Difficult Non-climbing Maneuvers in the Alpine?

[jmace]

being vigilant that no one passes the J with their right hand...unless their left handed

[fheimerd]

So let's say your in Canada in the winter staying in those nice comfy huts but the slosh bucket is full and someone put the tall barrel on the short barrel spot and it's stuck and you get the shortest straw and then as your moving the barrel of shit and piss it sloshes over the brim and soaks your outerlayer with excrement...now you have to ski with a shit stained outer layer for the next weak...it's not that bad because most of the time you won't be seeing anything beyond your hand and the wind will pretty much send the smell far far away but still isn't there a better way.

[G-spotter]

that's why you should always move the shit barrel naked

 

[ScottP]

Shwacking with the pig on your back and stirring up a bald faced hornets nest. Your only salvation is to turn and haul ass back down slope, thus losing all that hard earned elevation and gaining several painful stings in the process.

[Weekend_Climberz]

having the brakes on you car freeze after fording a river in the ghost and having to melt them with flares and get a tow from canadians

 

Good times, good times

[Lisa_D]

Endless talus fields. Followed by more talus.

Impromptu North Cascades bushwhacks.

Being a mosquito magnet.

[texplorer]

Smoking out in the muir hut

 

remembering your tough because "tents are for wussys"

 

free soloing the "easy traverse" in approach shoes with your pack on

 

almost slipping off the slesse slabs with your pack and the rope

 

finding the "obvious" descent gulley

 

using the Beckey guide as a marker for your approach and descent times

[montypiton]

how about meeting some folks on Big Beaver who claim to have marked the crossing to "access creek", so you motor on up to their cairn, cross Big Beaver, spend a long day ascending the obvious creek valley, only to find out, when you top out, that the creek you're up may sport a very familiar colloqial name, but it ain't "access"...

[Cobra_Commander]

how about meeting some folks on Big Beaver who claim to have marked the crossing to "access creek", so you motor on up to their cairn, cross Big Beaver, spend a long day ascending the obvious creek valley, only to find out, when you top out, that the creek you're up may sport a very familiar colloqial name, but it ain't "access"...

 

I would probably shoot myself.

[EWolfe]

--Putting up with partners "peculiarities" for many days in a row

 

--Bathing in a freezing creek

 

--Not being able to carry enough beer for multi-day endeavors

 

--Glissade without ice-axe

 

--Dodging rockfall when pulling ropes

[G-spotter]

Shitting in partners helmet

[ivan]

evading law enforcement types after setting off a forest-fire when burning yer TP

[G-spotter]

Evading law enforcement after rangers bust you for building a bonfire out of devils' club and then posting triumphal pictures of said fire online.

[Skeezix]

Accidently ingesting DEET and puking all night.

 

Telling your partner at base camp that you left the food bag on your kitchen counter.

 

Hearing your binding crack on the first day of skiing the Bailey Range traverse.

 

Arriving out at the trailhead at the end of a long trip and being notified that you have to hike back up to assist with a rescue ...when you thought the next order of business was going to involve a stop at Good Food.

 

Arriving at base camp to find a Mountaineers Basic Climb group already set up.

[catbirdseat]

Chopping a hole in a frozen lake because you forgot the stove.

[G-spotter]

Chopping a hole in YOUR PARTNER because HE forgot the stove, the fucker!

[Dechristo]

hiking 23 miles out to the highway because your partner forgot a lug wrench to change a flat tire on his '76 LandCruiser.

[layton]

working two jobs and not climbing

[ken4ord]

Well on that note, living some place where there is very little climbing.

[G-spotter]

climbing off yo mama

[Thinker]

Dealing with a swollen and nearly unrecognizeable partner with a peanut allergy when he decides to try one of your cookies anyway.

 

Trying to get your lead head screwed back on level after talking about "relationship issues" with with your SO/climbing partner on the approach.

 

Trying to keep your eyes off the cute French girls climbing the next route to you when climbing with your SO.

 

Dealing with a parter who has irritating and not so latent OCD tendencies a few days into a trip. (on the flip side, it's a lot of fun to mess with them by moving things out of perfect alignment, clipping their gear back on the rack in the "wrong" way, and leaving little crumbs and bits of crud in the tent.)

 

Dealing with a partner poking you incessantly, telling you you're snoring, when you're really just trying to get a good night's sleep.

 

Having two other tent mates fight over getting the one pair of earplugs you brought along to help them cope with your snoring.

[ken4ord]

Trying to keep your eyes off the cute French girls climbing the next route to you when climbing with your SO.

 

 

 

See for me I think the difficult maneuver would be, trying to keep my eyes on the cute French girls climbing the next route over without my SO noticing.

[AlpineK]

being vigilant that no one passes the J with their right hand...unless their left handed

 

Lefties rule sucker

[jj221]

Post holing!

[jj221]

this message program is real concerned about my gd signature.