breaths is like the song of the sirens driving you hopelessly on.
When you seriously consider buying a handicap toilet for that extra 4" of height for the 3 days after.
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ubangie
Jun 11, 2002, 11:06 PM
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When you use your piss bottle at home.
When your gear is held together by duct tape and luck.
When your bivy sack is your backpack pulled up over your sleeping bag.
When 45lbs ='s a huge pack (with rope)
When you go shopping and only buy Clif bars, PowerGel, and Freeze Dried Meals.
When you and your partner no longer talk, he just grunts at you and you know exactly what he's saying.
You put your PowerGel in your arm pits to warm it up because you want a hot lunch.
You put sunblock up your nose.
You hold you piss bottle tighter then your girlfriend when you sleep.
[ This Message was edited by: ubangie on 2002-06-11 16:42 ]
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