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My grandmother said that I could get into more weird "stuff" than anyone when she found out. Other people range from them always wanting to try it, do I use any sort of protection, to the common don't kill yourself.

aren't we special. admit it. everyone of you like the special attention you get from your non traditional hobby. no one would comment if you played rec basketball. it is your own little way to stand out in this smelly world.

Mrs Ynot keeps asking me about my life insurance.I think shes just waiting for me to get killed. Im not about to crush her hopes and tell her the worst thing likely is a broken ankle. Then there was the time my brother was standing in the kitchen with a loaded deer rifle going hunting in the dark with a drunk,and he tells me that I'm tempting fate by climbing....most people dont get it.

Speaking of motorcycles,I have a beautiful 1100 yamaha virago that I would like to trade for a nice quad runner.

I get a lot of "you must not be afraid of heights"...uh..yeah...I am. "you must be really strong". uh...no...not really. "you must be crazy" yup.

you should try riding the bus in yosemite wearing crashpads or a rope and rack. they don't care about difficulty just the length of the route and how you get the rope up there or how you fall and land on the ground wearing the pad. or athe arabic family in el cap meadow trying to spot my friends parachute while he was climbing tempest solo. i mean how else would you survive a fall from such a height?

I had a guy once say to me, "Oh, I rock climbed in California."

"Cool," said I, "what level?"

"I don't know," said he, "but I passed everyone else up!"

Two of the *best* placed to feel cool for the tourists are the tetons and the black hills. Riding the boat across Jenny Lake with an ice ax stick out of your pack draws many, many looks and questions. Same with climbing in the needles - I think Q and I are in a couple home movies.

Wes

I'm in at least a dozen home movies, climbing Owl Rock in Arches, as well as pissing with my pee funnel at the base (nowhere to hide). I always imagined the tourons saying, "well, Mavis, I could have sworn that was a woman!"

pee funnel? i didn't know such a thing existed.