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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 29, 2012 - 05:42pm PT
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HAHAAHHAHHAHAHHAHHHHAHHHAHHAHHAHHAH!
i HOPE YOU GOT YER SLING BACK................................
TARGET DESTROYED!
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Oct 29, 2012 - 05:53pm PT
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Some superlative trip reports have appeared on ST in the last few months...including some beautiful ones in the Tetons.
"Thank you's" and "good job" may mean little to other readers...but posts of gratitude DO mean something to the creators.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Oct 29, 2012 - 05:53pm PT
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What DMT said! Sometimes the random stuff is not so random and can get quite interesting.
Micronut: the trailer for the TR has be chomping at the bit. I can that one's gonna be a must read!
Eric
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 29, 2012 - 05:55pm PT
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OK DMT! I read you loud and clear (just how I can't explain, it's got something to do with cross-firing in the cochlear nuclei and the inferior colliculus with the gyrus fornicatus, diencephalon, and mesencephalon.
Away we go
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
this part is know as the chorus, I think that's Latin
We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin' on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
We looked down the river and we see'd the British come.
And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.
Anyway I have posted on Trip Reports and also have occasionally drifted off topic (just far enough so's I could say I'd been there).
Oh yeah, can we just have trip reports button?
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Oct 29, 2012 - 06:04pm PT
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"Thank you's" and "good job" may mean little to other readers...but posts of gratitude DO mean something to the creators.
Yes, that is spot on Jennie. Those acknowledgements, as simple as they are, do go a long way. I'd say if you read and appreciate a TR, that's the minimum you can do (and it's certainly not a minimum thing for most TR writers). And feel free to add more if inspired!
Agree there have been a lot of kick ass TR's lately, of many ilks; have enjoyed them all. Get creative and let your freak flag fly (like I have to ask for the latter part!).
Eric
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MH2
climber
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Oct 29, 2012 - 07:04pm PT
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More of us should use our god-given right to bump
Huh?
This is a climbers' forum? About climbing? What per cent? And how much Canadian content?
Yes, I have posted on a climbing TR. Honestly.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 29, 2012 - 07:18pm PT
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Dmt has a good point about not worrying if comments in the tr get a little off topic. Every message is a bump!! Also running Tr's seem to be the rage right now... See Marks last one or my Cali thread. That thread may have been a lot of effort but one of the best parts was coming home and reading it again!!!
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MH2
climber
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Oct 29, 2012 - 07:21pm PT
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Locker,
How long has it been since you ate a donut? If more than 24 hours, take 2 donuts ASAP. If you don't feel better in 15 minutes then go to the nearest ER.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 29, 2012 - 07:29pm PT
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Locker we want a donut tr!! Get writing !!!!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Oct 29, 2012 - 08:08pm PT
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lol @ this retarded thread being on top.
BUMP!
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OldEric
Trad climber
Westboro, MA
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Oct 29, 2012 - 08:17pm PT
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You want more emphasis on climbing threads? You have 3 choices:
1. Post more on the ones that qualify - according to your criteria.
2. Post less on the ones that don't.
3. Implement categories to make it more convenient for those who don't want to wade through the morass - a convenience - sort of like fixed gear and anchors - which ironically is something the OP frequently rants about.
Otherwise what you have is the raw face of the climbing community - DMT's "tribe" that he is so fond of of idolizing - gives one pause - or maybe not...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 29, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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Eric, I have expounded on the subject of anchors but, dear me, I don't think that "rant" would be a descriptive verb for my efforts.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:00pm PT
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expound=rant
It's perspective, man. It's ALL Perspective.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
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As a writer of TRs, I appreciate every single comment and TFPUs. As a reader of TRs, I know the writer probbably appreciates any and all comments so I try to post something.
I enjoy reading about anyone's psych to be out in our beautiful world and write about it.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
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Of course. Many times.
It's the bitter ex-climbers that have chosen to put their lack-of-climbing angst into the golden vessel of political and religious rants that don't, methinks.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:17pm PT
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Hmm Werner could post a car repair TR.. that would be cool
Little tour of the Yosemite garage
On second thought .. NVM it would only have one line
American cars are stuuupid!!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:21pm PT
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Was that the fake Cosmic...? Didn't seem sleazy enough..? Sleazeball-rottingjohnny
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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If you make me spill my beer again, climbski2, we're gonna have words. ;-)
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MisterE
Social climber
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:27pm PT
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"Well we fired our cannons
till the barrels melted down.
We grabbed an aligator
and we poured another round
we filled its mouth with cannon balls
and powdered it's behind.
and when we set the powder of
the gator lost it's mind"
Things that make you say:
"Hmmm..."
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 29, 2012 - 10:31pm PT
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Okay, I've posted similar sentiment a number of times and get beat down every time. I'll do it one more time and wait for the hate posts.
Good climbing related threads are continuously dropped off the page because of political threads. The site needs to create a separate arena for political threads, like there are for gear reviews, etc. Seeing good TRs and climbing threads drop off to see more political spew (for the 40,000th time) which will not change anyone of the participants viewpoints only dilutes this forum's reason for existance.
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