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Rock Climbing - What are you psyched about?


evanbb

11/06/2009
11:55:19 AM

As stated on another thread that I've grown tired of, I want to talk about climbing for a while. I've been tired and grumpy lately and need to re-psyche myself.

So, what are you psyched about at the moment? Got a wild project under way? Scoped a new crag? Finally stuck a move you've been trying for 32 years?

I'm enjoying learning how to use granite at the moment, and very much feeling like a fish out of water. The friction for feet is ridiculous, but hands less so it seems. I think I've finally learnt how to jam, but lack the endurance to do any proper long jamming pitches. So I'm working pretty hard on that at the moment, and trying not to get too fat in the despicably cold Canberra winter. Psyched for the coming ski season too, where some serious back country fun should go down.


billk

11/06/2009
12:01:23 PM

Climbed Didgeridoo in the dark two weekends ago. Ti got the last rays of daylight as she topped out, then I flicked on my headtorch and followed up. Topped out to a sickle moon and a million stars. Sat on the pinnacle organizing the rap down and just took it all in.

If, before I started climbing, you told me I could even do something like that, let alone love it, I wouldn't have believed you.


Paulie

11/06/2009
1:02:32 PM

Got a new bouldering / short sport climbing area underway locally just now which is looking like it'll have some really nice lines and certainly some hard roofy things, trying to get psyched to actually pull some of the moves is the hard bit, they're all so bloody difficult!

fish boy

11/06/2009
1:15:54 PM

Chalk is AWESOME!!!!

devlin66

11/06/2009
1:55:44 PM

I dig chicks that climb. My wife won't appreciate that though.

Even though I'm broke, the kids are screaming, the wifes nagging, work blows chunks, it's farking cold and my elbow tendonitis is still hovering I am pumped and primed to climb. Hearing my mates tales of the weekends just makes me even more psyched/desperate to feel the rock.

I want to find some more bouldering spots. Sport climbing is the best for me but to go climbing by myself would be ace as well.

Oh yeah, chalk is FREAKING AWESOME.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

11/06/2009
3:22:04 PM

On 11/06/2009 billk wrote:
>Climbed Didgeridoo in the dark two weekends ago. Ti got the last rays of
>daylight as she topped out, then I flicked on my headtorch and followed
>up. Topped out to a sickle moon and a million stars. Sat on the pinnacle
>organizing the rap down and just took it all in.
>
>If, before I started climbing, you told me I could even do something like
>that, let alone love it, I wouldn't have believed you.

I find your post to be an eloquent visual billk, and relate to similar adventure.
... It is great to be a climber sometimes eh.

~> Is easy to be psyched on such adventure.


evanbb

11/06/2009
3:33:14 PM

On 11/06/2009 billk wrote:
>Climbed Didgeridoo in the dark two weekends ago. Ti got the last rays of
>daylight as she topped out, then I flicked on my headtorch and followed
>up.

Which reminds me of my first trip to Arapiles. We were a group of 3 total Bumblies, learning to lead trad from scratch, in a week. This culminated in an epic ascent of Tip Toe Ridge on our last day. I remember sitting at the last belay with Jamie, watching the sunset across the Wimera and thinking how lovely it all was... then we both realised what this meant. I've got a pic at home of the Moment Of Realisation, which is Gold. I'll dig it up. Doing the last pitch in the dark was excellent fun, climbing one handed holding a pen torch. We were a bit dubious about Andy's ability to build an anchor, let alone in the dark, yet I got to the belay and found he'd slung 4 trees, each of which I would have rapped off!


billk

11/06/2009
3:35:34 PM

I think for every one of those "God if I get out of this alive, I'm never going climbing again" moments, there are ten times as many "Wouldn't swap this for anything" moments.

tastybigmac

11/06/2009
3:39:51 PM

naked climbing. awesome


D.Lodge

11/06/2009
3:41:04 PM

Psyched i have a gym full of new boulder problems after last Saturdays Comp.


Sabu

11/06/2009
3:42:25 PM

On 11/06/2009 billk wrote:
>I think for every one of those "God if I get out of this alive, I'm never
>going climbing again" moments, there are ten times as many "Wouldn't swap
>this for anything" moments.
Definitely!

I tend to get psyched about ideas and trips i have in mind, then plan when/how i can get it
done. i hate being stuck at a computer all day or studying etc so just the idea of getting
away from that excites me.


JimboV10

11/06/2009
3:58:17 PM

On 11/06/2009 D.Lodge wrote:
>Psyched i have a gym full of new boulder problems after last Saturdays
>Comp.

Hell yes - 2 months of projects!


deadbudgy

11/06/2009
4:02:50 PM

Psyched about discovering that the way to pull hard moves is to try hard moves.

rod

11/06/2009
4:29:08 PM

I found a way to rap into a line yesterday that seems just beyond my limit and I'm going to work it on top rope solo this afternoon...psyched on the shunt.


Goshen

11/06/2009
4:43:18 PM

good post...
i'm psyched about the Araps trip the other weekend, and climbing high up on the Pharos.
less psyched about the new problems at Dick's gym; but still psyched.
i'm extra psyched about Moonarie. any takers? :-)


D.Lodge

11/06/2009
4:51:59 PM

The problems here beat anything on the Pharohs and you know it. (No really they don't but they are 4 hrs closer too my place).
Am also psyched to train for a trip too Nowra in August.


JimboV10

11/06/2009
5:25:55 PM

On 11/06/2009 D.Lodge wrote:
>The problems here beat anything on the Pharohs and you know it. (No really
>they don't but they are 4 hrs closer too my place).
>Am also psyched to train for a trip too Nowra in August.

Bring on Nowra!!!

Gosh, you have been trying to organise Moonarie forever, but you know the Annual Roadtrip will always win ;)

dmnz

11/06/2009
5:34:52 PM

On 11/06/2009 evanbb wrote:
>As stated on another thread that I've grown tired of, I want to talk about
>climbing for a while. I've been tired and grumpy lately and need to re-psyche
>myself.
... Psyched for the coming ski season too,
>where some serious back country fun should go down.

So we can talk skiing too Ev? Jus tnot other non climbing things


evanbb

11/06/2009
5:55:41 PM

On 11/06/2009 dmnz wrote:
>So we can talk skiing too Ev? Jus tnot other non climbing things

Yeah, snow and ice related adventure qualifies. You keen for some skiing this season? It's only 2 hours from Canberra....

Here's the pic of Jamie realising that we're sitting on a belay ledge and the sun is going down. Good times!


wallwombat

11/06/2009
6:16:45 PM

I'm psyched about going to the Warrumbungles in a few weeks.

I'm psyched about putting up new routes in the Morton NP.

I'm psyched about doing new problems at Black Range and repeating harder established ones.

I'm psyched about becoming unemployed at the end of next week, loading up my van and heading off on a extended road trip.

I'm psyched to win 40 million dollars on Ozlotto next week. Then the road trip will have no end.

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