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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:51pm PT
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Man, you are one twisted f*#k.
Nope, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.
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"Rockclimbing is one of the things hydrogen atoms do given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:53pm PT
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. - Werner Herzog
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Sonic
Trad climber
Central Coast, California
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:56pm PT
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"Youre either a recovering alpinist or a recovering alchoholic."
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 24, 2011 - 01:01pm PT
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"get back loretta"
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perswig
climber
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Apr 25, 2011 - 07:39am PT
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A partner, very strong rock climber but novice on ice:
"Climbing steep ice hurts my cows."
English is not his native tongue.
Dale
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 25, 2011 - 07:51am PT
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"Atom bombs take all the fun out of war" Edward Abbey
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Apr 25, 2011 - 08:32am PT
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"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 27, 2011 - 09:14pm PT
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"Don't say penis in this house!"
Ronnie's mom to Ronnie,
in the film, Born on the Fourth of July
"Penis! Big f*#king erect penis, Mom!"
Penis!
Penis!
Ronnie
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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Apr 27, 2011 - 10:53pm PT
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"We've got no food, we've got no jobs...our pets heads are falling off!"
Lloyd...."Dumb and Dumber"
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OR
Trad climber
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Apr 27, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
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" Hey, kick me down some of that kick ass cheesebread"
Mr Way begging a waitress behind the Mountain Room for a meal while she was having a smoke break.
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Gene
climber
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Apr 28, 2011 - 05:57pm PT
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If you fall to your left, you fall 8,000 feet into Nepal. If you fall to your right, you fall 12,000 feet into Tibet. It’s probably better to fall into Tibet because you’ll live a little longer. Either way, you’ll fall for the rest of your life.
Ken Kambler on the final part of the South Col route on Everest
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blue blaze, Than it be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, Every atom of me in magnificent glow, Than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
"Jack London"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress."
Kenneth Burke
A parlor or a certain climbing forum?
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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"But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
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perswig
climber
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" What part of go fukin climb the damned thing and find out are YOU not getting?"
-Khanom
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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"This is where if I had a d*ck I'd tell you to suck it" Betty White in the movie Lake Placid
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seth kovar
climber
Reno, NV
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I downgrade everything I do.
If I can't do it I insist that a hold has broken, deem it utter choss, and move on.
I'm also the raddest climber I've ever met. --weschrist
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2011 - 11:18am PT
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"But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
If Supertopo had a "like" feature, I'd have to click "like" for this one.
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WBraun
climber
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^^^^^^^^^
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
No one. Absolutely no one is free from servitude.
Every living entity is a servant, every single one.
There is absolutely no way any living entity can break free from servitude.
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ruppell
climber
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May 30, 2011 - 02:34am PT
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Anatoli Boukreev – “We go to the mountains to satisfy our own ambitions, not because others evaluate what we are doing.”
Should be a pledge before you can post here. or maybe it should read:
"WE GOT TO THE MOUNTAINS BECAUSE OTHERS EVALUATE US TO SATISFY THERE AMBITIONS"
Which one would you want to hear yourself say.
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