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enjoimx
Big Wall climber
SLO Cal
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May 15, 2009 - 12:01am PT
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Obviously you guys just want to talk and debate and be intellectual and prove your point and make a new point and argue and say this and that as if its relevant but to the OP....HERE I AM....I actually climb and im super hip
but carry on with the mating competion...
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May 15, 2009 - 12:11am PT
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I don't get your dis exactly.
Are you male or female?
Are you fixing to climb with Sooze? This weekend? How 'bout moving to Winslow or being 6' or blue eyes?
Just trying to help.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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May 15, 2009 - 12:20am PT
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what if a chick climbing partner asked you to rap bolt the s. face of half dome promising a "reward" if you did it.
would you do it?
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May 15, 2009 - 12:22am PT
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I wouldn't be interested.
But that's just how I roll.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 15, 2009 - 12:30am PT
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Funny, when I first started climbing one of my two main partners was way down on your list -- a woman who was miles better than I
Yeah, but then she'd kind of been through a whole bunch of the stuff everybody's crying about in this thread, hadn't she? Not that I'd know anything about it...
The gals I am referring to are happy to drive long hours, pay, hump gear, buy gear, get dirty, hike down in the dark, be cold at belays, travel to exotic destinations, travel to local sh#t-holes, bivy in the dirt, lead routes, swing leads, belay endless hours for FA's, step aside the red point, make hero leads, climb the wide, use their favorite Prana tops for topo notes, get up crack-o-dawn and quite possibly would do all the cooking and cleaning to boot"
Yeah Kellie, she was all those things, and all of us who have climbed with her are damn lucky. Now, that doesn't mean I didn't want to push her off the edge half the time, and I know she felt the same, but she was a fine, fine partner.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May 15, 2009 - 12:58am PT
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kellie...#6? (I forget now!) was pretty far down the list b/c while all of the really dedicated women climbers that I know will climb w/ a beginner now and again b/c that person is their friend or b/c they are the only one available, none of them got to be the bad ass mamas that they are by being mellow about how often they pushed their own boundries. If a partner (male or female) can't help them do that, then they almost certainly know others who can.
Like I was aluding to before...even when you were a beginner, I doubt you held anyone back much.
Lucky...I'd love to go climb w/ you sometime and find out if we're #5's. :-0
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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May 15, 2009 - 01:42am PT
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especially when they wear camo.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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May 15, 2009 - 01:45am PT
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I dropped back into this topic to find the above wisdom from Locker. May all climbers here get the partner they deserve. Including me.
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2009 - 11:11am PT
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NSFFMTBITDDBC meets SWM for good times at Holcomb Valley Pinnacles.
See yuz......
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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May 15, 2009 - 11:34am PT
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I've been kind of interested in this thread since I'm newly single after a long term relationship. but I haven't had time to read any of it because I've been climbing and I'm going climbing today.
could someone summarize?
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Boltgrl
Ice climber
Winslow, AZ
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May 15, 2009 - 11:57am PT
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how tall are you, joe?
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kellie
climber
Seattle
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May 15, 2009 - 02:23pm PT
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Ghost, that made me laugh out loud. It also reminded me of Eric H's hilarious list of advantages and disadvantages of regular and irregular partners back on the wreck, in which as I recall you both also featured prominently.
Melissa, if I can stay injury free this year, maybe in the fall?!!? I'd surely love to get back down to the Sierra again.
Now if ya'll will excuse me the weather forecast for the Methow is splitter and there is a large peak waiting to be skied.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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May 15, 2009 - 02:30pm PT
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Send her out to Winslow next week. There's a bunch of swords ready to fight for... errmmm... climb with her.
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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May 15, 2009 - 02:35pm PT
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kellie: The South Early Winter couloir?
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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May 15, 2009 - 03:34pm PT
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I have just been informed that this is a man-bashing thread.
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CJanet
climber
Los Angeles, CA
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May 15, 2009 - 05:57pm PT
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Susan -- Thanks for posting. It made me smile to read about other women having trouble finding partners.
It took me 6 months last year after my climbing SO dumped me to find a suitable partner. My current partner had a SO, and may be moving... so on to find another partner.
Anyone around the LA area?
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monolith
Social climber
Albany, ca
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May 15, 2009 - 07:56pm PT
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Insert post locker picture here.
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scuffy b
climber
Bad Brothers' Bait and Switch Shop
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May 15, 2009 - 08:14pm PT
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Man-bashing thread?
Daphne, your source is from outer space.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 15, 2009 - 09:45pm PT
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Will Dick Cilley become the next (non-alpine) Fred Becky?
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