Favorite quote:

[dirtysloper]

"I love the semi-communal life style at Hidden Valley. Everyone just kind of wanders in and out of each others campsite, looking for a partner, a warm fire, a cup of coffee, or a beer. Gotta love it!"

Mark Webster

[Dannible]

Apparently I drank a good chunk of someones expensive bottle of tequila not long after telling my friends why I don't drink the stuff, and then narrowly missed walking over a bunch of people in bivy sacks on the way back to our site. I woke up half in my sleeping bag with no idea why I was in the middle of the desert. No one seems to question that kind of thing there. The only place that I've been more sloppy is in the Squamish campground after a few days of steady rain in the summer.

[denalidave]

The other day my 4 year old niece said "I wish people would stop killing pigs because pigs come from meat and I love meat".

[kevbone]

"I love the semi-communal life style at Hidden Valley. Everyone just kind of wanders in and out of each others campsite, looking for a partner, a warm fire, a cup of coffee, or a beer. Gotta love it!"

Mark Webster

 

How funny.....yet spot on.

[CollinWoods]

Hey Denalidave, you have the best sig, its also been one of my favorite quotes for a while haha; "Some people make hard climbing look easy, I prefer to make easy climbing look really hard"

[marc_leclerc]

"I think you love rocks so much that they've replaced your brain." — Rex Pieper.

[marc_leclerc]

One of my faves,

 

"His belay consisted of his two tools buried into a snow-fluting. Most uninspiring, but you can't be going falling off on these things anyway."

 

Don Serl, on the FA of Welch Peak's NE Face...

[billcoe]

from the Eiger Sanction, love Anderl Meiers last line, said with a faint Germanic accent:

 

"Anderl Meier: You're very good. I have really enjoyed climbing with you.

Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: We'll make it.

Anderl Meier: I don't think so. But we shall continue with style. "

[ivan]

lionel terray (?), on remembering where the last piton he desperately needed was on some climb in south america:

 

"guido! the sardine can!"

[G-spotter]

lionel terray (?), on remembering where the last piton he desperately needed was on some climb in south america:

 

"guido! the sardine can!"

 

[sobo]

from the Eiger Sanction, love Anderl Meiers last line, said with a faint Germanic accent:

 

"Anderl Meier: You're very good. I have really enjoyed climbing with you.

Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: We'll make it.

Anderl Meier: I don't think so. But we shall continue with style. "

A second on this as my favorite climbing quote from a movie.

 

For climbing literature: "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from surviving bad judgment."

 

From personal experience: This needs a set-up. Both of my kids (6 yo boy, 4 yo girl) are adopted from Vietnam and China, respectively. This costs several thousands of dollars to do, and there's not much in the way of "receipts" for sums paid along the way. At home one day last year or so, my son was becoming increasingly irritated with his little sister, who had been baiting him mercilessly for the better part of a couple hours...

 

At his wits' end, he asks me, "Daddy, can we just take Elaina back to China?"

Me: "Well, you know we can't do that, son."

Son: "Is it because we don't have the receipt?"

[PhöQ]

 

"Attention, your bacon is now raw, because fully-cooked bacon lacks the inherent risks associated with our Vision of Bacon."

 

"Ad Rem Adsum"

 

 

"The most common form of terrorism in the USA is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws.

It is not enought to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."

[denalidave]

"I thought about becoming a vegetarian, not because I love animals but because I hate vegetables"

 

"I love animals, they taste great!"

[archenemy]

"One method of getting loved ones to look more fondly on your climbing is to tell them that since you've started climbing you hardly do drugs anymore." — David Harris.

[CollinWoods]

from the Eiger Sanction, love Anderl Meiers last line, said with a faint Germanic accent:

 

"Anderl Meier: You're very good. I have really enjoyed climbing with you.

Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: We'll make it.

Anderl Meier: I don't think so. But we shall continue with style. "

A second on this as my favorite climbing quote from a movie.

 

For climbing literature: "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from surviving bad judgment."

 

From personal experience: This needs a set-up. Both of my kids (6 yo boy, 4 yo girl) are adopted from Vietnam and China, respectively. This costs several thousands of dollars to do, and there's not much in the way of "receipts" for sums paid along the way. At home one day last year or so, my son was becoming increasingly irritated with his little sister, who had been baiting him mercilessly for the better part of a couple hours...

 

At his wits' end, he asks me, "Daddy, can we just take Elaina back to China?"

Me: "Well, you know we can't do that, son."

Son: "Is it because we don't have the receipt?"

 

Sobo, my sister Ruby was adopted from China last Feb.

[Ishmael]

 

From personal experience: This needs a set-up. Both of my kids (6 yo boy, 4 yo girl) are adopted from Vietnam and China, respectively. This costs several thousands of dollars to do, and there's not much in the way of "receipts" for sums paid along the way. At home one day last year or so, my son was becoming increasingly irritated with his little sister, who had been baiting him mercilessly for the better part of a couple hours...

 

At his wits' end, he asks me, "Daddy, can we just take Elaina back to China?"

Me: "Well, you know we can't do that, son."

Son: "Is it because we don't have the receipt?"

 

That is great. Thanks for the laugh.

[sobo]

Sobo, my sister Ruby was adopted from China last Feb.

Congrats, (big??) brother. How old is your new sister?

[ivan]

shortly before i fell 120 feet (and somehow didn't die):

"i thought YOU brought the rope!?!"

[billcoe]

Man, that's a story I highly encourage anyone at a campfire with Ivan ask for....whew! Glad you're with us:-0

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OK, new contender for Fav quote (because it so fresh and I can't remember anything Honest Abe ever said)

 

...I spasm my back getting out of my tights in the bathroom - there is no god, only demons who punish sloth and laziness..

[marc_leclerc]

shortly before i fell 120 feet (and somehow didn't die):

"i thought YOU brought the rope!?!"

 

ouch, how did that happen?

[sobo]

that pesky gravity...

[ivan]

shortly before i fell 120 feet (and somehow didn't die):

"i thought YOU brought the rope!?!"

 

ouch, how did that happen?

that's what i get for climbing w/ non-stoners

[archenemy]

On Touchstone wall:

 

My buddy and I were testing out a new full set of big wall gear--ledge and all. We camped one pitch off the ground(ya, I know: big adventure).

 

It was dark. Some young buck showed up suddenly and asked if he could rap off our rope. It was late and we were already set up for the night. He was on his own and obviously needed to get down. I said, "sure" and he started rapping. I assumed he was going off a line that lead down to the ground since we were so close.

 

But, it didn't feel right by the way the portaledge was moving; so I looked at my partner and asked him, "is this kid rapping off our haul line?"

 

My buddy says, "I am afraid so"

 

I said, "But that doesn't reach the ground".

 

He looks at me, straight in the face and says with a totally straight face, "I know".

 

 

 

That is a quote I won't forget.

[pinner]

Nothing climbing related comes to mind (at work suffering from brain drain and all...) but I'll offer up this off-colour offering anyhooo;

 

"I ski my 192s almost all the time. It's sort of like masturbation: there's times when it's probably inappropriate, but I do it anyway because it's so much fun"

Twoplanker, a TGR forum dude

 

[CollinWoods]

Sobo, my sister Ruby was adopted from China last Feb.

Congrats, (big??) brother. How old is your new sister?

 

Haha yeah, im older. Shes almost three.