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Anyone use grid references? 4-Jul-2018 At 4:45:37 PM hero
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You modern climbers with your androids and iphones with gps coordinates and good selfie cameras and micro titanium friends and those linkcams thingies and comfy harnesses and sticky rubber and girlfriends in sport-sbras and active wear that shout words of encouragement while you grunt up something like a tennis player in the majors and your fancy cars with air-conditioning and heaters and Bluetooth so you can listen to spotify off your iphone and catch up on the latest vance joy, solange and dia lupa hits and your kids can watch despicable me 3 and the incredibles two on the 3 hour drive down the dual lane highway to your house in Brunswick, you ask nod what that used to be like on horseback, and on tuesdays and thursdays you can go to an inner city bouldering cave and if you can get anywhere near the holds because of all the cross-fit training crew you can get strong and whisk back up the freeway to grunt on something else that is not only in the guidebook and on thecrag where you have meticulously documented all your ticked ascents but it is the selected guide to the selected guide and you can see it from your fukn tent and read about all the moves and sit around a portable gas heater and you bros and sis’ can con tell you all about all the moves what gear you need and where the little pocket is just after the horrendous gaston which incidentally is named after gaston rebuffat that everyone called rabbitfat and he climbed in Europe in the war and didn’t have any of your your androids and iphones with gps coordinates and good selfie cameras and micro titanium friends and those linkcams thingies and comfy harnesses and sticky rubber and girlfriends in sport-sbras and active wear that shout words of encouragement while you grunt up something like a tennis player in the majors and your fancy cars with air-conditioning and heaters and Bluetooth so you can listen to spotify off your iphone and catch up on the latest vance joy, solange and dia lupa hits and your kids can watch despicable me 3 and the incredibles two on the 3 hour drive down the dual lane highway to your house in Brunswick, you ask nod what that used to be like on horseback, and on tuesdays and thursdays you can go to an inner city bouldering cave and if you can get anywhere near the holds because of all the cross-fit training crew you can get strong and whisk back up the freeway to grunt on something else that is not only in the guidebook and on thecrag where you have meticulously documented all your ticked ascents but it is the selected guide to the selected guide and you can see it from your fukn tent and read about all the moves and sit around a portable gas heater and you bros and sis’ can con tell you all about all the moves what gear you need and where the little pocket is just after the horrendous gaston and could find his way around the Alps with grid references but.

Fuk them off, we don’t need them now.

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