General Climbing Discussion

Author	Havachatwithhexy...
HEX 22-Sep-2004 8:18:53 PM	Damo --- I like your VERY short-story(i.e. :PS. South Boulee) --- sounz likeya had an excellent time ridingindasweetspot... --------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Now, THIS is the pic I was originally referring to --- hope ya don't mind TOO much, Onsight...--- managed to work-out how to do it ' properly ' ,this time --- thanx for the techno-encouragement, Dalai ! ... I have two ' issues ' with this : 1) It's a bit clearer in the Rock-mag photo, but the chalked-hold above the first runner (with long sling ) looks a bit sus... ; as Mikl has pointed out in other threads , there's a fine line between cleaning/preparing a route and snapping-off relatively secure flakes to create a more enduring/longer-term hold... 2) It's an absolute moral-outrage that such a nice young lady should be portayed as nothing more than a sub-servient belay-slave,enduring insufferable freezing/sweat-shop conditions in a dominating-over-bearing-patriarchial-world, with he-man Steve gleefully embracing the father-of-all phallic-symbols !! --- shame, oh cruel world, SHAME !!! Luv HEX & Derryn Hinch... ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- HOWEVER---This has got to be one of THE greatest climbing-photos ever shot in Australia --- Well done Simey ! --- Where was the other Simey ? : " Aw guys, I'll just take the boat around the corner a bit cos I want to play with my wedding, I MEAN !!!, fishing tackle --- hehe..." ------------------------------------------
tmarsh 22-Sep-2004 9:38:50 PM	On 22/09/2004 HEX wrote: >now howabout that transfer beta --- anyone ?! Highlight the text, copy it, paste it in Notepad (or other text editor), manually add ">" signs for quoting, and watch your attribution! Then copy and paste it back. Which is surely what you've been doing when you trawl up old nuggets from the bottom of the cauldron? tim
kieranl 22-Sep-2004 9:56:53 PM	On 22/09/2004 HEX wrote: > >2) It's an absolute moral-outrage that such a nice young lady should be >portayed as nothing more than a sub-servient belay-slave,enduring insufferable >freezing/sweat-shop conditions in a dominating-over-bearing-patriarchial-world, >with he-man Steve gleefully embracing the father-of-all phallic-symbols >!! --- shame, oh cruel world, SHAME !!! > I believe the reality was even worse than you describe: she wasn't allowed toilet breaks!
HEX 22-Sep-2004 11:06:44 PM	No toilet-break ?! --- " united !---we'll beat 'em !! --- we'll nevabedafeated !!! " LOL--- it must have been quite a trial for her :concentrating on belaying on the first pitch--- which involves Steve climbing on all 4 faces of da beast--- ; managing a bursting-bladder etc ; watching-out for sneeka-super-set-waves ; and watching out for Dicko's Great-white-sharks !! , which are renown for surging-up-onto rock-ledges to grab their tucka... ------------------------------- >Lets start thinking about/planning the next Chockstone gathering. After all, the weather is becoming warmer, any suggestions?? HEY !! --- I DID IT !! --- Thanks tim ! ... How about having the gathering on-line ... -----------------------------
HEX 23-Sep-2004 1:06:09 PM	23/9/4, Gareth in ' Your grading system is f#@ked ! ' : >Maybe the problem lies in the fact that our grading doesn't give much opportunity for bragging rights..... HEX, Cauldron, P.10 : >Jim---not ' abandon ' --- simply ' bolt-on ' the very simple E-grade---the 'western' brain needs some sort of simple ' beta-fix ' to accommodate&assimilate all 'those' exciting/spooky concepts associated with a particular climb. >It will also add to the McDonalds generation , ' wow!!! ' factor : " You guys ! You guys !! --- not only did I send my first grade 23 , but it was E4 too !!! " Gareth --- couldn't agree withyamore, bro ! & furthamore and rather ironically : '...Do climbers really want everything given to them before leaving the ground ? Do they want potential surprises ( both good and not so good) taken away ?... Leave your guide-book in the bag sometimes and look at it after the climb ! Give yourself a thrill ! Bring back the four Fs --- as my mate Alec Campbell and myself usta chant : " Fail on it, Fall on it , or fly up the f---a !! " (John Ewbank, 1999 ) --------------------------------------- In relation to The Tote Fote , above, & Rodw in ' Aussie man dies when hit by falling rock ' --- a couple of details for those who may not know... * Totem Pole 1st Ascent : John Ewbank&Allan Kellar, 1968 ; M6 ( lotsa hooks&realisticultimaterealitypitons) * If ya goin' to The Totem Pole , here's some sobriety for ya : '...Pritchard was hit square in the head by the rock and left hanging upside-down unconscious with blood streaming into surging waves only a few feet below his head... he sustained severe head injuries ( skull fragments were fished from brain tissue ) resulting in the total paralysis of his right-side. Within days Pritchard had regained the power of speech and in three weeks had partially regained feeling and movement in the right-side of his body, astonishing doctors with the rate of his recovery...' ( Climb #5 ) Luvin' this cross-thread action ! , HEX...
