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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 3, 2010 - 01:54am PT
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Will we now get back to the only real climbing = multi pitch climbing?
everything else is just 'practice'?
I think it was Vic Copeland's piece or maybe Mick Ryan who wrote about bouldering being a fad.
Has it come full circle yet? Or objectively speaking is there more dollars spent on bouldering gear and comps than on 'regular' climbing?
Just an evening thought.
what do you think?
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Will we now get back to the only real climbing = multi pitch climbing?
Pot-stirrer.
Climbing is technical movement over your chosen medium: be it pebbles, large rock formations (free or aid), clip-ups, chalk cliffs, buildings or ice.
Division tears the community.
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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I boulder because I cant find partners to "climb" with.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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It may have left Us....
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deepnet
Boulder climber
CA
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thats like comparing a poem to a novel
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Let me think about that question.
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
Springdale UT
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wow. great picture...that says it all.
Personally I enjoy each manifestation of climbing for what it is and the enjoyment I get out of it. Higher is usually more fun for me, but the gamble of not having ropes adds a different kind of flavor. Eventually I may get far enough to get that same spice run out high on a multi pitch and then the equation will get even more complicated...
Its all fun...my goal is to be very well rounded.
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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So... Climbing a boulder is a fad and climbing a mountain is a sport? But babe, you told me that size didn't matter.
AFS
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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Has the fad of bouldering left us?
Oh I hope so.
Curt
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
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I think the OPe is trolling for a nugget of wisdom from jogill .
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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OK, OK, I have an answer
if it's fun, just do it!
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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are you kidding? no munge you just hang out with the crusty supertopo vets.
The Circuit is building the largest indoor bouldering gym in the country right now in Portland.
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Frogjamm
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Yes, the seventies are right around the corner. Fear not, this brave new world will implode soon enough.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Hah! No way, in fact the "fad" is now to boulder big walls! Go Honnold!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Its all fun...my goal is to be very well rounded
Well, just wait a while and you, like most of us, will become rounder and rounder.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Who am us anyhow?!? Bouldering is still growing even though it makes my joints ache just thinking about it. LOL
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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No. It's worse than ever. The latest Climbing has an article on bouldering in the Sequoia back country (With Angel Wings right there!). Also, someone recently did a piece on Himalayan high country bouldering.
This is not good. I can barely climb V0.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland
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I'm going to start a munge climbing fad, 51% of the route
must be covered in moss or rapidly decomposing
choss to qualify.
Hope to have the website up later this year.
It's gonna be huge!
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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I think we have seen a general softening of the 'chic' of climbing. Not long ago it seemed like we had climbing walls as backdrops of sitcoms, Mathew McConaughey falling off sport climbs as a plot device, and so on. Either I'm watching less TV (sadly not true), or climbing has faded out of our national fascination a bit.
Bouldering still has a lot of ethics to overcome, driven largely by the low cost of entry, IMO. A pair of shows and a pad, and your good to go. Little to no mentoring required. Braided trails andflattened foliage results.
Not dead, but thankfully it looks from my meager perspective like the explosive growth of climbing in general has slowed.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2010 - 01:06pm PT
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nice philG! thread stopper in 3 posts. :)
killer response everyone btw.
this one wins a prize!
I'm going to start a munge climbing fad, 51% of the route
must be covered in moss or rapidly decomposing
choss to qualify.
brilliance!
I kid and pot stir in the OP...
However, I've always thought bouldering was the most democratic form of technical climbing, essentially scrambling or what John Gill calls 'option soloing'
Yet, I find myself bouldering less and less, tho no less inspired by folks sending the shiz and was partly curious as to whether we just hang with the crusties or whether bouldering numbers have dropped?
given the number of young kick ass folks sending at planet granie on a tuesday night or thursday in the winter, the answer is a resounding ' fuk no, it's still going strong and more so than ever'
the barrier to entry is low, and as said above, the ethics and adoption of ethics may not be there just yet.
carpet swaths will return!!!
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