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knieveltech
Jun 1, 2009, 4:20 PM
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I bailed on climbing this week due to a three alarm hangover. This and my inability to open a beer with a carabiner makes for damning proof I will never be a hardman. Those of you with a bit more intestinal fortutide, post up your favorite climbing with a hangover stories.
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the_climber
Jun 1, 2009, 4:33 PM
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Picture = 1000 words
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charley
Jun 1, 2009, 7:16 PM
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It would not have been near as bad when you were YOUNGER!!!  
I can not even stay up late anymore, let alone stay up late drinking and then function in the morning.
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dr_feelgood
Jun 1, 2009, 9:16 PM
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Harden the fuck up. A hangover is no excuse to bail, merely an excuse to climb like shit.
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TJGoSurf
Jun 1, 2009, 9:26 PM
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I was hungover. Doing this sport route, that the book lists as a 5.9. So I do the logical thing and follow the bolt line. Oddly enough that 5.9 is to the right of the bolts(as I learned here) and the direct bolt line is a 5.13a. But I did well, and I made it to the last bolt and I was on my way to the anchors about 20' above the last bolt within a yard of the anchors. I had my hole forearm jammed in a crack, my foot slipped as I was only on one foot and fell. I do not climb hungover, unless its Stone.
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bill413
Jun 1, 2009, 10:51 PM
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When you said no sports bras, I nearly stopped reading. Glad I kept on.
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edge
Jun 1, 2009, 10:52 PM
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Hmm, I disagree. Gravity sucks, climbing with a hangover seems par for the course. I was 100% clean and sober through 85% of my Freshman year at college. I climbed 5.8+ in New England.
Fast forward one whole year, and I am suddenly selling my blood plasma on Pearl Street in Boulder, hitching into Eldo on a daily basis, and leading 5.10, all of it severely hungover and under the influence of cannibusoids. Yes, I made that last word up. Sorta. Anyway, I found the net results to be quite focusing, and could concentrate tenfold under aforementioned circumstances.
Reinhold Messner once wrote that certain climbers carried their courage in their rucksack. I carried mine in a small leather bag clove hitched to my haul loop.
Your mileage may vary.
To each their own.
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petsfed
Jun 1, 2009, 10:54 PM
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My second season in Laramie, I had gone drinking one friday night. By the end of the evening, a friend and I were doing tequila shots. For every one he did, I did two. He passed out somewhere around shot 8 (so I guess I really am a booze sandbagger, I'd forgotten about that). As I came to around 6 the next morning, I remembered that I'd made plans to get on Friday the 13th for that morning.
My climbing partner had said he'd be at my place at 7:30. I could barely stand. Still, my friend who hadn't drank that much the night before, gave me a ride home. I showered, ate as well as I could, and got a call at 7:15 from my partner saying he'd drank too much the night before, and was running a bit late.
We leave my place at 8:00 AM sharp.
He's not feeling up to leading, as he's pretty hungover, so it falls to me. And you can smell the Cuervo still oozing out of my system. So I rack up and hop on. Just before the fists section of the first pitch, my stomach does a somersault and I sway just a bit. For a fleeting moment, I realize that I have just cruised the hard part without even batting an eyelid. I call down and tell my partner that I'm in no shape to climb, so I downclimb the whole way, cleaning the gear as I go, and stumble back the parking lot.
I've never been able to feel solid on those slippery locks at the beginning since.
Clearly I just need to go back after a good night drinking.
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cracklover
Jun 2, 2009, 2:11 AM
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I was once too hungover to lead, but I wasn't going to ditch my partner. I agreed to follow and clean (multipitch trad).
But part way up the climb my partner got the willies (she'd just taken a bad lead fall the day before) and backed down. Since I was just planning on seconding, I only had my approach shoes on.
Lemme tell you, thin edging in sneakers, run-out over thin gear will snap you right back into reality fast. Not what I'd recommend for a hangover remedy, but works.
GO
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Myxomatosis
Jun 2, 2009, 2:31 AM
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I have only bailed on climbing once because of a hang over...
Had catch up drinks with my mates I had not seen in years at a Quiz Night.. ended up winning the prize (cash) and we decided to buy more drinks with the winnings but since it was Thursday and they all had uni the next day and I was on holiday, it was up to me to finish off the proceeds. (Not complaining here)
The next day I spent in close reaches of a toliet where my stomach was emptied every half hour....  .... until I managed to get back to my parents where I slept for eight hours and woke up in time for dinner
I did however feel bad for bailing.
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phugganut
Jun 2, 2009, 4:16 AM
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I have done some of my hardest climbing while hung over. It helps to get your mind out of the way so you can just climb.
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grover
Jun 2, 2009, 4:57 AM
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phugganut wrote: I have done some of my hardest climbing while hung over. It helps to get your mind out of the way so you can just climb.
Ditto.
Waking up still hammered from the night before is even better IMHO.
Liquid courage still pulsating through your blood, without having to haul up that heavy (insert your poison here) to the base.
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mikebee
Jun 2, 2009, 9:59 AM
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I've climbed with hangovers a few times, never with much success, but neither with too many dramas.
However, I was at Mt Arapiles last year with a couple of friends. We had a bit of an epic night (lots of port from a goon bag), and because of that, we had a bit of a drawn out climb up a 5 pitch grade 10 (thats 5.3) . Both my partners ended up sleeping at various belays on the way to the top.
Lee, the one in the first couple of pics, was leading the third pitch and was fighting back both a morning-after vomit, and a severe case of grog-bog at the same time. She only just made it to the anchors in time.
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granite_grrl
Jun 2, 2009, 11:56 AM
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Last time I went out climbing hungover I puked on the way to my tent to grab my gear. Then I puked when I got out of the car when we arrived at the climbing location. I told people I wasn't going to climb anything hard, much less lead anything at that moment because I was worried I was going to puke all over the route.
But I was still out there climbing. I did some mighty fine belaying and even made an impressive showing on a couple of 5.9 top ropes. Being hungover is not an excuse to bail.
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swoopee
Jun 2, 2009, 2:07 PM
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Everything sux with a hangover. That's why I haven't had a drink in 25 yrs.
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dynamo_
Jun 2, 2009, 2:36 PM
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knieveltech wrote: ...This and my inability to open a beer with a carabiner makes for damning proof I will never be a hardman. ....
That's what teeth are for.
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swoopee
Jun 2, 2009, 3:30 PM
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angry wrote: swoopee wrote: Everything sux with a hangover. That's why I haven't had a drink in 25 yrs. Rehab is for quitters!!!!
Yep, you're absolutely right, but I quit without rehab. I guess that makes me a real quitter. 
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