- You regularly fall off while leading
- Finding a rock shoe with an aggressive last was a revelation of mind blowing proportions
- You wear through more than two single ropes a year
- Your redpoint rope is between 8 and 9mm in diameter
- You know what a redpoint is!
- You’ve dug out your trad rack only to strip the 16 or so camming devices of their karabiners so you can make 8 more quickdraws
- Your harness only has one buckle and weights less than one rockshoe
- When you boulder you say things like “Wow, that would be a class move 50m up a route!”
- You convert the grades of any trad routes you do into French grades
- Slabs hurt your calves
- You own a clipstick
- Good heelhooks and dropknees make you all warm and tingly inside
- You can give and understand beta in 7 different languages
Anything else? :o)
4 comments:
You say 'tsa!' when doing tough moves - so everyone knows... it's tough!
Good point... from ground level (or the other end of the crag) it's not always easy to tell. Tak!! or Ggggrrrrr!!! are also acceptable :o)
You keep a belay credit list in the back of the guide book to pay back the hours your mates spend standing around on a Grigri while you brush holds.
classic :)
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