By Shawn Mitchell From Broomfield Aug 25, 2008
| Deaun Schovajsa wrote: The views alone don't mean much to me. If the top of something has a great view, that is a small bonus. All of the other pieces of the climbing puzzle make up most of my enjoyment! Wow. I hadn't thought of it like that, but it sounds exactly right. The prize is in the process. The view is just a bonus. John said something close to that too, I guess.
Daryl-That solitary dimension of climbing is neat. It probably applies to other sports, like kayaking, skydiving, surfing, or, come to think, even running or swimming...really any sport that doesn't involve one opponent "defending" against another.
Yeah Ryan, empty. Ha. I saw the hotties congratulating you after each boulder prob...I mean, if that's what you're looking for :)
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By Deaun Schovajsa From Arvada, CO Aug 25, 2008
| Shawn Mitchell wrote: Yeah Ryan, empty. Ha. I saw the hotties congratulating you after each boulder prob...I mean, if that's what you're looking for :)
Ohh! I totally forgot about the babes!! That's why I enjoy climbing so much - all of the sweet groupies...wait, uh, that's why I wanna' be a rock star! |  |
By Daryl Allan From Sierra Vista, AZ Aug 26, 2008
| You all should have seen this coming. =) |  |
By Shawn Mitchell From Broomfield Aug 26, 2008
| Classic. Hats (shirts?) off. |  |
By Erik Tullberg From Colorado Springs Aug 26, 2008
| Please remove the Tony the Tiger posts. He isn't wearing any pants! ;) |  |
By Gigette Miller From Vegas Aug 26, 2008
| Erik Tullberg wrote: Please remove the Tony the Tiger posts. He isn't wearing any pants! ;)
Woops; Now upon closer examination, what I thought was a funny thread, is really Tony's exposed tail, or at least let's hope it's a tail, if ya know what I mean..... ; ) |  |
By Daryl Allan From Sierra Vista, AZ Aug 26, 2008
| I could put him in some leopard skin pants but that would just be obscene. |  |
By Kateri Ahrendt From Boulder, CO Aug 26, 2008
| Gigette! I'm so glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read your post; computer monitor didn't get sprayed... |  |
By Mark Nelson From Coniferous, CO Aug 27, 2008
| honestly, I wish I were Tony. Just free and easy on the ice. Not like the reality of cold fear, dead fingers, and nausea. |  |
By Not So Famous Old Dude From Denver, CO Aug 27, 2008
| Mark Nelson wrote: honestly, I wish I were Tony. Just free and easy on the ice. Not like the reality of cold fear, dead fingers, and nausea.
It's the Schoeller Dryskin fur suit he's wearing. Thin, flexible, but packed with high tech insulating power and the highest level of water-resistance. |  |
By Shawn Mitchell From Broomfield Aug 27, 2008
| Not So Famous Old Dude wrote: It's the Schoeller Dryskin fur suit he's wearing. Thin, flexible, but packed with high tech insulating power and the highest level of water-resistance. Product of an Asian sweat-forest. It likely didn't pay Davis-Bacon or prevailing wage for its manufacture. Worse, he almost certainly killed a number of small mammals for source material--reverse engineering or something. We should boycott the suit and any venue where Tony climbs.
EDIT: Some of the small animals may have been raptors; enough said.
EDIT 2: It better be his tail, Gigi, or he's got serious anatomical problems. |  |
By Mark Nelson From Coniferous, CO Aug 27, 2008
| I am all for everyone else boycotting Ouray. |  |
By Erik Tullberg From Colorado Springs Sep 2, 2008
| Hope I'm not kicking a dead horse, but here's a view from this weekend. I think that this is from the first pitch of the second buttress.
Hiamovi Tower (or as it's misspelled on MP, Haimovi Tower):
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