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Hardman debate time!

davidn
4-Dec-2011
5:16:02 PM
Yawp
widewetandslippery
4-Dec-2011
5:24:52 PM
I agree about that difference. Joe and doug scott on th orge and the list goes on were way hard. Toughening up for a non life threatening activity does not even rate in that relm. That's just being strong, not hard.

BoulderBaby
4-Dec-2011
8:23:51 PM
What a softy.
marky
4-Dec-2011
8:44:51 PM
What's he done on grit!

Miguel75
4-Dec-2011
9:07:47 PM
Broken foot eh?!? I climb with a chronic case of chicken liver... It's right there next to my yellow streak!
widewetandslippery
4-Dec-2011
9:19:54 PM
Please note I reckon chris is very strong in many ways
JDB
5-Dec-2011
9:02:56 AM
On 4/12/2011 davidn wrote:
>C'mon you chockstoners, time to fess up to how you ticked Ozy with a broken leg,
>a ruptured duodenum, a smashed sternum, cerebral hemmorhage, suffered a
>stroke midway, became diabetic, gnawed your own leg off and got home in
>time for dinner!

I climbed Bard with a split cuticle

MisterGribble
5-Dec-2011
9:07:03 AM
Andy Pollit climbed up to grade 32 on a diet of Cherry Ripes, VB and Benson and Hedges.
He was a real man
GoUp!
5-Dec-2011
9:55:49 AM
WWS gets my vote for going hard.
So many memorable 'incidents' - despite which he pushed through - couple are listed below.
On Gigantor (Dogface) whilst weighting a big Camalot it ripped and smacked him square in the face. Result? Broken nose and blood everywhere. Didn't stop him though - he got straight back up there......and did the same thing again! This time it slowed him down a bit and he was relegated to concussed belay duty. No respite though on the mid-winter jaunt - topping out well after dark.

Also on Dogface I watch one of his slippers tumble into the oblivion - no probs, he just got up there and cranked out his lead (a 22 pitch) with only one boot on!

And then there was Echo Crack - thin on big gear - he leaped frogged two cams the whole of the last pitch - he was way out there, I definately felt like I should be untying from the belay as there was no way it would have held a fall. Can't imagine the head trip he was having up there though!

In summary, 'the Dude delivers' - hoping age won't slow you down any!

wallwombat
5-Dec-2011
10:05:13 AM
I made him lead The Great Unwashed at piddo after he had eaten a particularly dodgy hamburger from a Mount Vic roadhouse. He spent more time throwing up at the top than he did setting up the belay. I was sitting at the base of the climb with Harry Luxford and his partner and all we could hear was Dude spewing his guts up. Don't know what harry thought of it all.
widewetandslippery
5-Dec-2011
6:17:58 PM
On 5/12/2011 GoUp! wrote:
>WWS gets my vote for going hard.
>So many memorable 'incidents' - despite which he pushed through - couple
>are listed below.
>On Gigantor (Dogface) whilst weighting a big Camalot it ripped and smacked
>him square in the face. Result? Broken nose and blood everywhere. Didn't
>stop him though - he got straight back up there......and did the same thing
>again! This time it slowed him down a bit and he was relegated to concussed
>belay duty. No respite though on the mid-winter jaunt - topping out well
>after dark.
>
>Also on Dogface I watch one of his slippers tumble into the oblivion -
>no probs, he just got up there and cranked out his lead (a 22 pitch) with
>only one boot on!

>And then there was Echo Crack - thin on big gear - he leaped frogged two
>cams the whole of the last pitch - he was way out there, I definately felt
>like I should be untying from the belay as there was no way it would have
>held a fall. Can't imagine the head trip he was having up there though!
>
>In summary, 'the Dude delivers' - hoping age won't slow you down any!
>
Mate you don't do that stuff without a mate. Iremember clearly the I may have to untie call.I have a thing for shopping trolleys. Must admit I've been soft of late but a recent Travis biickle moment I hope gets me up. Goup go to factsandchicks.com its your thing. Call u soon.

Also if youi suffer regular hjead injuries shuffle hostpitals, they get nosey but the best I get is sydney htpital on macquiarie st>
widewetandslippery
5-Dec-2011
8:07:29 PM
davidn we all fall. Bad maths
widewetandslippery
5-Dec-2011
8:20:10 PM
Adam darragh went on a new routing trip to choalotse (sp?). He got crook. His mates did what I think was a new route. He got out of the camp tent and soloed it. Can't find my himalayan alpine style book at present but that's an Ali G Hardman respect call. Also jake and lee on riders on the storm and what about vera wong.....
widewetandslippery
5-Dec-2011
8:26:05 PM
Dunno why a couple of posts above my comment you don't do stuff like that witH out a mate doesn't stick out but it should.

Eduardo Slabofvic
6-Dec-2011
9:48:32 AM
On 5/12/2011 MisterGribble wrote:
>Andy Pollit climbed up to grade 32 on a diet of Cherry Ripes, VB and Benson
>and Hedges.
>He was a real man

I know a certain Kweeeeenzlairnder who lives on a diet of Winnie Blues and Coopers Red, who can get off the couch after a few years and climb 30s. he's a skinny runt though
GoUp!
6-Dec-2011
10:58:38 AM
I'd love to hear of some of Maccas solo aid stories - weighting every bit of gear in shitty rock, long slow laborious process, plenty of time and space to think of life and what the *uck you are doing - bound to be a few moments of craziness to be elevated to hardman status!
bl@ke
6-Dec-2011
12:04:23 PM
On 6/12/2011 GoUp! wrote:
>I'd love to hear of some of Maccas solo aid stories - weighting every bit
>of gear in shitty rock, long slow laborious process, plenty of time and
>space to think of life and what the *uck you are doing - bound to be a
>few moments of craziness to be elevated to hardman status!

Maccas always so high he just floats over his pieces.

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