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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 05:24pm PT
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Yes Mr. Hiker, Lycra was the gateway drug to sport climbing.
Doesn't everybody get the outfit before they do the deed whatever it is?
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 05:40pm PT
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But before I go I have to cop to this wardrobe "taint" with full photographic evidence:
Around 1989 at Hueco, Scott Franklin, a couple other regulars and I were all wearing black tights. Maybe even Kauk on that particular day.
Geoff Wiegand at Hueco on the day in question:
Tarbuster, Hueco, black Lycra, a sport climb maybe called Secret Sharer?
Prolly' even evidence of hang doggin' right there;
Juss look how tight that cord is strung!
Can we say: "Taint"?
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 05:43pm PT
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We are just pretending like we know what it is Kevin.
It's all posturing.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 05:44pm PT
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But please don't confuse this juggernaut I'm working here with any kind of real-world rationality.
Just to get the tone back on track:
Trad is jeans, no pads, old-school highballing!
That AssHoleRoy galloping White Rastafarian:
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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You will have to pry my trad lycra out of my cold dead hands... But perhaps the lightning bolt gramiccis will pass muster in this tough crowd?
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 05:48pm PT
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Those look like pajamas.
I don't care if Grammicci made them!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Yeah well there's a good chance I slept in them the night before...
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 05:53pm PT
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That's right punky boys!
Trad climbers wear manly blue jeans.
Tarbuster soloing Butterfly in proper MANLY trad attire:
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad trad
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 06:03pm PT
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I am going to go outside now, step into the 11°F air, spit into the snow ...
And punch out some sort of wildlife which exceeds my mass by 3X
We got MOOSE around here ya know.
(I might have to settle for staring down the neighborhood fox)
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Yeah well there's a good chance I slept in them the night before...
That's pretty trad, ain't it?
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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We don't have Mooses, but have these blue foxes around here. The amazing thing about them is that they always look like they just came out of a beauty salon, with perfect hair. Not much like trad climbers, eh?
A Moose is an impressive creature. I saw one up close and personal on the Minnesota/Canada border once. It was a whole lot more than 3X my body mass!
Nice pic on Butterfly. That butt shot in pinstripe lycra (custom made by 29 Palms veterinarian Ken Gohegan) Guyzo posted upthread is also on that route.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Leap in the 80s
Los Brazos Peak
3rd pillar
Higher Cathedral Rock
Fairview
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Could be....
My Mom on the sharp end
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 10:09pm PT
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I think we can finally condense the meaning into six simple words.
Definition:
Trad Climber: "What they did 30 years ago" You got a bad attitude Dr. F!
Though you're probably not far off the mark; one might make the argument that's what this whole site is about ...
So the schoolin' will continue.
Tuolumne Tradster:
I really like the rock portraiture in that Higher Cathedral shot!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2013 - 10:24pm PT
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Trad to the Bone, a good deal more than 30 years ago:
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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I see the thread topic is What is Trad????????
Judging by the golden moldy posts your title would be more accurate if it read, What was Trad??
Eh, Maybe not, you know the category Trad didn't exist before sport Climbing!!
What is Trad Now??
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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What is Trad??
heheh...a grubby tape gloved hand reaching for an itch in a crack.
Sometimes it's the rock, sometimes its in one's pants...!
Tape and chalk optional and dependent on style choice - hee hee
Cheers
LS
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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What is Trad? Climbing before definitions...
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Thanks Tar man!
Stoner's Hwy
E Buttress El Cap
The Line
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Apr 10, 2013 - 12:00am PT
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I can't be trad. Thanks, Dr. F. (I haven't been in the climbing world long enough).
I can be Trad. Thanks, Lady Scarlett!
Oh, my. I'm in a quandary. ;-)
Always love your pics, T Tradster.
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