Defunct Climbing Terminology

jbak xwrote:

We started calling this "yarding up" 40 yr ago in s az.

Batmanning

Some of these are funny some are not. Semantics aside, language changes and things change. Climbing is inherently different and that’s okay, people soloing 4th class isn’t really similar to any currently popular form of climbing.

Someone driving around in a sprinter claiming to be a dirtbag is just as much a poser as that old man that won’t shut up about high e. This hand ringing is pervasive across sports. I had old man tell me, “kids are NOT tough anymore more instead of the mile they made it shorter so it was easier.” Multiple old men shook their heads in agreement. 

“Noob”

“Joey”

“Prancer”

“Sub man”

“Belay bitch”

“Screamer”

“G Sharp”

Pot Licker 

Gold line 

Manky

For Chouinard and me, free soloing BITD was going "3rd Class"

Considering the previous poster’s history… can we add B1, B2, B3? Ground breaking at the time, but, alas, superseded by other rating systems. 

Now if only we could make "chalk" a defunct term!

What's the current term for Elvising/Elvis leg... sewing machine... disco leg?

Or should I ask: How many other outdated ways of describing it are there?

Rocket Scottwrote:

What's the current term for Elvising/Elvis leg... sewing machine... disco leg?

Or should I ask: How many other outdated ways of describing it are there?

"being raw and vulnerable"

New routes are rarely "North Face (of blank)", etc... and I'm happy about this. So much easier to remember names when they have a distinct name and not some vague cardinal direction and the person speaking about them forgets to name the major formation or peak, etc...

Desert Rock Sportswrote:

New routes are rarely "North Face (of blank)", etc... and I'm happy about this. So much easier to remember names when they have a distinct name and not some vague cardinal direction and the person speaking about them forgets to name the major formation or peak, etc...

And it’s so unimaginative. I love clever names, especially ones that incorporate a feature or aspect of the climb. 

'Send it'  The term has changed meaning so much over the last 5 years... will be fascinating to see where it is 5 years from now.

Gloweringwrote:

And it’s so unimaginative. I love clever names, especially ones that incorporate a feature or aspect of the climb. 

Way back before MP and climbing groups on social media, before there was a guidebook to the area, my climbing partner and I went to Shuteye Ridge. He had heard that there was going to be a gathering of old-timer climbers and wanted to get beta from them for something wild and rarely climbed. We arrived late at night. I crashed while he went to make friends around the campfire. In the morning, he had a twinkle in his eye and a pencil-drawn topo from some crusty dude's memory. The objective was a moderate climb supposedly called Nipple Bypass on Queen's Throne. I was game. There was no trail. We wormed our way through a forest of manzanita so thick we were stepping on the matted stems and pulling ourselves forward by handfuls of branches. After about an hour of this, we were sick of bushwhacking and just wanted to get off the ground. We looked up at the dome, saw a likely line, and went for it. If you squinted right, it *might* have matched the pencil sketch. We never did spot the fabled Nipple feature we were supposed to Bypass, but we successfully summited. On the way down we joked that it might have been a FA and we would call it Anything But Bush. 

What the hell does “condies” mean? That just a slang term for conditions? I hear it all the time and am too embarrassed to ask. 

Nick Budkawrote:

What the hell does “condies” mean? That just a slang term for conditions? I hear it all the time and am too embarrassed to ask. 

I say it all the time. When the winds are crisp, sun lightly exposed, few thousand feet above sea level with beautiful mountains in the background with some faint crowd noise; I will say the condies are mega. I obviously mean, Condoleezza Rice is an inspiration as she cheers on the broncos. 

Nick Budkawrote:

What the hell does “condies” mean? That just a slang term for conditions? I hear it all the time and am too embarrassed to ask. 

Yeah, I hate that one, along with "disco" (discontinued), "sesh" (session), and the utter abuse of "splitter".

Haha, "dayflash."   Sport climbing terminology continually evolves to turn more kinds of failures into achievements.

But getting back to the subject, "dynamic belay" meant allowing the rope to slip under controlled tension through a belay device (or originally a hip belay) as a way of reducing peak loads to the gear. It now means that the belayer jumps at a hopefully opportune moment as a way of reducing the leader's pendulum velocity into the wall.

Touron

And other fun things from The Dome Drivers Manual.

Marc801 Cwrote:

Yeah, I hate that one, along with "disco" (discontinued), "sesh" (session), and the utter abuse of "splitter".

When does "disco" get used in a climbing context? I've never heard that. 

Condies/cunnies are one of those terms I started using ironically and now I'm so deep in I don't even know who I am anymore.