what does Exposure mean to you?

DrRockso wrote:How's this for exposure?

Excellent! I want to climb that some day!

How about this?

Grade VII bigwall climbing!

The most exposed pitch I have climbed was P30 of the Nose, the Harding bolt ladder. It's overhanging and about 3,000' off the deck. Aside from a grade VII route, I dont think you can get any more exposed than that in rock climbing.

However, in highlining you can reach a new level of exposure not possible in climbing. At most, you can only get 180 degrees of exposure in climbing. But in highlining you can get a full 360.

Good topic. I think it's the amount of "space" around you.... either below or in back of ... or even above ... So in other words, exposure=magnitude

Headwall of the Shield, El Cap. --> this picture wins

I really enjoy seeing all of the photo contributions, keep em coming.

That Shield Headwall photo sums it up nicely. Changing Corners is out there too:

great stuff folks! keep em coming

I've always loved heights, so climbing this short little finger seemed like a bit under my level for real fun. My buddy really wanted to photograph this place and so I decided to check it off.
Never before has anything of any height made my knees buckle like this one. Not too tall but the small, slanted top out wasn't very comforting with all the jagged rocks reaching up from below.
He asked if I could hang off the top with my finger tips. I just kept asking if he was done shooting yet and hurriedly scrambled down. Man I wish I would've hung. Next time.

Lost Arrow Tip. Plenty of exposure for just a couple pitches of climbing:

This has turned into a very nice photo thread but I will add my .02 minus photos. Feeling exposed is something the human mind/body fights to avoid. So for me the feeling of exposure equals how vulnerable I feel on the rock. It is not tied to technical difficulty just the idea that I could be hurt or that a move could be harmful if I fail.

This has turned into a very nice photo thread but I will add my .02 minus photos. Feeling exposed is something the human mind/body fights to avoid. So for me the feeling of exposure equals how vulnerable I feel on the rock. It is not tied to technical difficulty just the idea that I could be hurt or that a move could be harmful if I fail.

The summit block of Pigeon in the Bugs was pretty exposed. The climb itself had a few awesome "sidewalk" pitches, which were quite exposed. That also reminds me of the East Ridge of Wolfs head. The sidewalk pitch on that is super mellow, but absolutely nothing but air around you.

Yeah, the exposure on the Shield takes the cake. Since I haven't climbed it though, I'll have to say that for me, exposure is DEFINED by the Robbins Traverse on the RNWF of half Dome. After 1,000 or so feet of climbing on the sheltered buttress to climber's left of the main NW face with numerous big ledges to break up the exposure, having to pendulum out onto the steep face 3,000+ feet above the valley floor feels like the most exposure the mind can handle.

Wanted to close out the season with some easy climbs, so today I did the exposure tour of the gunks: CCK, High Exposure, Thin Slabs Direct. The gunks is exposure to me, a poor east coast climber

for a lot of people it's how many likes you get on FB/instagram