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cintune
climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:15pm PT
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"Legitimacy is just an existential state defined by whoever you're dealing with. Unless you define it for them first."
 Nans Ludwig
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:19pm PT
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Also in a bathroom stall, I guess adopted from an old protest quip:
Split beaver, not atoms.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
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"Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.", Walter Bonatti.
"You have to train your ropes better. Ropes are like dogs. Think consistent reinforcement of good behavior. New ropes need a lot of work. My rope is usuallys well behaved. However, Emily's rope is always getting itself tied up in knots. I think she neglected it when it was young." — Sue Hopkins.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:17pm PT
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"Climbers have no sense of smell." — Conrad Anker's mother.
"I wouldn't go there if I were you. They steal from the store and they smell and they wear rags and even piss right outside their tents. I tell you, it's like a leper colony, that place." — Yosemite Lodge bellman trying to dissuade a girl from visiting Camp 4, 1962.
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ImplicitD
Trad climber
Boise
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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All generalizations are false, including this one. Twain
There are old climbers and bold climbers but no old bold climbers.
When in doubt, run it out.
Cant do, then teach. Cant teach, then teach the teachers.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 05:10pm PT
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Not bad!
"I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity." — Warren Harding (1925-2002).
Ever tried
ever failed
try again
fail better...
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Feb 28, 2012 - 02:18am PT
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"he bowls ... overhand"
-from a dos equis commercial
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Feb 28, 2012 - 09:38am PT
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I thought they were fairy guns
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Mar 19, 2012 - 12:38am PT
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"There is no way of knowing where the next discovery will come from, what dream of the mind's eye will remake the world. These dreams begin as impossibilities."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 15, 2012 - 02:20pm PT
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"if you're not at the table, you're on the menu"
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Jun 15, 2012 - 05:38pm PT
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T E Lawrence
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ELM !
climber
Near Boston
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:13pm PT
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"don't get into a pissing match with a Skunk"
Dad
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:16pm PT
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Americans are so stupid they drive their cars to go somewhere to walk or hike.
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laughingman
Mountain climber
Seattle WA
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:26pm PT
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"one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon."
The Alchemist
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:31pm PT
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Rocks make no compromise for sex....rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.--Beverly Johnson
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 15, 2012 - 09:02pm PT
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Prefatory note to The Dangerous Book for Boys, C. & H. Iggulden
"Don't worry about genius and don't worry about not being clever. Trust rather to hard work, perseverance, and determination. The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.'
"You hold you future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief. Don't swagger. The boy who swaggers--like the man who swaggers--has little else that he can do. He is a cheap-Jack crying his own paltry wares. It is the empty tin that rattles most. Be honest. Be loyal. Be kind. Remember that the hardest thing to acquire is the faculty of being unselfish. As a quality it is one of the finest attributes of manliness.
"Love the sea, the ringing beach and the open downs.
"Keep clean, body and mind.'"
Sir Frederick Treves, Bart, KCVO, CB, Sergeant in Ordinary to HM the King, Surgeon in Ordinary to HRH Prince of Wales, written at 6 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, on September 2, 1903, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Boy's Own Paper
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jun 15, 2012 - 10:37pm PT
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There's always free cheese in a mouse trap.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Jun 15, 2012 - 10:44pm PT
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Love many, trust few, do harm to none.
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