http://climbinghouse.com/2009/08/weekend-session-eldo-new-contributor-etc.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://climbinghouse.com/2009/08/weekend-session-eldo-new-contributor-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-561 Andrew Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:51:11 +0000 http://deznutzinyoface.com/?p=632#comment-561 To look strickly at the difficulty of a climb or boulder problem is to totally neglect the other 90% of climbing which makes the sport relevant, the people. No matter how "hard" or "easy" you climb, the entire experience is crappy and pointless if you have negitive crappy people around. Soloing the first flatiron, for me, was an eye opening and awesome experience, even if it is and was well below my climbing ability. I think it all adds to your climbing career because you can sit in awe when you watch people climb V14 or think back on that one super spectacular day of climbing where the people were the focus and not the climb.... To look strickly at the difficulty of a climb or boulder problem is to totally neglect the other 90% of climbing which makes the sport relevant, the people. No matter how "hard" or "easy" you climb, the entire experience is crappy and pointless if you have negitive crappy people around. Soloing the first flatiron, for me, was an eye opening and awesome experience, even if it is and was well below my climbing ability. I think it all adds to your climbing career because you can sit in awe when you watch people climb V14 or think back on that one super spectacular day of climbing where the people were the focus and not the climb….

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