Yup, this is my favorite climbing position!
TR to follow. "You'all come back now, ya hear!?!"
Near Courthouse Butte, AZ : )
January 9, 2009
Comments
[ Post a Comment ]| yatsek | Probably Best | | 
Voted 10/10 | This is probably the best shot in its category, you just should change the "Image Type" - if there's no "butteing/butteering/buttering/butting", please click "climbing"
PS Also please attach it to Larry's Mountains of Smiles album. | | Posted Jan 11, 2009 4:09 pm |
 | | lcarreau | Re: Probably Best | | 
Hasn't voted | But ... isn't Courthouse Butte a beaut???
No bull ... I will attach it to the al-BUM!!! Thank you for suggesting it. : )))
It's not really climbing. Doesn't climbing
involve a rope and a helmet??? | | Posted Jan 11, 2009 5:52 pm |
| | yatsek | Re: Probably Best | |
Voted 10/10 | Whether or not it's climbing is debatable. First and foremost, there's no clear division line between climbing and scrambling, and bu...ng has long been practised by a great many/many great mountain-goers. My instructor on the climbing course I once did didn't bother to use any rope or helmet; one day one licensed climber fell a good few metres near us – looked really bad, head against rock, may not have survived. The knot had come untied, and he wasn't wearing a helmet.
As to your first question, sure there's nothing but bu..., that is beauts in the pic:))). Anyway, have you just decided to start an al(l)-Bum album? Sounds like an interesting idea, no kidding!
| | Posted Jan 12, 2009 4:01 am |
| rayray | Funny, Larry.... | | 
Voted 10/10 | that is probably the favorite climbing position of a lot of folks here on SP, including myself :) Keep up the great work!
Ray | | Posted Jan 12, 2009 12:04 am |
| | lcarreau | Re: Funny, Larry.... | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks, Ray! I was just "conserving energy"
for the long trip back to the automobile.
(Actually, the rock had some ice on it, and I was just trying to avoid falling on my head!) ... Thanks for the encouragement. | | Posted Jan 12, 2009 9:09 am |
| Dean | Works for me | | 
Voted 10/10 | Now I have this friend who would scoff at this technical climbing technique but as I said in the title here, it "works for me". Way to go Larry, you are helping to keep others "technically" safe by demonstrating the "duffersitz" method. | | Posted Jan 20, 2009 11:33 pm |
| | lcarreau | Re: Works for me | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks, Dean. I missed that one of Kadees'.
I would rather be "technically" safe than
"technically" sorry, but that's only my
personal opinion, and hopefully won't spark a
full-fledged debate here on SP.
Duffersitz? I really LOVE that word!
(Maybe there should be an ALBUM devoted to
"duffersitz" - just a thought...) | | Posted Jan 21, 2009 12:49 pm |
| BigJordan | ahh... | | 
Voted 10/10 | I see. Great climbing manuver | | Posted Jan 23, 2009 2:53 am |
| | lcarreau | Re: ahh... | |
Hasn't voted | I envision a world where each and every person has mastered the 'duffersitz' position.
"Yes We Can." | | Posted Jan 23, 2009 9:34 am |
| | d_shorb | Re: ahh... | | 
Voted 10/10 | Yeah Larry. I haven't seen a good friction climbing photo in a while. hah | | Posted Feb 25, 2009 11:12 pm |
| | lcarreau | Re: ahh... | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks! My pants haven't seen one in awhile,
either! : ))))))))))))
Did ya notice how I'm "abutting" the rock?
Just one of the steps in the Duffersitz process. It's all mind over matter ... | | Posted Feb 25, 2009 11:49 pm |
| MikeTX | I think... | | 
Voted 10/10 | you need snow to glissade, no?
I use that technique quite a bit myself:) | | Posted Mar 23, 2009 9:26 pm |
| | lcarreau | Re: I think... | |
Hasn't voted | Absolutely right, Mike !!!
Actually, we got a little snow falling in
Flagstaff, but for a "valley pounder" like
me, it helps to have an imagination!!! | | Posted Mar 23, 2009 10:03 pm |
|  Rate This Image Current Score: 89.62%  Loading... To Vote
|
Courthouse Butte (Mountain/Rock)
Mountains of Smiles (Album)
