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- Who needs friends when you've got a good set of nuts? (DVSU Climbing Quote)
Climbing Photos
Pictures will soon arrive of Edwin doing 'the whale',
James 'scrabbling' up a slab,
Tom doing 'the spider',
And to cap it all Chris stopping for a tea break...
(Well actually I haven't got any pictures - I lied, you'll just have to imagine it!)
If you read through this and go "buh??" then you may need to look at the Grade Conversion Table as everything
I have done is to do with the English system.
How you know that you've been Climbing too long...
- You go to church and scout out routes to the ceiling.
- You climb your friends fireplace.
- You know how to get on your roof without a ladder.
- You begin buying your shoes 2 sizes too small out of habit
- You get mad of having to spend £30 on a pair of Levi's, but don't mind spending £200+
for a pair of Gore-tex.
- You have no idea why your hands are bleeding.
- You aerate your lawn with your crampons.
- Your climbing equipment is worth more than your car.
- Your body is worn out and you need medical attention, but that would take away from
your climbing time, so you continue to hobble.
- You insist on eating out in older areas, since the buildings are more "climbable".
- When walking down a cracked pavement, you're thinking, "That'll be a good hand
hold".
- When it hurts to hold onto the steering wheel driving home from climbing.
- You placed anchors on the side of your 5th story apartment building so you could sleep
on your porta-ledge on the weekdays.
- You bolted the side of your house and It ended up in a local guide book as an E6 7a .
- When people come round to your house on weekends to climb because your wall is
better than the climbing centre.
- When you can no longer count to ten on your toes.
- You dream you're climbing and anchor yourself to the bed head in case you fall
- When you know exactly what you've done before the X-rays are developed.
- When you crimp your fingers on a door lintel longer than is absolutely necessary just to
savour the positive hold.
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