Dumb things other climbers have said

I like the bit at 32 seconds where the guy ties off a length of hemp rope to a piece of twisted rebar.

Wait... you can climb on hemp twine? I've been waisting my money on crap kern-mantle stuff this whole time?!

Also, what mountain is that at the very start? The one with the jagged peaks.

I believe that is Tin Cup Mountain. Just west of Beard Peak and Mt. Flannel.

At the gym: ''My new shoes hurt too much and these are soooo slippery' (shows brand new stealth rubber sole) 'so I just campus now.'
Precedes to flail up V1 sans feet (but leaves the shoes on).

" damn it's so polished here! I just don't get why everyone polishes it so much"

After informing 2 people in the same party they had harnesses upside down, " nah I kind of like it, looks cool"

TAKE!!! " OK OFF BELAY!

I saw a guy with his ATC backwards belaying with one hand switching hands on lead. I informed his partner to give him a back up belay. Her response was " hmmm I could" and then turned around to show her shiny new gym rat lead tag.

You can't thread an atc backwards...

eli poss wrote:You can't thread an atc backwards...

Yea you can. Instead having brake strand come out the bottom of the tube style the brake strand comes out the top.

Been there and the belayer was holding on the rope coming out the bottom of the ATC and no hand on the brake strand coming outta the top of the device.

At the Red, of course, there was the classic group, one climber, his friend and parents. The climber starts up the climb and begins saying "yeah, I have at least $1,000 worth of gear". Once he clips the chains, he yells down to his group "hey, can you tick that off on my Mountain Project!". I now say this for everything. After finishing the dishes, walking the dog, making love, dropping a deuce, it work for everything.

"We're doing BIG things!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIuUL91QN3s

Seriously, that is up there on the stupid scale.

I seem to remember dudes posting that video as a badge of honor on here, got flamed then took the thread down

I saw someone at a crag with crutches and a cast around his foot.
"What happened to your ankle?"
"I feel fifty five stories off a climb."
"Oh... what climb was it?"
"I can't remember."

Andy Novak wrote:"I know how to do this, I just can't remember how to tie this stupid knot!" -Women trying to defuse my anger at her after taking AN HOUR racking up before trying to lead Incredible Hand Crack. She bailed before the roof. "No, you don't want to hold it there, or the Gri-Gri might not catch a fall." -Women telling her grommet friends to forgo using their break hand at North Table Mountain.

Andy, if you are going to be a chauvinist jerk at least use some proper grammar. "Women" is plural, "woman" is singular.

Derek West Newman wrote:I saw someone at a crag with crutches and a cast around his foot. "What happened to your ankle?" "I feel fifty five stories off a climb." "Oh... what climb was it?" "I can't remember."

Maybe there was a bit of a brain injury too?

Celia wrote: Andy, if you are going to be a chauvinist jerk at least use some proper grammar. "Women" is plural, "woman" is singular.

You left out "brake," also!

Derek West Newman wrote:I saw someone at a crag with crutches and a cast around his foot. "What happened to your ankle?" "I feel fifty five stories off a climb." "Oh... what climb was it?" "I can't remember."

???...he said he fell over 550'!

from a "Climber"...

"I free soloed class 4 in Yosemite I was hard i want to try grade III depends on the route"
"......which 'rout' did you 'free solo'?"
"I did so many I can't remember... Do you know Alex?"
"..which one?"
"Honnold. I didn't argument with him i don't talk to him."

I should have challenged him to free solo Michael Banks proposal ramp...
https://www.mountainproject.com/v/the-michael-banks-proposal-ramp/111762263

A friend on Facebook posted this. She said they had a fun day "rappelling". I give him +1 for trying to back the kid up, -2 for technique.

^^^^^^^^
Gaack!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason Todd wrote:"We're doing BIG things!" youtube.com/watch?v=qIuUL91…

Pause at 1:04
Not only did she fail to bring her belay device(as she points out), she also failed to tie a munter hitch. That rope is just looped a couple times around the biner. Darwin award runner-up.