HEX 23-Sep-2004 6:03:05 PM	After drinking from the mind-altering-Addax-watering-hole, HEX wrote : I need to SCEEEEEEEAMMMMM !!! , I can't ! --- Is this real ?! or is it one of those dreams where your're aware that your're dreaming , but you have no control---even when you try to wake your self up, so you can stop the pain ! Dalai has managed to get my right-elbow into the wood-working vice and is slowly , clinically crushing flesh , bone and assorted jibblets , into a mind-spinning,nausi-ating , bloody pulp --- his facial-expression is devoid of any maliciousness--- this is just the way things have to be... ;mercifully , things warp under-water , I can breathe , I note with calm satisfaction ; I look up thru the surface-chop and can see a twisting/distorted view of Tel&Setha , high above , desperately simul-climbing their way to glory on The Fear (17) ; She clips the belay and moments later , Tel swings wildly out into space---a lump of choss-of-a-jug , under the massive roof has snapped ; Tel is laughing!!!,like a naughty boy who has just lit a newspaper-full-of-shit on the door step of the primary school teacher/witch who caught him bouldering across the urinal ; @&*#$ !!-- there's that pain again , it grows in intensity as I slowly turn to find that Mikl is poking a cheat-stick into a giant clam , provoking it to ' bite ' my right-elbow ; blood wafts into the watery breeze & tiny Joemor-fishy-things gleefully lap it up, I can only watch in resigned fascination and hope that..." GET OFF ME $#%^* ARM FOR %$#@$ SAKE !!! " --- at last I think I'm awake ! A blotchy , blood-shot-eyed face greets me with hung-over indifference--- it's Neilmont---and he's been sleeping on my elbow , in such a manner , that a nerve has been pinched against a knob of sandstone , at the back of the cave we grovelled into after a frenzied/debauched late-night session at the Mt Vic pub.; "What's that stink ,ya big sissy ?! " ; Neil quickly ,tho slurringly , explains that Damien and BA had been squirtting him with water-pistols full of 'aramis' and just as a pub-fight was about to erupt , Kent had dragged him off to this Mt Piddington cave to avoid any further trouble . " Who the F*** are you, anyway---aw nevermind who cares ---I'm gunna find Jono, for some Freezer-action, before Kent forces me to belay him on more Gr 12s at The County, again..." Clicketty-clack-clicketty-clack ; the Lithgow to Sydney winds it's way down around the contours , below the cave , as I finally get to re-balance my aching body and stretch my tortured arm , in the lovely , warm, morning sun : AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH !!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nmonteith 5/07/2004 4:18:53 PM i like it Hexy! Some serious acid munching ideas. ---------------------------------------- Just want to preserve this unique-creation here, dudes... --- now that Kent has sent the Short-Story-thread, spiralling to the ink-y depths, with a gnarly-armour-piercing-cyber-torpedo... ----------------------------------------
Onsight 23-Sep-2004 6:40:43 PM	On 22/09/2004 HEX wrote: >Now, THIS is the pic I was originally referring to --- hope ya don't mind >TOO much, Onsight... Don't mind at all Hex. I’d have posted it for you but I've been overseas for the last few weeks. I'm happy for any of my photos to be used on this site (no copyright issues) provided they aren't doctored – and I reserve the right to require the photos deleted if I’m not happy with how they’ve been used. Incidentally, in future why don’t you just right-click on the pic, save to your hard-drive, and post to the forum from there? I don’t mind you doing that. Now, as to these extraordinary alligations you’ve raised: 1) You’re a stirrer Hex – as we’ve come to expect - “and that’s why we luuuve you…” 2) It’s worse than you think Hex. When I look at that photo closely I can see Jane doesn't look very happy at all... and that's because a few moments before she'd been drenched by a massive wave. Here's what happened… Pic one shows Steve and Jane on the belay - Steve had just come down after dogging the crux. Pic two shows Steve just starting up again for the (luckily successful) red-point, and BAMO, Jane gets swamped - and I mean swamped - by the wave. Things just got worse after that. So if Steve had dallied for a few moments longer then maybe the send wouldn’t have happened that day – or that trip. Jane is definitely the unsung hero here. You’re right Hex, it’s an outrage!!! But what happened afterwards on the half-way ledge just leaves me speechless… I mean, just look at her feet… >HOWEVER---This has got to be one of THE greatest climbing-photos ever >shot in Australia --- Well done Simey ! --- Cheers Hex. >Where was the other Simey ? >: " Aw guys, I'll just take the boat around the corner a bit cos I want >to play with my wedding, I MEAN !!!, fishing tackle --- hehe..." Ah, well, yes, have to spill the beans on that one too I’m afraid. Simey was just around the corner – saving himself for his infamous send. He wasn’t fishing Hex… Thought that photo might come in handy one day… ;-)
Onsight 23-Sep-2004 7:11:36 PM	On 23/09/2004 HEX wrote: >...Within days Pritchard had regained the power of speech ... Not how I remember it when he was released from intensive care days later.
