How do you protect this?

Post by **anticlmber** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:57 pm

You say "Fuck it", look down at your belayer with that wild fire in your eye, the look only a wild animal knows. Throwing your head back, you laugh maniaclly into the roaring wind as you watch your belayer swallow hard and start checking his device. Upwards you cast yourself into the vertical killing fields. There is no moment of indecission or doubt. You are monkey let out of the cage with a shot of Angel Dust. Up, up you go!! Passing by your mortality and all the things that you hold sacred. You charge like a crazed fiend; to the top, or all the way down.

Post by **L K Day** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:49 pm

Yasmeen - Yep it takes two hands, unless you got the dexterity I don't.
Caspian - Yes, the eye was so mangled it was all but closed. Swage wouldn't pass through.
Anticlimber - Your solution red lines the style meter.

Post by **ynot** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:53 pm

Anticlimbers solution sounds a lot like the first ascent of Insanity Cieling or Proxac Nation or a few others that I gazed at in disbelief.

Post by **anticlmber** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:11 am

Style is for runways, not rock.

Post by **L K Day** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:36 am

Oh no, style is huge! Style like the time a buddy of mine got so stoned, before heading down to Eldorado Canyon to do the Naked Edge, that he forgot his EBs. Unfortunately he didn't realize what he'd done until he arrived at the base of the route. He could have just turned around and headed for home, but no, he went for maximum style points and climbed it stoned and barefoot! If you haven't done The Edge, the approach is two pitches, then the pitches on the route go at 5.11, 5.10, 5.8, 5.11 and 5.11.

Post by **anticlmber** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:17 am

Not style, just making do with what you have. That's climbing. Style is planned.

Post by **L K Day** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:41 am

So true. When he realized he had no shoes, he hatched a plan to climb it barefoot! That's styl'n.

Post by **anticlmber** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:15 am

Still not stylin. His FIRST intention was not, "I'm going to do this in a better style." It was, "shit, I just walked out here for nothing." That is life, that is CLIMBING. I am not worthy enough to question/doubt you, but that is my opinion. Style does have it's place, just not in this story.

Post by **anticlmber** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:18 am

Oh yeah! If he hadn't gotten stoned, (damn hippy) this story wouldn't have happened. No style points, and may god have mercy on our souls.

Post by **L K Day** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:44 am

anticlimber said: I am not worthy enough to question/doubt you, but that is my opinion.

Nonsense! This is all just a bunch of fun, and it's no fun if we don't express our opinions.