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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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"Disco Powder"
No wait, that is the other white dust of placebo courage.
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jstan
climber
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In the times I climbed with Henry, I never saw him fail. So I can't vouchsafe whether he ever pulled a rope.
Now that I am,briefly, on the topic of Henry, it has taken me all these years to figure out why he left Wharton School of business. At the time I thought his intelligence and ability such that he would have wound up CEO of Exxon. What a missed potential.
But I have recently heard of business practices associated with Wharton that had problems. Henry left Wharton because he simply could not tolerate such stuff. IMO.
Anyway, on to the theory I am working on regarding climbers. We are drama queens. If there is drama, we love it. Whether it is poo fights on ST or run out climbs, it's all good. I don't need to present data here. It's bloody obvious.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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I don't know about drama queens. I'd say we tend to be "spice" addicts. We each like the effects of various "spices" and each of us have our favorite "blends."
"Throwback Trad" - nice!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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It's all just inning....
But
Tradclumbing is like sport climbing, only without the training wheels...
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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It's that thing when you put those widgets in a rock right? ;)
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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That's because every short definition of trad is wrong.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Trad is what I say it is.
Fricking nOOBs.
edt: Sitting in a hot cubicle on Sunday. I'm pisssed.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Trad is the silly name imposed on rock climbing by the advent of "sport climbing." The need was felt to differentiate climbs with preplaced bolts, where no gear would be placed by the leader, from the rest of climbing, hence the term sport climbing.
Once that term got established I guess it was felt that what had previously just been referred to as climbing needed an adjective added to differentiate it from sport climbing. To me it's all just climbing.
Oops, just came in from four pitches of sport climbing....no, I mean, climbing.
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jstan
climber
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I'm guessing sport climbers will have big problems with arthritis in thirty years. Trad climbers, on the other hand, will be broke from paying for all the artificial arms. Then all of the argument will be about how long an arm you can ethically have put on.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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I think that boulder problem in Vitaliy's photo is a Gill route
Trad Bouldering = No crash pads, but an occasional top rope.
(which I used the first time I did the Pinch Overhang on the Mental Block in Ft Collins)
;>)
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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there is absolutly nothing trad about a modern trad rack $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
It's called buying your way up a climb.. Whatever. just think it's pretty damn lame when gear climbers get all high and mighty about how cool they are for sewing up crack climbs;) It's all just climbing to me:)
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Nov 21, 2015 - 10:38am PT
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Bump. More climbing content please
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 21, 2015 - 12:16pm PT
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(which I used the first time I did the Pinch Overhang on the Mental Block in Ft Collins)
;>)
I now feel less shame for my "WTF was he thinking" comment on contemplating trying to this the day before the Dylan 'Hard Rain' concert.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 10, 2016 - 05:54am PT
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Bump 4 tradition.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Apr 10, 2016 - 09:19am PT
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You mean Trahd, Myahn?
Annoying term, to me it is bolted, gear or mixed
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Apr 10, 2016 - 02:20pm PT
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Looks good to me.....
....as long as there is an equal amount of clusterf*#k on both bolts they're equalized....
....right?
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Apr 10, 2016 - 02:25pm PT
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You went climbing with Ace Ventura?
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