HEX 23-Sep-2004 7:14:03 PM	I'M f@#% 'n' speech-less, mate !!! ...--- not only by your 'colour-this-world/text ' compehensive reply/response --- but also by what a woman could do with 4 hands ! ... Luv HEX & all the very-appreciative Chockstoners&assorted lurkers !
HEX 23-Sep-2004 7:39:03 PM	' One day in your liiiife You'll remember A-rap-a-leeee-eeez. Yoooooou'll re-mem-ber her one daa-a-aaay !! So when things fall apaaaart She will be in your heaaaart You can make a new staaaart You'll re-mem-ber-one-daaaaay...' Luv HEX Foto : P.N. ---------------------------------------------- ' Bound for glory !!! You know weee're booooound for glory !!! It's a heart-felt vic-tor-ryyyy, It's a part of our des-ta-ne-eeeee...' ----------------------------------------------
HEX 24-Sep-2004 1:05:27 PM	-------------------------------------------------- INTERIM END OF THREAD -------------------------------------------------- During May 2004, some-young-cyber-blogger, by the name of JAZZBAMFISH (see: jazzbamfish.blogspot.com ) , reported on a Trippy-tarka-esque transition/rite-of-passage/transcendance thru the bowels of Mt Arapiles... : >I did a level 21 that was awesome. It was a really cool over hang. I loved it. >Anyway, on the morning that we left, we went to the squeeze test, which involves sqeezing through a gap in a big rock which, speaking was experience, was really, really scary. It took me 15 minutes to get through, and i got stuck in the middle. To get myself through, i left bits of my knee, chest and back on bits of the rock and ended up squeezing out the small rabbit size hole at the other end, bleeding. I hadn't been that scared for quite some time. But all is good, i've done it now and don't have to ever do it again!! To those who have provided/contributed Inspiration ( ' The HEX ' simply-must thank Adski et.al., here...--- see Trip Reports Forum.) ; Techno-advice ; Excellent pix/text ; High-octane-banter ; Omnipotent-lurking-energies --- may you continue to benefit from what-ever / where-ever this thread is about / going ... For those who are : still afraid to enter / lost in / trapped-desperately in ! , the one-way?-wabbit-hole --- may the force be with you ... ----------------------------------------- INTERIM END OF THREAD ----------------------------------------- Having tied himself to the mast of SS Short Story, Captain Damo wrestles one final thought from his oxygen-starved brain --- " F@#K THIS !! --- I'M OUTA HERE !!! " He manages to un-tie the bow-line-knot and swim desperately for the surface, only to find himself trapped in the vice-like grip of Kent's rocky-sqeeze-test-wabbit-horror --- " Aaarrrgghhhh !!! --- ya got me again ya myxo-ridden-mutha' !!! " But wait !! --- Damo has one-last trick up his torn&bloodied sleeve :
Damietta 24-Sep-2004 2:59:27 PM	While old knackerbags is cyber-snoozing (you snooze you looze punk) and dreaming about the 70's, here's a Photo from the Trailwalker event. Excuse the wanky faceless action but I kinda have to, more for the other guy than me Check out how knackered is the bloke on my left ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 12/11/2002 Hex wrote: >Whatever happened to Kate Cerebrano? Rremember that song: "young boys are my weakness (I just love the sweetness)". The Hex loved the 80's-gay-pop-movement, Boy George, Bros, and Wham - all their songs captured the essence of Gay England in the 80's. Indecent Obsession were my favourite boy band of the 90's. It was such a great time, I remember it like it was yesterday. Sometimes on a Friday night Hexy likes to dust off the leather pants and crank up "wake me up before ya go go" and have-a-boogey-party with Gonsarlo, Serge and Jose, it's gold Well, old smokey, you might appreciate this one then, http://www.daretosing.com/attachment_view_popup.php?id=28737
neats 24-Sep-2004 3:13:02 PM	so your the woman, eh?!!
deadpoint 24-Sep-2004 6:30:35 PM	I always thought that Simey may have been abducted by Aliens, this photographic evidence seems to confirm it. Opposable thumbs on his feet very odd indeed. Some more investigation may be required to determine when the event occured.
