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homeboy down there in sandals wishin' he had forearms like upside-down boobs

 

Fitting route name for a fitting photo. lol

I good buddy of mine from Cali, who is an incredibly strong climber, came out to climb with me years ago. 5.10 for him is usually a warm-up. So I took him over to ED for the first route. He looked up the corner at 3 massive roofs and said:

"It goes WHERE?" lol

 

Damn you people and your fully functional legs! New plan, Im getting robot legs when GME moons... ones that have 4 thinner legs so I can be a octopus and just scuttle up those walls.

 

Nah dude, don't worry. My legs work fine, and you won't catch me hanging upside from any cliff walls any time soon. I'm more your speed of kayak fishing these days.

 

Google 'Hugh Herr". Long story short. He's a rock climber that lost his legs on Mt Washington at 19. Then proceeded to get prosthetics and continue to climb at an incredibly high level at the time. Then he went to MIT and started designing them. Now he's one of the top people in that field. His Ted Talk is worth the listen.

 

Ahhh yes, most definitely erect direction

 

Go go gadget legs!

 

At some point, if the rock has a high iron content and you put magnets in the legs, does it become an unfair advantage?

 

Funny thing. When he did the first ascent of Stage Fright, an very thin crack with almost no gear, some other strong climbers said he "cheated" because he had special feet made just for that climb. I still get a kick out of that story. The guy literally has no tibia's and he's climbing harder then all the other tough guys. So what do they do? Yep. Say he cheated. LMAO.

 

If there's one unalienable truth in the world, people are almost always jealous assholes lol

 

Im going to replace my legs with a hellcat challenger, then win the 100 meter dash. Im running at a disadvantage because I have bunk legs.

 

Were your legs born wonky or did you fuck them up later in life (accident, military, etc)? There's a ton of research going on right now into muscle and tissue regeneration.

 

I got screwed over by a mosquito. West nile virus.

 

The OG 'rona. Damn

 

when i worked on sailboats in the keys 4ish years ago, Wednesday night was flip night. order a drink, flip a coin, heads its free tails its not.

we frequently had so many pitchers the bar tenders told us we had to finish one so they could fill it up again

 

Still kinda blows my mind that the Adirondack mountains are geologically much younger than the Sierras, even being so short. Then you look at the Rockies, and they're infants compared to both.

 

He posted a video a while back when it happened, pretty crazy. I posted on his original thread way back when cause I was kind of shook from watching it. I don’t want to retell it and get it wrong- you had to stop in the middle of traffic on a highway right? And people were just driving by not checking until some young girls saw something might be wrong and came to help or something like that? Either way glad you made it through and hope things are only going up from here.

 

I was catching weird viruses before it was cool.

 

theres a whole thread on it. I think he linked in here before because I went down that rabbit hole. Then spent a lot of time researching mosquito treatment services for my yard

 

Yeah, Ill post the link to the thread, videos are on the first page of it (graphic videos, mute volume unless you want to hear me struggling.