What in climbing are you a snob about?

For alpine draws: BD Oz with Mammut contact slings only. I will vehemently bring my own draws even if we’re sharing a rack. 

1) Gates should be out. 

2) Fix your crooked helmet.

3) if it's above 40 degrees, take off your socks

4) If you are hanging stuff off your backpack, you need a larger backpack.

5) Use a chalkbag strap or cord. ditch the biner.

6) Why are you having a conversation with your belayer? Just climb. Tell stories over beers after. 

7) Stand up when you belay.

8) I love dogs and don't mind them at the crag. But, know your dog and take responsibility for them. If they mess clean it up. If they are not good around other dogs or otherwise well-behaved, then leave them at home. 

9) Which leads me to my last one. If YOU need to mess, do one of the following: a) go far off path and BURY it. OR b) better yet, carry a wag bag. DO NOT leave your gross tp around.

Princess Puppy Lovrwrote:

This is also not being a snob. 95% of climbers agree.

Meta snobbery.

If you went to Rumney or the Gunks on a busy weekend, you'd see this is not the case.

Rope solo devices... tried them all for both lead and TRS.

Indoor cracks

Sharing my favorite climbing crags, super snobbish about that, in the classic sense of the word. We do NOT want the great unwashed sullying these pristine places. Keep it secret. Keep it safe. And the locals can well fuck off too.

Pino Pepinowrote:

Cordalettes are way too heavy and impractical as belts. Chalk bag belts in general are annoying. Carabiners are also too heavy and make the chalk bag sit too low. Buy a chalk bag that fits your harness and use small cable ties to fix it to the rear gear loops, such that it sits higher higher up and level with the harness. Chalk bag is always in the same position that way.

Snob opinions: Climbing 5.12 sport is not impressive at all, and if you think it is you have no clue. Any half-way serious weekend warrior climbs this as a warm up. There's plenty of 50+ year olds who casually onsight these grades. Climbing 13b doesn't make you part of some exclusive club either.

Talking about "projects" that are 5.11 or below while hangboarding or other physical training also makes you sound like an idiot. Go climb more and improve your technique, because you suck at climbing. Unless you're fat, then you should probably also diet.

I think you misread the title. It's not, "what in climbing are you an asshole about?"

On the other hand, you're not wrong.

Linkups and eliminates. I like walls to have distinct lines as the challenge to get to the top, if your crag/boulder is padding itself for number of routes by adding more linkups than single defined lines, it makes it harder to find and follow routes and easier to feel like you're climbing a pile of choss. Likewise, when there's a route or problem that only exists and has a high YDS/V grade because "you're not allowed to use the perfect handjam/jug right in the middle of the line", or the juggy arete or corner or adjacent perpendicular wall or obvious easier options or whatever, I think it's lame, contrived, and doesn't really inspire me to wanna try it

People who tell other people to wear a helmet. It’s sound advice, no doubt, but I just can’t help but think that person is a complete douchenozzle.

Also…ropebags. So lame

Pino Pepinowrote:

Cordalettes are way too heavy and impractical as belts. Chalk bag belts in general are annoying. Carabiners are also too heavy and make the chalk bag sit too low. Buy a chalk bag that fits your harness and use small cable ties to fix it to the rear gear loops, such that it sits higher higher up and level with the harness. Chalk bag is always in the same position that way.

Snob opinions: Climbing 5.12 sport is not impressive at all, and if you think it is you have no clue. Any half-way serious weekend warrior climbs this as a warm up. There's plenty of 50+ year olds who casually onsight these grades. Climbing 13b doesn't make you part of some exclusive club either.

Talking about "projects" that are 5.11 or below while hangboarding or other physical training also makes you sound like an idiot. Go climb more and improve your technique, because you suck at climbing. Unless you're fat, then you should probably also diet.

Haha this dude sucks.  Climbing 10d is impressive

B Radwrote:

Also…ropebags. So lame

Why are rope bags lame?

Mueller / Euro tape. I was a real tool the other day when I projectile vomitted when someone dared to offer me that Metolius parchment

Not Hobo Greg wrote:

You can F right off. Always socks, always! With climbing shoes, with crocs, with everything. My buddy climbed 5.14 in socks so it really doesn’t slow you down. 

Marc801 Cwrote:

Why are rope bags lame?

I don’t know why but they are and so are the people that use them. Is this not snobbery? I’ll bet you use a rope bag!!!! Lol

Mikey Schaeferwrote:

How people coil a rope.  If I see someone finish their butterfly coil with a couple loose wraps and a hap hazard bight pushed through the loop I question if I’ll climb with them again.  If I pickup the rope by one side of the butterfly and the coils  start to slide around, it’s confirmed that I’ll never climb with them again ;)

I think I started to get really snobbish about how ropes were coiled when I regularly had 10+ different ropes in my van.  I was a climbing guide in Yosemite and I was assigned 5 ropes for work and then had all of my different types of personal ropes.  So often a rope would go unused for weeks but I’d often have to unload the ropes from the van to get to other things. A shitty coil job would fall apart and create a mess.  

When anyone tries to be nice by coiling my rope for me at the end of the day:

• If I don't know them that well: I smile, accept it, and then uncoil and recoil it when I get home. 
• If I'm good friends with them: I make a disgusted face and immediately uncoil and recoil it while muttering old man thoughts.

B Radwrote:

I don’t know why but they are and so are the people that use them. Is this not snobbery? I’ll bet you use a rope bag!!!! Lol

I have rope tarps, not bags. I wasn't even sure what one was till I Googled.

B Radwrote:

I don’t know why but they are and so are the people that use them. Is this not snobbery? I’ll bet you use a rope bag!!!! Lol

I love rope bags. I have 5 ropes, all in their own color-coded bags.

I’m a bit snobbish about staying in my Winnebago on long climbing trips. It’s more comfy than any bivy sack, tent, van, hotel room, and most of the guest bedrooms in friend’s houses. It’s given me 17 years of happiness.

Patrikwrote:

My lunch. One carrot, one banana, 5 slices of bread. If I can't have this, I ain't goin' climbin'. On alpine/backpacking trips, I reluctantly leave the bananas behind as they tend to cause a mushy mess in the pack. 

How did we get to page six without anyone asking this dude if he puts anything on the bread??! Like what kind of punishment lunch is that? Have you heard of cheese? Jam? Salami? Peanut butter? Lox? Leftover steak? Nutella???!!!

People who get to the anchor and say "I'm in direct". I get very annoyed at this because it's not a climbing command and nothing changes with the belay when people say this. 

B Radwrote:

People who tell other people to wear a helmet. It’s sound advice, no doubt, but I just can’t help but think that person is a complete douchenozzle.

Also…ropebags. So lame

In the rainy part of the PNW, rope bags are great. While the rock might be dry, half the year the base is usually a muddy mess.  A rope bag keeps your rope out of the mud. Plus it's nice to coil the rope quickly onto the bag/tarp and half-ass carry it to a nearby route. Definitely saves time, done 5 or 6 times in a day.

But I can see why a rope bag might seem silly if you're climbing in the desert or at clean dry crags in summer.