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FYI; New Canadian Ice Climbing Grading System 12-Nov-2015 At 9:59:03 AM Miguel75
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Man alive, I have posted some serious nonsense to Chockstone and reckon this is right up there with the best...

On 11/11/2015 mikebarter wrote:

>However I fear that my dominance of the vertical tribe may be coming to
>a end unless I do something about it.

Sharing a new ice climbing grading system with people living a billion miles away will help you stay dominant? You're funny.

>.......Thirty years ago with straight shaft
>tools, hand crafted leashes and crampons that required 8 allen screws to
>adjust made ice climbers as rare as the proverbial hens teeth. However
>today with the introduction of leashes tools, razors sharp ice screws,
>synthetic clothing not to mention mono-point crampons you can’ swing a
>dead cat in Canmore without hitting a ice climber.

Are you still keeping it real by climbing with your thirty year old equipment? If you do manage to get a video of you hitting an ice climber with a dead cat (or even a live one) will you please post it up here for us?

>.....certainly has the female of the species
>thinking I want to have babies with this animal for surely they will be
>the strongest of the strong. Spartan in their perfection and surely anybody
>who can forgo a half caffe latte for so long a time must be a complete
>dominating animal in the sack. ( sorry to any women out there who are offended
>by my ability to read you basic instincts, but I have been a guide for
>far to long and it is my job to know what you are thinking even if you
>yourself don’t know you are thinking it)

I knew a bloke who felt he had the same preternatural ability to discern what women "really" wanted. He's now in jail for doing bad things to women..

I too know what it feels like to have once been the arm tearing off, death dealing Alpha male; why only last week I was at my sons kinder class regaling them with tales of my heroic exploits. It was awesome, they listened without interrupting, mouths agape, little eyes filled with a look of envy and it was then I knew; they wanted to be just like me! Later on the teacher told me that the kids thought I was a Policeman...

I hope you get lots of awesome climbing away from the herd this year. I also hope your quest to share your new Canadian ice climbing grading system takes off in Australia and any other ice climbing epicentres worldwide.

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