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jono13
Dec 2, 2002, 11:04 PM
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I think almost every climber has had them. Some kind of dissapointment. I know Ive had my fair share What have some of yours been? My biggest was probably getting absolutely raped in my last climbing comp, after placing fairly well in the 2 b4 it I have others, but what are some of yours?
cheers
jono
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marcel
Dec 2, 2002, 11:09 PM
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Being forced off the Devil's Thumb in Alaska by endless bad weather.
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lox
Dec 2, 2002, 11:12 PM
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Realizing that rockclimbing.com domain name had been bought and then coming here only to find this...
Where is Doosh when you need him ?!?!
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mtnjohn
Dec 2, 2002, 11:24 PM
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jono13,
That's youre biggest dissappointment?!
Unless you mean that you were literally raped, then you probably have worse in store for you if you keep climbing.
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nimo
Dec 2, 2002, 11:26 PM
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Leaving Colorado to go to school in south central Michigan.
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alwaysforward
Dec 2, 2002, 11:32 PM
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marcel - i think i read about the devil's thumb in a Krauker novel. is it a tall ice tower?
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ontario_guide
Dec 2, 2002, 11:35 PM
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I think my biggest dissappointment came when I realized that rock climbing was NOT a good way to meet girls!
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climbsomething
Dec 2, 2002, 11:37 PM
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>>Actually having to WORK on my lead head... sheesh, why couldn't I have been born totally fearless?
>>Actually having to WORK on my strength and muscle tone... sheesh, why couldn't I have been born a hot, ripped mutant?
It's a miracle I get out of bed before 1 p.m. sometimes
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climbingfoo
Dec 2, 2002, 11:47 PM
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- Male to female ratio
- how depressed I get when there's non-climbing friendly conditions... suffer climbing withdraw
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marcel
Dec 2, 2002, 11:48 PM
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alwaysforward, Krauker has a great story of his attempt at the 6000 foot North Face of the Thumb and his climb on the Southewest face. I was attempting the much easier East Ridge.
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kellebelle
Dec 2, 2002, 11:51 PM
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Getting rained out on your first climbing trip on real rock and having to wait until spring comes for the opportunity to go again. That has probobly got to be the biggest disappointment I've had so far.
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flying_dutchman
Dec 3, 2002, 12:05 AM
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reading a forum about people dissappointed with rock climbing
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lox
Dec 3, 2002, 12:08 AM
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yeah, no shit...
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beethovenboy
Dec 3, 2002, 12:15 AM
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Lucerne Limestone, what a shithole...
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jono13
Dec 3, 2002, 12:34 AM
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mtnjohn, when you get last place, are so pumped taht you cant get up a 5.8, you feel like absolute s*it!!!! And after placing 4th and 1st in the two before, I felt like I was going to die!
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rockjunkie
Dec 3, 2002, 12:40 AM
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nimo, you think moving here is bad, try being a climber and living here your whole life. you're probably going to msu, right? at least moosejaw is in EL and its not far from grand ledge. but yes, colorado is way better. biggest climbing disappointment - realizing that i suck.
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topher
Dec 3, 2002, 12:44 AM
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i spent all week thinking about this route. i could have told you were ever hold was on it. get there on the weekend yeah its soaking wet! that kinda sucked. still havent been able to get on it.
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vegastradguy
Dec 3, 2002, 12:52 AM
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My biggest disappointment so far?
Well, mostly that you cant climb on sandstone after it rains, and it rained all day Saturday!!!!
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kalcario
Dec 3, 2002, 12:53 AM
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The current bouldering fad and how it has created a substratum of people who just boulder and have the temerity to describe themselves as climbers. The process of buying a rack, learning how to use it and working through the grades is gone as far as I can tell, now kids buy crash pads and scorn anything to do with real climbing. If I sound old and bitter it's because I am. I find it ironic that the ruination of American climbing predicted at the onset of sport climbing 15 years ago by John Sherman and others of his ilk is now actually occuring due to bouldering.
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jono13
Dec 3, 2002, 12:55 AM
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Dont bash boulderers! Its a new generation of climbing! I know there are some punk ass boulderers out there that dont respect s*it when it comes too the old stuff, but not all of us.
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quickclips
Dec 3, 2002, 12:59 AM
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1. being stuck in wisconsin. (Cold and Flat!)
2. not being able to climb for a while, and then coming back and not being able to climb anything I could a few months earlier
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holmeslovesguinness
Dec 3, 2002, 1:15 AM
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Old and bitter climbers that scorn bouldering or anything else that smacks of change or deviation from some ill-defined climbing 'tradition', and those who use words like substratum and ruination to describe other climbers (joking).
But seriously - not being able to climb whenever I want is about my only serious dissapointment in climbing.
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gumbobob
Dec 3, 2002, 1:16 AM
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pulling two left finger tendons in wild iris right before the wonderful fall climbing season in nothern nevada...out for three weeks of an incredible indian summer, and i had to just watch the weather float by...
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coldclimb
Dec 3, 2002, 1:36 AM
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I just wish I had started at the age of 2 or 3, in stead of waiting until I was 9 or 10.
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lostangel
Dec 3, 2002, 2:04 AM
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the biggest dis for me is always weather. but then again.. its gotta be really bad not to climb
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