Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering
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Re: Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering
haha, that's a good one
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Re: Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering
Slump Buster.
Mark Grace has a similar quote...
Mark Grace has a similar quote...
Uh. Well, I've sinned. I didn't take any Polaroids or anything. But, yeah, I've sinned.
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Re: Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering
Moses-Style
using a found branch as a walking stick.
BUT - to be Moses-Style -- it has to be a fairly cool looking branch - esp. with a distinctive top section.
and it helps if you're in a super cool area too.
using a found branch as a walking stick.
BUT - to be Moses-Style -- it has to be a fairly cool looking branch - esp. with a distinctive top section.
and it helps if you're in a super cool area too.
Keep looking up - Jack Horkheimer
Re: Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering
I like slabineering! Hiking partners and I have found areas of "class 3 grass" - mostly in the Sangres (terrain, not cannabis). When traversing the worst of San Juan scree, Benners goes into Martian Rover Mode.
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Re: Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering
Has "gravalanche" been posted yet?
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Re: Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering
More an appropriation of classical mythology than an invented technical term, but I've occasionally referred to the tangled mess that results from a mis-thrown rope (or a lot of trees below) when throwing it to rappel down as a "Gordian Knot."
Most things worth doing are difficult, dangerous, expensive, or all three.