Climbing Pet Peeves
man sport climbers and their betaspewing anorexia drive me nuts...and trad climber with their "we must be the only one at the crag" attitude drive me nuts, and boulderers with their "fashion" drive me nutes, and alpinists with their "suffering is joy" drive me nuts, and ice climbers with their "I wish we were actually suffering so we could be joyfull" drive me nuts....
but i would rather be stuck hanging out with a bunch of sporties, tradsters, boulderers, alpinists, or ice climbers than most any other people.
but i would rather be stuck hanging out with a bunch of sporties, tradsters, boulderers, alpinists, or ice climbers than most any other people.
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pet peeves:
1. when people come down from a climb and get real serious about a letter, as in, "dude there's no way that's 11b.. that's totally 11a." absolute silliness..
2. when people get uptight about using their gear.
3. people being loud when it's not necessary.
4. people acting like they're the resident expert on the red, the climbs, its culture.
5. people giving hard catches, especially to new climbers.
6. smoking at the crag.. but i can't really be that upset about it since they are outside and if they can't smoke outside, where can they smoke?
7. spewing beta when it wasn't asked for.
8. being sketchy..
whew.. that seems like a lot. i swear i'm easier going than the list my suggest
1. when people come down from a climb and get real serious about a letter, as in, "dude there's no way that's 11b.. that's totally 11a." absolute silliness..
2. when people get uptight about using their gear.
3. people being loud when it's not necessary.
4. people acting like they're the resident expert on the red, the climbs, its culture.
5. people giving hard catches, especially to new climbers.
6. smoking at the crag.. but i can't really be that upset about it since they are outside and if they can't smoke outside, where can they smoke?
7. spewing beta when it wasn't asked for.
8. being sketchy..
whew.. that seems like a lot. i swear i'm easier going than the list my suggest
Last edited by Paul3eb on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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I hate it when climbers:
1. Throw beta when it isn't asked for.
2. Talk the shit out of my belayer when I'm on something hard.
3. Bitch about "insert-your-red-river-gorge-climbing-area" having poorly bolted routes when you can go elsewhere in the Red and ground on about 50% of the lines put up before sport climbing was expected to have the same risk as riding a rollercoaster at King's Island.
4. I hate it when Gumbies bitch about a 5.10 route being overbolted yet won't just skip the bolts (very easy to do) or get on something harder or something put up by Porter in the early 90's because it is too run out.
5. Bitch about a bolt job but would never take the time of their weekend to go bolt one of their own.
6. Bitch about a route being "off" as far as the rating goes without ever realizing the difficulty of rating a line of their own since they expect to be spoon fed everything to do with climbing.
1. Throw beta when it isn't asked for.
2. Talk the shit out of my belayer when I'm on something hard.
3. Bitch about "insert-your-red-river-gorge-climbing-area" having poorly bolted routes when you can go elsewhere in the Red and ground on about 50% of the lines put up before sport climbing was expected to have the same risk as riding a rollercoaster at King's Island.
4. I hate it when Gumbies bitch about a 5.10 route being overbolted yet won't just skip the bolts (very easy to do) or get on something harder or something put up by Porter in the early 90's because it is too run out.
5. Bitch about a bolt job but would never take the time of their weekend to go bolt one of their own.
6. Bitch about a route being "off" as far as the rating goes without ever realizing the difficulty of rating a line of their own since they expect to be spoon fed everything to do with climbing.
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