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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 21, 2015 - 10:26am PT
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For taking her up to Tahquitz this Sunday or Monday? She is not real fond of Cold; cool is great, but cold can lead to ...... You think it will be at least 60 deg F? I was thinking Fingertrip would be a nice intro for her and she is totally capable. We won't mind the conga line getting on it, but I should pick her up some gloves for belaying.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 21, 2015 - 10:30am PT
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I think this is a clear example of partner abuse.
Neither of you have enough body fat to survive those conditions.
You should instead come and see the new Mad Max with me and my husband. Our local theatre serves wine!
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2015 - 10:33am PT
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WAIT. Your local theater serves wine? Hmmmmmmmmm. Might have to squeeze in BOTH!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 21, 2015 - 10:39am PT
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I wouldn't get on Fingertrip behind anyone else - too much loose sh!t above.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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May 21, 2015 - 10:44am PT
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Careful. I took my spouse out to the White Cliffs of Dover on a cool day and ended up on the receiving end of "I hate you; I hate this climb". You've been warned.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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May 21, 2015 - 10:45am PT
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^ Roger that. When I climbed Taquitz I always made sure we were the first party on the route.
Your wife's job is to kill you; it is implied by the "till death we part" thingy.
edit: think about some easy short routes at Suicide. Much safer and easier to bail.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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May 21, 2015 - 10:48am PT
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If she hasn't done much multi-pitch, you might consider a different option- besides gumbies-galore & rockfall/gearfall potential, FT can be a little...umm...attention-getting for first-time multi-pitchers.
Might wind up with a permanent relationship stain. Or might result in unbelievable sex. YMMV.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2015 - 10:57am PT
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Ahhhhhhh, I might be screwed as its not forcasted to warm up until later in the day.
Might be better to get on the Weeping Wall. Might be better to go to the movies, but I want to climb and she seems excited about going to Tahquitz. I mean she asked to GO. If it was going to be in the 70's it would be a no brainer.
Yea Apogee, I was looking at that. Hmmmmmmmm. She is ready to do this, but NOT to freeze her skinny ass off. She did great on WOWS and Dapple Mare in J tree.
edit; And has just come back from getting on steep stuff at IC.
2nd edit; Apogee, It IS a day off. Plan B could be having sex. That's a good Plan B. If possible combine plan A and B.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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May 21, 2015 - 12:09pm PT
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If possible combine plan A and B.
That gives new meaning to the route-name, "Fingertrip." COLD fingertrip.
You're already dead but just don't know it yet. ;-)
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Gunkie
climber
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May 21, 2015 - 12:10pm PT
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The answer is 'yes'. However, if you choose to move forward with this craziness, be safe and have fun and take a Gri-Gri.
I took my wife surfing three times:
1. Barbados south shore at Brandons where I proceeded to bounce her off the reef
2. Maui, Lahaina Harbor, I bounced her off the reef when a rouge six foot set caught her inside
3. Outer Banks NC where I pushed her into a low tide grinder (I figured I was dead anyway)
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crankster
Trad climber
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May 21, 2015 - 12:24pm PT
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Buy her a nice down jacket.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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May 21, 2015 - 12:27pm PT
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Well, post up pics, regardless. (Not the sex part. Use your best judgement.)
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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May 21, 2015 - 12:44pm PT
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Don't do it, Skcreidc.
As you might've heard, we women have a comfort zone of about 3 degrees. Anything below 70 or above 74 puts us in a bad mood that can last for years.
Our fingers (along with other body parts) freeze much faster than you men's, and frozen fingers lead to a not very enjoyable climbing experience...which will probably include failing on the route.
Make your wife's first experience of Tahquitz a happy one, then she'll want to go back over and over again...not to mention showing her appreciation to you by initiating Plan B herself.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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May 21, 2015 - 12:52pm PT
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As you might've heard, we women have a comfort zone of about 3 degrees. Anything below 70 or above 74 puts us in a bad mood that can last for years.
HA! (*tm eKat)
Been on the receiving end of that fun time...took my wife camping in Mammouth when it hit 17 F. Good times.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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May 21, 2015 - 12:54pm PT
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I'm still paying for a cold couple of days in Pinnacles in February of 1985 - but it turns out I'm also reaping rewards. It turns out my wife was pregant with our older daughter then. Now she's convinced her husband to start climbing, too. And guess who they like to climb with?
John
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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May 21, 2015 - 01:02pm PT
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This is the question that I live with most of the time. She often looks like she is going to thrash me, and I never know why.
Being a husband is confusing work.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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May 21, 2015 - 01:17pm PT
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Being a husband is confusing work.
They are trained to make it that way...
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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May 21, 2015 - 01:50pm PT
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Anything below 70 or above 74 puts us in a bad mood that can last for years.
L for the win!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 21, 2015 - 01:55pm PT
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Now you tell me I shouldn't have taken a girl raised in the tropics
on a XC ski overnighter that saw -20F? Doh!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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May 21, 2015 - 02:05pm PT
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Come on up Chris! Squamish is hovering in the 70's this weekend bud! ;)
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2015 - 02:25pm PT
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Dooood! ^^^^^^^I'd LOVE to come up. One of these days it will happen ;)
Hmmmmmm. Think I will have to take L's advise and not do it. Sigh, looks like another Woodson Weekend.
Gunkie. You took your wife out to Barbados for guaranteed reef beatings? Ouch, inside on the reef man lol. Not really funny but.... What the hell, I yelled at my wife for the deer in the headlights syndrome on a boogyboard in the line up. I was bad...made her cry I did. I'm much more patient now; was horrible back then.
