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dynosore
Oct 8, 2010, 5:15 PM
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I'm curious what people aspire to. For some it might just be 5.xx, others may want to do the nose someday. For me, I want to be competent enough to take my son up Devil's Thumb in Alaska when he's old enough. If I can get the time (working on it) I would like to do the Cassin ridge someday too. I guess that means I aspire to do 5.9 trad and WI4 in alpine environments and/or at altitude. What are you shooting for?
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bandycoot
Oct 8, 2010, 5:29 PM
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I want to do my best in any situation whether it is on the rock or off of it. As a result, I have excelled at climbing because I push myself. I don't chase numbers, but lines. Another goal is to climb amazing places with good friends.
Josh
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Kartessa
Oct 8, 2010, 5:35 PM
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To make it to the top.
I dont care for grades, I go with the flow for locations.
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dynosore
Oct 8, 2010, 5:37 PM
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bandycoot wrote: I want to do my best in any situation whether it is on the rock or off of it. As a result, I have excelled at climbing because I push myself. I don't chase numbers, but lines. Another goal is to climb amazing places with good friends. Josh
The first part sounds like something I'd put in my year end accomplishments for work. My boss loves that mumbo jumbo. Not dissing you though, climbing amazing places with good friends is a worthwhile goal indeed! Part of what I love about climbing is the same thing I love about fishing (which I've done far longer than I've climbed): it's a perfect reason to go to faraway, amazing places. My goals are in Alaska because, frankly, nowehere I've been makes me feel so awed an humbled. Sleeping next to a glacier, listening to it groan and calve is amazing. But I digress....
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dynosore
Oct 8, 2010, 5:38 PM
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Kartessa wrote: To make it to the top. I dont care for grades, I go with the flow for locations.
Well, that's a practical goal 
Anything in particular you want to make it to the top of?
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bandycoot
Oct 8, 2010, 5:49 PM
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dynosore,
I know it sounds cheesy, but it's true. Get hurt enough times and get distracted with life once in a while and you learn that the idea of an "ultimate goal" is pointless.
I used to set "ultimate goals." One was to climb Astroman. I told myself I'd be happy to give up climbing if I ever did that. How stupid is that? I onsighted it and then thought "What's next?" Romantic Warrior was the next "ultimate goal." I've moved on since then.
The idea of an ultimate goal sets you up for disappointment if you can't achieve it, or sets you up to limit yourself if you do and don't move on to bigger and better. Plus the question "What is your ultimate goal" doesn't necessarily pertain exclusively to climbing.
Josh
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Colinhoglund
Oct 8, 2010, 5:50 PM
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Features inspire me. Like the Howser Minaret, the Grand Wall, Ancient Art, the Kain Face of Robson and Moonflower Buttress. In my mind these are all the same, something amazing to climb and an adventure to get there. The only thing grades mean to me is what I'm capable of. I'd love to someday be able to lead 12+ to do Moonflower, but not to say I can lead 5.12.
This is why even an easy 5.5 like Joy in the Rockies, or Pigeon spire's 5.4 can inspire me; they both ascend amazing features.
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Oct 8, 2010, 8:55 PM
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I think if you're on 5.12+ terrain on the moonflower buttress you might be off-route 
I don't have any long-term goals really. I'm not so good at staying focused on an objective for much longer than six months or so. I just look towards the next thing that inspires or challenges me.
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snoopy138
Oct 8, 2010, 9:01 PM
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dynosore wrote: What are you shooting for?
I just want to send the warmup.
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Colinhoglund
Oct 8, 2010, 9:14 PM
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fresh wrote: I think if you're on 5.12+ terrain on the moonflower buttress you might be off-route I don't have any long-term goals really. I'm not so good at staying focused on an objective for much longer than six months or so. I just look towards the next thing that inspires or challenges me.
I mean Moonlight Buttress in Zion, not Moonflower in Alaska. Warm deserts seem more appealing then frozen Arctic summits.
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erisspirit
Oct 8, 2010, 9:21 PM
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My goal is to just get out and climb. Sure I'd like to climb strong all the time and continually improve, but in the end... I just want to be out there.
