Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:34 am
Yeah, I just took an aspirin for a headache, because I was on this "tortured thread" too long!
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MarthaP wrote:lcarreau wrote:"Mountaineering" is considered going off the beaten track, and CLIMBING any mountain above 7,000 feet. It's usually when you have to "scramble" over rocks or permanent icefields.
Magoo, are you on drugs? Where do you come up with this crap?
MoapaPk wrote:MarthaP wrote:lcarreau wrote:"Mountaineering" is considered going off the beaten track, and CLIMBING any mountain above 7,000 feet. It's usually when you have to "scramble" over rocks or permanent icefields.
Magoo, are you on drugs? Where do you come up with this crap?
You took the bait.
lcarreau wrote:I love dry humor, YOU love dry humor, we ALL love dry humor !!!
Dingus Milktoast wrote:I hiked and climbed 3, no, 4 peaks.
I'm a climber. I climb things. Sorry about that.
DMT
MarthaP wrote:are you on drugs?
sarah.simon wrote:Climbing is what I'm doing when I'm enjoying myself in the highcountry and not worrying about semantics.
Climbing is what I do in the mountains, how I recharge my batteries every weekend, when I'm out in the high peaks and not letting anyone else define my hobby for me.
Dingus Milktoast wrote:To me? That's climbing. If you want the full value of that climb, do it alone. It will take skill AND stones to hike up that ridge.
DMT
yatsek wrote:Could some native speakers of (American) English please help me define (in AE) my hobby for me? The problem is that if I call myself a climber – not actually having done much over US grade 5.1 recently, not normally using a rope – people tend to think my hobby is "technical" climbing and I'm able to do things like 5.7 at least. That's why I prefer to say I'm a scrambler (and a hiker). Do you think this is good communication?
rhyang wrote: it depends on your intended audience -- if you are talking to a cutie whom you want to impress, then say you are a climber and don't go into details.
thoth wrote:Gary Schenk wrote:If at some point you're higher than when you started, you climbed.
Semantic silliness.