Do you wear special clothes to climb? I mean the really expensive clothes that make you climb better. I climb in Thailand most of the time, and whenever I come back here I can't help but laugh at the guy who has a brand new pair of Prana pants for every day of the week.

Now, I understand if your big walling, ice or alpine... sure, you need to wear some stuff that is gonna hold up and let you breath, etc. But come on, at a sport crag? Why the hell does it matter what you wear? As long as you can move, why do you have to have $$ pants. More importantly, why not spend your money on gas or gear that saves your life... or some instruction on how to not scream beta and not step on my rope. And if you really have enough money to buy all that stuff that the pro's wear (they get it free guys), then you should probably quit your job and climb more. If you STILL have money left over, then help finish the purchase of the Pendergrass-Murry Reserve, Quees Creek, or one of the thousand or so climbing areas that will be gone before I die.

Sorry, just kind of weird. To me if you have money to spend on climbing, you use it to climb more. Not $70 pairs of pants and $30 beenies.

So... what do you wear when the weather is good??

Yes, I wear "climbing clothes." Sometimes just to piss off the DURRRbots in their pegged Carhartts and Goodwill man-blouses.

This weekend I went to teh sport crag in $100 techy pants and an old pitted-out T-shirt with the logo of a local brewery. Even though I'm a halfassed boulderer who drinks pink martinis.

I'm a walking contradiction and I ain't got no right.

OP.. does what other people wear hurt you? that's sad.

WAAAHHHHH!!!

You're poor.

And bitter.

And can't buy nice things.

That sucks.

I know how it is. I've been there before.

You'll feel better once you upgrade your socioeconomic status.

avid climbing is a new climbing apparel company who is offering sponsorships to 10 ppl who think theyve got what it takes to be sponsored. go to avidclimbing.com for more info

NEVER LET UP!

Yes, I have a $150 pair of shoes that I wear to go climbing. Oh, and yes, I have the rest of the clothes too. Just like I buy good gear, I buy good clothing, and since it's my money I do what I like with it, just as you apparently do with yours. One use is as valid as the other.

I suppose you're a damn Republican/Democrat. Take your pick, they both like to tell me what to do with my money.

i wear Prana clothes because i like the fact that most of the stuff is organic cotton poly blend, it's comfortable and cut well for climbing, i like the way it looks and because i can buy last years designs for the price of regular clothing. i also don't own any clothes i don't climb in.

I wear a one piece skin tight suit made from "sticky rubber". It allows me to throw myself at the rock and stick to it. I can then undgulate up the face like a giant black slug. I must admit it does have some draw backs... I once got stuck in an off width and had to have a partner lower some vasaline and a giant nut tool down to me so I could get unstuck.

I wear a one piece skin tight suit made from "sticky rubber". It allows me to throw myself at the rock and stick to it. I can then undgulate up the face like a giant black slug. I must admit it does have some draw backs... I once got stuck in an off width and had to have a partner lower some vasaline and a giant nut tool down to me so I could get unstuck.

As long as you can move, why do you have to have $$ pants.

I was trying to get avid to send me some of their dope shit panz, but alas they didn't.

So I wear whatever I've picked up at Walmart/Target.