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What is a line?

24-Feb-2004
1:42:28 PM

dalai

24-Feb-2004
1:44:05 PM

Shortest distance between two points??


Rich

24-Feb-2004
1:50:33 PM

Something that gets progressively worse the more drinks you have..


Rupert

24-Feb-2004
2:48:37 PM

Something to cross


neats

24-Feb-2004
2:49:24 PM

some country folk, dancing to achy breaky heart...

climberer

24-Feb-2004
3:04:44 PM

Something that one uses to try to coax someone into bed?

deadpoint

24-Feb-2004
3:07:50 PM

white substance on a foil


Megan

24-Feb-2004
3:13:56 PM

A breadthless length.


GG

24-Feb-2004
3:29:34 PM

Crack not Coke?


Romfrantic

24-Feb-2004
3:50:28 PM

what the linesman stares at during a tennis game?


rodw

24-Feb-2004
3:52:29 PM

what we all are ON when viewing chockstone


GG

24-Feb-2004
3:53:14 PM

And the winner is......

dalai

24-Feb-2004
4:04:03 PM

Sorry, but your question was remarkably vague.

In relation to climbing it could be an obvious feature (corner, arete etc) or easiest way up a wall...


Rich

24-Feb-2004
4:06:19 PM

That thing(s) that tends to duplicate itself when driving 'under the weather' (so i've heard)..


Romfrantic

24-Feb-2004
4:09:43 PM

Climbing context, a line has to be the 'inviting' way up the face.


rodw

24-Feb-2004
4:19:59 PM

Does it have to be inviting, isn't it just a "possible" way up a face, cause Ive heard people say (including me), "Now thats a shitty looking line"


Megan

24-Feb-2004
4:33:29 PM

Is it the line of least resistance up a particular section of rock?


Rupert

24-Feb-2004
4:34:18 PM

There are lines and there are lines. I think a real line is the one that actually draws your eye to it - as climbers we look at cliffs with different eyes to most people, we see a path rather than a barrier. The shadowy bits, the cracks and the tiny features mean different things to us. I'll never look at a cliff again the way I did before I started climbing - my eyes just kinda work differently now - now I see lines everywhere!!

Can you de-interlace your eyes? - thats a question for the computer nerds among us.


nmonteith

24-Feb-2004
4:40:54 PM

a line is bolts up a blank face which only looks possible becasue of the stainless steel!


Romfrantic

24-Feb-2004
4:47:47 PM

By "inviting" I mean what Rupert also touched upon, that "...a real line is the one that actually draws your eye to it".
We all interpret the world around us differently, and that includes whether (or how) we see a "line" on a rockface.

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