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Booty vs ticking dilemma


wombly

11-Oct-2011
11:56:02 AM

You've been attempting a hard (for you) trad line over a few days during a road trip and are getting to the stage where your strength, technique and knowledge of the route mean that you'll probably tick the route on this attempt. To spice things up it looks like this might be your last shot for a while as the weather is building and there's a plane to catch back home the next day.

After racking up and setting off, things start off well. You've cruised the easy lower half of the route and are feeling confident heading into the crux, pulling up through the first of the tricky moves. Then the dilemma strikes - there's booty to be had that you couldn't see from lower down! After a quick fiddle you realise that it won't come easily, and that stopping to unearth your excalibur will cost you the tick. Rapping back down isn't an option as the line traverses under a big roof that you won't be able to abseil back into. Which prize do you claim?

anthonycuskelly

11-Oct-2011
12:03:10 PM

Clip it & go. I'm not a student any more, the second can have it.


Miguel75

11-Oct-2011
12:18:37 PM

Depends what it is. If it's a #6 cam it'll be game on. A nut, meh...

pecheur

11-Oct-2011
12:23:51 PM

On 11/10/2011 Miguel75 wrote:
>Depends what it is. If it's a #6 cam it'll be game on. A nut, meh...

I'm with Mike, depends on the booty and whether I have it already.


Sabu

11-Oct-2011
12:24:39 PM

Get your second to clean it, hanging if they have to (unless its a worthless manky nut)- then add it to your rack because the second is your wife! Win.


cruze

11-Oct-2011
12:54:48 PM

On 11/10/2011 Sabu wrote:
>Get your second to clean it, hanging if they have to (unless its a worthless
>manky nut)- then add it to your rack because the second is your wife! Win.

ditto!

dmnz

11-Oct-2011
1:19:46 PM

Send.


pmonks

11-Oct-2011
1:20:36 PM

I'm all about booty myself:

kieranl

11-Oct-2011
2:00:58 PM

On 11/10/2011 cruze wrote:
>On 11/10/2011 Sabu wrote:
>>Get your second to clean it, hanging if they have to (unless its a worthless
>>manky nut)- then add it to your rack because the second is your wife!
>Win.
>
>ditto!
I always thought this marriage caper had more to do with ownership than love and affection.


Organ Pipe

11-Oct-2011
3:28:32 PM

Climb on.

widewetandslippery

11-Oct-2011
3:48:28 PM

Kieranl and sabu you have saved me, no wonder I liked rougjhing it, I'm a fundementalist mormon


Miguel75

11-Oct-2011
4:06:50 PM

On 11/10/2011 widewetandslippery wrote:
> I'm a fundementalist mormon

Sweet! I'm a lackadaisical Mormon. We should hang out and swap notes, and or wives;)

widewetandslippery

11-Oct-2011
4:13:48 PM

Cool. How many you got? ;)


Miguel75

11-Oct-2011
5:16:41 PM

On 11/10/2011 widewetandslippery wrote:
>Cool. How many you got? ;)

Just the one but sometimes she acts like a different person. Usually when I buy climbing gear;)

widewetandslippery

11-Oct-2011
5:26:29 PM

M75, thumbs up.


shortman

11-Oct-2011
10:57:46 PM

I always go 'oooh there's booty', in my mind, and keep climbing.


E. Wells

12-Oct-2011
5:47:38 PM

Claim the booty, the climb isnt going anywhere.


D.Lodge

12-Oct-2011
6:46:13 PM

The Tick of course, nothing comes before the send!


ChuckNorris

12-Oct-2011
8:07:44 PM

You guys are so naïve - the win win solution is so simple.

Just clip it get on with the climb and don't say anything to your second about booty.

They'll assume its yours and waste their life and knuckle skin getting it out for you.


Dan Theman

12-Oct-2011
9:07:38 PM

>Just clip it get on with the climb and don't say anything to your second
>about booty.

exactly what I was thinking!

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