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Originally Posted by America [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I do sorta "free climb" - I've never been a gear and ropes and carabiners climber, but I definitely scale things that are pretty vertical and treacherous. Like taking the shorter route to a summit instead of trail. My bf thinks it is symptomatic of an impulse control mental illness lol.

Where is the dividing line between scrambles and climbs? Real question. Are you only a climber if you use gear and/or are hanging onto stuff by yer fingertips?

And what sorta climbing are you doing? Gym or what?

I used to do a lot of scrambling or climbing around Red Rock, NV. Involves pretty fun maneuvers like pressing across both sides of a tube shaped shaft to slowly descend. I rly like the thrill of heights [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

here's my really hot friend J the football star going through a crevasse we went through on acid. I used to initiate wrestling with him even tho I stood no chance - ha ha boy fun. It was real claustrophobic and I had this sense of impending doom like an earthquake was gonna squash me. this day involved some gnarly stuff like jumping huge pits from rock to rock. luv it.

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I dont know if you have a knack for romantic writing or if you just lived a pretty crazy life, but its cool [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] coming from a vanilla never taken a vacation or done a drug in his life guy.

Im just referring to artificial indoor bitch climbing to cross train my ability to hang pull and other stuff. Top roping.