sobo Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Learned Woo hoo! 3600 posts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
still_climbin Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Those Washington Pass mountain goats are damned good climbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I learned that I like the weekend A LOT more than I like the weekday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMR Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 you must be stupid if its taken you this long to figger that one out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Then I learned two things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmallShoes Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 That I can't warm up on an .11b at Index. And that I need to buy a damn guidebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 (edited) That before commiting my climbing partner always asks his non climbing girlfriend first Maybe next weekend I will learn to just ask her Edited July 21, 2006 by jmace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Maybe next weekend I will learn to just ask her Well, we know who's wearing the pants in that relationship, eh? Wait until he marries her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Ah, but you will like best of all - climbing on a weekday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philfort Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 I learned that the washington DOT thinks its ok to cause a 2 hour traffic jam on I-5 at midnight Friday night, on a 2 mile section of road that has no exits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figger_Eight Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 The novelty of a mountain goat licking your pee at your feet wears off very quickly once you realize how close those really sharp horns are to your nads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 East Coast white water ratings are as soft as Snuggles the Fabric Softener Bear. And I like Maine way, way more than Massachussetts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 There is a direct correlation between ambient air temperature and traffic jams in Portland, Oregon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 There is a direct correlation between ambient air temperature and traffic jams in Portland, Oregon. I learned iain is posting from his ex-ex-ex-gf's computer. I thought that avatar was long dead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 [ I learned iain is posting from his ex-ex-ex-gf's computer. that some sorta lesbian thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mshaslam Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 A small rock that drops only 30 feet can cut a rope. A brand new, used only 3 times rope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian_m Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Don't play football on the beach drunk in bare feet... it can lead to loads of stitches and a week away from climbing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadlx200 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Watching a intro to ice climbing student last February (but it was on a weekend). A 250 lb whale, who can't remain vertical in crampons on flat surface, can sever the top rope (using their nondominant hand) with one stroke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valleydude Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) Summiting Rainier can make you feel pretty damn studly until you find a 12y/o girl and her grandad waiting to sign the summit register behind you! Edited July 25, 2006 by valleydude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I learned that the washington DOT thinks its ok to cause a 2 hour traffic jam on I-5 at midnight Friday night, on a 2 mile section of road that has no exits. They've got that down to an art. I spent over an hour crawling northbound through Seattle at parade speed, with the express bypass sitting empty next to four solid lanes of backed-up traffic. Turns out there was a crew working on the main highway about a hundred yeards or so before the bypass lane rejoins the main road. If they weren't so unbelievably stupid, they could have opened the bypass and let all that northbound traffic go right by the work site without slowing down. But I guess the rule book says that the bypass is closed at that time of day, so it stayed closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 And... I learned this weekend that rockfall hurts if you're unable to avoid it. Also, even little rocks, when flying toward you on the highway, aren't good for your windshield. But if it's the last road-trip for that vehicle before it finally gets junked, you don't really care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 That I can indeed rappel using the EDK and not die. Three times, no less! Who sez you can't teach an oldskewl new tricks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I learned that sometimes just heading out to cruise some easy stuff with some other old timers is more fun than working some hard route and screwing up your wrist again. Till it hits close to 100 degrees...and then one of those old dudes asks for a belay "over there" to get some gear off the wall... which turns out later to be a FA which you figure out only after an hour or 2 of standing in the same place belaying watching all that hard work, risk, loose moss/dirt and rock raining down, piton wanging and sweat and the friggan thing feels harder to folllow than the 11C you toprope a few days later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luwayo Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) 1. a) a banana slurpee will make me sick. b) yellow peppers are great on hot cragging days. c) so is quiche. 2. murin park is a zoo in summertime, even mid-day friday. 3. hot temperatures make termperaments flare. 4. Mountain WOman's poutine rocks but her counterpart to the north is rather pissy with customers - on the soup nazi level. 5. a) Britannia Beach gets a good breeze off the water. b) them train tracks squeal bad. c) there is a bad sewage smell in the area when it's hot. d) Britannia Beach lots are up for resale. 6. a) Garibaldi Park Drive is a raceway for gravel trucks. b) they find glee in coating mtnb riders in dust. 7. my No.5 BD is more useful than i thought. 8. i have more energy when i'm not mountaineering. Edited July 25, 2006 by luwayo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafflehound Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 When 9 friends tell you that you're drunk you should go lay down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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