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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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On giving up ice climbing:
"Being cold, tired and scared is not as much fun as it used to be."
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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"Well, Jack. Now you know. This is a house of ill fame. And I'm a fallen flower. This life is not only wicked and sinful. It isn't even any fun."
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wallyvirginia
Trad climber
Stockholm, Sweden
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Whoa! Where did that Little Big Man quote come from? Havent seen that movie in more than two decades but instantly knew the quote.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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It came from Little Big Man.
“If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.”
Thomas Berger is the most under-rated American author.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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"Wives Grandfather?"
Yes, there were three... or four, it was hard to tell. It was very dark in your teepee and they were under buffalo rugs as you crawled among them. Anyway, it was a great copulation.
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wallyvirginia
Trad climber
Stockholm, Sweden
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Thanks Survival! Brings me right back. I loved that picture. Dustin Hoffman really shone.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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What a great flick eh?
Invisible! I've never been invisible before!
Old Lodge Skins
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brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
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"The world is like a book, and those that never leave home read but one page."
-St. Augustine
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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"Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge." - Don Henley
Curt
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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My grandma taught me, "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is."
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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What a great flick eh?
A great movie. An even better novel.
“The buffalo eats grass, I eat him, and when I die, the earth eats me and sprouts more grass. Therefore nothing is ever lost, and each thing is everything forever, though all things move.”
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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'My wife sent her photograph to the Lonely Hearts Club.
They sent it back saying they weren't that lonely.'
Les Dawson
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sempervirens
climber
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Humans are the most difficult people.
When all is said and done, more has been said than done.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"Men are like linoleum floors. Lay'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years."
Betsy Salkind
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.--Jospeph Roux
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. --Dorothy L. Sayers
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ecdh
climber
the east
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Mar 10, 2017 - 12:41am PT
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LSD causes anxiety and panic in people who dont take it.
T. Leary
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Mar 12, 2017 - 08:04am PT
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on his 95th Birthday
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 12, 2017 - 09:05am PT
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"Nobody would climb if they couldn't talk about it"....Thom Englebach.
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bob
climber
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Mar 12, 2017 - 09:19am PT
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"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Helen Keller
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