Don't you guys get it? What Sean is saying is that Crumplefest is everywhere, and nowhere. Crumplefest is powering through deadpoint monos and slopey pinches, it's stupid sitstarts and sktchy topouts, but it's also the way we tie our shoelaces and merge into traffic and stir our tea. It's about finding the pure strength and perfection in everything that we do. Crumplefest is inside each of us, like a loose pile of birch bark and cedar twigs and Sean is right there waving his Bic around like he's rocking out to REO Speedwagon.
Already it's having an effect, the fire is steadily building. All over Nova Scotia climbers are climbing with a fury and determination that can't just be put down to the fine spring weather. Dan for example - hardly a slacker to begin with -
has undergone a transformation that is both inspiring and a little frightening.