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Failing to clip the anchor on a tall, overhung route dotted with large huecos
Leading a tall, overhung route on pockmarked, striated sandstone. Clip a bolt, traverse a jug rail, pull into a small hueco, sit
An earwig has crawled deep into the flower and its butt is hanging out like it’s waiting to ambush me
Cutting feet in a ridiculous manner near the top of a vertical sandstone wall
Leading a steep route in the gym. Big deadpoint at the second bolt. Crux at the end with a big left hand throw to a pinch
Pulling a roof at the beginning of a tall sport route. Heel hook, bump to sidepull, rock over, fix shoe
Maslow’s heirarchy diagram
Leading a vertical route. Matching a flake in a wide stance 3/4 up. The arete to the left has a nice outline against the sky with a kind of overhanging spike shape at the top. The small roof at the top of the route I’m on is not in frame because I’m an IDIOT
A burly, bald, middle-aged man with a stubbly beard, prominent nose, and large mustache. He wears priestly robes and collar, and a stole with blocky, alien script
Bottom-up view of a roofed sport route. A guy in a red shirt and black pants is shaking out his left arm from a horizontal position on the roof, supported by a heel hook
Leading a route on brown and gray sandstone. A long crack runs up the left of the face. I’m sitting down with my entire left leg wedged into it
A fallen, licheny sandstone slab creates a cave in the middle of a creek. There’s a small waterfall inside, illuminated by a sunbeam
A large black rat snake on a horizontal tree branch with a freestanding stone pillar in the background
Leading a route on a wall that faces another wall, with a stripe of blue sky visible between. A bit below the first bolt
Climbing a vertical, crimpy boulder problem on gray sandstone
Me hanging from a juggy but chossy roof made of brown rock that looks like dried, cracked mud. Barely off the ground I’m bored, let’s try to sneak into other feeds Exercise Outdoors Kentucky Climbing Mountains
Leading a route on a vertical sandstone face. Match on a jug, get 2 high feet with left knee pointed all the way outward, go up to a left hand crimp with face pressed into the wall, stand up
Me attempting a sandstone boulder that starts below a small roof, then has a vertical section ending in a sloper topout. I bail on the topout, downclimb, and jump down a couple feet onto my pads
Me climbing an overhung sandstone boulder that starts out blocky. I fall at the slopey topout and land with my toes on the pads and my ankles off, causing me to be in a decent bit of pain
Thumbnail of a youtube video titled “the essential glup shittos of Star Wars: the phantom menace” featuring boss nass, watto, and nute gunray
A guy in dark clothes and an orange helmet climbing a slabby, lichen-covered sandstone cliff. The forest still looks like winter and the sky is overcast
Leading a route in the gym. First half is steep with big moves between underclings and jugs. I fall off after hitting a sloper, adjusting my feet, and bumping to the sloper above it Let’s see if I can game the algorithm with a keyword. Democrats
The box for a Smithsonian-brand t. rex fossil toy, showing the skeleton assembled with the arms upside down
Leading a vertical route in the gym. Lots of laybacking and shouldery moves on crimps. Good rest on a jug, then big moves to more crimps leading into a slab finish. I fail to commit to the first big move after the rest, get pumped trying to figure out what to, and fall
Climbing 5 bolts of an overhung sport route in the gym. It’s set between two long, thin, vertical volumes which provide opportunities for drop knees and stemming. Long moves on pretty good holds. I fall at the crux, where it abruptly gets crimpy
A tallish arete boulder on gray sandstone. Undercling start, slopey sidepulls, a jug which you then stand on, then a topout that involves a bit of a throw to an edge on the topside
Clipping below the bulge. Right hand on a sidepull above the lip. Legs splayed
Copium pepe meme with Dr. Robbie “the Pitt” graphic on the bottle
A gym boulder that starts on a roof. Pull a 180 with heel hooks on jugs. Continue the roof on crimps and toe hooks/bicycles. Pull the lip onto flat jugs and finish on pinches. I get to the last pinch, then fail to match it
Me sending a vertical, crimpy boulder beside a tree on an autumn day with vibrant yellow leaves
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Leading an outdoor sport route. Between the last bolt and the anchor is a large detached block that pokes in from the right, creating a left-facing dihedral. To gain the anchor I layback on the block, smear my feet, and bump myself up bit by bit, dragging my right side along the block
Me on top of a ruined lighthouse. It’s made of dark green stones of various shapes and sizes held together with white mortar, red brick, and white stones which ring the edge like a chess piece’s crown. The structure which once held the light is nothing but a rusted, rickety cage
Side view of a sandstone boulder problem. Flat jug start. Small traverse. Stand up into tiny underclings. Sloper finish hold. Hard mantle finish on bad feet, mostly relying on your left arm.
