When the site went down for a bit, I posted this on the taco...
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=687472"Since mudncrud.com is down right now, i thought would alert you folks to a very serious illness spreading across the land: Mungehausen Syndrome.
In Mungehausen syndrome, the affected person exaggerates the need to, or creates conditions for, climbing dirt filled cracks, mossy faces, and seeping corners in order to gain interest, attention, foolishness, and comfort from mud-like people. In some extremes, people suffering from Mungehausen's Syndrome are highly knowledgeable about the practice of climbing at Pinnacles, and are able to produce desperate choss masterpieces that result in multiple and some would say "unnecessary" routes. For example, they may place a bolt on a pink volcanic tuff of a face that is covered in rat feces, bat guano, and loose rock, causing widespread interest in an obscure route, and further causing lengthy and costly exploratory trips and much analyses of route location and prolonged scanning of walls to find said route. The role of "choss lover" is a familiar and comforting one, and it fills a psychological need in people with Mungehausen's. It is distinct from hypovolcandria in that patients with Mungehausen syndrome are aware that they love mud and filth, while sufferers of hypovolcandria actually believe Pinnacles is a nice place to climb.
In many cases, a similar behavior called Mungehausen Syndrome by Proxy has been documented in the elder mudmeisters. The mature mudmeister believes the loose-rock-appreciator has a good line and therefore compels such appreciator to suffer extended belays in the fall line of the new routes the mudmeister elects to take the lead on. Regardless of the mental health of the elder mudmeister, this is a serious form of abuse.
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Has anyone else experienced this? Lost a loved one to weekends away hanging on hooks trying to figure out whether to use a 3.5" bolt or 4"?"