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The other day someone told me that they don't really like climbing and that they just do it so that they can be outside be social and meat new people. This got me thinking about the why people climb question in a different light.

Do you climb because you actually love climbing or do you love the idea of going climbing?

a chicken sandwich with avocado and artichoke would be great, thanks.

I love ballet but because an almost 50 year old can't be on pointe shoes and be dancing with a ballet company, climbing provides what ballet can't no longer. I do love climbing for the same reason I love ballet...it is a vertical dance that requires some of the same elements, which is probably why I like sport climbing best. I love climbing for the movement and the ability to require the max of your body. There might not be an audience but the inner nervous energy of getting the climb is the same as providing the best preformance, because after all the audience has always being the same...you...

Can vegetarians meat new people?

hmmmmmm good question.

tutugirl wrote:I love ballet but because an almost 50 year old can't be on pointe shoes and be dancing with a ballet company, climbing provides what ballet can't no longer. I do love climbing for the same reason I love ballet...it is a vertical dance that requires some of the same elements, which is probably why I like sport climbing best. I love climbing for the movement and the ability to require the max of your body. There might not be an audience but the inner nervous energy of getting the climb is the same as providing the best preformance, because after all the audience has always being the same...you...

That was a lovely analogy.

i climb because it's active and i get to meet new people. i've met so many really neat people over the last year & a half. climbers as a whole are some of the friendliest people i've ever met. the one-with-nature thing is bullshit. mostly because i always end up being one-with-the-mosquitoes and i could live without that.

and it's fun to see progress. on-sighting is OK, but i enjoy it even more when i flail on something and come back to it a few months later and do ever so much better.

oh - and it never hurts that i'm outnumbered by hot guys with bulging muscles who tend to climb shirtless. eye candy is never a bad thing

i do it for the meat

I actually love climbing.

All the other a great bonus!

I only climb to satisfy my fetish for colorful anodized aluminum, preferably the lonely, left behind variety.