catbirdseat Posted September 22, 2003 Author Posted September 22, 2003 So what everyone seems to be saying is that CC.com has had almost no influence on how they climb. It has only served as an outlet for spray. Why don't we just call it CascadeSprayers.com? Quote
Dru Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 catbirdseat said: So what everyone seems to be saying is that CC.com has had almost no influence on how they climb. It has only served as an outlet for spray. Why don't we just call it CascadeSprayers.com? Â why do you think changing how you climb is what cc.com is all about? you didn't ask if it changed who you climbed with or where you climbed.... Quote
Greg_W Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Cpt.Caveman said: Yeah it makes me want to trundle on geeks when they ask me if I am posting on this site. Â Bwahahahaha!!! I hate Mountaineers more... Quote
Off_White Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Dru said: wearing shorts over poly is like wandering around the dihedrals at smith with a rack of hexes and pitons. Â Actually, I've always wanted to do this, but stepping back even further, wearing wool knickers and a pair of robbins blue boots, with a rack of pins and a goldline rope, capped off with a natty white cap like Robbins wore back in the day. If it went off well, you could even take the performance art piece on the road, bill it as "The Return of the Wack and Dangle Merchants." Quote
catbirdseat Posted September 22, 2003 Author Posted September 22, 2003 WHO and WHERE are both good topics, but are not THIS topic. Quote
E-rock Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 I think if you actually asked those questions, you'd retract your cascadeSprayers comment. Quote
Dru Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 catbirdseat said: WHO and WHERE are both good topics, but are not THIS topic.  but, you say in your post above, that if cc.com hasn't changed HOW, then its all just spray and good for nothing. i thought the main point of this site was finding partners and condition/trip reports*, which has nothing to do with how, sow how can you make that claim    *oh and spraying Quote
E-rock Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 I'm always amazed at the questions that get asked on this website about HOW to climb, HOW to place gear, HOW to build anchors, and HOW to fall. If you're not learnig this shit on the rock and from your buddies at the base of the crags, you're learning it from the wrong place. I ALWAYS spend time talking about How-to's with my friends and the new partners that I meet. Â Case in point. How many people on this website now believe that a GriGri cannot give a dynamic belay as compared to an ATC? Fuck. Quote
Bronco Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 I was not a climber prior to cc.com. Â Trundling is acceptable. Â It has changed the way I look at the mountains and how much work I get done in the course of a day at the office (not that I'm complaining ). And that climbing is supposed to be fun, not suffering all the time. Â I also learned that if I have a good cry before my partners show up, it's less scary for them later on. Some people think it's weird to cry and hug at each belay. Â Quote
Alex Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 The web site has not  changed how I climb at all. As others have mentioned, the biggest impact on how I climb this year was teaming up with new partners and learning alot of new things and areas from them  The website has  introduced me to a HUGE number of people that I would have otherwise not met  made me notice a few routes (Back of Beyond Buttress, Clean Break, and so on) that I otherwise probably would not have found out about for a few more years... Quote
iain Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 catbirdseat said: For example, as a result of my readings on CC.com I almost always use the EDK instead of the double fisherman's knot for joining two ropes for rappel. Yo C.B.S. the EDK is now in Freedom of the Hills (was just browsing a bookstore), looks like you need to download again! Â Also there is a diagram of shorts over polypro. I'm dead serious. Quote
lummox Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 hell ya posting on cc.com has changed me. its thickened my skin a lot. and made me realize there a lot of dumbshit stuff that people who know better still do. Quote
allthumbs Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 this site hasn't changed me in the least - just given me a venue for dirty deeds Quote
Necronomicon Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 One time in Boy Scouts, we took tent poles and smoked the smoke off of the top of a campfire. It tasted like shit, but at least we were smoking. Once, we even took the label off of a soup can, and rolled up some tea from a tea bag, and smoked it. We should have just stolen some cigarettes. I'm just glad I never got molested. Quote
lummox Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Necronomicon said: I'm just glad I never got molested. riiiight. Quote
Necronomicon Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 lummox said: Necronomicon said: I'm just glad I never got molested. riiiight. Â I didn't know your Mom lived in my neighbhorhood!!! Quote
Dru Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Necronomicon said: One time in Boy Scouts, we took tent poles and smoked the smoke off of the top of a campfire. It tasted like shit, but at least we were smoking. Once, we even took the label off of a soup can, and rolled up some tea from a tea bag, and smoked it. We should have just stolen some cigarettes. I'm just glad I never got molested. Â pole smoker Quote
catbirdseat Posted September 22, 2003 Author Posted September 22, 2003 iain said: catbirdseat said: For example, as a result of my readings on CC.com I almost always use the EDK instead of the double fisherman's knot for joining two ropes for rappel. Yo C.B.S. the EDK is now in Freedom of the Hills (was just browsing a bookstore), looks like you need to download again! Â Also there is a diagram of shorts over polypro. I'm dead serious. I haven't looked at FOTH7. Without a diagram, some people might get it wrong and put the shorts on underneath the polypro. Quote
Necronomicon Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Dru said: Necronomicon said: One time in Boy Scouts, we took tent poles and smoked the smoke off of the top of a campfire. It tasted like shit, but at least we were smoking. Once, we even took the label off of a soup can, and rolled up some tea from a tea bag, and smoked it. We should have just stolen some cigarettes. I'm just glad I never got molested.  pole smoker  ZING!! Quote
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