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janemary1
May 9, 2012, 6:49 PM
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Climbing is one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the world and one of the reasons is the artificial wall. Indoor climbing gyms, offering a safe and controlled environment, allow new climbers to quickly grasp the needed skills—belaying, rope management, climbing equipment, and movement—to make the jump to the great outdoors. But climbing is, of course, serious business. Very serious business.
Every time you go climbing outside, you are potentially risking your life and limb. Stuff happens at the cliff. Loose rocks fall off. Climbers fall off. Gear rips out. Ropes cut over sharp edges. Lightning strikes cliff-tops. Rain slickens descent routes. Belays are improperly rigged. Rappel anchors are old and worn out. I don’t want to scare you, to make you think that climbing is a death-defying feat, because it’s not most of the time.
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olderic
May 9, 2012, 7:00 PM
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E? You back?
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Gmburns2000
May 9, 2012, 7:08 PM
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janemary1 wrote: Climbing is one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the world and one of the reasons is the artificial wall. Indoor climbing gyms, offering a safe and controlled environment, allow new climbers to quickly grasp the needed skills—belaying, rope management, climbing equipment, and movement—to make the jump to the great outdoors. But climbing is, of course, serious business. Very serious business. Every time you go climbing outside, you are potentially risking your life and limb. Stuff happens at the cliff. Loose rocks fall off. Climbers fall off. Gear rips out. Ropes cut over sharp edges. Lightning strikes cliff-tops. Rain slickens descent routes. Belays are improperly rigged. Rappel anchors are old and worn out. I don’t want to scare you, to make you think that climbing is a death-defying feat, because it’s not most of the time.
quote eric, quote!
T0
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jeepnphreak
May 9, 2012, 8:01 PM
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janemary1 wrote: Climbing is one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the world and one of the reasons is the artificial wall. Indoor climbing gyms, offering a safe and controlled environment, allow new climbers to quickly grasp the needed skills—belaying, rope management, climbing equipment, and movement—to make the jump to the great outdoors. But climbing is, of course, serious business. Very serious business.
And this paragraph is utter crap, see below. . . or is the below utter crap because climbing gym are properly education up and coming climbers ... humm
janemary1 wrote: Loose rocks fall off.
get a helmet numb nutz, prepare the best you can.
janemary1 wrote: Climbers fall off.
...and they don’t in the gym, odd.
janemary1 wrote: Gear rips out.
lernt to place gear better, or get the proper gear for the rout, or climb within your level...
janemary1 wrote: Ropes cut over sharp edges.
so after is safes your life, go back get a beer and tomorrow get a new rope. Thicker and sharp edge rated.
janemary1 wrote: Lightning strikes cliff-tops. Rain slickens descent routes.
Weather.com before you leave. I have yet to get stranded with serious weather, always be parpared.
Leaving without knowing the weather is just stupid.
janemary1 wrote: Belays are improperly rigged.
I though that the gym are preparing climbing how to do this... see above paragraph. Or find an experienced guide or climber to show your doofy noob butt how it’s done
janemary1 wrote: Rappel anchors are old and worn out.
It happens, do something for the climbing community and replace the old anchor.
Worst post this month .
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majid_sabet
May 9, 2012, 11:23 PM
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janemary1 wrote: Climbing is one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the world and one of the reasons is the artificial wall. Indoor climbing gyms, offering a safe and controlled environment, allow new climbers to quickly grasp the needed skills—belaying, rope management, climbing equipment, and movement—to make the jump to the great outdoors. But climbing is, of course, serious business. Very serious business. Every time you go climbing outside, you are potentially risking your life and limb. Stuff happens at the cliff. Loose rocks fall off. Climbers fall off. Gear rips out. Ropes cut over sharp edges. Lightning strikes cliff-tops. Rain slickens descent routes. Belays are improperly rigged. Rappel anchors are old and worn out. I don’t want to scare you, to make you think that climbing is a death-defying feat, because it’s not most of the time.
I posted 7000+ and made many people sick here but you made one post here and made me depress
hate you
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healyje
May 10, 2012, 12:08 AM
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janemary1 wrote: Indoor climbing gyms, offering a safe and controlled environment...
