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Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:50 pm
by bentley
JR's jokes several years ago at the Reunion
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:13 pm
by stix
JR silencing the crowd with some standup will go down as one of my favorite climbing related moment ever
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:18 am
by whatahutch
I don't know JR, but was it the dead baby jokes at Miggies?
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:34 am
by KD
stix wrote:JR silencing the crowd with some standup will go down as one of my favorite climbing related moment ever
that was awesome
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:11 am
by whatahutch
Okay, let me rephrase. Why is the Red so popular?
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:30 pm
by ynp1
Because it is sport climbing???... It is a lot like the gym...
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:11 pm
by TradMike
I heard a climber from out west say, "the Red has the biggest holds you will ever fall off of."
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:12 pm
by toad857
whatahutch wrote:Okay, let me rephrase. Why is the Red so popular?
roadside
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:59 pm
by JR
ynp1 wrote: It is a lot like the gym.
Pretty good.
I heard a few members of Das Krue comment that the Undertow wall was "their gym".
Re: Why the Red?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:53 pm
by SCIN
Makes for better road-trip success stories. "I fell at the last bolt of (insert-route-name) on onsite! So close!" Instead of "It took me 3 hours to figure out how to get my feet off the ground on Stem Gem".