Top Reasons you know you're a Climbing Bum (in no particular order)

1. You see bird shit on a rock and think, oh is that chalk!?

2. Cooking any item of questionable cleanliness/freshness on your camp stove makes it edible

3. You can’t recall the last time you showered

4. The fact that you remember brushing your teeth sometime in the recent past means you’re set for a few more days

5. Your hair has become one giant dreadlock

6. Your food is either crunchy because it’s full of dirt, dusty tasting because it’s moldy or just plain rotten, but because of #2 you’re not worried about it

7. Going home means getting in your tent

8. When people ask you where you live you tell them where your car is parked

9. You think you’re tan but you’re really just dirty

10. Spending priorities are as follows: gas, climbing gear, chocolate, footy pajamas, food, showers

11. You have 3 shirts for a 3 month trip 

12. Your palms sweat when you think about climbing, see a climbing video, or talk about climbing

13. Your profile picture on Facebook is of you climbing, all you think about is climbing, all you talk about is climbing, all you dream about is climbing.  Climbing, climbing, climbing!

This tortilla was moldy, now it is just ventilated.