Original Climbing Term Contest!

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Plaidman

Trad climber

South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA

Sep 6, 2012 - 09:09am PT

YEAH! What he said! ^^^^^^^

JADIAN

Trad climber

Manton

Sep 6, 2012 - 02:27pm PT

R.U.C.S.A.C. Rock Up Close Suddenly Appears Critical or Route Up Close Suddenly Appears Crazy..... You know the moment, when you have scoped out a line, looks good, you put shoes and harness on, tie in, and then....RUCSAC!

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Sep 6, 2012 - 02:36pm PT

Hey, what happened to Pod People?
It's not on the poll anymore. I call FOUL!
So I voted for Attitude Sickness since I understand it so well.

mariaji

Social climber

Tucson, AZ

Sep 6, 2012 - 02:39pm PT

"Put it to sleep!", beta for the ambitious sharp-ender. Kudos to cragnostic.

EdBannister

Mountain climber

13,000 feet

Sep 6, 2012 - 03:02pm PT

Verlaengertesteigeisenverstellungstangen

i ordered these from Stubai for a guy with big boots....

extended crampon adjustment tangs.
all one word in the other language.....

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Sep 6, 2012 - 03:39pm PT

laenger=longer
eisen=ice
steig=stick?
tangen=points

Wunderbra!

Seamstress

Trad climber

Yacolt, WA

Sep 6, 2012 - 04:38pm PT

Barberic - a Henry Barber route
Barberesque - a route that favors tall people
Accumulating frequent flyer miles - falling
Free Ticket - helicopter evacuation
MaMa Moment - frightened
Lord Invoked - screaming for Jesus
Ape Index - reach from finger tip to fingertip compared to head to toe.

Inspecting the guidebook, she avoided the barberic routes remembering that she didn't score impressively well on the ape index. She had inadvertantly traveled into Barberesque territory. Elvis had now taken center stage, and there was a whole lot of shakin' goin' on. How could she possibly be in this delicate condition? She had used pro - albeit p3 (purely psychological protection). The MaMa Moment intensified until the Lord was invoked. Now she was accumulating frequent flyer miles and would qualify for a free ticket.

Jason A Graves

Trad climber

Carlsbad, CA

Sep 6, 2012 - 05:18pm PT

I know the contest is over, but I thought I'd throw one more in...

#2 We call farting dropping a #2 or more specifically farting in your partners face while at a belay station.

The term originated from me asking my partner, "Hey Tom, is my #2 (Camalot) hanging on the back of my harness? I can't find it." When he bent down to look for it I let one go. May not technically be an original climbing term, but it was pretty funny. So now when someone has to fart, we ask the other person, "Is my #2 cam..." It's especially funny when you can pull it off more than once on the same guy.

neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Sep 6, 2012 - 07:20pm PT

hey there say, oh my.... i missed the voting, :O
never saw the bumps, i just stepped in off and on, lately,
oh my...

will have to see who won, :)

i liked mouse from merced's
'cragnostic' (think it was?)

Cragnostic: One who believes it is impossible to climb a certain line. He sees a line, but is skeptical it can be done.

"The cragnostic looked wistfully up at Vain Hope, thinking, 'Bummer!'"

i like them ol' play on words, :))

well happy HAPPY to the winner,
will go try to see if the poll said who it was...

just RESAW this from chris's CLIMBER NEWS... :)

THANKS mrE for the fun for all!

Bob Harrington

climber

Bishop, California

Sep 6, 2012 - 08:56pm PT

Consider a sixteen-hour dark-to-dark alpine FFA featuring blown screamers, off-width, impending storm, loose rock,nauseating exposure, and uncontrolled glissading. According to Brutus, this is a Half Credit Day. Full credit apparently requires an unplanned bivy.

Pablo

Trad climber

J-Tree

Sep 6, 2012 - 09:44pm PT

Penalty slack

aaron4peace

Trad climber

Santa Fe

Sep 7, 2012 - 02:31pm PT

Purple Pointing
This is something most of us have experienced.

You have already sent this route, red-pointed at least. Years later you return to re-climb it and get shut down. Now you feel like you need to re-send it for the Purple Point.

Widely used phrase in our area.

Luke Lydiard

Ice climber

Sep 7, 2012 - 03:05pm PT

Grizzle = GriGri
GrezzTeezzie = GriGri2

eburk

Trad climber

Oklahoma City, OK

Sep 7, 2012 - 04:00pm PT

Gnibmilc or Gnibmilcing (Ga-nib-lick) - to down climb a route (climbing backwards)

Fossil climber

Trad climber

Atlin, B. C.

Sep 7, 2012 - 10:34pm PT

Sponge Bobs - love it!

climber

Boulder, CO

Sep 8, 2012 - 12:54pm PT

I propose that at very crowded crags, where miscommunication can be a real problem, each team should create a unique password* before climbing; they must correctly utilize this password before each and every vocal signal given, to assure they are properly communicating only with their partner.
Ex:
"One- asterisk-T-seven-I-B-D-nine, up rope!"
"One- asterisk-T-seven-I-B-D-nine, what?"
"One- asterisk-T-seven-I-B-D-nine, I said up rope, now!"
"One- asterisk-T-seven-I-B-D-nine, okay, then, off belay"
"NO, damn it, TAKE!"
"One- asterisk-T-seven-I-B-D-nine, I'm sorry, your password is incorrect"
"One- asterisk-T-seven-I-B-D-nine, TAKE!"
"One- asterisk-T-seven-I-B-D-nine, alright then, On Rappel"

* for ease, of course, combinations must be case-independent, and special symbols that have no widely understood name should be avoided except for the very most crowded crags where longer passwords will be necessary.

climber

Boulder, CO

Sep 8, 2012 - 01:07pm PT

MOOT POINT

I proposed this about 20 years ago but alternative definitions are new:

1) Redpoint of your personal 5.11 choss project after 2 1/2 yr, on a crag of quality established 5.12 and 5.13 classics.

2) past tense - the first ascent of any route on a crag that was
a) permanently closed to climbing
b) subsequently obliterated by Corps of Engineers during dam reconstruction, or any other works project. These are the true stories of my feeble list of first ascents, by the way.

FLOATING DECIMAL POINT
Perhaps the term to use when a second ascensionist seriously downgrades the rating given by the first ascent party?