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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2013 - 10:31pm PT
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I already had a Joe Brown dude.
Big old yellow bumblebee head looking unit ... Pew.
Hardly compares to that finely cut piece OUR MAN is sporting up there ^^^.
Trad is all about how you look really!
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you look: and you look marvelous darling!
Take notes like your life depends on it aspiring trad puppies.
Oh and TradTarts®♥ ... Go ahead and check out my ass there: buy one, get one free.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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sorry for the dictionary quotes... No worries here ED!
Remember and never forget it again:
Trad is never f#cking having to say you are sorry™♥
Although, being all about decorum and inclusiveness here on the topo:
you may use the word apology, if sparingly.
Sorry dude, but thems the rules of trad until further notice.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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the dragon lying in wait.
Nice Ed!
But I still ain't buying the deal about not cleaning cracks totally choked with moss and dirt, like you said up thread.
I mean I'm as much in love with crunchy lichen and gravelly junk as the next trad dad; but like even the Gold Wall had at least hand and foot jams cleaned out every 5 feet when Helga and I did it. I was glad for that action!
Then this:
to get to the real thing that Lou Reed was describing, and probably not all that interested in that much adventure, on the streets of Manhattan in the 1960s. You rock Hartouni! Don't ever change.
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bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
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Apr 15, 2013 - 11:41pm PT
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What is "climbing"?
What is "supertopo" ?
L-A-M-E. So lame.
It was always better back in the day-
right?
Check my ST address......I LIVE in the past.
Somehow being born in the 50's makes us superior to all these posers who just happen to be born after us.
The Hubers? sport climbing weanies. Sharma? sport climbing yoga weanie. Honnold WTF? the guy learned how to climb in a gym....what a pussy!
None of the these posers could climb 5.8 in PA's like us.
Let's start a self congratulatory, blow each other club...
oh wait...that's supertopo.
Being a bit'er old guy is easy isn't it?
It's so Fkucin' easy.
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Captain...or Skully
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Apr 15, 2013 - 11:46pm PT
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It's all easy...until it's not.
See? Easy Peasy. Or some such. Carry on.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2013 - 12:37am PT
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Trad guys like stuffing themselves in flares:
My big hair pal Alvino Pon, final pitch of BLIND FAITH, Rostrum.
I bet $100 bitter old guy is fairly well pulling our leg here Ed.
After all, it is a perfect send up, what with his handle and stuff!
None of the these posers could climb 5.8 in PA's like us.
!!!!! TRAD™ ♥
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2013 - 12:38am PT
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Comici was pretty darn tootin’ TRAD,
If I may take the liberty …
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Apr 16, 2013 - 12:39am PT
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Apr 16, 2013 - 06:17am PT
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Trad is thumping your chest and declaring to the world that you are, indeed, trad.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Apr 16, 2013 - 08:32am PT
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Ed,
you chickenshit could you tell us what kind of (sticky) shoes you were wearing when you did the umpteen ascent of Super Chicken?
I have done a few of these Dome runouts some as early as 1972 with some green Kronhoffer looking Red Wing hiking like shoes.
Doing these runouts seems pale in comparison to some rock cleaning rappels I have worked on to get a good gear route. Far more adventure, risks and calculations than I ever got on these slabby walk ups.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 16, 2013 - 08:42am PT
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Yeah those overhead an hors can be murder!!
As Dick Cilley once said, "when you're he worlds most famous to proper, you take your life in your own hands every day!"
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Apr 16, 2013 - 09:08am PT
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Tradsters come back to the real perceived world by turning down your internal fear, risk and adventure feeling amplifiers.
Relax out there
But I guess it is okay to be the way you are when you live in a world where distortion makes your group think.
For I too have been within the topology surface of what's called TRAD but you might say I was able to keep my head while others around me were losing theirs in the assessment of perceived risk.
It all boils down too what is Real Risk??
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Apr 16, 2013 - 09:11am PT
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Real Risk: When gradients of danger changes faster than we can correct.
edit: ON second thought we are probably dead/or hanging from the rope by the next time/space locale when this happens. It's more than chaos theory.
Real Risk again: When the gradients of danger change at a rate equal to what we can correct. its high adrenalin in this stage.
rgold: some differential calculus & feedback/stability theory applied to everyday life? I mean TRAD.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 16, 2013 - 09:26am PT
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Did you do a lot of acid, back the hippie days?*
*rhetorical question/ repoman reference
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Apr 16, 2013 - 09:36am PT
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NONE,
I am satisfied keeping my head while others around me want to lose theirs.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2013 - 09:46am PT
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Trad is thumping your chest and declaring to the world that you are, indeed, trad. Sweet! Looks like we're finally getting our message through to the outside world.
WE are TRAD™ ♥ ... Hear us ROAR!!!
Soundtrack available on Polydor records and tapes
photomanipulation by Ray Olson
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Apr 16, 2013 - 09:55am PT
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Tarbuster,
its okay to live in a bubble.
But, when you are at Vedauwoo, its gear climbing the TRAD has vanished.
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Apr 16, 2013 - 10:01am PT
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Cool photoshop Tar, but it is incomplete without Scarpelli. As Dingus states, Bob did the Trad, mostly everyone else is a follower.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Apr 16, 2013 - 10:06am PT
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Jaybro,
Dick Cilley , yes it's all in the name.
And some women have another take on this!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2013 - 10:12am PT
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No worries Patrick,
Cool photoshop Tar, but it is incomplete without Scarpelli. As Dingus states, Bob did the Trad, mostly everyone else is a follower Check! We got him covered: remember, trad is all about a connection with history!
What trad IS and what trad WAS are synonymous. It's a continuum baby.
Trad is all about putting our best foot forward in service of the efforts of those who came before us!
Even if Scarpelli DID comfort bolt Horn's Mother. We've all committed our transgressions you see ...
Nothing the GOD of TRAD is going to send him to hell for; NO SIR.
photomanipulation by Ray Olson
Disclaimer: This is purely a characterization of my experiences with trad and is not intended to impugn the preferences of sport climbers,
Nor is it an indictment or criticism of sport climbing practices.
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