A black gym boulder that starts with powerful compression moves, then a throw to a vertical pinch that requires you to hold a big swing, then a sit finish with a heel hook on one side
Leading a sport route on a broad, blank face of gray sandstone with a brown water streak. I pull a few moves, looking increasingly desperate, before blowing a clip and dropping the draw
Leading a route on sharp, iron-banded sandstone. The area below the first bolt is severely overhung. I jump and hang on the highest ledge I can reach from the ground, then work my feet up and get established
A short, overhanging boulder made of pancake-like layers which create flat jugs and a few corners as holds. Starts deep in a cave with a high foot jam, continues with heel hooks and shouldery moves. I fall after failing to rock over onto my left heel for the final mantle
A newspaper headline about a British man, “viceroy of India, hero of Burma,” who was killed by the IRA
Leading a route on gray sandstone. Gaining the lip of a roof with my left hand
Taking a lead fall while trying to mantle a ledge near the top of a sport route. Crisp fall day. Bright white clean sandstone
Me on an overhung black gym boulder with big moves between large pinches. Lots of backflags while moving from right to left
The cat from the “buy wireless device, look inside, wires” meme
A short boulder that begins with a crimpy slightly overhung section, then a traverse left on worse holds, onto slopers, then powerful throws with the left hand until topping out
A boulder that starts on jugs at the back of a roof. Long move to a good sidepull on the lip of the roof. Tricky footwork to gain a crimp at the top of the sidepull. Powerful move to bump a hand up to another jug. Jugs to topout. I fall after the bump, unable to get my feet under me.
“I am genuinely begging my fellow Americans who believe themselves to be progressive to understand that "survival of the fittest" ALWAYS means survival of the richest and that believing any group of people deserves to die is eugenics and abhorrent no matter how evil you believe them to be.”
Me sitting on a bouldering crash pad on the ground putting on my shoes, then getting hit in the chest by a high velocity acorn
Bouldering on a tall block of brown sandstone and conglomerate. The strata are at a 30 degree angle, as if one corner of the block has sunken into the ground
A gym boulder that starts on opposing sidepulls, moves right to 2 right-facing sidepulls, then an intended dyno from there to a huge jug, again moving right. I bypass that sequence by bumping my right hand all the way from the start hold to the jug before releasing the left hand start hold
Foreground: a ripe pawpaw cut in half Background: a wide, shallow, fast-moving section of the Hiawassee, bordered by blue skies and forested hills
A screenshot from elden ring depicting a wooden carving of a funeral boat with goat heads at its bow and stern
Leading a sport route on bright white/tan, sun dappled sandstone. Slightly overhung with mostly good holds. The video is of three consecutive moves where I throw for holds way over my head and end up fully extended on tip toes before pulling up Tags (do these do anything?): Outdoors #outdoors Climbing Rock climbing #climbing
Leading an overhung 5.11 in the gym. A weird heel hook/cam move that uses my whole calf and provides a good horizontal rest position. Small side pulls. A big move to a crimp, then more crimps where I get pumped and fall about 80% of the way up
Leading a sport route on blocky, brown sandstone. It begins at a low angle and gently curves up into a vertical section below a roof. It’s a cool, rainy day and I’m barefoot in pants and a hoodie
A crimpy, sidepull-y overhanging boulder which ends on an undercling that you have to pull yourself up into while throwing for the last hold with your other hand
A mature jade plant in a round terracotta pot with looped handles. The colors are vibrant thanks to the rain and lighting, bright green leaves with orange tips and rich brown branches
An image of a square boulder annotated with a line demarcating a problem. Looking at one arete of the boulder. The problem starts on a low flake to the right of the arete, then moves onto the arete and goes straight up. The middle is knobby and the top is slopey and covered in a thin layer of black lichen