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climber mag 8-Sep-2006 At 1:48:02 AM crazyjohn

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On 22/08/2006 tnd wrote:

>What's with the inverted snobbery? Are you saying that because I and many
>other people work in well paid professional occupations and enjoy recreational
>climbing, we are somehow less worthy than the climbing bums?

Sorry about the lateness in reply. First of all, I admit that I do hold rich, trendy, lifestyler, fashion victims (slightly) in contempt in general. So I would poke fun at rock climbers (or anyone) that would have clothing choices influenced by an article on "climbing fashion". My position is not snobbery, but the desire to keep snobbery out of climbing. If sponsored climbers get money and free clothes from prada, great. If they give me free stuff, even better. Whatever, my point is that there is a chasm between dirtbag climbers and trendy rich climbers probably like in no other sport. Its not a huge deal, I climb with anyone, and if at the end of the day the rich climber buys me dinner and gives me gear thats cool. All I was doing was commenting on how this phenomenon was illustrated quite well on one page of Climbing magazine. It was almost like "heres chongo the bum, sorry if this bit of unpleasantness offends, please look at our fashion advice." This is actually pretty relevant to me because Im going to Yosemite(where chongo was evicted) for 6 weeks. Now the max stay in the valley is 1 week. If you live in a super expensive cabin, no problem, if you camp, you have to play cops and robbers with park rangers and could end up like chongo. You can see how quickly joking about fashion victims and lifestylers becomes pretty serious to the guy with no money who wants to climb.