Feb 6, 2009, 12:43 AM
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What is your route climbng temperature tolerance?
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I just got off the phone with a buddy of mine and he wanted to boulder this weekend. I told him there wasn't a chance in hell, it's supposed to be 60, route weather is in as far as I'm concerned. I'll take routes any day over bouldering though.
So how cold does it have to get before you get off the routes for a while and hit the gym or boulder? I personally climb routes down to about 45 on a sunny day.
For all intents and purposes lets say it's a sunny day at a South facing crag and there isn't any wind.
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Feb 6, 2009, 12:59 AM
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Intensive purposes huh?
Anyway, I guess I'm with you - 45, maybe 50. Any colder and I'd be doing something else, like resort or ski mountaineering.
I'm bless to live in an area where that, on a sunny day? I can pretty much find the right temperate zone for the activity at hand. They just have to line up with the available venues.
Feb 6, 2009, 1:12 AM
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Re: [dingus] What is your route climbng temperature tolerance?
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I like warmth, I live in the desert. But, I regularly climb in the rim country of AZ and it gets chilly. But the areas I choose are south facing and sunny. If it's cloudy then there is no way I'd go there, the sun goes a long way to creating tolerable conditions.
Feb 6, 2009, 1:30 AM
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Intensive purposes. I think I was in my late twenties before I got that one straightened out. I was probably ten when it occurred to me that "chester drawers" was actually "chest of drawers". Cute little mistakes like these sometimes make their ways into the language proper.
No skin off my teeth either way.
Oh yeah, for rock climbing my lower temp limit is soft, something like 55 degrees. Sunny south facing no wind? Probably more like 50.
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Feb 6, 2009, 1:55 AM
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up here in Duluth, when ever the snow has gone we will be out there. 30 feels great when you have just gone through a Duluth winter( down to -50 with wind chill)
Feb 6, 2009, 1:57 AM
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the temps dont bother me to much, a weekend or so ago i was out in below freezing temps. halfway up a route my fingers where to cold to feel crimps, i had to hangdog with my hands on the back of my neck to warm em up. i finished the route hands freezing. i set up at the bolts to lower and clean, by the time i got to the ground my hands where sweating. while setting up to lower the blood must of got flowing but a bit to late. kinda pissed me off a bit.
hand warmers in the chalk bag are nice for climbs in the cold(didnt have em that weekend)
Feb 6, 2009, 10:12 AM
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Depends?
Sometimes i go down to temps below freezing, but i never look at the exact temperature. Have been rockclimbing between icicles or during snowfall, so i guess it was quite cold.
Feb 6, 2009, 12:57 PM
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Your poll sucks!
A tolerance is a range between limits or thresholds that would normally mean a threat to an organisms existence, outside those limits). I can see personal preference is the meaning here but your categories still say nothing except perhaps if you were to re-word your question to something like "...the coldest temps you are comfortable to climb in (or have climbed in) before heading to the bar..."
My personal "tolerance" is about 40-95F (no wind) for rock and about -10-30F (no wind) for ice. So, I voted under the assumption your question means coldest limit on rock that I normally would climb in.
edit... your categories also overlap.
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Feb 6, 2009, 1:19 PM
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Well, it depends. If my intentions are to send a redpoint then I'll push farther down into the temp regions as long as I can keep the digits warm. If my purpose is just to go out and have some fun I'm less likely to hit the cooler days.
If, however, I have a really intensive purpose then I take the propane space heater. Snow be damned.
Feb 6, 2009, 2:08 PM
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kachoong wrote:
Your poll sucks!
A tolerance is a range between limits or thresholds that would normally mean a threat to an organisms existence, outside those limits). I can see personal preference is the meaning here but your categories still say nothing except perhaps if you were to re-word your question to something like "...the coldest temps you are comfortable to climb in (or have climbed in) before heading to the bar..."
My personal "tolerance" is about 40-95F (no wind) for rock and about -10-30F (no wind) for ice. So, I voted under the assumption your question means coldest limit on rock that I normally would climb in.
edit... your categories also overlap.
Everyone else seemed to get it, go ahead and stick your dick in a blender full of rusty nails and bleach. Cool?
Feb 6, 2009, 2:43 PM
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currupt4130 wrote:
kachoong wrote:
Your poll sucks!
A tolerance is a range between limits or thresholds that would normally mean a threat to an organisms existence, outside those limits). I can see personal preference is the meaning here but your categories still say nothing except perhaps if you were to re-word your question to something like "...the coldest temps you are comfortable to climb in (or have climbed in) before heading to the bar..."
My personal "tolerance" is about 40-95F (no wind) for rock and about -10-30F (no wind) for ice. So, I voted under the assumption your question means coldest limit on rock that I normally would climb in.
edit... your categories also overlap.
Everyone else seemed to get it, go ahead and stick your dick in a blender full of rusty nails and bleach. Cool?
Never said I didn't get it... it'd just be nice to see polls that show what they mean.
Feb 6, 2009, 2:54 PM
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We were out and GB a couple times in late November when it was definitely down into the low end of the 30's later in the day. Great friction but man it was cold, chalkbag heat packs were in full effect. Everybody sent their projects though.
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Feb 6, 2009, 3:26 PM
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I voted for 45-50 but if sunny and no wind I would go down to 35 if short routes and 40 on longer exposed routes. I don't like it above 75 cause it's always humid around here but I have climbed in the high 90's on the east coast and in colorado.
Feb 6, 2009, 4:50 PM
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though i really prefer crimping frozen moss pads, i started giong delusional from heat exhaustionhalf way down an route last july,100 degrees, 100% humidity, NO WIND (trees loked like they were dancin', loaded my rap device wrong, twice)climbings an adventurous sport, quit bitchin about the weather.
Feb 6, 2009, 5:44 PM
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I guess it depends on what my goals are for a given day.. for fun, probably no colder than 50. to push my limits, probably no colder than 60. for winter suffer-climbs, climbing in the cold is sort of the point.
Feb 6, 2009, 6:18 PM
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At the risk of sounding like a pontificating father ("You kids got it too easy. When I was your age I walked 5 miles to school, snow up to my neck, blah, blah, blah"), when I started climbing, gyms were pretty scarce, so in order not to go totally soft, I had to figure out how to climb during the winter. Turns out it's pretty easy--full sun, east/southeast facing cliff, dark rock, and face climbing. I've climbed down to about 20F, but would have been comfortable colder.
Some of my best climbing days have involved skiing in, throwing down ensolite pads to stay out of the snow, and feeling way warmer than seemed possible. Sort of feels like we've stolen something or gotten away with something we shouldn't have.
Planning on climbing tomorrow--40F and partly sunny. I'm counting on it feeling balmy.
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