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Favorite climbing Phrases

Travis Senor · · Cary, NC · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 60

When asking a better climber about route beta:

"Well, I mean you kind of do this"
/mimics a handhold)
"And then..."
/mimics some other minor hold/movement)
"It's all there."
/shrugs

Derek Jf · · Northeast · Joined Feb 2012 · Points: 335

When on a new route and cant see the next hold, everything you reach for is crap....

"Hellen Keller it"

seagreene · · Minneapolis, MN · Joined Apr 2014 · Points: 20

"It's like being a blind man at an orgy...you just gotta feel for it!"

Best part-heard this echoing over the cliffs at the North Shore of Lake Superior. There were tourists (with lots of kids) present.

George Bell · · Boulder, CO · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 5,050

"How do you boys climb them sheer vertical walls of granite?"

Actual quote from a Yosemite tourist, ca. 1988

George Bell · · Boulder, CO · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 5,050

"As we unloaded packs at the parking lot, two young ladies approached us to ask if we were THE Yosemite climbers... They asked if it were true that Yosemite climbers chafe their hands on the granite to enable them to friction up vertical walls. We assured them that the preposterous myth was true."
-Chuck Pratt

Andrew Williams · · Concord, NH · Joined Mar 2014 · Points: 625

My favorite, "what's the worst that could happen."

My climbing partner hates it hahaha

Oliver McMahon · · Nashua, NH · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 285

"Beach that whale", yelled by my belayer as I flopped onto a horizontal ledge after passing the crux on Appache at RRG.

Highlander · · Ouray, CO · Joined Apr 2008 · Points: 256

"Don't taze me bro"; while visiting the valley.

"Whatever you do,........ don't blow it".

Travis Senor · · Cary, NC · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 60

Variation on Andrewww's post:

"What could possibly go wrong?"

Joe Prescott · · Berlin Germany · Joined Apr 2013 · Points: 6

Make it happen, sport captain!

I know, Dyno!!! (from O'Dub)

T.L. Kushner · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined May 2009 · Points: 5

"please don't factor 2.....again"

Joe Prescott · · Berlin Germany · Joined Apr 2013 · Points: 6

"Dirt me." for lower me

"Ground floor. Perfumery, stationery, and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery" for when you are lowering someone. From an old TV show.

Chris Duca · · Dixfield, ME · Joined Dec 2006 · Points: 2,330

From a tourist in Smugglers' Notch--

"What's the strength of that there climb you are trying?"

Nate Solnit · · Bath, NH · Joined May 2013 · Points: 0

That sounds like a bad translation from Quebeqouis. Smugg's is pretty close to the border

Tug · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2007 · Points: 0

Make the move bitch.

flynn · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2002 · Points: 25

Don't fall, we're pouring coffee down here.

Oops, we gotta go to the ER. I broke a nail/I've got a hair out of place.

Quit pulling on the rope, these RPs are starting to shift.

Shit.Watch me. Tension. Falling. (all in the flattest possible monotone while walking up something)

Robert Daniel · · Golden, CO · Joined Apr 2013 · Points: 225

"Just go up"

Kent Pease · · Littleton, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,066

Quit stalling and start falling.

Matt Wilson · · Vermont, USA · Joined May 2010 · Points: 316

"Ready to climb!"
"Ready to belay!"
"Failing!"
"Fail away!"

wufpak18 Martin · · Salt Lake City, Utah · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 15

"Holster those pistols" when unclipping PAS to rap

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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