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Best partner quote(s)?

Eric D · · Gnarnia · Joined Nov 2006 · Points: 235

"Shut the fuck up!" 

My partner's response after I told him "you're going to deck if you fall" while runout 45 feet up.  And that was the day that I learned that leaders don't always want the truth from their belayer.   

Doctor Drake · · SF, NYC, Trento · Joined May 2018 · Points: 126

The low consequence scramble down from the summit to the rap anchor is one at a time, and since I hadn't untied yet, my partner who has must of the rope in a big pile by his shoulders says in the dumbest shaka-bro voice,

"Dude, you're on hip belay!" (a few seconds later) "Oh shit dude! You're on neck belay!" 

Kate Blume · · Broomfield, CO · Joined Aug 2017 · Points: 5

A friend of mine who is a brand new climber is stuck and I yell to her: “use the undercling!”

She yells back: “how?”

Me: “….cling it! …from under!”

Equally as helpful, and this would always make me laugh, calling down to my belayer “I’m scared!” And her calling back: “ok!” 

Patrik · · Third rock from Sun · Joined Jun 2010 · Points: 30

1) After a little runout midway up the short first pitch, I got the pleasure of clipping a 40-year old (east coast) pin. My partner said: "You're back on belay". 

2) After placing a funky blue tricam: "Better clip this thing before it falls out".

3) Me and my partner at the base looking at a mid-size tree on the ground that had recently fallen off the cliff:

   - "Do you know how it fell?"  (inquiring if there was a story in the community or on MP about someone inadvertently pulling it off)

   - "Not sure. But I bet gravity was involved."

Gerald Adams · · Sacramento · Joined May 2019 · Points: 0

In 1973 when  Bev Johnson and Sibylle Hechtel became the first women team to climb El Capitan , a Spanish team above them  fell off and flew down  by them ! Bev was supposed to have said " You don't see that everyday  " .

Ryan7crew · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2012 · Points: 626

In the Fisher's, looking up at the next pitch, "Not my pitch, not my problem"

Cherokee Nunes · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2015 · Points: 0

I said, "Watch me here, buddy!" And my partner replied,

"That's OK, I've done this route before!"

 

apogee · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 0

Leading on thin hooks on an El Cap wall: "Watch me!!"

Partner: "Watch you *what*...Fall?? Bwahahahaha!!!!"

Bobert Beers · · Bozeman, MT · Joined Aug 2019 · Points: 10

Not from my partner but from a team we passed on Mt. Baker

"Just give me a sec man, I need to decluster my fuck"

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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