Roger Posted July 3, 2003 Posted July 3, 2003 "There are other in the lives of men." - M. Herzog Quote
Dru Posted July 4, 2003 Posted July 4, 2003 "Climbing is just another self centered, assholish thing to do." - Warren Harding Quote
Cairns Posted July 4, 2003 Posted July 4, 2003 "It was like climbing Everest. I knew it could never get any better." ---Richard Nixon after a golf score in the low 80s  "I have an appointment in some ER." ---Death Quote
Kevin_Ristau Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 "I climbed Mount Rainier the other day. I did not intend to, but got excited and soon was on top" - John Muir  "I think we forgot ourselves so much as to shake hands on it" - Tilman, with a typical stiff British upper lip, on the first ascent of Nanda Devi.  "When I look at the DMM Predator ice axe, I think of murder" - Stephen King Quote
pope Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 "Clipping bolts and chugging cock. That's what I call a great day in the mountains." Â Franco de Sitstart Quote
richard_noggin Posted July 7, 2003 Posted July 7, 2003 I would rather be a bold climber dying in a pool of my own blood than an old climber dying in a pool of my own piss. Quote: by dickhead, as he gets on Freeway over the 4th of july weekend Quote
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted July 7, 2003 Posted July 7, 2003 " ... we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character ... " Quote
Paco Posted July 8, 2003 Posted July 8, 2003 Not sure if this one has been mentioned yet, but it's one that I really like. (I didn't bother reading the whole thread). Â "So, as you would imagine, I grew up exuberant in body but with a nervy, craving mind. It was wanting something more, something tangible. It sought for reality intensely, always if it were not there... Â But you see at once what I do. I climb." Â John Menlove Edwards Quote
rbw1966 Posted July 8, 2003 Posted July 8, 2003 "The hardest part about climbing Everest was getting two inches of dick through eight inches of down" Â Sir Edmund Hillary, in a lighter moment. Quote
Dave_Schuldt Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 I am so glad I left Ohio and wound up here. Quote
richard_noggin Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 Mountaineering is the least environmental sport...Surfers are more aware than climbers. Quote by: Yvon Chouinard: climber turned surfer? september issue of Rock and Ice Quote
Buckaroo Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 It was like having sex with death.  It's sort of like having fun but not.  To find adventure on a tame planet, the children of comfort plunge themselves into ever more bizarre escapades. Wilhelm Bittorf  Don't knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run away, death hates that. Quote
sobo Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 Buckaroo said: Don't knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run away, death hates that. Â That's texplorer's auto sig. Auto sig quotes, no matter how profound, must be considered inadmissable. Case closed. Quote
lummox Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 richard_noggin said: Mountaineering is the least environmental sport...Surfers are more aware than climbers. Quote by: Yvon Chouinard: climber turned surfer? september issue of Rock and Ice coonyard is a fuckin chuffer. Quote
richard_noggin Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 Yeah! He dis'ed on Mountaineering, bouldering and sport climbing. He did'nt dis on WALLS ( that he is famous for ) or surf'n that is his sport of choice now Quote
texplorer Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 "Ya, that climb very hard, me 4th-sight it." -Czech Mark Quote
Thinker Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 Gaston_Lagaffe said: "> I am working on a research paper. My topic is: How Do Glaciers Move? Can you please tell me what you know about the movement of glaciers ? Glaciers feel best when they have one movement per day. Some glaciers do just fine with fewer movements, but when they don't have movements for a long time the result can be quite bad. Glaciers which move much more frequently tend to have loose and soft terminal moraines (also called rock piles). Glacial movement is almost always associated with the release of water. But sometimes glaciers release water without experiencing a movement." — Mike Garrison's answer."  Mike's a pretty funny guy in person sometimes, too...Gaston, do you know him? Quote
Bronco Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 "Just because it's the biggest shit pile doesen't mean it's the best shit pile" Greg Child on Everest. Quote
rbw1966 Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 Thinker said: Gaston_Lagaffe said: "> I am working on a research paper. My topic is: How Do Glaciers Move? Can you please tell me what you know about the movement of glaciers ? Glaciers feel best when they have one movement per day. Some glaciers do just fine with fewer movements, but when they don't have movements for a long time the result can be quite bad. Glaciers which move much more frequently tend to have loose and soft terminal moraines (also called rock piles). Glacial movement is almost always associated with the release of water. But sometimes glaciers release water without experiencing a movement." — Mike Garrison's answer."  Mike's a pretty funny guy in person sometimes, too...Gaston, do you know him?  I met Mike once at Alpental. Very nice guy. Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 "There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over...Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone." J.R.R. Tolkien Quote
erik Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 "Climb if you will but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be at the end." Edward Whymper Quote
RobBob Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 Good words from Whymper---did he say that before or after he lost his mates? Quote
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