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Yelling at Tahquitz/Suicide
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i make it a point now to yell as much as humanly possible when at tahquitz. |
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It's interesting how unnecessary verbal communication becomes when you climb regularly with your partners. So many times the verbal commands are simply useless in multipitch or alpine conditions because half the time you cannot hear each other reliably; one gust of wind and the words are inaudible. If even for that reason alone it's good to not depend on them. Just keen paying attention to the action on your rope is more important. All the slack is out and it's getting taken out as I step up to the first move? Yup, I'm on belay. The yelling at Tahq can get really obnoxious, mostly because it starts to go beyond simple commands (omg are you really yelling instructions down?!) But telling people to "stfu" is lame and grumpy. |
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those wireless speakers are pretty dang good these days. Light, compact, and booming with sound. With all the riff raff screaming and yelling all over the rock, this lame and grumpy old man no longer needs ear buds. Politeness is tossed to the wind... Just crank the tunes on the speaker, and all human activity outside of MY bubble disappears. And the squirrels, falcons, and the southern pacific buzzworms can enjoy a little Reverend Horton Heat... |
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WHAAAAAT? I CANT HEAR YOU GUYS |
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Now, I am officially banning "wooohoo"s from T&S. Your welps are obnoxious! |
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I think the falcons would rather listen to the eagles, the squirrels wood prefer the squirrel nut zippers, and the buzzworms will take the buzzcocks. |
Tradiban wrote: Hahaha, you're too cranky Tradiban. Let people enjoy their moment in the sun. Maybe it was this guy flexing from the top of Tahquitz.  |
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The Access Fund has now declared this the #3 "Gnarliest Local Debates" on MP!!!! Only beaten by the Double Cross debate and the Montana "No Info" rule. |
Tradiban wrote: I saw that this morning. Very proud we made the chart! Let's keep the momentum... but seriously everybody stop yelling so much. |
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Lily Rock is the bessssssssssssst - up early and first on the route after a detour to check out the Larks. Got to watch a guy cheesegrater down the crux of Whodunit (guy really went for it, way above his gear - respect.) Lunch on top, took the normal way out, and when we rounded past Open Book, holy crap so many people on the rock. It was around noon, I think. Sun was blazing on coffin nail/etc. It looked like 2 or 3 parties on the lower portion of Jensens, couple parties on Coffin Nail, and another party between them on whatever that 10c dihedral that hits coffin nail is. The first 150 feet of rock was crawling with folks. I said my obligatory "thanks, Los Angeles" to myself as we sauntered by. To be fair, it was strangely quiet. |