This erroneous perception is exactly why so many people get hurt with today's demographic.
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AlexanderThorn
May 10, 2012, 7:16 PM
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Clearly my thread was hijacked, since it was written on April 24, 2012.
This user should be banned along with his/her other 100 user names.
Obviously this user, has multiple accounts. There must be IP numbers or some way to verify the information,
However he/she is stealing intellectual property and using it for other blogs under various names on other sites on the internet.
If he/she has some dissociative personality disorder then it should be handled by a mental health professional.
( Nor is it fair to others who have integrity and want to be able to post without having their ideas taken)
It was done without any respect for the rules
of rockclimbing.com, nor the individuals who post here.
In addition this thread should be deleted and replaced by my original thread. The dates speak for itself.
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curt
May 10, 2012, 10:54 PM
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janemary1 wrote: Climbing is one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the world and one of the reasons is the artificial wall. Indoor climbing gyms, offering a safe and controlled environment, allow new climbers to quickly grasp the needed skills—belaying, rope management, climbing equipment, and movement—to make the jump to the great outdoors. But climbing is, of course, serious business. Very serious business. Every time you go climbing outside, you are potentially risking your life and limb. Stuff happens at the cliff. Loose rocks fall off. Climbers fall off. Gear rips out. Ropes cut over sharp edges. Lightning strikes cliff-tops. Rain slickens descent routes. Belays are improperly rigged. Rappel anchors are old and worn out. I don’t want to scare you, to make you think that climbing is a death-defying feat, because it’s not most of the time.
An enigma indeed.
Curt
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iknowfear
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Obvious_Troll wrote: Lame_Troll wrote: Trolling is one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the world and one of the reasons is the internet forum. Internet forums, offering a vile and unmoderated environment, allow new trolls to quickly grasp the needed skills—baiting, anger outbursts denial, multi-accounts, and schpelling-erros to jump onto the great troll-wagon. But trolling is, of course, serious business. Very serious business. Every time you go trolling, you are potentially risking your life and limb. Stuff happens IRL. Loose rocks fall off. The Internet comes to visit. An avocado pit is accidently. Paper cuts due to sharp edges. Lightning strikes, Postal stikes. Gel slickens descent hairdo. Elections are improperly rigged. People feel old and worn out. I don’t want to scare you, to make you think that trolling is a death-defying feat, because it’s not most of the time.
Oh, and Obvious Troll is Obvious
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Amorino
May 16, 2012, 3:04 AM
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My god that's a wake up call!
i climb a lot indoors and don't really get much chance to go out side as i work long hours and living in the uk it does seem to rain most of the time.
Most places near me to go climbing are quarry's i have made a rule to myself. Never go climbing in quarry's. Nothing has ever happened to me but my friends (who dont work as hard) have some nightmare story's
One time they were climbing (sport Climbing with bolts already placed) a huge chuck rock came loose and just missed my other friend who was belaying. If it had hit him it would of been game over for the both of them.
Another time they went and yet again a huge rock came lose and put a nice slice half way through the rope. they didn't even notice it until l after they had finished the climb.
Climbing outside is scary stuff and shouldn't be taken for granted.
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j_ung
May 16, 2012, 4:23 AM
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The OP is plagiarized from other web sources, including about.com.
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SylviaSmile
May 16, 2012, 5:42 AM
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It is, so should we really be driving to cragz??? 
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rgold
May 16, 2012, 8:19 AM
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Copied from Stewart Green,
http://climbing.about.com/...mbing/a/WhyClimb.htm.
Whatever the intentions of the poster, the description itself is basically right, at least in the case of trad climbing.
I think we could use more warnings like this.
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bearbreeder
May 16, 2012, 10:58 PM
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i saw 2 trad climbers in yos last week using a broken rusty pin as a belay anchor ...
there two camps IMO ... those that worry too much and over complicate things .... and those that just dont give a shiet and think itll never happen to them
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j_ung
May 20, 2012, 10:37 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: j_ung wrote: The OP is plagiarized from other web sources, including about.com. "is plagiarized" or "plagiarized"? or, as I just thought of this, "OP" = "original post" as opposed to "original poster." 
Original post. Sorry, that was a bit passive, wasn't it?
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