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risk? 18-Nov-2006 At 10:15:16 AM Nick Kaz

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On 17/11/2006 M9iswhereitsat wrote:
>[Btw ... Can't say I have noticed the 'risk' in your photos]?

You should see some of his rigging...

I like risky challenging climbs after I have climbed them, I don't get off on being gripped just surviving it, the attraction is to the uncertainty of success and the price of failure, some writing type may say its "the importance of the now" or some poetic crap. I don't repeat these routes because its not the same anymore, compared to nice safe sport routes which I will often do a few times on different trips and get the same experience I think I would enjoy grit.

I like risky easy climbs while I'm climbing them, I'm confident I wont fall off because its easy, the uncertainty isn't there so I'm enjoying the route because its climbing and I enjoy that, I get more out of the exposure and the situation then the climbing itself.

I like to solo on the spur of the moment and I enjoy the whole time because I'm not going to fall off, I rarely solo routes I have lead, but I will lead routes I have soloed, there is probably some psychological mumbo jumbo about risk buried in that, otherwise I don't feel like I'm risking much when i solo . The moves seem more fun soloing that if I'm dragging a pile of ropes and rack, I climb quicker and smoother as well. when I plan to solo stuff I rarely end up doing it.

I don't know that any of that means anything,I take risks because I like to, but you guys seem to like over analysing stuff. kinda like my English teacher over analysing books by Hemingway in highs school, am I the only person that thinks the old man and the sea is possibly just about an old dude that catches a big fish?