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jbrown2
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OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor.
Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing.
You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away.
Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day.
You need more reasons:
- Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets.
- You wont snag everything it your gear
- You wont look like a walking junk show
- Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around)
- There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK.
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airscape
May 5, 2011, 10:08 AM
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jbrown2 wrote: OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor. Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing. You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away. Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day. You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. -
Are you jealous of someone elses new gear or what?
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sungam
May 5, 2011, 10:19 AM
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Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz.
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airscape
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sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz.
But he's talking about it at home, not the crag.
I couldn't care less if someone walks with gear dangling or not. To be honest, I don't want other people there either way.
Solitude with nature and what knot.
For some reason if there are other people in nature, it stops feeling like nature... it turns into a green and brown shopping mall without handicap access.
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sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz.
Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think.
(and yes, I've seen it)
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airscape wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. But he's talking about it at home, not the crag. I couldn't care less if someone walks with gear dangling or not. To be honest, I don't want other people there either way. Solitude with nature and what knot. For some reason if there are other people in nature, it stops feeling like nature... it turns into a green and brown shopping mall without handicap access.
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lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it)
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j_ung
May 5, 2011, 12:33 PM
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When working at a climbing gym, every so often I would see a customer or two stroll in already wearing his or her harness.
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lena_chita wrote: Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it)
They have been climbing for several decades, so I'm not really sure what end of the gumby scale that behaviour clocks in at... 
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sungam wrote: lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it) Bwahahaha! In miggies? Dear gawd! How embarrasing.
last year we saw a kid playing basketball with draws still on his harness too haha
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ianwatson
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the things people care about 
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macherry
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there's a couple that brings their climbing harnesses to my thursday yoga class. Yes, i know the climbing gym is located there too, but really, you don't need to bring it into the studio.
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i stopped carrying my gear in my pack b/c a loose wire pug a hole in my cambelbak.
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possum2082 wrote: i stopped carrying my gear in my pack b/c a loose wire pug a hole in my cambelbak.
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jbrown2 wrote: You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. -
plus, you'll get trad rack bruises all over your thighs. Although, that happens to me just by racking up, anyhoo, because I'm pasty white and bruise-a-rific.
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What about wearing the gear on the hike out of the crag?
Too many times have I run late or cut it super-close (Gotta pick the kiddo up from daycare by 5!) and can't be bothered to pack everything away properly. I just wear it to the car and dump it in the trunk to be dealt with later.
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sungam wrote: possum2082 wrote: i stopped carrying my gear in my pack b/c a loose wire pug a hole in my cambelbak. Ah, I see. The only solution to that is to not carry your gear in your pack. Too bad about those long approaches... I wonder how everyone else does it?
Oh my, lord forbid you use a WATER BOTTLE!! Actually, in all my years of humping gear and saws in packs, I've never out a hole in my bladder. All of my packs have had the sleeves, however, and the ones that don't i use the neoprene cover.
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Kartessa wrote: What about wearing the gear on the hike out of the crag? Too many times have I run late or cut it super-close (Gotta pick the kiddo up from daycare by 5!) and can't be bothered to pack everything away properly. I just wear it to the car and dump it in the trunk to be dealt with later.
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Only time I feel its ok, is if your at a crag & have finished the climbs & want to move 5 min down the wall or something.
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cantbuymefriends wrote: lena_chita wrote: Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it) Hah, I have friends who, on occasional basis, discover that they are still wearing their helmet after the car ride home from the crag. They have been climbing for several decades, so I'm not really sure what end of the gumby scale that behaviour clocks in at...
That's different. After a certain age, you get to claim Alzheimer's as the reason for such behaviors. The good news is, at this stage every climb is an onsight again!
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May 5, 2011, 4:23 PM
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sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz.
when I returned from nepal, I got myself a few real cowbell now am going to hang it from my harness to irritate climbers
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majid_sabet wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. when I returned from nepal, I got myself a few real cowbell now am going to hang it from my harness to irritate climbers
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Ive seen a girl or two wearing their harness while on the approach or the egress, I could never resist the urge to say " Nice Rack!" 
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dr_feelgood
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lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it)
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macherry
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majid_sabet wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. when I returned from nepal, I got myself a few real cowbell now am going to hang it from my harness to irritate climbers
i approve of this. actually, i wear a bear bell on my pack when going to my local crag. too many times i have run into bears on the approach, which actually is preferred to seeing them when i'm belaying!!
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There are times where it makes a certain amount of sense, but that's usually in the cases where your descent doesn't take you very close to the base of the climb. Seneca is one of those places where you might start on the east face and end up coming down the west face. In general, I prefer to pack it in.
