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roughster


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With the other thread about sport climbers being on the front page, I figured we could get a good one going here as well. I'll start:

Tell him that the local liquor store ran out of King Cobra. :lol:


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Tell him that there was a mandatory recall on all 1" Tubular Webbing ;)


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Tell him u saw roughster eyeing his route, while mumbling something about chippin holds and drillin bolts :lol:


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Tell him u saw roughster eyeing his route, while mumbling something about chippin holds and drillin bolts :lol:

Heheh :lol:

Tell her that resting on gear will not be allowed ;)


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Tell him that the guidebook description says, "Expect overhung steep athletic moves" Hehehe :lol:


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Tell him that the guidebook description says, "Expect overhung steep athletic moves" Hehehe :lol:

Tell him that bandanas haven't looked cool since '75.

-Jay


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Tell her that true "tradsters" don't clip ANY fixed gear.


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Tell him that the guidebook description says, "Expect overhung steep athletic moves" Hehehe :lol:

You aren't going to scare any gunkies that way..now go be good little sport climbers and play on your overgraded choss piles


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Tell Gunk Traders that thier "supposed' sandbags are all in their minds, and then recommend some "classic juggy" J-Tree Routes :lol:

(Regardless, you might be taking this a little too seriously Danl. Its all in good fun)


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tell him the crux is a 20' V8 boulder problem with no pro and a ledge at the bottom.


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Hell Xanx, just tell him theres a V1 boulder problem anywhere on the route :lol:


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Easy One- Make him get a climbing liscence


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replace all of his runners with 6 and 7 " quickdraws, OR tell him that his welfare check was lost in the mail


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Doesn't "scared" fall within the definition of Trad.






One scared Trad climber....


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there's been a thread identical to this in community for a couple of days now, y'all.


suckahz.


sporto suckahz.


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there's been a thread identical to this in community for a couple of days now, y'all.


suckahz.


sporto suckahz.

But yours doesn't echo to the front page :lol:


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Walk up to a trad climber with a cam attached to a stick clip and ask him, "Now how exactly do I stick clip the 1st cam placement again?" :)


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Hell Xanx, just tell him theres a V1 boulder problem anywhere on the route :lol:

Oooh, that would scare me. Hahahaha.

Curt


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Oooh, that would scare me. Hahahaha.

Curt

Now Curt it wouldn't be any fun if we can't use broad generalizations and stereotypes ;)


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there's been a thread identical to this in community for a couple of days now, y'all.


suckahz.


sporto suckahz.

But yours doesn't echo to the front page :lol:

yeah, we're alternative like that. fight the power. damn the man. community4lizzife


oh, and to scare a traddie, just start rattling off any beta that goes beyond "hand jam, foot jam, hand jam, foot jam"


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oh, and to scare a traddie, just start rattling off any beta that goes beyond "hand jam, foot jam, hand jam, foot jam"

Thats a good one :)


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I scare trad climber by showing them by butt hairs!


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I scare trad climber by showing them by butt hairs!

Nah you'd just get in a pissing match doing that ;)


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tell him that some sporty "accidentally" bolted a trad route at the locals crag, which in turn caused the landowner to halt access to the crag.

(true story)
:!:


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simple. scream "V8 dyno."

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