Technical Terms You've Invented for Mountaineering

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haha, that's a good one
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Fatpoxia...
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Slump Buster.

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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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.
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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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Has "gravalanche" been posted yet?
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Post by shredthegnar10 »

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."
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