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Hey guys!! I am an avid climber, i mostly boulder but i love all of it. I was wondering if any of you awesome peeps are climbers? I am fortunate to be in a town that is wonderful for climbing. Sadly no climbing gyms.... anyway who here is a climber??
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Not I, but Panic! likes to hang from precarious places.
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Yeah, Panic! is Climby McClimberson over here. What town are you based in?
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I live in Joplin, MO!!! i want to talk to McClimberson!!!
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I'm up here.
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yo! so what kind of climbing do you do?
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Being stuck in central MO, all there really is to do around here is top roping in a couple areas so that's about it. There's more routes and stuff up in Columbia but again, it's all toproping. The climbing club here just installed the first and only lead route I know of at a popular climb spot near Ft Leonard Wood, but I haven't tried it out yet.

Also enjoy bouldering where possible, and my college career was speckled with night time buildering.

How about you? I can't imagine there's a whole lot of rock sticking up out there, although you are pretty close to AR and there's some good stuff down there. Just a little out of my driving range!
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The state park here in town is packed with rock to climb, it is churt so it can get pretty chossy at times but most of the time its great! Its called wildcat Glades!
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Yeah we got some shitty limestone up here, with nice chunks that come off if you're the first one up a route. I learned to never trust Missouri rock. Too many times I go for a nice hold that's just calling my name, only to have it betray me catastrophically and then attack my belayer. Asshole rock.

A lot of the dolomite, especially in the river bluffs, has chert layers that shred skin as you go past. Like climbing up a damn cheese grater. The river bluffs are much better for rappelling than climbing, really.
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