Gates in: Honnold (at least when he can be bothered to put on a harness with gear) Ethan Pringle Old farts and has-beens like Hank Haylor.
What's really interesting, is if you look at the pics in her book "Climbing Free," if appears as if Lynn Hill racked gates in until the late 1980s, but by the time she freed the Nose, she was racking gates out.
Gates in. Draws or gear. Seems easier grabbing 'em, that way. For me this started from the old days when we used gear slings for gear and gates out was a real pain to get off that sling. Rigid harness loops have made gates out an option, but I don't plan on changing. Though I did like that "duct tape" option Rodden used for desperate, one-pitch, wired gear routes. Too bad I don't climb that hard.
Gates in: Honnold (at least when he can be bothered to put on a harness with gear) Ethan Pringle Old farts and has-beens like Hank Haylor.
What's really interesting, is if you look at the pics in her book "Climbing Free," if appears as if Lynn Hill racked gates in until the late 1980s, but by the time she freed the Nose, she was racking gates out.
Gates in. Draws or gear. Seems easier grabbing 'em, that way. For me this started from the old days when we used gear slings for gear and gates out was a real pain to get off that sling. Rigid harness loops have made gates out an option, but I don't plan on changing. Though I did like that "duct tape" option Rodden used for desperate, one-pitch, wired gear routes. Too bad I don't climb that hard.
By the way, who the hell is "Hank Haylor"?
You don't know who Hank Haylor is? THE Hank Haylor?
I was looking through a random pile of R&I back issues for my above survey, and turned to a picture of him with gates-in biners.
... I almost always have a hard time getting them off my harness if they're positioned that way. I guess my wrist doesn't arc in that direction very easily.
You have to have a really limp wrist. Or at least, that's what Camhead told me.
Gates in: Honnold (at least when he can be bothered to put on a harness with gear) Ethan Pringle Old farts and has-beens like Hank Haylor.
What's really interesting, is if you look at the pics in her book "Climbing Free," if appears as if Lynn Hill racked gates in until the late 1980s, but by the time she freed the Nose, she was racking gates out.
Gates in. Draws or gear. Seems easier grabbing 'em, that way. For me this started from the old days when we used gear slings for gear and gates out was a real pain to get off that sling. Rigid harness loops have made gates out an option, but I don't plan on changing. Though I did like that "duct tape" option Rodden used for desperate, one-pitch, wired gear routes. Too bad I don't climb that hard.
By the way, who the hell is "Hank Haylor"?
You don't know who Hank Haylor is? THE Hank Haylor?
I was looking through a random pile of R&I back issues for my above survey, and turned to a picture of him with gates-in biners.
Gates in: Honnold (at least when he can be bothered to put on a harness with gear) Ethan Pringle Old farts and has-beens like Hank Haylor.
What's really interesting, is if you look at the pics in her book "Climbing Free," if appears as if Lynn Hill racked gates in until the late 1980s, but by the time she freed the Nose, she was racking gates out.
Gates in. Draws or gear. Seems easier grabbing 'em, that way. For me this started from the old days when we used gear slings for gear and gates out was a real pain to get off that sling. Rigid harness loops have made gates out an option, but I don't plan on changing. Though I did like that "duct tape" option Rodden used for desperate, one-pitch, wired gear routes. Too bad I don't climb that hard.
By the way, who the hell is "Hank Haylor"?
You don't know who Hank Haylor is? THE Hank Haylor?
I was looking through a random pile of R&I back issues for my above survey, and turned to a picture of him with gates-in biners.
Gates in: Honnold (at least when he can be bothered to put on a harness with gear) Ethan Pringle Old farts and has-beens like Hank Haylor.
What's really interesting, is if you look at the pics in her book "Climbing Free," if appears as if Lynn Hill racked gates in until the late 1980s, but by the time she freed the Nose, she was racking gates out.
Gates in. Draws or gear. Seems easier grabbing 'em, that way. For me this started from the old days when we used gear slings for gear and gates out was a real pain to get off that sling. Rigid harness loops have made gates out an option, but I don't plan on changing. Though I did like that "duct tape" option Rodden used for desperate, one-pitch, wired gear routes. Too bad I don't climb that hard.
By the way, who the hell is "Hank Haylor"?
You don't know who Hank Haylor is? THE Hank Haylor?
I was looking through a random pile of R&I back issues for my above survey, and turned to a picture of him with gates-in biners.
Gates in, what am I a contortionist. It's not bad if I'm grabbing cams off someone elses harness but I don't like them facing out on my harness. I also have Wild Country's notchless wiregates. Thank goodness for insurance!
I used to rack my micro cams on one biner. Mostly because I didn't have any free biners to rack them on. Not sure if I'm more of a noob now that I haven't repurchased them or then when I was racking them on one biner.
you're a much better person for having separate biners for each cam now. before, when you racked more than one cam on a single biner, your character was marginal at best.
... I almost always have a hard time getting them off my harness if they're positioned that way. I guess my wrist doesn't arc in that direction very easily.
You have to have a really limp wrist. Or at least, that's what Camhead told me.
Gear racking is more a question of HONOR, then it is CHARACTER.
For example, there is no honor in racking cams on the harness. None, whatsoever.
Sorry to break it to you man-boy harness rackers... the tails of your Puffy Shirts are showing.
DMT
heh - well, my comment to Jmeizis was more of an inside joke than an attack, but OK, I can see where you'd take that.
I've tried racking my cams on my sling, but due to shoulder problems, I can't use the single-shoulder slings and have to resort to the dual-shoulder slings instead. racking cams on those slings, where they hang from the side, is major pain in the ass because they get in the way of my leg loops. so puffy white shirts it is.
I like gates in, I did have a friend tell me once that he liked gates out because he could grab the biner, take it off his harness, and clip the bolt without ever changing how he gripped the biner. To which I replied by grabbing a draw off my harness and clipping a bolt without ever changing my hand on the biner.
Gates in, and really only on my right side. Actually, the only stiff I put on my left is the shit I won't need till the top. It gets lopsided, but it works.
Also, on a completely unrelated note, if you rack multiple cams on one biner, you are a n00b.
Interesting, the first time I saw that it was shown to me by Beth Rodden.
I'm sure that's exactly what she did when she sent Meltdown.
She was thinking of Usnavy, too.
I heard he was at the center of their divorce. He was the meat in the sandwich. But there wasn't enough USNavy to go around and Beth's elf fingers tickled his fancy more. Later he cheated on her with Dean Potter and it was over, she was through with that crap.
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