I meet the rest of the crew back at the old parking lot and we headed back to camp for tunes, food, beers and fire!
We went to bed fairly late and woke up to a beautiful sunny day a little hung over. Erik and Hutch both drove out to meet us and we rallied out to the boulders. We warmed up and then headed over to Dylan's proj, CITA, where we meet Iassic. A real nice, humble and strong fella from Bozo. Iassic was cruising the cita and Peck and I flailed for a bit while Beth, Erik and Guy climbed on the Conehead, then we took off to the widdler. Iassic and I both sent in a handful of goes. I was psyched to climb something new in the area. Then we headed up to the optimist area where I did a new warmup V2ish thing that climbs the right arete via a crack and then tops out on good holds. Are skin failed us swiftly and we punted around on the rest of the problems in the area to no avail.
The GM looks awesome yet its too bad some dumbass did an apparently obvious glue-fuck-job on a chossy flake to try and yield some dirt-burglar shit start. Granted, I have glued a hold, only once. I then broke it off like the choss that is was and have never glued since and will never again. Gluing is lame even for reinforcement. If it's choss break it off.
Might be heading over in that neck of the woods to Climb with the TK bozo crew this next weekend since all off my boulders are still covered in snow. Keep posted for pics and new lolo posts. Peace
I thought I was going to do the glue-ing rant?!
ReplyDeleteBummer, with so much rock out in the Boulder Batholith there is no need for gluing or chipping...just a more adventurous spirit to find more lines...lots more beyond the realm of Whiskey Gulch, and usually 30 minutes closer to Bozeman too...
ReplyDeleteIf you need some more projects, let me know...no need to 'engineer' your own when there is multitudes of beautiful hard projects waiting to be done.
Maybe I need to do a projects post to open some eyes...
Keep it clean out there fellas!
Peace
Good to hook up with you and your crew--it was brief, but enjoyable for me, especially after I bumped into Ron and the boys walking out;-)
ReplyDeleteYo Levi, I posted this on Floner SDS blog and I am posting it here for everyone as well.
ReplyDeleteI hope you understand and I hope to go out bouldering with you soon.
Kyle
Yo, unlike most of you I am not afraid of talking shit straight to someone's face. This is Kyle Vassilopoulos aka limp dick ass hole, floner, boner, hardman.
Guess Sam was right, I ended up stumbling across your blog.
Its ok, I can be your limp dick ass hole fantasy if you want me to be. I don't mind being your fall man if you need one.
Both myself and Ryan (the person who found and spent all the time cleaning GM) glued a hold on it.
Just like Alex once did, and just like Levi once did.
Listen, I do not claim to always make the perfect choices and I do not always claim to have all the answers.
You all seem to be best buddies with Levi and he once did this very same thing.
Sorry?
Now are we friends?
No, we are not, because I have never met most of you and you do not know me.
As Sam points out, none of you know anything about the situation or why there is some glue on a hold on the GM. Nor will you ever unless you have the balls to meet me and ask me for yourself.
Does it matter, no (insert ethical debate) still I challenge all of you to actually meet me and ask me for yourself.
I do not think glueing is a great solution to an apparent problem, but that day we had some in our packs and we decided to do it.......... woops.
Again, I am not perfect.
How about this, I pledge to all the amazing, prolific, talented, and dedicated climbers of MT that I will not glue another hold.
Why, because I don't need to.........
I don't need to.
Again, I am sorry if you don't like everything I do, I do not claim to be perfect.
I do claim to be a person who goes climbing for fun and only fun and I have the best intentions in mind when I am doing it. I also don't take it very serious at all. If you know me then you know this.
You would all do well to listen to Sam.
First off, Sam and I do not always agree, nor do we share the same visions in climbing. In the end, Sam is a bad ass climber who is prolific and talented. I respect him, his opinions, and his approach to climbing. Sam and I can climb together, talk chop, and agree to disagree.
Glueing aside, you would all do well to fallow in his footsteps.
So to wrap this up, you got me, caught in the act. I don't really think glueing is good, or right, but I also don't really care.
I did it....... woops. Like I said, I will not do it again to appease all of you MT climbing Gods and your clean slates. ( and because I do not need to do it )
One more time, I challenge all of you to meet me and get to know me. I am not that bad, I promise.
I just love climbing and I am also human.
As a disclaimer, I don't want to hear any rant and rave about 8a.nu and spray. As far as I am concerned all of you have blogs. I have read them. So basically you spray and rant and rave all you want. You just do it in another format.
I think 8a.nu, blogs, and any other climbing media is fun and informative, and so I do it, end of story.
If you would like to go out climbing and have fun, give me a call. I am always down for meeting new people and climbing. (even if you are a closed minded judgmental fool.)
Kyle Vassilopoulos
KVTheory@yahoo.com
406-570-8845
so it just occurred to me that this "Sam" is not the one that I know.
ReplyDeleteSo negate everything I said about "Sam".
If this is the case, then Sam, I am sorry, I am sure you are rad as well and I hope to meet you out on the rocks.
Kyle