クリス・シャーマさんのインスタグラム写真 - (クリス・シャーマInstagram)「Great memories climbing in The Valley with @jimthornburg and @yobasecamp around 1997 or 98 when I was 17 Repost from @jimthornburg • Chris Sharma and I were regular climbing partners in 1995/96, He was around 15 and I was 31. We’d go on day trips to places like The Pinnacles, Castle Rock and Yosemite. The first time he went to a new place he would always ask “What’s the hardest thing here?” I would say “Dang! Hold your horses, let’s work through the classics first?” That didn’t go over well and inevitably we would go straightaway to the area’s hardest routes. I always figured he’d get a smackdown and a lesson to ease into a new area. That never happened, instead he would usually flash or quickly send said hardest route. When we went to Yosemite, I was sure it would be different, and apparently I wasn’t alone. Magazine “letters to the editor” and online forums were full of crusty trad dads who loved to say asinine things like “So he can flash 5.13 sport routes? Big Deal...I’d like to see him on a 5.10 handcrack...” or “He’s just a Gym Climber”. I said, “Let’s go climb Five and Dime and then Outer Limits” He said “I wanna climb Excellent Adventure!” (Excellent Adventure was Peter Croft’s latest hard crack, then rated 13c and Yosemite’s hardest and most exposed crack at the time) I said “Fine... yer gonna die”. I figured if he was gonna sandbag himself I wouldn’t talk him out of it. With Andy Puhvel, we drove to the top of the Rostrum and gave Chris a crash course in placing gear (this would be Chris’ 3rd trad lead). Down we went, and soon Chris was leading up into the thin corner crux. He struggled a bit figuring out which way to go where the corner splits from the Regular Route...a classic Yosemite route finding flub, and he put sport draws where he should have put long slings, but other than that, he absolutely hiked the pitch... it looked like 5.10 the way he climbed it. At the top, there was so much rope drag I had to help him pull the rope up to belay Andy. I tried to give him a hard time about the rope drag, but he just said it was no big deal cause the route wasn’t that hard anyway 🤯. #sandbag #yosemite #tradisnotsorad #crackclimbing #climbinghistory」2月22日 3時25分