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Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Sep 24, 2011 - 11:37am PT
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OOOOOOOLI SCHTECKKKK ! !
Dave Turner
Mark Twight
Catherine Destivelle
Patrick Gabarrou
Tomaz Humar
I'm sure there are so many i don't know the names of.
Why don't Sharma and Ondra go to the big ranges? Dunno.
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Sep 24, 2011 - 11:42am PT
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You obviously take your photography seriously! I just checked out your website. Very nice!
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James Doty
Trad climber
Phoenix, Az.
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Sep 24, 2011 - 12:33pm PT
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Yeah, beautiful website.
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steve shea
climber
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Sep 24, 2011 - 01:00pm PT
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What a dumb question! It's hard, remote, cold, super expensive and many like being the big fish in the little pond. Most Alpinists I know were good climbers. It was a natural progression to go afield. Also ice climbing and dry tooling take a whole different mindset. Is'nt this a fun debate?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Sep 24, 2011 - 01:04pm PT
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Because Walter died eleven days ago.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Sep 24, 2011 - 01:36pm PT
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John Gill was about two decades ahead of any other rock climbers and was commonly found free soloing hard routes in the Tetons and other mountains.
Royal, Chouinard and others were the best of their day and frequented the mountains.
In a few minutes we're going back up in the plane with Jello for aerial shots of hard climbs he established in the Wind Rivers; one of them paralleling a route I established on North Tower of Haystack Mtn.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Sep 24, 2011 - 02:02pm PT
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We have bunch of Kick assed climbers here in the NE that always climb in the mountains....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Sep 24, 2011 - 02:59pm PT
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The pathetic thing is that your defination of a good climber is the pebble pinchers....
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ELM !
climber
Near Boston
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Sep 24, 2011 - 05:10pm PT
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We have bunch of Kick assed climbers here in the NE that always climb in the mountains.... You said it Trad!! A few of them just bagged a peak...the second highest unclimbed I believe.
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 24, 2011 - 05:11pm PT
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Good climbers don't go to the mountains because they're too easy .....
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James Doty
Trad climber
Phoenix, Az.
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Sep 24, 2011 - 05:25pm PT
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+1 Werner. Elite climbers are from the back of beyond, to paraphrase Critical Bill, "Things to do in Denver when your Dead".
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Sep 24, 2011 - 06:11pm PT
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Werner, is that the same reason that good climbers don't hire prostitutes?
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CTW
climber
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Sep 24, 2011 - 08:28pm PT
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All the good climbers are climbing inside.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 24, 2011 - 09:48pm PT
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If there was good climbing in the mountains, then that's where the good climbers would be. But everybody knows the rock in the mountains is crumbly, and who the f*#k wants to trudge up some boring snow slope anyway?
Stupid question. Good climbers climb where the good climbing is. Everybody knows that is Yosemite Valley. Anywhere else is like who cares? Why do you think that when you read about climbing in "The Big Mountains" it's all guys from Slovenia or f*#king Poland or something? If you live in Europe or some other place, then there isn't anything good to climb (unless you go to America) so if you want to be able to talk about something other than your local chosspile, then what can you do? Go to some bigger pile like Ole Biahole or something.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Sep 24, 2011 - 11:35pm PT
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oregon sand dunes is a cool place to climb,
or not.
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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Sep 24, 2011 - 11:55pm PT
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Gud climbers are always well prepared.........
And starting the pre-dawn approach, while driving with one knee on snow packed icy roads filling up on the healthiest of foods for a 16 hour day into the unknown......
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Sep 25, 2011 - 12:23am PT
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is that a lobster taco?
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Sep 25, 2011 - 12:55am PT
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cuz then they would have to crack climb and they hate that
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 25, 2011 - 01:20am PT
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Yeah, gud climbers don't waste their time on crap any punter can get up...
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