By doligo
May 27, 2012
| Truth is... most guys who complain about not finding a female who is also a serious climber don't actually want to date a serious climber. Chicks who are serious climbers are too focused on climbing, too ambitious, they smell, their skin is rough, they drink and curse like sailors, they will climb with other men or women and they will steal all the money pitch leads. Oh, and not to mention the breakup - make sure you have a gear prenup. | 
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By Em Cos
From Boulder, CO
May 27, 2012
| Sometimes I think guys like the idea of dating a climber more than the reality. |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 27, 2012
| Em Cos wrote: Sometimes I think guys like the idea of dating more than the reality.
Fixed that for you.
No, actually, the climbing SO is pretty nice even if you lose half the rack in the break-up. But then, why didn't you have a rack before you met her, huh? |
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By Brian Wright
From Glenwood Springs, Co
May 27, 2012
| camhead wrote: If you want a climbing girlfriend, DON'T try to get a girl you like into climbing. She'll either 1) not really like it, will get resentful if you spend too much time on it, or just do it to placate you since women in our society have been conditioned to cater to and support men's hobbies. It can only end badly. OR 2) she WILL like it, but then will get so much into it that she'll realize that she'd rather do it without you, or leave you for someone who climbs harder than you, since women in our society have been conditioned to go for alpha males, whatever the activity. It can only end badly.
Hahahaha! That is awesome! |
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By Buff Johnson
May 27, 2012
| doligo wrote: ... Oh, and not to mention the breakup - make sure you have a gear prenup.
or a BD hammer |
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By rob bauer
From Golden, CO
May 27, 2012
| Well, so far:
Elena w 17 posts
Stitch 11
Clautsi & Birdman (OP) 9
Mabe (both) 9
Hand 8
lots of also rans
Call each other and get a room. (Darren, disregard this.)
Everyone else, good luck out there. |
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By Killing In The Name Of
May 28, 2012
| 17 posts, half a coherent thought. If you're keeping score, you might want to grade based on a sanity basis as a baseline, thus eliminating:
Elena Sera Jose wrote: She is smarter then me probably...so what
And so on. |
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By rob bauer
From Golden, CO
May 28, 2012
| Sorry, I didn't read them all; just counted them. No bias toward quality. Statistics lie without judgement. |
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By doligo
May 28, 2012
| Stich wrote: But then, why didn't you have a rack before you met her, huh?
Because the ultimate sign of commitment is when a couple consolidates the gear and gets rid of the extras... |
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By Princess Mia
From Vail
May 28, 2012
| Never get rid of the extra..... IMO
And in case of breakup.......well clearly he gets the dog..... |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 28, 2012
| doligo wrote: Because the ultimate sign of commitment is when a couple consolidates the gear and gets rid of the extras...
Do couples actually do this? Insanity. This needs to stop.
Mia, you sound like you know something about something in this. |
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By doligo
May 29, 2012
| It's more for practical reasons rather than pledging commitment - you don't want to end up down the road with two racks of antiquated gear. |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 29, 2012
| doligo wrote: It's more for practical reasons rather than pledging commitment - you don't want to end up down the road with two racks of antiquated gear.
You mean with hexes and rigid friends? Hopefully you will drop them well before that. Otherwise, the nuts, cams, biners, etc. are not going to be going out of style anytime this century.
Just how long were you planning on being with this woman? |
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By beccs
May 29, 2012
| doligo wrote: Because the ultimate sign of commitment is when a couple consolidates the gear and gets rid of the extras...
So what, you ALWAYS climb together? What about when she goes away for three weeks on a climbing trip not only leaving you at home, but leaving you at home without a rack.
As someone said early, I think that a lot of guys like the idea of dating a climber chick more than the reality. They don't really understand what it means to date a climber. |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 29, 2012
| Dating a climber chick cannot be described. You have to see it for yourself. |
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By beccs
May 29, 2012
| Stich wrote: Dating a climber chick cannot be described. You have to see it for yourself.
You mean the yelling matches at the crag? They are certainly dramatic. |
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By doligo
May 29, 2012
| beccs wrote: You mean the yelling matches at the crag? They are certainly dramatic.
good one, beccs
Stich wrote: You mean with hexes and rigid friends? Hopefully you will drop them well before that. Otherwise, the nuts, cams, biners, etc. are not going to be going out of style anytime this century. Just how long were you planning on being with this woman?
I'll take the rigid friends please! You obviously don't climb often enough - gear wears and tears, gets dropped, lost or stuck. Plus there have been a great deal of improvement in the past five years or so in especially lightweight biner technology, there are many more options for cams today than say a year or two ago, and the ice climbing gear has made leaps of progress in just past couple of years...
My original statement about sharing rack was geared towards guys with unrealistic expectations looking for a girlfriend who is also a serious climber that they would also mostly climb together with - than the shared rack thing arises. Like I said a serious climbing girlfriend will be climbing with other men and women, sharing tents and planned and unplanned bivies with her partners. |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 29, 2012
| beccs wrote: You mean the yelling matches at the crag? They are certainly dramatic.
I must admit that the most interesting conflicts I have witnessed at the crags were between couples. The Eastern European ones doing White Whale at Lumpy were especially interesting. The woman yelling at her man due to her inability to figure out the way to go was a nice example of transference. |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 29, 2012
| doligo wrote: good one, beccs I'll take the rigid friends please! You obviously don't climb often enough - gear wears and tears, gets dropped, lost or stuck. Plus there have been a great deal of improvement in the past five years or so in especially lightweight biner technology...
Oh, bla bla bla. Did you sell your rack when you met your woman? No? Didn't think so. Stop with the straw man arguments.
And yes, you can have the rigid Friends. |
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By Killing In The Name Of
May 29, 2012
| I spent an entire Valentine's day climbing with my male buddy, doing multipitch sport on snow-covered crimps while both of our ladies sat home and stayed warm. We talked about climbing couple meltdowns, and since we had Lime Kiln to ourselves, we amused ourselves by shouting "I want a divorce!!!! Off belay!!!!" and so on. Heard a great one recently bout a woman not making it to the top of a route and bringing the guy's penis size into it, transferance on a whole 'nother level...
Also, we discussed climbing's latent homosexuality aspect. Both of us were avoiding semi-naked girls to hang off a cliff with some dude-not the best prognosis for our breeding potential, but I guess Obama's legalizing it, so we'd be straight THAT way.. |
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