Steve1215 wrote:--
GH and mvs and everyone...
Like I keep saying over and over, all the peak baggers and scramblers and snow sloggers, and all the people who simply enjoy and love the mountains on their own simple terms, all those people should be rounded up and placed in a huge barbed wire pen, so that the anointed "real climbers" can mock and ridicule their pathetic abilities, while tossing flaming paper bags of dog excrement onto the 3rd-class scramblers heads.
Surely, surely...that was the real point that I was trying to make with this whole thread.
``steve1215
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Steve, I'm not impressed. Here's why: "True Climbers" are just like anyone else doing anything else in the sense that some of them suck at it, some are great and the others are in between. In my experience the "climbers", doctors, accountants etc who make bold claims and grandiose assessments of their own position in their skill are the ones who suck at it. Of course there are exceptions to this rule so you have that going for you!
Also, what happened to, “being polite and having respect for others is what made me so amazingly more successful than everyone else on the planet Steve?”
Also, a true climber would have known to put this in the Spray and Slander forums. I'd expect a mistake like that from a guy who just came off an indoor rock wall drapped in Patagonia...