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Boulder Crushes Boulderer in Boulder, CO

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Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,520

Dab! Not what we usually mean by crushing a prob.

Boulderer trapped!!!!!

There are better ways to get your "rocks off."

Brad Caldwell · · Deep in the Jocassee Gorges · Joined May 2010 · Points: 1,400

"It was not immediately clear how Chapman became trapped under the boulder." In no way does this apply that he was a boulderer or even bouldering. Go bash on somebody else besides boulderers! Roped climbing is just "practice climbing" for bouldering anyway!!!

Scott McMahon · · Boulder, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,425

You know I'm not even sure how he could have been "climbing". Last time I checked a washing machine was pretty small. I can't even think of a boulder like that next to one of the climbs up at flag. Could be just another case of people calling someone a "climber" just because they are near rocks.

Unless its that boulder I've seen that picture of Lee climbing.

Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,520

None of you have seen Little Devil, obviously. As for the boulderer bashing, it is tradition. It cannot be undone.

-El Chuffero

Red · · Tacoma, Toyota · Joined Sep 2008 · Points: 1,625
Brad Caldwell wrote: Roped climbing is just "practice climbing" for bouldering anyway!!!
Wait, I always thought bouldering was a way to build strength for the cruxes on routes. Pebble wrestling is fun and all, but how can you try to make it sound superior to route climbing? That's just silly!
Scott McMahon · · Boulder, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,425
Red wrote: Wait, I always thought bouldering was a way to build strength for the cruxes on routes.
It was, but then techno was invented and the bouldering video was born.

haha sorry, I can't wait to get out of work and had to make a shot!
Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,520

So, who is going to send the new boulder problem thusly created by the exfoliated rock?

APBT1976 · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2011 · Points: 55
Stich wrote:So, who is going to send the new boulder problem thusly created by the exfoliated rock?
Lol ha ha hah ha hah ah ahha aha hahahahahahhahahah!
Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,520

You laugh, but there is a precedent at Table Mountain when a whole route peeled off from freeze-thaw one winter.

APBT1976 · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2011 · Points: 55

Sorry i should stay out of this.

One more thing. A guy was trapped by a boulder in Boulder, freaking classic...

Dylan Colon · · Eugene, OR · Joined Jun 2009 · Points: 491
Buff Johnson · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2005 · Points: 1,145

I think it's the new gopher-start technique, there's a how-to book and movie on it from Utah.

LIV Veraldi · · Lone Tree, CO · Joined Dec 2007 · Points: 495

Wow - I wish I could "like" on MP - wanting to press something . . .

Finn The Human · · The Land of Ooo · Joined Jul 2008 · Points: 106
APBT1976 wrote:Sorry i should stay out of this. One more thing. A guy was trapped by a boulder in Boulder, freaking classic...
It's Boulder-ception!
Josh Wood · · NYC · Joined Apr 2012 · Points: 120
Red wrote: Wait, I always thought bouldering was a way to build strength for the cruxes on routes. Pebble wrestling is fun and all, but how can you try to make it sound superior to route climbing? That's just silly!
I smell a route climbing vs. bouldering argument about to emerge...
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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