On 28/11/2011 davidn wrote:
>Ondra, though... hard to watch. Even if he doesn't fall off and have a
>whinging screaming fit, I keep expecting he will and that ruins every video
>I've ever seen of him. Seriously, even if you were belaying him on some
>35-37, would you not just slap him silly if he chucked the ubertanty?
I reckon that when you come out of your chicken hutch woodie sending 9b's, you can chuck all the uber tanties you like.
On 29/11/2011 gfdonc wrote:
>On 29/11/2011 egosan wrote:
>>I reckon that when you come out of your chicken hutch woodie sending
>9b's, you can chuck all the uber tanties you like.
>
>My how the English language has changed. I'm sure that sentence would
>have been indecipherable 20 years ago.
>
You mean you understand what it says? (Heh, heh, heh).
~> If so, then that is another measure of how much you have adapted regarding evolution of language over that period of time!
... myself, I am still coming to terms with ww&s-speak?!
;-)
On 28/11/2011 Dave J wrote:
>
>ODH this may be a little too not vertical for your tastes...
>
Nah, that looks like a way cool cave. Clean floor, huge open thing with lots of light, good rock and no skank. Shame its probably all too hard, or I'd try to go there! However, the other one.........
I realise that its kinda pointless to argue relative contrivedness now that no one goes to summits, and I totally understand that people get different stuff out of climbing.
But........I reckon all climbers, before they got too focused in, must have originally thought of climbing as walking up to a cliff and climbing up it. Not; walking up to a cliff, finding the grotty little cave at the base, getting down on their bum to grovel in, then climbing back out to the daylight with hips sucked up to prevent their chalkbag dredging scunge off the floor!
I'd have to stretch my mind a little to see the point.
>
>But........I reckon all climbers, before they got too focused in, must
>have originally thought of climbing as walking up to a cliff and climbing
>up it. Not; walking up to a cliff, finding the grotty little cave at the
>base, getting down on their bum to grovel in, then climbing back out to
>the daylight with hips sucked up to prevent their chalkbag dredging scunge
>off the floor!
>
>I'd have to stretch my mind a little to see the point.
On 29/11/2011 One Day Hero wrote:
>I realise that its kinda pointless to argue relative contrivedness now
>that no one goes to summits, and I totally understand that people get different
>stuff out of climbing.
>
>But........I reckon all climbers, before they got too focused in, must
>have originally thought of climbing as walking up to a cliff and climbing
>up it. Not; walking up to a cliff, finding the grotty little cave at the
>base, getting down on their bum to grovel in, then climbing back out to
>the daylight with hips sucked up to prevent their chalkbag dredging scunge
>off the floor!
>
>I'd have to stretch my mind a little to see the point.
;-)
... You could perhaps consider being compassionate to the Gollums of the climbing world ODH, because Gandalf may be right about his feeling that they may have their uses in the end times...
;-)