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jbrown2 wrote: OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor. Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing. You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away. Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day. You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. -
I don't give a shit what you think , cos I'm a muth-a-fuckin' Honey Badger.
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airscape
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Wez my fuggen back pack at? yo.
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lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it)
Gumby is me. Guess I've been doing it wrong this whole time when I rope solo multi pitch routes in the Dias.
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why carry a heavier pack when you dont need to ... and why do you care anyways
i can carry all my gear in my osprey which weighs 1300g ... or just the rope and essentials in my dead bird which weights 400g, and wear my harness on the approach and have my rack jingling to scare away any fuzzy wuzzies ...
thats a 900g difference ... which is only 6 #1 red camelots ...
guess which one im bringing ...
i really dont get why people will bring 50+ L packs for cragging or even multipitching ...
they dont even use most the shiet they stuff in there anyways
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You would have loved the melodic sound that a rack of #11 hexes made while being lugged up to the Tower back in the 70's...
But what about all the times you are going "up and over" (not back to the base) and you want to go light and fast? But I'll make you a deal - I will always contain all my gear in a little pack which I will carry with me at all times - even those light and fast ones - if (and only if) you can get all the gumbys to please stop climbing outside with their "grade A gym belay certified" cards attached to their harnesses. Or how about not climbing inside with 3 belay devices, 2 prussick loops, a cordelette (and a partridge in a pear tree) attached? Or maybe we just say carry stuff in the style that fits the situation.
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bearbreeder wrote: why carry a heavier pack when you dont need to ... and why do you care anyways...
Eggzactly.
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I packed my harness and rack into my backpack after our last climb on the weekend - commenced the 30min walk out to the car, got to the carpark, went to jump behind the wheel and realised I still had my chalk bag slung around my waist.
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No not jealous at all. Just trying to help people out who walk around with chimes dangling all day. If climbing is about style and technique than this is definitely part of it. aluminum dingleberries = bad style.
If climbing is not about style and technique than we needn't bother wit the trad vs. sport vs. bouldering / red point - pink point - top rope / aid - free - free solo blah blah blah any more.
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sp115
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jbrown2 wrote: No not jealous at all. Just trying to help people out who walk around with chimes dangling all day. If climbing is about style and technique than this is definitely part of it. aluminum dingleberries = bad style. If climbing is not about style and technique than we needn't bother wit the trad vs. sport vs. bouldering / red point - pink point - top rope / aid - free - free solo blah blah blah any more.
No you weren't, you were just playing the pecking-order game and it was weak sauce.
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dr_feelgood wrote: lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it) I'll see your eating pizza, and raise you a playing basketball with harness and quickdraws still on.
GUd
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jbrown2 wrote: No not jealous at all. Just trying to help people out who walk around with chimes dangling all day. If climbing is about style and technique than this is definitely part of it. aluminum dingleberries = bad style. If climbing is not about style and technique than we needn't bother wit the trad vs. sport vs. bouldering / red point - pink point - top rope / aid - free - free solo blah blah blah any more.
I think your understanding of "style" in different contexts is more than a bit lacking 
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"style" means do as i do and want, or ill forever insult you and call you a gumby ...
classic RC 
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dr_feelgood wrote: lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it) I'll see your eating pizza, and raise you a playing basketball with harness and quickdraws still on.
Its not about having gear, its about knowing what to do with it !
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sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz.
This from the guy who doesn't climb outside. Is this a big problem at the gym
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olderic wrote: You would have loved the melodic sound that a rack of #11 hexes made while being lugged up to the Tower back in the 70's... But what about all the times you are going "up and over" (not back to the base) and you want to go light and fast? But I'll make you a deal - I will always contain all my gear in a little pack which I will carry with me at all times - even those light and fast ones - if (and only if) you can get all the gumbys to please stop climbing outside with their "grade A gym belay certified" cards attached to their harnesses. Or how about not climbing inside with 3 belay devices, 2 prussick loops, a cordelette (and a partridge in a pear tree) attached? Or maybe we just say carry stuff in the style that fits the situation.
Yes, I've hauled a rack over my shoulder up to Tahq. Up and over. With a small camelback for water/food/flashlight. My partner carried the crag pack with the rope and his water/food. When cragging, I've put my rack and rope in the pack. I've hiked in and out with the rope on my back.
What ever works out best for the day. Even if it meant, More Cowbell.
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SoOregon wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. This from the guy who doesn't climb outside. Is this a big problem at the gym
I honestly couldn't believe that one worked without me even having to change my avatar!
