post your pic extravaganza 2008!!!~

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depends on how you use them.. but its true most people (including myself) dont realy know how to use em.

me and my lady

[PogoP]

Flashes on cameras suck! I think they're good only when used in the hands of a professional that knows what he/she is doing, knowing how to bounce the light around to create a good effect.

[twiz]

I shall have to nab the photos some people took yesterday whilst we climbing. Didn't take my camera whilst I was going up a 50m HVS route. Not liking 1 finger pockets and 2 finger crimps on stuff that high.

I'm not really familiar with the british rating system... its different from all the others in its ratings, theres a technical aspect, a safety aspect, a strenuous aspect...

Do you do trad or sport(lead) climbing? I pretty much stick to bouldering myself, I have so much more fun on a boulder than on a rope.

[Ginger Lord]

I do mainly trad routes. The british grading system imo is perfect, with the technical and adjectival grade helps give a true estimate of the route before you set off.

Without you can come to a route graded 6a and go "Is this a route that every single move is 6a?" or "Is this route easy and long with the crux move being a 6a?". Now the British system gives you that guidance, a similar climb could be a E1 6a, or a HVS 6a or even a E4 6a. The E4 6a you would guess would be solid 6a climbing with little or precarious protection, hence the high E number. The E1 6a could be a short pumpy route, or a long one with a few 6a moves. The HVS could be piss easy climbing, like 4a, for most of it, but the crux move could be the 6a on poor protection, hence the lowever adjectival grade, but same technical as the other.

Presume you use V of f grades for bouldering? I suck at bouldering.

Edit:

Longer better explanation:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/databases/crags/grades.html

[twiz]

yeah we use the V grades for bouldering here. I climb around v5. The problem I'm climbing in the pic is probably v5+, maybe v6. Its hard to tell. I've climbed a v5 that was harder than it, but I've also climbed a v6 that was easier than it. I'll probably call it a v5 when I finally get it!

I've never climbed trad before, and don't really care to. I'm not a fan of lead climbing and the additional risk aspect of trad makes it even less appealing to me.

[Ginger Lord]

Thats the fun

Wheres the fun in falling 5ft onto a mat when you can fall 25ft on a bit of metal jammed in a 5mm crack

Edit: New Photo

Proof that it doesnt always rain in England.

[-HP-]

depends on how you use them.. but its true most people (including myself) dont realy know how to use em.

me and my lady

Nice couple KT!

[twiz]

Whats the fun in falling at all!? After all, its called climbing, not falling! My pad is just there so I don't hurt myself in the tries it takes before I finish the climb. I just like climbing and pushing myself to the very edge of my technical abilities and strength, and on a rope I can't do that. Bouldering is like the sprinting of climbing. Maximum strength and maximum technique for a short period.

Edit : nice photo

[hessi]

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depends on how you use them.. but its true most people (including myself) dont realy know how to use em.

me and my lady

Nice couple KT!

i agree on that. i wish i had such a cute girlfriend! (or a gf at all )

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Hessi:

a stud like you should have no problems finding the right girl!

HP:

thanks, dubbledate?

[Buddy]

Hessi:

a stud like you should have no problems finding the right girl!

HP:

thanks, dubbledate?

partners exchange maybe??

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not a swing fan ktkxbyw!

eh eh, kidding!

[Ginger Lord]

Found a pic from someones phone of me being lowered down from an 18m indoor wall. Damn hard with that overhang for the last 12m. When I got back to the ground I must've been about 6m away from the base of the wall.

[FrieChamp]

All this talk about climbing is really fascinating, please carry on.

[dux]

I love sarcasm.