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Nate D
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Jul 26, 2005 - 01:47pm PT
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Ah, there it is again...
that pungent, and yet strangely fragrant, aroma of elitism wafting from my computer.
thanks DMT.
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Degaine
climber
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Jul 26, 2005 - 02:06pm PT
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To quote a Billy Joel song:
"The good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems."
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tomtom
climber
Seattle, Wa
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Jul 26, 2005 - 02:14pm PT
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about half will.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jul 26, 2005 - 02:18pm PT
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Do I use and like sticky rubber climbing shoes, harnesses, belay devices, perlon, and cams? Sure, but would I trade a stream of increasingly less clueless first ascents in JC Penny work boots, tied in with the rope, on clipped hip belays, with goldline, and just stoppers and hexes in exchange for learning to climb today in a gym, in crowds, and never climbing without a guidebook?
Not in this or any other lifetime...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jul 26, 2005 - 03:56pm PT
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I definitely represent the depths on which the foundation of SuperTopo Elitism was built upon...
P.S. You somehow left wild sex and better drugs off the list...
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MikeL
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Jul 26, 2005 - 05:12pm PT
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Thanks, folks. I think I got my answer.
ml
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climberweenie
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jul 26, 2005 - 07:53pm PT
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I shot myself between the eyes with my BB gun (before my brother took it apart and broke it to see how it worked). Actually I shot a rubber tire at point blank range, it bounced right back at me and hit me between the eyes.
I never built a go-cart, but my brother and I sat in the bed of a red Radio Flyer wagon, turned around the pull handle and used it for a steering wheel, and roared down a big hill, only to wipe out and get bloody repeatedly in gravel-covered asphalt
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Jul 26, 2005 - 09:35pm PT
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I'm ancient school...But I am sure some of these kids are our future and will represent accordingly. As for the rest all I can think of is, "Natural Selection."
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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Jul 26, 2005 - 10:24pm PT
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sorry watusi, many gym climbers and the attitude of difficulty prevails over a mental belay will prevent natural selection from ocurring at the natural rate as bold routes are bolted into submission. There has already been many people subscribing to this on this site. I liike sport climbs but I also really like and respect 5.9's that scare the sh#t out of me. But nowadays this type of climbing seems to lose its appeal....
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Chatsworth
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Jul 26, 2005 - 10:31pm PT
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I think the teenagers of the 60's are pussies. Hippies and Free Love destroyed this country.
Juan
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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Jul 26, 2005 - 10:46pm PT
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juan, you are a F%%%off from that generation or act like one anyway, so WTF. No I take that back, you are a PC nerd with no friends who wastes their tiem on the internet like me OH MY F***ING GOD>>>>>>> dam,n....enuff sed...........
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Jul 26, 2005 - 11:17pm PT
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With the caliber of kids that I got to know when I was around...Tommy Herbert, Tim O'Neill and Matt Beebe, just to name but a few, I think we are going to be fine!!!
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climberweenie
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jul 27, 2005 - 04:55am PT
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my 13 month old daughter is going to keep up the bar on that generation. she's already a kick-ass barefoot climber, takes falls without whining, and pushes her 3 yr old brother back.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jul 27, 2005 - 06:35pm PT
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It's too bad Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon were not "pussies". In any case, they sure had flawed masculine self-images that translated into the flawed foreign policy with which we're still cursed today.
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Ouch!
climber
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Jul 27, 2005 - 06:39pm PT
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It's not will the kids be all right. It's will the kids live in a world that will allow them to be all right.
Kids today are under pressures that we could not even imagine 50 years ago.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jul 27, 2005 - 06:48pm PT
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I wonder what Burt Bronson would have to say about this?
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Ouch!
climber
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Jul 27, 2005 - 06:51pm PT
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He would probably refer you to Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Jul 27, 2005 - 11:24pm PT
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I first climbed in '69 with PA's and wouldn't wish that cave gear on anyone...Then in '81 JB turned us on to sticky boots!
The rest is up to the kids!!!
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Mountain Man
Trad climber
Outer space
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Jul 27, 2005 - 11:36pm PT
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"I think the teenagers of the 60's are pussies. Hippies and Free Love destroyed this country. "
Maybe so, but I remember those days with great fondness.
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