all your draws are 12″ long<\/p>\n
your kid climbs harder than you do<\/p>\n
you’ve worn out a set of cams<\/p>\n
there is scar tissue on the back<\/em> of your hands<\/p>\n you quit sport climbing because you can’t do any of the routes<\/p>\n you’ve set up a belay with the only piece<\/em> of gear left on your rack<\/p>\n you do a first ascent and report the names of both members in your party<\/p>\n you say, “what?”<\/em> when your leader says, “take!”<\/em><\/p>\n you can wear your climbing shoes all day<\/p>\n you don’t know what your body-fat % is<\/p>\n you drop your belay device and you still know how to belay<\/p>\n you remember when climbing gear didn’t have springs<\/p>\n you wake up at 2:00am to go climbing<\/p>\n you spend three hours removing a fixed cam<\/p>\n you think a bong is a type of piton<\/p>\n you enjoy guilt-free eating<\/p>\n you take a forty footer<\/p>\n you still use a gear sling<\/p>\n there is a holster on your harness<\/p>\n you rappel six pitches in the dark<\/p>\n you rappel six pitches in the snow<\/p>\n you drop your water bottle and it takes five seconds<\/em> to hit<\/p>\n your best memories are from the epics you’ve had<\/p>\n you miss work on monday because you epic’d on sunday<\/p>\n a whole block of chalk fits in your chalk bag<\/p>\n you drive all night so you can climb all day<\/p>\n you’re up so high the trees look like broccoli<\/p>\n you wear socks in your climbing shoes<\/p>\n you think “beta”<\/em> is a video format<\/p>\n you don’t want beta<\/p>\n you coil your rope.<\/p>\n