hexes are goody style

Fast Eddie McBradish wrote:

That is why I go commando while climbing. . . .

Just wondering if you've ever had a testicle slip under your harness leg loop? And then fall? That would be a rather curious feeling, to need to be rescued due to a testicle injury. 

Goody Ferda

Son's friend finished a rugby game with a popped testi. He said it hurt a lot.

I like a nice hex every now and again. Not sure if this is goody style or just goofy but I’ve slung mine at different lengths… the rocks don’t even hear me coming.

JM Addlemanwrote:

I like a nice hex every now and again. Not sure if this is goody style or just goofy but I’ve slung mine at different lengths… the rocks don’t even hear me coming.

The issue with this JM is that you're missing out on perhaps the goodyest secondary use for hexes on one's rack: a free set of bear bells. Grizzlies and gumbies alike, for miles around, will clear the trail and your project when they hear these bad boys singing off your back-right gear loop. Conversely, a rancher might imagine you're one of his herd, escaped from the pasture, climbing 5.8 in fine style.

Jacob Bretzwrote:

The issue with this JM is that you're missing out on perhaps the goodyest secondary use for hexes on one's rack: a free set of bear bells. Grizzlies and gumbies alike, for miles around, will clear the trail and your project when they hear these bad boys singing off your back-right gear loop. Conversely, a rancher might imagine you're one of his herd, escaped from the pasture, climbing 5.8 in fine style.

Climbing 5.8 in goody style. 

Buck Riowrote:

Just wondering if you've ever had a testicle slip under your harness leg loop? And then fall? That would be a rather curious feeling, to need to be rescued due to a testicle injury. 

Swami belts don't have leg loops, all you modernist with you fancy harnesses and pink tri-cams. . . 

Fast Eddie McBradishwrote:

Swami belts don't have leg loops, all you modernist with you fancy harnesses and pink tri-cams. . . 

Neither does a bowline on a coil.

The satisfaction from placing a hex, then seating it firmly with a few good smacks with the hammer can't be overstated.

Dave Olsenwrote:

Neither does a bowline on a coil.

The satisfaction from placing a hex, then seating it firmly with a few good smacks with the hammer can't be overstated.

And by hammer you mean another hex?

Hello hex enthusiasts!!! I hope y'all are having a Bedazzled (2000) Oktoberfest. Rumour has it that a itchy snitchy witchy is coming along to cast a hex of her own this Halloween!!! By the time the clock strikes midnight her spell will be complete and it will officially be No Cam November, so let's all dust off those cowbells and get ready to celebrate the most important holiday of the season! 

If thou placeth thy cams, thou shalt forever be cursed with climbing 

in bad style. 

What? Every high school boy knows it’s “No Nut November”

Yoda Jedi Knightwrote:

What? Every high school boy knows it’s “No Nut November”

That currently depends on which time zone you're in, buddy.

David Kwrote:

Using hexes demand big nuts*

Do people use Hexes as truck nuts?

Dave Olsenwrote:

Do people use Hexes as truck nuts?

minivan-nads!

Oh my lord, what a thread...  Like many others here, my first rack was hexes and Chouinard curved stoppers.  I have the second generation, thin wall, flat sided, non drilled hexes.  The placements are rarely perfect, except in the Sierras, where they acted like perfectly shaped giant stoppers.  The drilled 1G were better in more granular, bumpy rock (you could fit a drill hole over a nubbin, and get a great placement, an option my 2G hexes didn't allow) but heavy as hell.  A few years back, I did a long trad route in the Cascades with a partner who had the Torque Nuts, slung on tape.  The Torque Nuts blow my old 2G hexes out of the water - far more versatile, since they actually cam, and only contact at the upper and lower edges;  the end-to-end placement sticks like glue as if the designers matched the flare of the Torque Nut to the flare of Cascade rock;  you can pull the tape through the top a bit, and clip both the upper and lower parts of the loop - no cowbell clank.  

Hexes are definitely goody styley.

Interesting subject for a dissertation; the cross-over between Korean War vets/ Japanese occupation vets, Zen/ Buddhism/ mindfulness, war surplus rope and other gear, and the explosion of climbing in Yosemite and Eldo.... I suppose that era kind of ends with the introduction of clean climbing, which itself is an extension of "how you do anything is how you do everything".  "How"... aka, style counts.  

Dave Olsenwrote:

Do people use Hexes as truck nuts?

They're called Sprinter Nuts

Kanyon Lalleywrote:

Hello hex enthusiasts!!! I hope y'all are having a Bedazzled (2000) Oktoberfest. Rumour has it that a itchy snitchy witchy is coming along to cast a hex of her own this Halloween!!! By the time the clock strikes midnight her spell will be complete and it will officially be No Cam November, so let's all dust off those cowbells and get ready to celebrate the most important holiday of the season! 

Kanyon asked me to make him a leather stuff sack to hold his Escaper, prusiks, headlamp, energy bars etc.  I'm stealing from the "Ring Poem" from Lord of the Rings:

Three Hexcentrics for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Rockcentric to rule them all, One Rockcentric to find them,
One Rockcentric to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them 

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.