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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:34 pm
by kek-san
is all of his/her gear look like it just got the tags pulled off last night.
does s/he wear a brain bucket on well traveled sport routes.
does s/he give advice to obviously more experienced climbers.
does s/he go to mig's and spray loudly about all his/her sends on the roadside 10 wall.
there have got to be more, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:54 pm
by jenH
take stupid hideous looking falls and get "sweet fall man!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fenWzUBndo
MayPop is the route I presume!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:07 pm
by rhunt
his/her harness has two or more "belay cardS" attached to it - this is also usually the same person putting that harness on in the parking lot.
his/her equally gumby belayer is standing 6 feet away attached to a tree while lead belaying and when the leader falls at the first bolt and simultaneously smashes his/her face on the rock and nutz/flower on the rope they both look at each other and utter "whoa dude what happened?" and then proceed to do it again.
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:38 pm
by Saxman
Friends don't let friends have anything that could be misinterpreted as gumby. I have such caring friends. When one of them saw a shiny new cam on my rack, standing out like Caribe at the crag, they immediately took it off and scraped it against the rock for me just so no one else would see it. Crisis averted.
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:41 pm
by gripster
some of my cams still look shiny and new and i have been climbing on them for years! stupid black diamond and there indestructible coatings
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:02 pm
by pigsteak
gripster wrote:some of my cams still look shiny and new and i have been climbing on them for years! stupid black diamond and there indestructible coatings
perfect gumby...shiny cams after years of "climbing" on them.
taking falls usually helps wear them in, or use saxman's method of pretending to actually use trad gear.
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:24 pm
by Saxman
gripster wrote:some of my cams still look shiny and new and i have been climbing on them for years! stupid black diamond and there indestructible coatings
Gear hanging off of your harness while you toprope routes doesn't count.
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:31 am
by RRO
if you spend more time on the internet making up sayings about gumbies than climbing.... you may need a life
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:26 pm
by gripster
we don't have "sport" climbs here in NC like you do in kentucky, so i am guessing my cams have seen more action then yours ever will, assuming you even own any trad gear
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:39 pm
by krampus
I climb trad maybe once or twice every other month, none of my cams are shiny.
