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The bit about their water-repelling shoes and the philosophizing about the nature of the sport, those things have me on the fence.
by _mattb 16y ago
The bit about their water-repelling shoes and the philosophizing about the nature of the sport, those things have me on the fence.
- thaumaturgy 16y agoClimbers, boulderers, mountain bikers, etc. all talk like this.
- blackguardx 16y agoBut no one gets an alpine start to run across water.
- thaumaturgy 16y agoOf course not. And no one gets an alpine start to climb on 15-foot rocks in the high Sierra. Oh wait ... except, they do!
- blackguardx 16y agoPeople get up early to boulder because they like to climb while the weather is nice. Humidity and temperature affect friction on the rock. I can't imagine weather has that great of an effect in this situation. I think they included the alpine start as a further joke at the ridiculousness of it all.