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jbrown2
May 5, 2011, 12:02 AM
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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
May 5, 2011, 10:39 AM
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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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lena_chita
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May 5, 2011, 11:46 AM
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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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sungam
May 5, 2011, 12:07 PM
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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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sungam
May 5, 2011, 12:08 PM
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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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cantbuymefriends
May 5, 2011, 2:39 PM
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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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jakedatc
May 5, 2011, 2:52 PM
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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
May 5, 2011, 2:55 PM
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the things people care about 
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macherry
May 5, 2011, 2:57 PM
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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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possum2082
May 5, 2011, 3:05 PM
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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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sungam
May 5, 2011, 3:07 PM
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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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wonderwoman
May 5, 2011, 3:09 PM
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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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Kartessa
May 5, 2011, 3:22 PM
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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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carabiner96
May 5, 2011, 3:23 PM
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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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carabiner96
May 5, 2011, 3:24 PM
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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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darkgift06
May 5, 2011, 3:26 PM
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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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lena_chita
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May 5, 2011, 3:26 PM
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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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majid_sabet
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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sungam
May 5, 2011, 4:40 PM
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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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thawild1
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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
May 5, 2011, 4:56 PM
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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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