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Now that I've got you're attention maybe someone can help out. I'm looking for a wall climber with the following characteristics:

1. Zion experience (should have done several wall routes there)

2. Can lead SANDSTONE 5.11, A3+

3. Is a college grad and/or good writer (preferably published)

4. Is unemployed, or willing to become unemployed

5. Is not a Jesus freak

6. Partakes of the devil weed

7. Has own transportation (not so important), and own wall gear (very important)

8. Can party like a rock star and still be responsible and get shit done

9. Enjoys cheap beer, fast women, and expensive scotch

This ain't a quiz, I'm looking for someone for a project that will last several months at minimum.

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Nacho! What! You gonna quit school to be some climbing bum? Are you gonna smoke weed and "party like a rock-star"? I don't think so. Get your miserable butt back into the library and do your homework.

- Professor Dwayner

P.S. I will personally take away your car keys if you try to hook up with this or any other similar "project".

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Originally posted by willstrickland:
Now that I've got you're attention maybe someone can help out. I'm looking for a wall climber with the following characteristics:

1. Zion experience (should have done several wall routes there)

2. Can lead SANDSTONE 5.11, A3+

3. Is a college grad and/or good writer (preferably published)

4. Is unemployed, or willing to become unemployed

5. Is not a Jesus freak

6. Partakes of the devil weed

7. Has own transportation (not so important), and own wall gear (very important)

8. Can party like a rock star and still be responsible and get shit done

9. Enjoys cheap beer, fast women, and expensive scotch

This ain't a quiz, I'm looking for someone for a project that will last several months at minimum.

1. yup

2. only on mormon sundays

3. i went to public high school

4. played that game chicks dont dig too much on the dirtbag, ask me i got some tales to tell....

5. i am a freak, but i dont know too much about thay hey-soos guy

6. please see above

7. best damn truck on the planet, i aint got no money, so i must have some gear

8. i can party like a shitty rock star and does washing every other day constitute as getting something done???

9. now were talkin!!!!!!

sounds like a good project will, and i would definalty join you, but i got a project of my own that is way scarier and more commiting......have i told you about it??????

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It amazes me that someone with 34 posts can make such an ass of themselves in such a short period of time, bravo Billy, bravo. I mean, it must have taken me at least 200 to make as big of an ass of myself. When you grow a pair and remove your head from your ass, then speak up. Until then, STFU.

As I recall, you were the stupid fuck arguing that the term "onsight" could not be applied to an alpine route in my very first post to this board - a trip report on a simul-solo of the Reid headwall.

So in summary you can lick it [Moon]

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Golly, our willingness to compromise our style of ascent, with the intent of "ticking" routes featuring grades that aren't reasonably within our abilities, has resulted in what can only be regarded as an embarassing expansion of mountaineering vocabulary. Pink point, red point, on-sight, brown-point....these (euphemisms for "aid climbing") contribute to and provide evidence of the modern pussification of what was once a MANLY endeavor. I'm talking about mountain climbing, in case we've forgotten.

On-sight. Pardon me while I vomit. Back in the day, we didn't use such a degrading term to describe the style of an ascent. "On-sight" was the way the majority of pitches were climbed the majority of the time. Climbing at your limit meant getting pumped and scared, coming close to the edge...but falling? Hanging? You just didn't do it. And if you made a habbit out of it, you understood that you were kidding yourself, that you were climbing in poor style, the style of ascent that will get you killed in the mountains. So, you didn't do it. We didn't say "on-sight" because it was assumed. Claiming an "on-sight" ascent was parallel to saying you banged the gal down the street...and you didn't have to pay her.

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This is RURP:

So how old is Mr. Blakely that he knows so much? Alpine (and Big Wall) experience and wisdom is often cumulative. By your attitude, Fred Beckey should be in a nursing home swapping stories about the good old days with Jim Donini, both of whom could probably say "back in the day" decades before young pope. When you are older, you will realize that you knew little or nothing when you were younger.

RURP has spoken.

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This is RURP:So how old is Mr. Blakely that he knows so much? Alpine (and Big Wall) experience and wisdom is often cumulative. By your attitude, Fred Beckey should be in a nursing home swapping stories about the good old days with Jim Donini, both of whom could probably say "back in the day" decades before young pope. When you are older, you will realize that you knew little or nothing when you were younger.RURP has spoken.

Hmmm..dilemna...do I initiate nervous, groveling backpedal, or do I point out that previous comment I made was merely an attempt at mild, chiding humor not actually to belittle Mr Pope, but to give him a friendly, loving jab? Oh wait.."friendly, loving jab" ??? Begin backpedal now......

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On-sight. Pardon me while I vomit. We didn't say "on-sight" because it was assumed.

Go read the original thread Pope, the term was applied because we had no prior knowledge of the route, in fact didn't know whether we were on a previously climbed line (although granted it's too obvious on the lower half to not have been climbed), and had no idea of the difficulties we might encounter. Only after we had descended did we consult a guidebook to figure out what we had climbed. As far as we knew, we might as well have been on a FA, to me that's one way to get adventure out of an area that's been "climbed out" so to speak. The term was used because it best conveyed the style of ascent...no prior knowledge, no falls, no fuck-ups. I didn't coin the term, I don't really think it even belongs in the mountaineering vocabulary, BUT language is a limiting form of expression and you use what you can to best convey your meaning.

As for you Billy, I don't know what you're deal is. I've never claimed to be some hardman rockstar, in fact I'm regularly self-deprecating on this board. So my man, what will I wow you with next? Uhhmmm pictures of your mom doing midget porn? shocked.gif" border="0 Yeah, maybe that. Cheers Billy [big Drink]

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