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treebeard
Feb 7, 2005, 2:29 AM
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Anyone here compete in the Boise State Buck Off this past weekend ( February 5th). I did, it was my first comp, and I must say it was a kick ass experience. I place 9th out of 25 (I think there were about 25 competitors) in the intermediate group and had an awesome time doing it. Anyone else there who had good experiences as well??
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chemicalclimber
Feb 7, 2005, 3:10 AM
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My first comp as well, I was in the beginner category. :oops:
It was a great experience, but there were 3 people in the beginner division that flashed every single freaking climb. Seriously, just do intermediate, f*cking sandbaggers. To make it worse, no one in charge of the comp bumped them! They just kept letting them flash climbs. They had a climb-off at the end and 2 of the 3 (third didn't show up) were able to make it most of the way up a tougher intermediate route. I placed 5th, should have had second. :evil: Really, though, I'm not all that concerned with how I did.
I've climbed for barely 4 months now, and I was able to get five of the 6 beginner climbs, so I'm happy with myself. I was close to the beginner/intermediate line, but couldn't do the test route, so I stayed beginner. I went back today and tried the last one, still couldn't get it!.
My only other complaint was that the winners weren't guaranteed to win any prizes, they just got another raffle ticket. Overall, though, a good comp. BSU has it every year, for those of you interested for next year.
One thing I noticed was that the routes set for the comp were waaaay harder than the ones they had back before Christmas, especially the expert climbs.
Anyway, congrats to everyone who was there! :)
-Eric
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boise
Feb 7, 2005, 5:09 PM
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treebeard, I live in boise, e-mail me we can get together, go bouldering, .... i climb v2, v3 but havn't climbed for 4 months, get back to me leadsco@hotmail.com
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treebeard
Feb 11, 2005, 5:34 PM
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Yea there was at least one person in the intermediate group who probably could have done well in advanced, but oh well. Dont worry about the prizes, I didnt get anything either, except some chalk... yippie!! :D Even if I'm not at BSU next year I'm gonna make it down for the Buck Off.
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I just got my friend into climbing. He's only climbed a couple times and I've been climbing for about a year to two. We were planning on going to Boise to check out some of the gyms. If we planned a weekend to come down there would you show us some gyms or climbing areas? I haven't climbed for like a year not counting last weekend.
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treebeard
Mar 17, 2005, 7:15 PM
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Sure, let me know which weekend so I can make plans. Most of the gyms in Boise arent open to the public (BSU's is only open to students and their guests and not open on the weekends) but a new gym is opening on APril 2nd or 5th I cant remember. They'll be public and word is that the gym is going to be awesome. Anyways just pm if you are still coming down and we'll work something out.
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