HEX 24-Sep-2004 7:21:08 PM	On 6/09/2004 Mighty Mouse wrote: >yer i'll make up all the letters to the editor for ya...cummon hexy!! OK, bro, but I'd luv ya to elaborate on this Rock-mag one first... '...As much as I'm sure we all have secret, selfish desires to keep climbing to ourselves...' Dude --- when are ya gunna post ya academic-rock-climbing-' paper ' ?? Luv HEX
Richard 24-Sep-2004 8:43:10 PM	On 24/09/2004 HEX wrote: >But wait !! --- Damo has one-last trick up his torn&bloodied sleeve : Is this the bit where he tries to hit on a hottie??
HEX 25-Sep-2004 9:29:52 AM	Dicko --- Damo's ' trick ' is to manufacture phantom-transfer-able-posts --- similar to this gem : On 12/ 11/ 2014, Damo wrote : > That damn HEX !!! --- I still can't sleep at night ! , I keep having dreams about all that stuff that happen on-line back in 2004 --- god ! --- that was 10 years ago now ! ; As much as I tried to throw cyber-manure Hexy's way , Hexy always managed to turn it into some-sort of inspirational-creative-cyber-fuel, from witch we all benefit-ed in some strange sort of way... Christ ! --- drives me mad to this day ! --- but hey ! --- as much as I'm reluctant to admit it, I think ya really gotta respect that , eh... --- thanx HEX --- I dig the way ya post,lil' buddy --- it's gold ! Luv, Damo... --------------------------------- In 2015 , Damo becomes lead-singer of his fav' boy-band Indecent Obsession, and starts each gig with a sentamental call to Hexy --- the true-luv of his life... How can I fight These minutes are long Tonight these streets echo like A lover's song All through the night I've walked on the dark side of town Sleep is just promises Some vague reminder of life in your arms I dream of you.I dream of you. Everything you say. Everything you do. Makes me dream of you. I want to hold hands And fill them again With real life statues of The soldiers of pain And watch as they fall The Victims of Love I am the one on my knees Burning the candle of love to the end I dream of you.I dream of you. Everything you say. Everything you do. Makes me dream of you. I know you suspect my desires Are just a flame in my heart You think that my love will go over The first heavy weather I see in your eyes... Maybe you shoulda stuck with ya Chockstone de-tox / re-hab programme, Damo --- but then again , the way you put the occasional twist & turn in the road that is this magical-mystery-tour of a thread, is etc , etc , etc ... Luv HEX... " COME-ON DAMEY !! --- YOU CAN DO IT !!! --- come and join Hexy on the ' foggiest ' summit of this thread ! --- Hey ! --- whoz that belayin' ya ? --- A5 perhaps ? or maybe Neil ' Just-don't-mention-me-nose ' Monteith "... Foto : Coolclimbing.com
HEX 25-Sep-2004 6:00:00 PM	-------------------------------------- >What got you started? Monday, 14 July 2003 At 7:37:56 PM A.K. Dancer : >it was the colourful tights that did it for me! i got sick of wearing daggy thermal poocatchers on bushwalks and saw that climbers got to wear lycra so i just had to make the switch. no really its true!! --------- >Come on lurkers...post something !!! A.K. Dancer : 25/09/2004 4:15:22 PM > I got flamed (at least I felt I did which is the same thing), so now I lurk, climbing vicariously cos right now it's all I can do... --------- A.K. Dancer --- howya goin', sister ! --- I noticed you lurking about a month ago, and was hoping you would come and havachat then...; If you were/are still wearing lycra when you got flamed, you were probably asking for it ! ...; Having had a look at a few of your posts , in the archives, I reckon you have a colour-ful, fresh style --- this thread is already gaining a new-sensation thanks to your vibe...; I hope a few more lurkers re-appear / start posting ... Looking forward to seeing the two lay-deez-in-red side-by-side ! Luv HEX... ----------------------------------------------- At the start of this thread Hex & Cube-arse wrote : >The goal of Qurank[& Chockstone --- I'm sure you agree, MikeB] is to be a generally positive, supporting environment, and not totally intimidating to new people coming on board. Jokes and antics do have their place (we've got to be able to laugh at ourselves) but I would like to see everyone having a net-positive-contribution...' >Luv HEX& Cube-arse... -------------------------------------------------
jmgh 26-Sep-2004 12:43:13 PM
jmgh 26-Sep-2004 12:46:08 PM	hmmm.did i just fail to post a picture? wet sunday entertainment, swearing at the computer.

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