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bandycoot
Oct 8, 2010, 10:29 PM
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Colinhoglund wrote: fresh wrote: I think if you're on 5.12+ terrain on the moonflower buttress you might be off-route I don't have any long-term goals really. I'm not so good at staying focused on an objective for much longer than six months or so. I just look towards the next thing that inspires or challenges me. I mean Moonlight Buttress in Zion, not Moonflower in Alaska. Warm deserts seem more appealing then frozen Arctic summits.
Ah.... Moonlight Buttress. This is my goal for the spring. Such an amazing line. It was better than I imagined when I got on it last spring. Must keep pushing limits and make it happen....
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Oct 8, 2010, 10:55 PM
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First ascent of a wall on Baffin
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Oct 8, 2010, 11:09 PM
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To get married to a beautifull woman who loves free climbing big walls. Or to take a beautifull woman who knows about climbing and help her to learn to big wall so that I can always have a beautifull woman freeclimber to go bigwalling with me.
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Colinhoglund
Oct 8, 2010, 11:16 PM
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bandycoot wrote: Colinhoglund wrote: fresh wrote: I think if you're on 5.12+ terrain on the moonflower buttress you might be off-route I don't have any long-term goals really. I'm not so good at staying focused on an objective for much longer than six months or so. I just look towards the next thing that inspires or challenges me. I mean Moonlight Buttress in Zion, not Moonflower in Alaska. Warm deserts seem more appealing then frozen Arctic summits. Ah.... Moonlight Buttress. This is my goal for the spring. Such an amazing line. It was better than I imagined when I got on it last spring. Must keep pushing limits and make it happen....
I guess will both have to keep scheming and training. Good luck! My next stepping stone is the Grad Wall, I guess we'll see how soon I get there.
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bandycoot
Oct 8, 2010, 11:19 PM
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That's how you get there man. One goal at a time. None have to be the "ultimate." You just pick the next logical progression that you can accomplish within 3-6 months and start training....
Good luck!
Josh
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hendo
Oct 9, 2010, 1:32 AM
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dynosore wrote: What are you shooting for?
Three thousand feet of climbing in one day at Mt. Nemo.
I think the biggest challenge will be finding a partner who's possibly interested.
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Oct 9, 2010, 2:46 AM
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hendo wrote: dynosore wrote: What are you shooting for? Three thousand feet of climbing in one day at Mt. Nemo. I think the biggest challenge will be finding a partner who's possibly interested.
I hate my life enough to do that. We can do wide load over and over and over and over...
...and over and over and over.
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hendo
Oct 9, 2010, 2:59 AM
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No, I'm thinking of perhaps 40 different routes in a single day. Just to vary things, create some interest.
Otherwise I would just go up and down the Bat Cave all day.
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Oct 9, 2010, 3:47 AM
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The Nose in a day. (or two)
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Oct 9, 2010, 4:32 AM
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Scramble, sport, multi-pitch, ice -- they're all good.
I just like being up there.
For the last 4 years I have managed to get out there every week-end, alone or with groups. My skill and experience are still improving, although city life has interfered with climbing this last year.
So for me, it's not "a goal", or "a level", that I aspire to. Rather, it's a continual flow of exploring, and challenges, and discovery.
Well sure, I would like more! But today I smile a lot. 
(Edit to add: Hey! 1000 posts! That's gotta be a goal of some sort!)
(Edit again to add:  ...  ... maybe I should not count all those silly posts in "Soap Box"? )
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majid_sabet
Oct 9, 2010, 4:45 AM
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in climbing, climb Ama Da Balan and do a 8000 meter somewhere in southern Himalayas before I die.
open a climbing gym/school for handicap children and that is priceless and above any climbing grades
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cruxstacean
Oct 9, 2010, 5:23 AM
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Well, I hope to send the pink tape scary route on the lead wall.
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cruxstacean
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milesenoell wrote: cruxstacean wrote: Well, I hope to send the pink tape scary route on the lead wall. If you finally get the redpoint we expect a full trip report.
Except the best one can do is a pinkpoint, as the draws are fixed. Still, gnarly stuff.
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