most dangerous aspect of climbing

Jeff Samuels wrote: No I'm fixed! Hahaha you crack me up! Am I right or am I right?! :) Not to downgrade myself but he IS the Brains! I am not ashamed to say that.

Thank you for sharing this.
We can all sleep a little easier now not having to worry about Samuels progeny mucking up the gene pool.

Jeff Samuels wrote:Mountaineeing is way down from tech climbing? I don't think so.

As I mentioned, these are stats for Boulder CO, mostly non-alpine.

What Boulder in CO are you talking about? I think bouldering is dangerous to, I feel like you saying that the boulder is a town though, is there good climbing there?

Winston O'Boogie wrote:What Boulder in CO are you talking about? I think bouldering is dangerous to, I feel like you saying that the boulder is a town though, is there good climbing there?

Sometimes I just don't understand the internet.

Not knowing that you don't know something that you need to know.

How does smoking weed at the crag make you any smarter or dumber? You do understand people smoke weed before coming to the crag, are they dumb?

Have you ever smoked weed? If anything, it makes you a little more careful about what you're doing. Seriously...

Sir Spanxalot wrote:How does smoking weed at the crag make you any smarter or dumber? You do understand people smoke weed before coming to the crag, are they dumb? Have you ever smoked weed? If anything, it makes you a little more careful about what you're doing. Seriously...

The local news this morning indicated police were starting to crack down on people driving to 2 to 5 miles under the speed limit; as these people are most likely "hi."

-not the speeders.
The people driving under the speed limit.

It must be the 'straight' speeders rear ending the elderly and stoned drivers that is causing a rise in mj related accidents.

You're picking up what I'm putting down, Tom-O. Check this shit out
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Seriously, people drink beer and climb, I see that all the time, but on this site people are witch hunting that pot heads aren't safe climbers. Have you ever hung out w any good climbers? A shit ton of them get high, before they climb. Not rip roaring baked, but a little lightening of the head if you know what I mean.

Ok... Most dangerous part of climbing... Fucking up and doing something stupid. This often results in a fall, which according to ANAM does damage. My T12 and L1 would agree.

Sir Spanxalot wrote:Seriously, people drink beer and climb, I see that all the time, but on this site people are witch hunting that pot heads aren't safe climbers. Have you ever hung out w any good climbers? A shit ton of them get high, before they climb. Not rip roaring baked, but a little lightening of the head if you know what I mean.

It's not my thing, but I have to agree, three of the three best climbers I know smoke while climbing. It can get really annoying when they ask me multiple times what routes we did that day, but I can't claim it interferes with their climbing.

The biggest danger with climbing is to give it any amount of importance in your life. The more power you give it, the more control it has over you. It will play with your emotions.

Climbing certainly diminishes your fitness (if you die climbing before having children) in the Darwinian sense and at the same time as a species we have for the most part removed ourselves from the process of natural selection. Concepts like social Darwinism are complete and absolute fallacies, they have no place except in identifying those who are fascists at heart and don't quite know it.

Ty Gregory wrote:Climbing certainly diminishes your fitness

I'm of the belief that climbing certainly increases your fitness, or at the very least increasing your fitness increases your climbing ability.

I know this is not the intention of your post, and I don't care, I'm just not sure how a simple question of what is dangerous about climbing became some religious and philosophical discussion at all.

I really think climbing is a relatively safe endeavor. If you are injured, 90% of the time you were blowing it, usually a mental mistake. Even rockfall, wear a helmet, climb a different route, don't climb right after a storm, dont climb under another party. I would still assume that if you take total pitches climbed divided by rockfall incidents you would have a very low number, <1%.

As with everything in life, don't suck, the consequences can be painful.

Probably Gravity

Jacob Smith wrote: It can get really annoying when they ask me multiple times what routes we did that day, but I can't claim it interferes with their climbing.

its like an onsight every time!