I use the belay loop just for belaying.. not because i'm a daisy, or fairy or what not. I use it because I feel it's safer.

In a gym, the holds are visible by way of bright colors and tape. However, outside everything tends to blend in to the face of the rock itself. This is where the mental aspect of outdoor climbing comes into play.

On the mental aspect of outdoor climbing:

That's a flame?

Maybe Flamer would understand if we referred to him as "Vegetable" (he did call us meat). Maybe string bean, baby carrot, or limp pasta would be appropriate?

What are belay loops good for:

I am a new member to these forums, but have been a frequenter to this qite for quite some time. I came across this category and felt compelled to give my story if only it save one life. This event took place a few years ago. I was hiking up in Fort Pillow, TN with a few friends. My friends found a short-cut on the map that would loose them 5 miles. Well, I was there to hike, but to get done ASAP and go back the the tent. I contuned on my own. Hiking up one of the bluffs, I started thinking back on my rock climbing experience. My eagerness to climb something started making my feet move off-trail to the bottom of the bluff. Soon my pack was off my back and only my T-shirt on my upper body. No one was even within hearing of my location, but I started to climb. In my young, immature mind, I was the best thing rock climbing has ever seen. In my over-confidence, I convinced myself that I needed no equipment. To make a story short, I got about 30 feet up and lost my grip, falling to my doom. I am thank in the fact that I was so terrified in the instance of the fall, that I didn't feel the impact. I sure felt the pain afterwars though. Well, after I tried catching my breath for 2 to 3 minutes. I was terriefied I was gogint o die and no one would know it. I caught my breath just instances before I would have most likely passed out. I eneded up breaking my wrist and sending my back emtremely out of allignment. I also develeoped a muscle spasm in my neck later on that lasted for over a week(I spent more money than I care to say on a chiropractor over this). More horribly, I couldn't hardly walk, but I had to get back to camp. Those were the worst ten miles of my life. Lesson learned here... Never solo, wear protectve gear, and don't be over-confident. I know from experience that soloing seems the manly, brave, balsy thing to do, but when you are dead or laid out in a hospital bed it just looks dumb. I am glad it only took me a broken wrist and a messed up back to teach me a lesson.

HOLY CRAP YOU ARE RIGHT.

THANK GOD I READ YOUR POST. I WAS JUST ABOUT TO GO DO SOME SERIOUS MOUNTAIN SOLO CLIMBING. I COULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY MURDERED BY THE SHEER ROCK FACE. I'M GOING TO GET SOME FLEX CLAMPS AND SNAPLINKS SO I CAN CLIMB AND THEY WILL KEEP ME FROM GETTING KILLED BY THE STEEP STONE GRADE.

OMG.

Hi, I saw a neon climbing rope this past weekend and am wondering if anyone knows what brand it is? i'm in the hunt for a new rope and thought they looked cool anyone know who makes em?

[n00b]i'll take the shiny one![/n00b]

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Whoa!! I just had a seizure.

All I meant by this topic is to say that just to try bouldering is difficult compared to just picking up a top roping experience in the gym. I like all types of climbing seem fun except for big wall. Most bouldering problems are with a awesome overhang. And is more of strength then it is technique or I just really suck at climbing. But I like all types of climbing bouldering is just really really really hard. That is all, I didn't mean to say that any other climbing sucks(which they don't) bouldering just seems really freakin difficult.

The grammar is just so stereotypical:


I don't think there's a single sentence that wouldn't make Maculated cry.

I propose that you must pass a sobriety test before you can post. Just blow into the tube attached to the right of your monitor.

i know this is kind of a silly question but which chalk bag is better to get. A metalious or prana bag. Mostly for indoor bouldering and top rope. thank you.

korntera wrote:
NOBODY will every climb a 6th class, because that means unclimbable, so the second it is climbed, people will say you just climbed a 5.16b, so if you climb it, it isn't 6th class, so that is impossible. On the other hand however.... Everytime a new grade is put up they climbed something previously unclimbable, so that would mean that lots of people have climbed 6.1

-Travis

Here ya go:

Who cares? It's wrong anyway. Climbing is art, bullfighting is faggotry, and motor racing is simply obsessive compulsive disorder as practiced by rednecks and european metrosexuals.

UB

YER GONNNNNNNNAAAA DIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Buch of candy-assed, whiney, sky-is-falling, ninnies.

I'm cutting in line. Anyone who no longer feels CCH Aliens are safe to use, ship the dang things to me. I'll trade you for some of my BD micros, and add them to my collection of 33+ Aliens.

Gear fails. CCH, BD, Metolius...whoever. It's a shame someone got a defective product (if that is, in fact, what happened), but it happens to gear of all types. A 3-Sigma rating and all the QA in the world doesn't reduce the chances of your gear failing to zero. The design of the Aliens are at least as robust as those of other cams on the market, and the trigger wires are much less of an issue than they are on the BD cams. And as for WC worship -- suck it. They fail, too.

Looks like we should all be able to get those Hybrid Aliens just about anywhere really soon. Heck, with the reputation they're given by e_wire and some of the rest of you, I might be able to pick up a set at WalMart next week! Good for me and the rest of us who have a clue.

Ed

You won't need that inch of flesh there either.

SO far from being of the caliber of the rest of this thread, it shows that you either left your computer on and your illegitamate six year old son got into the hooch and started playing with it, or you really are as dim as you seem.