Music at the Crag

Marc801 C wrote:

Doesn't matter if you like it or not. It sucks for others. Keep your music to yourself.

This, quoted and repeated for page 2.

I was at Shelf a few weeks ago when someone was blasting music, and it turns out it was music I would've normally liked but due to the acoustics (they were only 6 or 7 routes away) I couldn't even understand what they were playing. It was just noise.

I love music, hate noise.

The BS coming out of your iPhone or Skullcandy speaker is noise. 

Marc801 C wrote:

Doesn't matter if you like it or not. It sucks for others. Keep your music to yourself.

This. It might be your favorite song, but what if others around you hate it? Why does everyone else have to listen to your musical tastes?

Why is such common courtesy so hard to understand?

Shelf Road is the only place I have had to deal with people and their little iPhone speakers or pissant Bluetooth shit systems. It all sounds like that shittyfluted Frozen song on that stuff. Just wear headphones you overstimulated dipshits.

Luke Pace wrote:

I am not sure about that.. Have you ever heard "blunt blowin"?

NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC

If there is anyone else anywhere close, No. Nobody wants to hear your shit. Enjoy the sounds of nature.

Same for hiking, riding your bike around town. Use headphones if you must listen to music at all times.

Silence is good sometimes. 

It is with great trepidation, but I must ask: does CCR still mean Creedence?

Thanks, OLH

If I were at the same crag I would politely ask you to turn it off. 

If you went to a music venue and started climbing the walls they would kick you out...

If a well meaning jack wagon blasts music at an empty crag, and there is no old crusty S.O.B. to hear it, does an old crusty SOB somewhere else throw an online wobbler?

Yes they do, they are pissed about everything.  Anywhere from the fact that cams aren't rigid stemmed anymore to because there is an internet.

It's bad enough when you partner is trying to yell "off belay" at the top of a 110' pitch and you have a hard time hearing because of others yapping down at the base of the cliff near you.  Music compounds that very much for me.  Also it's easy to get people to shut up fast if you need to hear something time sensitive, much harder when the guy jamming to his beats is 20' from his phone and can't pause it at an opportune time.  Plus there's the whole thing of most of us being out there to enjoy nature and get away from electronics and listen to the sounds of insects buzzing and birds chirping and such.  I leave the tunes for training sessions at the gym with headphones in on an autobelay or bouldering, that's it.

One time this group of 7 showed up with a boombox and three dogs.  They turned on the music so loud they had to yell to talk to each other from a few feet away, the dogs tore into my backpack (it had food in it) and one took a shit at the base, and when an OSMP ranger brought one of the dogs back (they were all off-leash) the owner said it was a "service animal."  The ranger made them turn the music down, but as soon as she left they turned it back up to the same volume.

My partner and I finally decided to go elsewhere... the dog shit was bad, but it was the music we couldn't take...

...it was...

...country. 

/slit-wrists

John RB wrote:

One time this group of 7 showed up with a boombox and three dogs.  They turned on the music so loud they had to yell to talk to each other from a few feet away, the dogs tore into my backpack (it had food in it) and one took a shit at the base, and when an OSMP ranger brought one of the dogs back (they were all off-leash) the owner said it was a "service animal."  The ranger made them turn the music down, but as soon as she left they turned it back up to the same volume.

My partner and I finally decided to go elsewhere... the dog shit was bad, but it was the music we couldn't take...

...it was...

...country. 

/slit-wrists

Lol wtf?  I've never once heard country music at a crag....

Christopher Smith wrote:

Lol wtf?  I've never once heard country music at a crag....

One can only wish. Usually, it's white 20-somethings playing rap by people that would blow big holes in their heads if given the chance. 

Don't forget sound will carry up the cliff alot more than down. You can be 300-500ft up a cliff and hear people talking down at the base. At the same time you can be yelling at the top to each other and noone at the base will hear.

ViperScale wrote:

Don't forget sound will carry up the cliff alot more than down. You can be 300-500ft up a cliff and hear people talking down at the base. At the same time you can be yelling at the top to each other and noone at the base will hear.

Huh. Hot air really does rise, I guess.

;-) OLH

Hobo Greg wrote:

Uh, because you might not actually be alone? And when someone does come up, you think they wanna hear your music? Nature is about getting AWAY from human-made things. Please, you have the entire rest of the planet to do that shit. Leave us SOME places where we can escape that.

Im never alone.  I climb with a partner and god.  Therefore I dont bring music to the crag.

To throw a wrench into the mix, how should you handle it if you are climbing near a campground and the campers are playing music?

Bahhumbug.

I like music. I like climbing. If there's no one around, I'm not gonna castrate my enjoyment because I might, maybe, possibly, on the very unlikely off chance bother someone.

If there are people around, I'm not gonna risk the possibility of ruining their good time.

 Especially if their crag dog is cute.

Daniel T wrote:

Im never alone.  I climb with a partner and god.  Therefore I dont bring music to the crag.

Oh no you didn't.