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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 11, 2017 - 09:10am PT
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Lol Hamie!!!!
I'll bet you're one of those guys that wears convertible pants, right?
I get it champ, you suck at bouldering too.
:-)
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Jan 11, 2017 - 09:29am PT
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Sorry, but bouldering was never "an essential part of calling yourself an all around climber".
Probably true. Bouldering enough tends to make a climber less round :-)
Curt
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jan 11, 2017 - 09:42am PT
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Hey if you like to Boulder,
Please do!
I just always tried to climb a new route.
repeating, and repeating, and repeating the same problem seemed so very boring.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Jan 11, 2017 - 09:44am PT
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Who cares?
I love it. Originally I bouldered in Kern Canyon then on to the Grotto at Columbia College followed by the mecca of the Eastside...um, I was hooked on this particular style of climbing for supreme funness and I sucked at it.
I don't really get why folks bag on it?? It would be like an MTB'r bagging on Trials(the new strava types tend to more). Bouldering will only expand your prized bag of tricks as well as work on your head if you manage to get on some high balls!!
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Jan 11, 2017 - 10:01am PT
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Hey if you like to Boulder,
Please do!
I just always tried to climb a new route.
repeating, and repeating, and repeating the same problem seemed so very boring.
Interestingly enough, if you bouldered more, you might be doing less trying and more succeeding.
Curt
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Jan 11, 2017 - 11:41am PT
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Life is just practice for real climbing.
LOL hamie!!! Ok, life is just practice for spraying about other people's preference of adventure.
What I like is right and if you don't like it you're wrong! Sheesh, what's not to understand? I'm always right. Just like you.
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Rudbud
Gym climber
Marathon, FL
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Jan 11, 2017 - 02:50pm PT
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The real question is, has the bud light lime fad left us?
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jan 11, 2017 - 03:48pm PT
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I just always tried to climb a new route. repeating, and repeating, and repeating the same problem seemed so very boring
Long ago, when mammoths roamed the American heartland, exploration was a primal motivator for bouldering. It was fun repeating and polishing problems, but the search for new boulder problems was a powerful incentive.
Guess not so much these days.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Jan 11, 2017 - 03:52pm PT
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Naw, it's still happening, you just get to go for more of a walk first.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2017 - 03:53pm PT
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jgill, some of us still look. Got lots a space for them, but they are harder to find further than 10 feet from the cooler in the back of my truck.
1stworldproblems
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2017 - 03:57pm PT
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The real question is, has the bud light lime fad left us?
Rudbud, careful they say purgatory is for the sinner that fails to partake of the Lime. heh
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Jan 11, 2017 - 03:59pm PT
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Gatoritas VS Limes?
Better octane, better 'gas' mileage....meh
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2017 - 04:00pm PT
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Feet away from a dirt road...
Undocumented, but surely sent by KLK, D. Forbes, Deano, Lance K and their crew or others.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 11, 2017 - 11:32pm PT
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This boulder
....definitely more than 10min from the road.
We're totally limiting ourselves down here.
:-)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2017 - 08:38am PT
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Brave's picture is broken. Upside down. Heh
Jefe, very poor quality. We will pray for more boulders for u. Lol
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 12, 2017 - 04:16pm PT
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Gill says,
but the search for new boulder problems was a powerful incentive.
Yes, powerful incentive indeed.
Driving force, really, for me and many I climb with.
Kinda hard to circuit when through the bushes, around the bend, there might be more of those.
But to what Bannister said about trying and trying and it getting old-
I understand, whether you're talking about circuiting or projecting
(I suspect you're talking about circuiting, you don't seem like much of a projecter :-)
Even though trying problems above your limit has been an inherent part of bouldering, I'd moved away from serious projecting. Maybe I didn't handle failure well.
I found that I needed higher success rates to make climbing fun again. I liked to try hard, just for not very long.
But recently I took on a project- a problem that really grabbed me. Really hard for me but still attainable, I think, at a grade I haven't climbed since I was a kid.
What projecting is teaching me now is to see success in smaller increments.
Maybe I'm more patient now, perhaps my OCD more advanced,
but I'm diggin' it again.
Add that I can work it alone, it's close to the road, and a classic Bob Murray line- I'm hooked.
And when I send it, which I will :-), there are harder lines to aspire to on the same boulder.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 12, 2017 - 04:32pm PT
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Honestly, I can't say for sure what thrills me more: finally sending a problem that I really, really wanted to do, or the rush you get when you discover a new five-star boulder, or even better, a whole new area. Sharing the experience with your exploration buddies. Doing half a dozen new, really good problems in a day. The butterflies you get in your stomach when you get your first up-close look at good new stuff after following a 35 mile shot-in-the-dark dirt road hunch. Ah, man, just the whole package. It's one bitchin' life, ain't it?
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 12, 2017 - 04:36pm PT
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BVB.
Word.
edit: cowboy lol! Those dogs are so amped on new problems they had to get it on!
edit#2: cowboy? Lol!
edit#3: cowboy... sweet vvvvv lol
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