rocky_joe

you onsight 12- trad?!?!? well, my day is ruined. I can't even onsight my stairs.

now i understand. Pope is one of those fudge-packing brigittine monks. http://www.brigittine.org/monks/confec0721.html sport climbing > fudgepacking

wait a second...so is sport climbing like masturbating?

so you like sport climbing then?

Think about it for a minute: 1. You're wrecking the rocks with your trail of shite. You litter. 2. You're calling it free climbing when it's really aid. You're dishonest. 3. What you're doing deserves even less respect than aid climbing because the gear you cheat with takes no skill and no balls to place. Add to that it holds 12,000 lbs so your risk and commitment are zero. Add to that you place the gear while sliding down a rope. I'm just trying to help you understand what you're promoting. you're an idiot if you think i was serious.

of course i should mention that me and my clock-watching tendons will be exclusively siege climbing. I will not climb anything on-sight because then it is too easy. Onsight is bad style. one should always push yourself as hard as you can if you wanna be a real, pure style climber. also, none of that trad stuff: all that gear makes your harness to heavy, thus inhibiting ability to pull hard, also its passe. BOLT THAT SHIT. if you complete a route, you're a pussy and need to sack up and take some whippers (that's what that $200 rope is for.) Real climbers bolt Projects they'll never send, so they know they're always climbing as hard as they can...if they send they didn't try hard enough.

i do believe a walnut is bigger than an almond. how's the count-down going? i happen to like almonds a lot, thank you. count down going swell only 3 years 10 months and 21 days left til i have tendons of steel and climb (h)uber-hard.

that mine shaft photo is RAD-TACULAR!!!

kimmo, you'd better stick to the banter you and i share than trying to start shit with boner...he hasn't got more than a walnut for a brain.

probably...sharma would have onsighted it.

Best way to train for climbing... Go to bar. Drink 5+ beers. Talk about climbing. (Kimmo, it's great for the tendons )

yup, its those damn liberals running Fox "news" Channel. So much hate.

Go DUCKS!!!! Buck the Fuckeyes!!! 29 November 2008 Oregon 65 OSU 38 30 December 2008 Oregon 42 OSU 31 3 December 2009 Oregon 37 OSU 33 1 January 2010...OSU doesn't stand a chance! Go Ducks! OOOOoooOOooOOOOoooOOO!!!

I wish him a speedy recovery as it is a horrible thing to wish death on any human(oid). However, I wouldn't mind if somehow his chest pains left him without the ability to speak (or spew hate otherwise).

that's first for you?!?! Ivan, you gotta sort out your priorities when looking for a (climbing) partner. Clearly the first item on the climbing partner should be tits. Check yes = game on. check no = ask more questions.

oh, sorry. thought you may have been uploading the pics to this website. if you wanna fix them you will have to resize the images and then upload them.

irony?

Mark, click "edit" on your original post. once there you need to change "large" to "medium" in the text between [/img]. that should work. otherwise, porter should be able to fix it.

that website is a crack up! New Life goal...get super sweet climbing website to be used as an alternative spray outlet!

I read you're story a while ago, but decided to wait and see what other people were thinking. My original instinct was to out the bastard, but after reading a few, more level headed opinions, I am of the opinion that you ought to confront Blanco before you publicly out him. Send him a letter, sit down over a beer, whatever. Let him know that shenanigans like that won't fly, especially if he holds aspirations to complete the 7. I'd only publicly (here, mountain proj, SP, etc.) if he blows you off entirely once you've confronted him. Give him a chance to see his actions from another person's view. If he realizes he was in the wrong and seems like he's keen to correct his mistakes, great! Otherwise it might be in order to send a little message via TR about this guy. Nothing to harsh, just a little heads up for anyone considering having him on their next expedition.

Kevbone is on summitpost?

thanks for correcting me. glad i know now.

I'm pretty sure you'd be best served to climb on half ropes. By my understanding, half ropes can always be used as twins (as long as you follow what CJB said) but twins cannot be used as halves...unless i'm wrong.

Actually I think that was offensive. Never defended myself.

you're an asshole. you've been THE hypocrit of every thread; the last couple posts make that clear. If anyone on this forum doesn't like being questioned it is you. Every other poster in this thread has offered level headed responses to your rubbish and you get more and more defensive every time; insulting everything from their climbing ability (which is all presumption) to their person. you have issued so many blanket rejections of what people say based on "what works for you" without ever giving pause to the thought that GymJones/MtnAthlete/Crossfit might work wonderfully for them. Get off your high horse, cuz no one here gives a goddam how hard some sporto bitch sends when the majority of training discussions here are centered on an approach for alpinism. Go troll the dregs at pimpinandcrimpin or 8a, I'm sure a few other gym rats will eat up your every word. Read that post. If you can't see how insulting this post is to all of us "amateur" climbers, then you haven't even the most base level of intelligence. Don't think for a second that by "labeling" yourself amateur that you've covered your ass for continually degrading the accomplishments of several of the climbers here. Sure we're not paid to climb, but really only about 50 of them get paid in anything more than free gear. Saying that professional climbers love it more is absolute fucking bullshit. how about those of us who will simply never send 14d or won't have the time to organize a 2 month patagonian expedition for a new line on Fitzroy because we have other lives: work, family, school, other passions. Seriously man, suck my balls.