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ninja cat 09
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Any shroomerites rock climb? 2
#26523520 - 03/08/20 08:11 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I got into it a few month ago, when they opened the first gym of the city. It's been fun, doing practically only bouldering, getting to v2's and 3's and getting close on a v4. Yesterday was my first comp and a friend who I started taking training and who's been at it less than me placed in the top 5 and I didn't, I guess that means I gotta climb harder 
Anybody here at it? For how long? How'd you get into it?
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: ninja cat 09]
#26523530 - 03/08/20 08:24 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I used to, but it’s been a while. Would like to get back into it. I did some outdoor on belay, but at the gym I’d just boulder so I could go where I wanted at my own pace. It’s a great feeling finally solving a problem you’ve been stuck on for a while. Great exercise all around.
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ninja cat 09
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: Dark_Star]
#26523568 - 03/08/20 08:45 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just did my first outdoor climb a little bit ago and it's a lot of fun! I think I enjoyed being out in nature as much as I did climbing. It's exciting and not always in a good way, but I really wanna do it again!
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: ninja cat 09]
#26523609 - 03/08/20 09:12 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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It’s funny, climbing outdoors was freakier to me than skydiving. I knew if I fell (despite the ropes) my ass would hurt, whereas if shit went wrong skydiving I wouldn’t feel shit.
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ninja cat 09
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: Dark_Star]
#26524046 - 03/08/20 02:36 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I mean, if you fall from a plane it's over in an instant, if you fall from a small cliff you might end up dead, but you might also end up paraplegic or otherwise broken. I find that scarier than death.
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: ninja cat 09]
#26524665 - 03/08/20 09:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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ninja cat 09 said: I mean, if you fall from a plane it's over in an instant, if you fall from a small cliff you might end up dead, but you might also end up paraplegic or otherwise broken. I find that scarier than death.
Quinn Brett, who was I think pretty well known within climbing circles, was attempting a speed run on El Capitan and fell 100-ish feet. She survived but is now paralyzed from the waist down. It was fairly recently. 2017 maybe. She was in her mid-30's.
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ninja cat 09
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: Niffla]
#26524711 - 03/08/20 10:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quinn yelled down that she had fixed our rope, so I was able to just jug to the top of Texas Flake. Once I got there, I clipped into the anchor, unfixed the rope, and dropped all the extra slack. That’s kind of what you do—you’re not doing all this rope management stuff; you’re letting it hang, because you’re moving fast. I dropped it behind the flake, and it got stuck. I yelled up to Quinn that she wasn’t on belay yet. I refixed the rope, went down and got it uncaught, went back up to the anchor, and was just getting ready to put her back on belay.
That’s when I heard her yell. I looked up, and she fell into my view and then fell past me. She hit Texas Flake. I watched her helmet fly off, and then she fell another 12 feet, behind the flake itself, into a group of boulders where I’d just been pulling up the stuck rope. In total, she had fallen more than 100 feet.
Fucking brutal...
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: ninja cat 09]
#26524818 - 03/08/20 11:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ok so when you say rock climb...
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: ichugwindex]
#26524985 - 03/09/20 04:48 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I go once or twice a month. best workout ever, and lots of fun
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Niffla



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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: ninja cat 09]
#26525801 - 03/09/20 04:46 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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ninja cat 09 said:
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Quinn yelled down that she had fixed our rope, so I was able to just jug to the top of Texas Flake. Once I got there, I clipped into the anchor, unfixed the rope, and dropped all the extra slack. That’s kind of what you do—you’re not doing all this rope management stuff; you’re letting it hang, because you’re moving fast. I dropped it behind the flake, and it got stuck. I yelled up to Quinn that she wasn’t on belay yet. I refixed the rope, went down and got it uncaught, went back up to the anchor, and was just getting ready to put her back on belay.
That’s when I heard her yell. I looked up, and she fell into my view and then fell past me. She hit Texas Flake. I watched her helmet fly off, and then she fell another 12 feet, behind the flake itself, into a group of boulders where I’d just been pulling up the stuck rope. In total, she had fallen more than 100 feet.
Fucking brutal...
She openly admitted that she threw safety out the window in certain instances as a trade off for speed.
That's the thing with climbing -- whether it be rock/cliff climbing or Himalayan mountain climbing.
Everybody wants to outdo the rest. If somebody became the first to summit a peak, then do it faster than them. Or do it without ropes. Or do it in winter. Everyone has to one up the next.
She was skipping steps that she normally would have done because she wanted to climb it as a fast as possible and...well you know the rest.
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: Niffla]
#26525815 - 03/09/20 05:07 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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And oh, the having to outdo each other thing to try to stand out among the sea of other aspiring climbers is a product of sponsors. And fame.
Big brands like Red Bull, North Face, and Rolex (among a ton of others) will sponsor you if you stand out. But if you're just a "regular" climber, they won't even look at you obviously. Do something groundbreaking though? Like become the first to free ascent the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre?

You earn yourself a sponsorship from North Face. David Lama parlayed that feat into a contract. He was just a kid too. 19. Very talented kid...but still a kid. He died on a mountain in Canada recently.
And then amateur climbers see Alex Honnold go from living out of a van to becoming a legitimate star and household name by pulling off the first free solo of El Capitan.
The pull of future fame and getting a contract with enormous global brands so you can climb for a living sounds awesome right? But unfortunately many will die trying.
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ninja cat 09
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Re: Any shroomerites rock climb? [Re: Niffla] 1
#26525965 - 03/09/20 06:48 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Niffla said: She openly admitted that she threw safety out the window in certain instances as a trade off for speed.
That's the thing with climbing -- whether it be rock/cliff climbing or Himalayan mountain climbing.
Everybody wants to outdo the rest. If somebody became the first to summit a peak, then do it faster than them. Or do it without ropes. Or do it in winter. Everyone has to one up the next.
She was skipping steps that she normally would have done because she wanted to climb it as a fast as possible and...well you know the rest.
Fuck that noise, I'd rather be alive. Then again, there's people like Alex Honnold who know they´re gonna die climbing.
It strikes me as similar to the hollywood tv/movie industry, you'll make it if someone takes a shine to you, but otherwise you'll probably fade into obscurity. I love the sport, but have no illusions of making a living off it.
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