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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 2, 2007 - 01:15am PT
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Groups of different species of birds have unique names, mostly derived from middle English. Why shouldn't the different sub-species of climbers have their own names? Ones that are imaginative and clever, that in one word whimsically or seriously sum up the characteristics of those people. Poetry.
Alpine climbers, ice climbers, classic climbers, climbers in Camp 4, wannabe climbers, novice climbers, sport climbers, and so on - each should have its own group name, or possibly names.
Some possible examples:
A frost of ice climbers
An inspiration of classic climbers
A solitude of solo climbers (but they don't come in groups)
A hang of Valley climbers
A multitude of sport climbers
A persistence of novices
A bounce of boulderers
What other ideas do people have? Bearing in mind that this is for fun, not to be nasty - anyone who says "A plague of sport climbers" or similar isn't playing fair.
For more ideas, some bird group names:
A bevy of quail
A brood of hens
A cast of hawks [or falcons]
A charm of finches
A colony of penguins
A company of parrots (I wonder if Crimpie knows?)
A congregation of plovers
A cover of coots
A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans]
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dissimulation of birds
A dole of doves
An exaltation of larks
A fall of woodcocks
A flight of swallows [or doves, goshawks, or cormorants]
A gaggle of geese
A host of sparrows
A kettle of hawks [riding a thermal]
A murmuration of starlings
A murder of crows
A muster of storks
A nye of pheasants [on the ground]
An ostentation of peacocks
A paddling of ducks [on the water]
A parliament of owls
A party of jays
A peep of chickens
A pitying of turtledoves
A raft of ducks
A rafter of turkeys
A siege of herons
A skein of geese [in flight]
A sord of mallards
A spring of teal
A tidings of magpies
An unkindness of ravens
A watch of nightingales
A wedge of swans [or geese, flying in a "V"]
We often see these birds while climbing, and so it's helpful and erudite to know what we should call them in our TRs. For more, see http://baltimorebirdclub.org/gnlist.html
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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a herd of dirtbags ?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Hey Anders,
Isn't there a name for these names of groups, like sesquepatalia or sumthin?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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A glower of nailers.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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a bowl of JTree climbers?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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probably better: a clod of dirtbags
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2007 - 01:28am PT
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The English name is simply collective noun. There are a lot more - just google it, or see http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm
I didn't have much luck with the Latin word - I don't have a very good dictionary, and the on line ones didn't do it.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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A brace of jammers.
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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a smattering of rap bolters...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sesquipedalian: given to or characterized by the use of long words or many syllables.
Hmmm. I still say I recall a book of these groupings with a curious title something like this word.
It had all manner of names for groups of things; like a name for a group of vampires, such as a coven of witches and so on...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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A spirit of alpinists.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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A hang of sportclimbers.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2007 - 01:55am PT
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An ascent of alpinists.
An aspiration of alpinists.
And other attractive alliterations.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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A squeeze of offwidthers
A tweek of finger crackers
A tendon of crimpers
A twist of backsteppers
A slide of slab-masters
A twinge of toe-jammers
A Gaston of crack-pullers
A push of mantellers
A confusion of mixed (rock and ice) climbers
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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A rush of speed climbers
A spite of supertopians
A splash of deep water soloists
A sketch of C4 aiders
A scab of OW specialists
A blow of posers
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Loomis
climber
Blava nie, ty kokot!
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A cowardly group of climbers emulating cackling around the camp fire.
This does not apply if you are from central Europe. The run outs are way more severe than Tuolumne meadows
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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A beanie of boulderers
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sean_barb
Trad climber
Suburb of Moore's Wall
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A spray of boulderers.
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JEM
Social climber
so cal
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Too much ...
You guys gotta lay off the weed. It didn't taste like av-gas did it?
JEM
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BlazeOn
Trad climber
Asheville, NC
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definately gonna use a "spray of bouldererererers"
A crust of trad climbers
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