Monday, October 12, 2009
And the Bald said NO
There is something about Rumbling Bald that only a few well traveled climbers could understand and that one thing is, Rumbling Bald is hard. I have talked to a handful of people that climb there regularly and the general consensus is that it is an issue of style. Rumbling Bald is an extremely hard place to boulder if it is not your style and with that being said I will let you know that I know very few people that actually say that their style is climbing on slightly overhung credit card to half pad crimps and miniscule feet. ITS FUCKING HARD. I know many people that easily pull down V8s in other boulder fields but when they come to the Bald they get spanked on V3s. I suppose the up shot of this is that they claim the V grade is highly "subjective" and then go on their merry way back to the choss piles they crawled from and perhaps they did it a little bit humbler. And I like that. There really is nothing I can stand more than a rock snob especially one that picks their climbing partners by a comparison of strength. "Sure dude, you can climb with us, as long as you cannot send harder than me." I know that, thankfully, those people are few and far between but I sure as hell met one at Inner Peaks climbing gym. I went with the Brevard Climbing Team to play photographer/cheerleader for the recent ABS competition and sure enough there was such a douchebag there. So if you are out there, you hang board winning cock sucker, please feel free to join us at the Bald. Hugs and Kisses.
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