You know you're a climber if... the first thing you see is the cool looking limestone cliff

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After a week in the cave on Towerkop...you would see the loverly lass first.

You know you're a climber if....

You buy your shoes one size smaler out of habbit.

You spot climbing routes on the ceiling of church.

your have a travers around the house.

You like the older part of town because you can builder there.

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Climbing Off route doesn't exist; it's called a first ascent!

You know you’re a trad climber when...

• all your draws are 12” long
• your kid climbs harder than you do
• you’ve worn out a set of cams
• there is scar tissue on the back of your hands
• you shave the back of your hands
• you have six partially used rolls of tape in your pack
• you quit sport climbing because you can’t do any of the routes
• you see lots of sunrises on your climbing trips
• you say, “what?” when your leader says, “take!”
• your ledge is set up in your room to hold all your climbing gear
• you have climbing shoes you can wear all day
• you don’t care when your gym membership expires
• you enjoy guilt-free eating
• you don’t know what your body-fat % is
• you ask your partner how much water to bring along
• you do a first ascent and report the names of both members in your party
• you drop your belay device and you still know how to belay
• you read back-issues or mountain gazette
• you know how to turn a crack ‘n up into a beak
• you know what a beak is
• you wake up at 2:00am to go climbing
• your drill uses a hammer
• you take a nap in the middle of a climb
• you spend three hours removing a fixed cam
• you don’t want beta
• you think a bong is a type of piton
• you remember when climbing gear didn’t have springs
• you take a forty footer
• you summit a desert tower
• you know what an abalakov hook is
• you still use a gear sling
• there is a holster on your harness
• you rappel six pitches in the dark
• you rappel six pitches in the snow
• you drill from a stance
• you’re looking down at the birds
• you own a hammer and a haul bag
• you have sex on a belay ledge
• you’re on day 2 of a sport climbing trip and you can’t remember what you did on day 1
• you drop your water bottle and it takes five seconds to hit
• your rack is worth more than your car
• your best memories are from the epics you’ve had
• you have a great day of climbing then find out you didn’t do the route you thought you did
• you spend a night hanging in slings
• you miss work on monday because you epic’d on sunday
• a whole block of chalk fits in your chalk bag
• you dump your S.O. because he just doesn’t get it
• you wear out a set of jugs
• you drive all night so you can climb all day
• you drive all night because you climbed all day
• you’re up so high the trees look like broccoli
• your rack of pins is heavier than your rack of draws
• your slings have knots in them
• you know who larry penberthy is
• you know the difference between a copperhead and a circlehead
• you think “beta” is a video tape format
• you can shit and and belay at the same time
• you wear socks in your climbing shoes
• a long approach doesn’t deter you from a good climb
• a good job doesn’t deter you from a good climb
• Hendrix runs through your head while you’re climbing
• you coil your rope
• you’ve set up a belay with the only piece of gear left on your rack
• your climbing pants don’t stretch

-you drag your gear with you in the limited space of your pannier on your bike for 5500km to climb 2 routes at Spitzkoppe, and still dont really know their names.

vive le trad

every time you undo your seatbelt in the car you yell "off belay!"

...the pack you carry to a climb (almost) weighs more than you do.

...you don't know when or where the Curry Cup Final is. Especially if you live in the southern parts of SA...

i used to think the Curry Cup was a SA vs. India game

lol

Girlygirl? Is that you, Greg?

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