matt_warfield Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) I walked over scree for 8 hours to a route that was also scree. I spent 3 days scrubbing moss off a 10a crack only to find 10 feet of 12+ guarding the bottom of it. Took a week off to go climbing and my partners bailed. Number 4 and 5 were both your mom. At least the number of moms is getting smaller as you mention more climbing. And if Canucks didn't know how to do a short bolt ladder 99.5% would have missed the Grand Wall. Edited January 11, 2013 by matt_warfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Barley free is still aid though, and aid climbing isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 As long as it is IPA. I have long admired Canada for their ability to take a route like Grand Wall and make it accessible to the "masses". A little bit of aid for a whole bunch of awesome makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 The only thing this Barley has in common with IPA is the imperial part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 You sorta lost me. Barley wine? All I know is every trip to Squamish starts with the best IPA on earth in Bellingham (Boundary Bay) and goes rapidly downhill at the border. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 You were lost at birth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 G-s, I respect Canada but while you have some of the best rocks and alpine around, what liquor or beer do you produce and what tax rate do you apply to it? BC bud is off the table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepultura Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Guess you have never had a Trad or a swig of Wiser's on a cold winter night. And not a sip of Crown Royal? Shame.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rad Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 BACK on topic: 1 - A 15cm calf tear that kept me from running for 6 months. 2 - A $5000 medical bill for an ultrasound that confirmed said tear wasn't a deep venous thrombosis (fancy name for clot that can kill you). The bill should have been $150 so now I get to fight with health providers and insurance companies to straighten things out. It will probably be June, 2013 before the paperwork blizzard has cleared. 3 - Epic uphill, in the dark bushwhack from hell while lost in Cananuckistan. This caused us to change objectives but we still persevered to have an awesome adventure. 4 - Being psyched to climb with an old partner only to find he's two number grades stronger than me and does free-solo-warmups on my hardest routes. Ouch. 5 - Overloaded with two nearly full-time jobs during the best summer alpine rock weather window the Cascades has seen in a decade. On the plus side, I found a new friend and climbing partner, stayed mostly injury-free outside the calf, and achieved the top 5 from the other thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) Rad, I am sorry for your calf injury, but feel some solace that it isn't a joint or a tendon or a ligament because 6 months is short for some of those injuries. I can't advise you on medical bills. I have a few that I still owe money on. All I can say is to some of them. As far as your partner, I have always enjoyed climbing with those better than me. Nothing like a TR on a climb pretty much over your head. And work almost always gets in the way of climbing your best. Edited January 11, 2013 by matt_warfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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