Music At the Crag?

If I started playing Zoogz Rift's "Island of Living Puke" album, I guarantee those others would turn their music off to make it stop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqD_zVp49aU

JohnWesely wrote:yelled at the boulders to turn off their music

I think music at the crag is fine if you are out bouldering and there are not too many people, but leave it at home if your bringing the ropes.

i believe its OK if your alone at a local crag and your alone otherwise just use earphones because no one wants to hear it.

Matt Baer wrote:I think music at the crag is fine if you are out bouldering and there are not too many people, but leave it at home if your bringing the ropes.

Venturing into "nature" to climb, hike, or camp, serves in part the purpose to escape human society... that means leaving the music behind, except what you can make yourself, live.

People should be allowed to have music at crags and campsites though. Unless it becomes a problem. Free society means people are free to be rude sometimes...

If you bring your music, have some respect... you know not everyone wants to hear it... so give it a listen for awhile, but then turn it off after a couple of songs to give others some silence.

I propose we have a Goth/Industrial night down at Shelf. Tony B will supply all of the MP3s. I'll bring the disco lights and amyl nitra...I mean, beer.

One you lock the target,
Two you bait the line,
Three you slowly spread the net
And four you catch the man!

If you don't like the music, don't listen to it.

If your searching for that quiet, wilderness experience then go to the remote wilderness! I don't support blasting tunes at the crag, but an iPod playing at a reasonable level shouldn't be an issue. Some guy last weekend at the Creek asked us to turns ours down very politely and that was no issue whatsoever. But some of you city slickers need to understand that crags aren't the wilderness. I mean, take a look around - Boulder Canyon, the Creek, etc. have ropes everywhere with people attached.

I was camping in Indian Creek once when a family rolled in to my site around midnight, headlights shining into my tent. They pitched their tent a good 8 feet from mine and the dad snored terribly for hours. After a sleepless night, I was a bit groggy as I made coffee, straining to be welcoming to people who were obviously foreigners. I figured they were only staying there that night and would find a better place. Nope. I endured another night of snoring. The next morning, I was done pretending like I didn't exist there. I wanted to listen to ONE Bob Marley song while I had coffee. No sooner did the music start, the dad comes over and asks me to turn it off. His tone was so entitled that I became visibly angry. I turned the stereo off but the family seemed to get the message that they were the intruders after that.

Who really thinks it's OK to park someone into his campsite, pitch your tent next to his and act like the site was yours all along? I understand when it's late and you need a temporary spot, but this seemed to be a strange cultural misunderstanding.

Boissal wrote: Damn those upstate NY rocks and their immoderate love of techno...

Stich wrote:I propose we have a Goth/Industrial night down at Shelf. Tony B will supply all of the MP3s. I'll bring the disco lights and amyl nitra...I mean, beer. One you lock the target, Two you bait the line, Three you slowly spread the net And four you catch the man!

Mike Lane wrote: Paradise was a virtual Industrial club masquerading as a climbing gym when it first opened.

I think we can all agree on one thing here, if it's Reverend Horton Heat crank it to 11 and no one would complain

Mike Lane wrote:I think we can all agree on one thing here, if it's Reverend Horton Heat crank it to 11 and no one would complain

its dangerous if your trying to yell something to your partner imagine if you yell clipping musics to loud so they think you want off belay scary stuff music can be bad and good just be responsible with it

I'm not saying it's ok to blast music at the crag, but if someone is playing music and it's bothering you then, I dunno...how about asking them to turn it down? If you don't say anything to the people with the music, I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve by ranting about it here. If nobody tells them their music is disturbing to others then there's no reason they'll ever turn it off. They probably just figure "if they play music at the gym and nobody complains, why not bring the music to the crag, too?"

Darren in Vegas wrote:If you don't like the music, don't listen to it.

Playing music at ANY crag is lame! Go to the gym rather than bringing the ghetto outside into nature.

Colin Parker wrote: Nice. Also, I suppose if I don't like any marginal thing about my job, I should quit. And if I don't like a certain policy of our government, I should leave the country. And if I have a slight problem with how my wife chews her food, I should divorce her?