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Done the same at Tahq. Good times - at least they were after my knees recovered.
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sungam wrote: SoOregon wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. This from the guy who doesn't climb outside. Is this a big problem at the gym Heh. You thought I was for serious! I honestly couldn't believe that one worked without me even having to change my avatar!
I thought your avatar was Chris Sharma??
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petsfed
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SoOregon wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. This from the guy who doesn't climb outside. Is this a big problem at the gym
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welle
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lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. Unnecessary noise, no time saved, negitive effort saved (easier to walk with it in a pack and not getting smacked in the legs). I kinda get the feeling some people are doing it to flash the gearz. Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking... or at the Slade exit rest area... though still wearing your harness while eating pizza at Miguel's takes the cake, I think. (and yes, I've seen it)
I guess Joe Puryear was a gumby and so is Kyle Dempster for carrying all their shit on their harnesses while lugging 30lbs packs with all their food and sleeping gear on week-long climbs.
Honestly, who cares? Some people don't even own 50lbs packs to put all their gear in, but a tiny daypack to put water/lunch/shoes in. For a longest time I had a shiny rack too (and I wasn't the one who dropped a grand for the entire rack on spot either, I assembled it over the time), because I'd climbed mostly on my partners' gear when I was starting out. I remember couple of disapproving remarks from other climbers that had definitely some envy undertones.
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cornstateclimber
May 11, 2011, 11:59 AM
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to keep evwerything from clanging if its a worry, just short clip all you're cams and tie the bells all together with a string or small zip tie. cowbell clang solved. and doesnt take much time to undo.
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ceebo
May 11, 2011, 12:25 PM
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You guys realise how pathetic and nerd like this whole thing is?.
Still, i found it funny.. makes allot of you look like sheep. After op it was like ''no way man.. only noobs do that''. Then supra puts a clamp on it and the mood swings 180, ''fuck yeah i do it all the time''!. Mear sheep ;p
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blueeyedclimber
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jbrown2 wrote: OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor. Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing. You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away. Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day. You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. -
I carry my gear in my pack, but now that I know that it annoys people, I might just rack up at the car and carry an empty pack. Heck, I think I'll just go buy a rack of hexes to wear to the crag. When I get to my climb, I'll put em back in my pack. They can be my walkin' hexes. Yeah, that sounds like a fine idea
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michael1245
May 11, 2011, 1:29 PM
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blueeyedclimber wrote: jbrown2 wrote: OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor. Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing. You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away. Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day. You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. - I carry my gear in my pack, but now that I know that it annoys people, I might just rack up at the car and carry an empty pack. Heck, I think I'll just go buy a rack of hexes to wear to the crag. When I get to my climb, I'll put em back in my pack. They can be my walkin' hexes. Yeah, that sounds like a fine idea Josh
I'm going to get a full set of hexes, wear them from my car to the crag and back...clank, clank, clankity-clank. All my other gear in my pack- just leave my hexes on my harness. And nobody is going to say sh*t to me.
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blueeyedclimber
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michael1245 wrote: blueeyedclimber wrote: jbrown2 wrote: OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor. Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing. You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away. Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day. You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. - I carry my gear in my pack, but now that I know that it annoys people, I might just rack up at the car and carry an empty pack. Heck, I think I'll just go buy a rack of hexes to wear to the crag. When I get to my climb, I'll put em back in my pack. They can be my walkin' hexes. Yeah, that sounds like a fine idea Josh I'm going to get a full set of hexes, wear them from my car to the crag and back...clank, clank, clankity-clank. All my other gear in my pack- just leave my hexes on my harness. And nobody is going to say sh*t to me.
I'll say shit to you, but it'll go something like this...
"Dems sum nice walkin' hexes ya gut thar.."
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blueeyedclimber wrote: michael1245 wrote: blueeyedclimber wrote: jbrown2 wrote: OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor. Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing. You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away. Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day. You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. - I carry my gear in my pack, but now that I know that it annoys people, I might just rack up at the car and carry an empty pack. Heck, I think I'll just go buy a rack of hexes to wear to the crag. When I get to my climb, I'll put em back in my pack. They can be my walkin' hexes. Yeah, that sounds like a fine idea Josh I'm going to get a full set of hexes, wear them from my car to the crag and back...clank, clank, clankity-clank. All my other gear in my pack- just leave my hexes on my harness. And nobody is going to say sh*t to me. I'll say shit to you, but it'll go something like this... "Dems sum nice walkin' hexes ya gut thar.."
why yes, they are! thanks for noticing.
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I'ma step on your rope.
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Ima pee on yore crag dog.
