I started climbing because...

Post by **512OW** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:36 pm

captain static wrote:... I was born to climb.

Then you should start climbing!

Post by **512OW** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:37 pm

To keep myself out of prison...

Post by **Horatio Felacio** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:10 pm

...and behold the angel came down to him and said, "go forth young man among the wolves for he who is weak will be fodder for the evil."

Post by KD » Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:17 am

Ive been a caver for about thirty years and climbing was part of movement in caves. I tried it on its own merit and really liked it. Now I rarely cave more than once or twice a year. In climbing compared to caving: you can see, it's cleaner, its lighter (weight wise), no cleaning up mud afterwards, doesn't uasually take a long time, its drier, and sometimes there's pizza afterwards.

Post by **jamlawyer** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:40 am

DIVORCE.

Post by **bcombs** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:42 am

jamlawyer wrote:DIVORCE.

He wasn't a good belayer anyway.

Post by **jamlawyer** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:57 am

bcombs wrote:
jamlawyer wrote:DIVORCE.
He wasn't a good belayer anyway.

AMEN!!!!!

Post by **itmeansgod** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:19 am

I was really hungry and there was a turkey dinner on top of a cliff. VOILA!

Post by **bcombs** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:27 am

krampus wrote: Lets just say Bear Grylls has nothing on my tree shimmying abilities.

You should ask kirker about soloing nasty 5.2 OW in boots after beers. At least he was kind enough to trail a rope so I could TR the thing.

Post by **gunslnga** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:43 am

After getting used to being in danger (shot at or blown up) your need for adrenaline is like crack to a junky, it wears off quicker, and you always need more. I got into the Martial Arts thing out of a fear of getting my face beat in, then I got into protective work because of the inherent risk in it as well. I rappelled in the Army and remembered some of the best rushes were Aussie style out the back of a Chinook into a forest canopy over Tennesee. I was invited to rappell in the Gorge, saw a guided rappell off a waterfall at Torrent, convinced the wife to jump off too, Nicole told me if we liked to go down we would probably love to climb up.
We did a half n half day of Rappel and climbing, we were hooked, it's all been UPHILL since then (ha!ha!)