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BirdDog44
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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he (or she) "nailed it"
Old - hammered pitons
New - climbed it
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crankster
Trad climber
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Stacked hexes...scary.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jingus was in use BITD, meaning scarey, dicey, loose, poorly protected.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Almost all of the terms posted here are still used...
It's just the voices, I know:)
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JohnnyG
climber
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Beta
still used a ton by climbers, but betamax is D-E-A-D (i.e. no longer used) by the rest of the world
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Psyched out
I used to hear this a lot from the Californians in the Tetons in the late 1950s.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Climbers used to grunt on 5.9. Now they have orgasms on 5.15.
So I DO need Viagra to climb better.
Extreme seems to be tapering off lately.. finally.
Rad is dead.
One can only hope. And, please, please, please let shred the gnar be done. Snowboarding, skiing, surfing; OK, I have no problem with that. But to me the only way you can "shred the gnar" climbing is if you peel off and on the way down Shred The Gnar. Ouch. Your gnar has been shredded. Hopefully nothing is broken too.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Cancerous begonia
Knarley
Yer just talkin spray
I got ya
"Hey Locker....can you sign this?"
Peace
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storer
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Dynamic belay.As in,"jeezus that hurt, couldn't you have given me a dynamic belay".
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Dog
Dude
Whatever
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Dodgey
Pissed
Fag
Brit nomenclature.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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"continuous ascent" meaning no fixed ropes. Used in Roper's original (red) Climber's Guide to Yosemite. Now irrelevant.
"send." Old meaning - to cause to go, e.g. "I misjudged what I need. Could you send up the knifeblades and rurps on the hauling line?"
"bong." Meaning changed somewhere between 1960 and 1970.
John
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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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Leader to second...I'm going to use a running belay....
Second to leader... What the f..k is a running belay???????
Stevo
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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May 10, 2015 - 04:32pm PT
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The late, great Tom Patey's definition of a running belay:
A cowardly second.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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May 10, 2015 - 05:23pm PT
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6 biner brake
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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May 10, 2015 - 09:36pm PT
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Out of use:
Mungy
Grungy.
British terms which describe wet, mossy or dirty cracks, chimneys etc. ie Squamish BITD.
:) :)
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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May 10, 2015 - 10:31pm PT
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I don't think "jug monkey" gets thrown around much anymore?
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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May 10, 2015 - 11:06pm PT
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Wasn't a crash pad once referred to as a sketch pad?
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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May 10, 2015 - 11:49pm PT
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"horizontal," meaning a Lost Arrow piton.
"A climbing problem for a future generation"
"Climbers, by and large an intelligent group. . ."(Roper, A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley, First Ed. p. 4).
John
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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May 10, 2015 - 11:59pm PT
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Figure-4.
A Rose.
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