Helmets Car to Crag (And Back)

There are extreme hazards encountered off the wall as well. Best practice is to strap your helmet on as you exit your car and keep it on for the duration of your climbing day until you return to the parking lot. 

Please stay safe out there!

Tradibanwrote:

There are extreme hazards encountered off the wall as well. Best practice is to strap your helmet on as you exit your car and keep it on for the duration of your climbing day until you return to the parking lot. 

You absolute fool. Do you have any idea how many car accident victims suffer head trauma. Put the helmet on as you leave the front door, cause yer gunna die.

The whole car to crag may be a bit much, I usually do not take my helmet off once at the crag though. I don’t care how overhung a route is, I’m always wearing a helmet and so do my partners. 

I usually am the dork who wears it from the parking lot. But why carry it anywhere but on my head...? That’s literally the most optimal helmet holder. 

Chris Cwrote:

That’s literally the most optimal helmet holder. 

If we're being serious for a sec, that's legit advice. I've lost more helmets to not wearing the helmet than I have to climbing accidents. (One fallen on during a ski back from a climb, one broken in a pack when the pack was tossed, one 'stolen' by a group of gumbies when it was sitting at the base of a route instead of on my head where it belonged.) Helmets aren't that expensive, but they're not nothing either. 

Helmet on head to protect your head on the climb, but helmet on head to protect your helmet the rest of the time. 

Chris Cwrote:

I usually am the dork who wears it from the parking lot. But why carry it anywhere but on my head...? That’s literally the most optimal helmet holder. 

Because you get it soaking wet on the approach.

I know this is a troll post, but I put my helmet on first thing when I show up to the crag and don’t take it off until I leave, especially if there is another party or it is windy. Even if the rock is ‘good’ people accidentally drop quickdraws and other gear. Also I had a friend who got nailed by a rock when it blew off the top of the cliff at indian creek because of strong winds. Call me a nerd. 

A helmet is perfect for those hazard free 8 mile approaches 

lol

As a balanced impaired individual , I take more falls walking on uneven broken ground,than I have ever taken climbing.My helmet is on for approaches .

Only helmet I wear is in my pants NAWMEAN HURR HURR!!?1

A V wrote:

frick

Frick you you frickin fricks.

on at the car, off at the bar

The biggest mistake is strapping it to your pack so that it swings as you walk...

Grug Mwrote:

The biggest mistake is strapping it to your pack so that it swings as you walk...

True sign of a noob, worse than shiny cams.

I have a habit of bumping my head when making my way through boulder piles to get to climbs.  I don't always wear one but I fairly often regret when I don't.  I certainly keep it on all day most of the time once I do put it on.

I strap my helmet to the carabiner that holds my chalk bag on my harness.   You know, the one clipped to the haul loop.  

Grug Mwrote:

The biggest mistake is strapping it to your pack so that it swings as you walk...

I like the swing, it is soothing

I always wear my helmet with a dabrim on the walks.  It doubles as a hat preventing sunburn   

EDIT:  The helmet is much cooler than a hat in the summer because it is ventilated.  I am bald and have had many skin cancers so avoiding the sun is important to me and I just do not see the need to bring another piece of gear (hat).  

Krimpit thee Frog here wrote:

I opened this with volume up in public and feel supremely embarrassed. Carry on.

When will you learn that your actions have CONSEQUENCES?!

I wear a full face helmet from the moment I get out of bed until  getting back in at night.

Helmets take up a lot of room in your pack. Ski helmets are even worse.  So best way to transport them is on your head.  When traveling by plane for a ski trip or climbing trip I always wear the helmet at the airport and on the plane. If its a combined ski/climbing trip I wear the ski helmet on my head and attach the climbing helmet to my belt and use it as a fanny pack.