dirtineye
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 18, 2008 - 04:02pm PT
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Ferretlegger
Trad climber
From: san Jose, CA
Sometime back in the 1980's Donald Katz wrote an amazing short story in Outside magazine called "The King of the Ferretleggers", which purported to be a true expose of the old English art of Ferretlegging, and it's master, Reg Mellor. Any climber OWES it to oneself to find this on the web and to read it. Anyway, my whole life has involved the figurative insertion of hungry ferrets into my pants to see how long I could stand it, so "ferretlegger" seemed an appropriate moniker. In the final paragraph, Reg Mellor describes what I perceive to be my whole philosophy of life summed up in a single pithy sentence:
But Reg Mellor refuses to acknowledge that his talent is made of the stuff of heroes, of a mixture of indomitable pride, courage, concentration, and artless grace. "Naw noon o' that," said the king. "You just got be able ta have your tool bitten and not care."
Pretty much sums it up for most of us old farts, doesn't it?
Michael Jefferson
So I got inspired, thinking that surely there are people on ST who would like to try this. Read the little interview, it's... strange.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2561
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