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michael1245 wrote: blueeyedclimber wrote: michael1245 wrote: blueeyedclimber wrote: jbrown2 wrote: OK look. I know who you are. You know who you are. Your the one with all that new gear. I know, you love it. Your Excited to use it. You have playd with it for hours at home on the floor. Here is a little hint. A little tid bit to get you to that next level of climbing. You know that back pack you have. PUT YOUR GEAR IN IT. Clinking noises and having a full rack of whatever it may be hanging off your harnes, backpack, wherever. Pack it away. Unless you are a going for a from car to climb back to car speed record on some climb get your gear in your pack. Nobody wants to hear clinking all day every day. You need more reasons: - Sun is bad for your gear. the more it is in your pack the less sun it gets. - You wont snag everything it your gear - You wont look like a walking junk show - Girls will like you. ( I say this because i have never seen a girl with gear hanging everywere while walking around) - There are countless other reasons that i have but they are NEETLY PACKED AWAY IN MY BACKPACK. - I carry my gear in my pack, but now that I know that it annoys people, I might just rack up at the car and carry an empty pack. Heck, I think I'll just go buy a rack of hexes to wear to the crag. When I get to my climb, I'll put em back in my pack. They can be my walkin' hexes. Yeah, that sounds like a fine idea Josh I'm going to get a full set of hexes, wear them from my car to the crag and back...clank, clank, clankity-clank. All my other gear in my pack- just leave my hexes on my harness. And nobody is going to say sh*t to me. I'll say shit to you, but it'll go something like this... "Dems sum nice walkin' hexes ya gut thar.." why yes, they are! thanks for noticing.
Back in the day all we had was the hexes. Course some people around had them freinds, and they were cool and all. But expensive, especially for us barely working college students. And then the Camalots came out. And they were more expensive, but actually downright hidious. So we slotted our hexes, and climbed on. My brother passed me his rack, and now I got two sets of Hexes above stopper size.
Then Metolious came out with their TCU's. Nice those were. Got some after a bit, since I was working by then. Then FCU's and picked up one of those.
Now I have a whole set of FCU's and rack them. Leaving the poor hexes to sit at the bottom of the gear bin. 
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Donald, I hear you about BITD and all. Been climbing on nuts since 1973, still prefer them. That's why I like to walk around showing off my nuts for all to see.
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jorgegonzalez wrote: Donald, I hear you about BITD and all. Been climbing on nuts since 1973, still prefer them. That's why I like to walk around showing off my nuts for all to see.
Hey you got a few years head start on me then.
We just got back from camping in LonePine. Didn't get on the rock, took just my family for spring break and no one was climbing in the Hills. Would like to get up there for a long weekend climbing trip, but Tuttle Creek CG is closed for a couple months while they regrade the sites and upgrade the facilities.
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Bulletproof2000
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lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: Nah, I find it irritating when people walk to the crag with cowbells ringing. [..] Yeah, nothing spells gumby quite like putting on your harness and racking all the gear at the Gunks parking lot, before hiking...
hehe, I remember going grocery shopping near the Gunks after a long day (had already been climbing 4days) 3 guys debating the merits of buying hot-dog sausages that were a dollar cheaper than all the other packages.
We thought people were looking at us due to the layer of grime and dried sweat on our skin, then it dawned on us that we still had our helmets and harnesses on.
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clee03m
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I had a climbing partner put on his entire new rack on his harness at the parking lot of the sport climbing crag at the red. That was entertaining. He didn't use it for the entire day, of course.
But I have been known to forget to take off my helmet and do dorky things like eat my sandwich or top rope while wearing my helmet.
I still think OP has gear envy. It's hard to see a gumby with all new shiny gear you wish you had and flaunting it, isnti it?
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Bulletproof2000 wrote: clee03m wrote: It's hard to see a gumby with all new shiny gear you wish you had and flaunting it, isn't it? How about what looks to be a newbie wearing all that new shiny gear and he runs up an 5.11+ trad without a hitch? Buddy had gotten his pack stolen from his car, got himself a brand new, fully colour coordinated rack, rope, harness, etc. He tricked a few parties acting like a newbie on a death-wish before people caught on... 
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I saw a couple get out of the car at Miguel's wearing harnesses and CLIMBING SHOES! No shit!
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Actually I haz a backpack ropebag with not that much room inside it. But some nice gear straps at the bottom. So inside the ropeback is... well rope. Furthermore my slings and harness. Geat like biners and belaying stuff is in the sidepockets, but my quickdraws AND my climbing shoes dangle from the backpack.
Guess I should be really ashamed of myself...
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itt:
first world problems
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