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SKIPHREAK

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Just wondering who climbs. And where, and how good is everyone? I climb 5.10 - 5.11 b. Sadly in Wisconsin. We only have 1 good place besides the gym.

 
i climb the walls to success, but am too afraid of heights to surpass them

hopefuly u'll still have a few more years of health, and mental abilities before u become the inevitable vegetable- what i wrote in my dads birthday card
 
Ohh I love climbing, even more than skiing. My highest redpoint is 5.11c on sport climbing, but mostly I climb trad at 5.9 and 5.10...going to Devil's Tower this weekend, I can't wait! All I've done this summer is climb, it kicks so much ass...

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And I climb most of the time in the Black Hills in SD, near Mt. Rushmore...tons of granite sport climbing, really good rock and awesome routes...lots of friction and rock crystals...pretty incredible. There's a movie about climbing in the Hills coming out in a couple weeks, called Friction Addiction, if you can get a copy of it check it out, gonna be sick!

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sure cj. updawg, ever climbed palisades? Or any of the eastern part of the state. When I was out at Garretson (Split Rock) I met some guys out bouldering. I've seen that stuff by rushmore. The back of Rushmore is cool.

 
skiphreak- ive never been to the palisades, but ive seen some pictures...some of those routes look pretty gnarly, like right off the water? There was a pic in Climbing magazine a while back of a route up there, mid range 5.11 I think...but yeah, I was up at Rushmore this morning, climbed the wall on the backside of the monuments, 3 pitches up to 5.9- I love the rock back there, it's so much fun...leaving for Devil's Tower tonight...you ever been out there?

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I've seen Devils Tower but didn't get to climb there. I wish. Maybe next summer we'll take a trip out there. There and maybe the Gunks.

 
I've heard that the Gunks are sweet, that area has alot of history to it...the Tetons are also an awesome place for climbing, but it's usually more complicated due to the fact that you're more committed on alot of the routes. Do you climb trad or sport, or both?

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Yeah aid climbing really teaches you to keep organized, good practice for multi pitch...have you been on some pretty big routes? I'm going to Squamish next summer for an extended period of time I hope, I can't wait to get on the Grand Wall, 13 pitches up to 11a, all trad, except for a bolt ladder for 40 feet or so near the top. And you have a fingerboard? I have a Metolius board, it's such a great workout for sport climbing.

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I climb a little mainly just rec stuff on walls. we have a public climibing wall so its really convient but its so much fun great way to stay in shape

the magazine is called 'POWDER' cool! - my stupid non-skiing friend
 
Have any of you guys seen the video Dosage, with Sharma's 15a? That is so fuckin sick, probably one of the most inspiring things I've ever watched...that man is amazing

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You're damn right he's the best...I met him at the OR trade show in Salt Lake last week, he's so amazing to watch climb...that and he's probably the nicest person you'll ever meet. There's a new climbing movie called Autoroute out that shows Dave Graham trying Realization...it's so crazy, it shows him at the crux like 4 different times, and every time he just gets so close to the key hold, but at the latst second just totally blows away from the wall and falls about 40 feet each time....pretty intense.

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My step-dad's really into climbing. He climbs at Yosemite all the time, and he does stuff in Mammoth and all that. I've only climbed a few times. It's really cool, but I'm just more into mt. biking.

Girls don't like sensitive guys. Since I don't treat women like objects, I have to treat objects like women.

 
Climbs are rated like 5.0 to 5.6 for beginner, 5.7-5.9 for intermediate, 5.10-5.12 for advanced, and 5.13 on up for expert...5.10 and up though can be pretty tricky, and anything above 5.12 is damn hard...not many people can climb 5.12 consistently

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My back= Scoliosis + disallignment and compression, basically if I lean in a certain way, my back collapses.

-Lauren

The Official 'Sweet Ass Bitch' of The NDSC
 
that sucks...i tore my rotator cuff climbing last fall, couldnt climb for a coupld months after it happened

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Yeah dlite, us pussys do use ropes. You have a problem with that? Just recently two guys in washington were soloing (no ropes). One of the guys grabed a hold and the rock broke off. He fell 900 feet and landed on a granite slab. My dad was the one who got to pick 'him' up. Supposedly he looked like cottage cheese. Soloing is not worth it. I mean yeah, we high ball without ropes, but soloing is just stupid.

 
I climb a bit, but ive stop cause i injured my leg but when i was doing it weekly i was bouldering around a v8 and climbing a 5.11...i usually travel to the gunks cause its real pretty up there and awesome crags and i occasionally go to bolton (nice and local)...but when im being lazy ill go to the gym

climbing has a rep for being for hemp smoking. tree hugging hippies, but i think its all getting a bad rap, because not all people are like that, but i guess, when you really think about it, all groups get judged...i guess its the way life goes...

 
Yeah, d-lite that's a pretty stupid thing to say...it is incredibly stupid to solo, regardless of your ability...you could be soloing the easiest route in the world, but if a hold broke off or you slipped for some reason, you're still dead or severely injured. There are some climbers these days that will go out and solo the really classic free routes in places like Yosemite, it's fuckin insane- sure they may be great climbers and it feels like a walk in the park to them, but shit can always go wrong.

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i was soloing some shit about a month ago. several hundred feet straight down on either side of some ridges and a long way down up the route, ropes are fun though, cause then you dont die, or at least thats the idea

-Grant

bye el niño
 
Yeah, it's just stupid. When some little kid, or somebody just beginning climbing asks what soloing is, I say it doesn't exist.

 
I have soloed alpine routes (snow couloirs or glaciers with a small amount of rock here and there) in places like the Tetons, and that type of soloing is usually fairly safe, because you can self arrest with your ax if you fall...but stuff like free soloing 1000 feet off the ground on really technical rock is not a good idea, in my opinion.

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^ Where do you climb at usually? 11+ is a pretty tough grade, it's impressive if you can be consistent at that grade...10d is my highest onsight, I've redpointed 11+ though before.

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i had surgery this summer, because i was free climbing. basically we'll say it wasn't pretty. It also ended my time in colorado and i had to ship my butt back to the east coast.

'Because it's there...'

-Hillary
 
I just started climbing at the end of august and have become totally addicted. I have just finished my first 11+ last week. My best freind started at the same time, and is now on 5.12s. the guy is a freaken machine. without climbing I would be going insane because of the lack of snow.

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That's sweet...we went climbing this weekend on some really pockety limestone, it was such a good time...really hard routes and really good bolting jobs...yay.

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