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Gunkie
climber
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May 21, 2015 - 03:05pm PT
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Gunkie. You took your wife out to Barbados for guaranteed reef beatings? Ouch, inside on the reef man lol. Not really funny but.... What the hell, I yelled at my wife for the deer in the headlights syndrome on a boogyboard in the line up. I was bad...made her cry I did. I'm much more patient now; was horrible back then.
And took her up 'Chitlin Corner' during our honeymoon on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia NP in Maine. First pitch is 5.7. Second pitch is a 5.10a corner roof. She started weeping at the hanging belay below the roof. I should have run those pitches together and told her it was 5.7.
And on the way to Nova Scotia on our honeymoon, I was talking to some surfers on the overnight ferry because there was a swell building, she started to cry. She thought she was going to be a surf widow. I had two boards with me, climbing gear, and mountain bikes.
In the end, she won. And we're still married.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2015 - 03:43pm PT
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Ohhh my. Nova Scotia on a nice Fall hurricane swell that is well positioned and moving slow/generating. Never got to experience that; overhead backside aggression session in a spring suit of all things. I actually had dreams about that for a summer. Never going to happen for me now.
Gunkie, glad it all worked out for you. It's worked out for us too, lol! And she is no longer ever a surf widow. Occsionally a climbing widow tho ;).
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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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May 21, 2015 - 06:34pm PT
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Do you think J-tree will be busy this weekend?
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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May 21, 2015 - 08:12pm PT
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Go solo no drama.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 22, 2015 - 03:07am PT
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But wait, Mad Max wine party?! With the phamily Phylp?
Do that part for sure!
Could be Percfect for sublimating tensions after a day of cold fingertips!
I just saw it, you won't think about cold for days, trust me!
I don't want to give anything away, but; Sandpunk! Action, beautiful cinematography, me jagon, enough creative inventive desert survival imagery to fuel burningman theme camps for the next fifty years!
Mine, was a positive experience! Bring a can of silver spray paint! You'll know why later, sort of a rocky horror throwback audience participation thing.....
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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May 22, 2015 - 06:52am PT
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Climbing's way more fun and you get a lot more done with the boys.
Warbler, that's a pretty g'hey statement right there. :-)
You've got to ask yourself: Why do you choose to climb with crybabies? I've climbed with tons of women and the only time I saw someone cry on a climb--it was a guy. Seriously.
Luckily he was on an adjacent climb, or I might've dropped him...wink wink
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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May 22, 2015 - 07:46am PT
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Scrubbles, that's just hilarious.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 22, 2015 - 08:00am PT
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One of the few times I tied on with a goil I almost cried, from the humiliation. I watched
Ellie Hawkins walk up something on the Apron in her new EB's. Then I thrutched up to
her in my RR's, crimping and edging and desperately trying to look cool and composed,
like she actually was. I still cringe at the memory.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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May 22, 2015 - 08:07am PT
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yea hopefully her commitment
and love sentiments exceed
her desire to impart upon you
fatal harm.
good luck, brother.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 22, 2015 - 11:01am PT
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Warbler, your list was really funny! Made me LOL.
I just saw it, you won't think about cold for days, trust me!
I don't want to give anything away, but; Sandpunk! Action, beautiful cinematography, me jagon, enough creative inventive desert survival imagery to fuel burningman theme camps for the next fifty years!
Mine, was a positive experience! Bring a can of silver spray paint! You'll know why later, sort of a rocky horror throwback audience participation thing.....
JAY I SAW IT YESTERDAY!!!!!!
LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT!
Phyl
(she who can get whiney when it's cold)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 22, 2015 - 10:03pm PT
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Too funny Phyl! Glad you liked it!
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Gunkie
climber
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May 23, 2015 - 09:19am PT
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When a guy cries on a climb, you know there's something seriously wrong.
Oh my gosh. Climbing the Nose more than 20 years ago we had this red-hot German climber just firing pitches coming up below us. He had two guys jugging with packs. One stoic German fellow and one talkative Canadian dude. The two followers were obviously there to just belay, clean and jug.
So we let them pass high on the Stovelegs. The Canadian guy begins complaining about the German guys. Finally it's his turn to lower out and jug with this heavy pack full of water. So he lowers out and begins to get sucked over backwards by the weight of his pack. Now he's weeping uncontrollably. We're yelling to him that he needs to fashion a chest harness out of a quick draw and his pack shoulder straps. he finally gets the chest harness together and just hangs there. The lead German guy is getting pissed.
Now we've been waiting for a while. So while this hodad is quietly sobbing, I take off on the lead and pass the German guys, who were belaying in a small alcove 20 feet below Dolt Tower ledge. Our lines are all over the Germans, but the leader was very understanding. We eventually passed and got to El Cap Towers for our bivy and they climbed into the evening and bivied on the loose, dirty ledge at the base of the Texas Flake. Seemed very quite up there that night. The only conversation I heard was in German; I'm pretty sure the Canadian dude didn't know what they were saying. We didn't, but suspected what the conversation might have been about.
Anyway, they got up early and stayed ahead of us for the rest of the climb and we finished uneventfully.
I'm pretty sure that Canadian guy never climbed with those German guys again.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 23, 2015 - 09:36am PT
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Climbing with chicks is fun except when they get mad at you which seems to happen a lot....
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2015 - 07:53am PT
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Well, there was no Tahquitz for us this weekend :(. It was just some Woodson (Aithough I love Woodson) and Plan B. Here is a trip report for Apogee on the Plan B part.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Ed H
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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May 27, 2015 - 11:14am PT
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Very funny video. TFPU!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 27, 2015 - 11:39am PT
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What a classic video!
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