What in climbing are you a snob about?

Princess Puppy Lovrwrote:

what mathew said and

Try it, go bouldering and every time you fall make no effort to spot the ground. Obviously it happens sometimes … but if someone keeps looking up every time they fall, they will get hurt.

Try taking a deliberate fall where you look at the ground. You will get whiplash and you will come at the wall sideways.

Lol ok i get you. All i do is boulder outside and I've just never heard anyone use the phrase "spot the ground."

I am definitely snobby about rope abuse. If you throw your brand new rope down in the dirt and complain about how your last one didn't hold up very well i am going to judge you.

When you pull your rope, if you keep pulling it down into one big coil, loop after loop after loop, and then complain on the next belay that your rope has always been kinky since it was new - i am going to judge you.

If for some odd and unnecessary reason you rappel way off to the side, and then king swing and shred your rope over a bunch of sharp features - i am going to judge you.

slimwrote:

I am definitely snobby about rope abuse. If you throw your brand new rope down in the dirt and complain about how your last one didn't hold up very well i am going to judge you.

When you pull your rope, if you keep pulling it down into one big coil, loop after loop after loop, and then complain on the next belay that your rope has always been kinky since it was new - i am going to judge you.

If for some odd and unnecessary reason you rappel way off to the side, and then king swing and shred your rope over a bunch of sharp features - i am going to judge you.

Have some respect for the dead geez…

caesar.saladwrote:

Lol ok i get you. All i do is boulder outside and I've just never heard anyone use the phrase "spot the ground."

That's just puppy-head making up his own terms. In other sports that involve aerial aspects - freestyle skiing aerials for example - the phrase is "spot your landing".

Colonel Mustardwrote:

My partners and I only employ a bare minimum of the gruff and terse Sardaukar battle language and hand signals while summiting as many low angle dummy domes as humanly possible. We come pre-rigged from the car with harnesses on, tied in with pre-flaked rope in the car we slept in the parking lot poised in go positions since the night before, approach-o-simuling to the base as soon as the first cock crows. Employing a system of intravenous lines, hydration packs, and catheter systems, we do not even pause for food or to attend to urination, only stopping to make mud falcons we promptly fling to the talus below. All other chuckling numbskulls fall beneath our blades.

Pooping in your still suit is the utmost of form.

TBlomwrote:

Pooping in your still suit is the utmost of form.

Don’t wanna waste that moisture 

TBlomwrote:

Pooping in your still suit is the utmost of form.

One question only: 

Do my ninja black diaper briefs count as a stillsuit component?

Colonel Mustardwrote:

One question only: 

Do my ninja black diaper briefs count as a stillsuit component?

As long as the moisture is shunted to your drinking reservoir you're all set.

TBlomwrote:

As long as the moisture is shunted to your drinking reservoir you're all set.

I just sharted in my moisture shunt laughing at this reply.

Jay Crewwrote:

Noise, chatter, and efficiency.....I like to move quickly up routes, or from route to route,  keeping the talking to the bare minimum, 

I love the joy of talking to my partner while flaking the rope or sorting gear for the next pitch. We laugh, cajole, get psyched. Efficiency and fun mixed into the ultimate form of gettin up the rock 

I only climb with people who make Dune references while climbing.

The spiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccey 5.9+

caesar.saladwrote:

I only climb with people who make Dune references while climbing.

Hah. I only climb with people who make Eiger Sanction references while climbing.  Freitag!!!!

caesar.saladwrote:

I only climb with people who make Dune references while climbing.

It's been covered here before but the Litany Against Fear always comes to mind whenever doing something on my limit, especially on lead...

BAdwrote:

Hah. I only climb with people who make Eiger Sanction references while climbing.  Freitag!!!!

Where do you draw the line on hauling ice?

BAdwrote:

Hah. I only climb with people who make Eiger Sanction references while climbing.  Freitag!!!!

A man has got to know his limitations.

Robert Swrote:

People with gym cards on harnesses at outdoor crags.

But what if it’s a LEAD card?

bryanswrote:

I guess now we'll find out how many women and advocates for (and family to) the disabled are following this thread. Out of curiousity, where do you stand on eugenics? Kill them all to feed the strong?

as a member of the USAC paraclimbing team & paraclimbing national champion, remind me never to climb with this dude

I’m a real snob about shade.  If it’s above 60 I ain’t climbing in the sun.

nowherewrote:

I’m a real snob about shade.  If it’s above 60 I ain’t climbing in the sun.

I bailed on climbing today because it was going to be 85 and no shade. Hard pass, my friends all think I'm a baby.