Dangers of trad

Traditoinal climbing is very dangeours and everybody should stop doing it.

Yer gonna die.

Climbing since 2015, mostly trad. After witnessing a fatal 800 foot fall, losing friends and acquaintances over the years, and seeing so many capable climbers succumb to the mountains, I actually have begun to question if any of it is actually worth it. 

Houghton Gremlinwrote:

Traditoinal climbing is very dangeours and everybody should stop doing it.

Happy Bumper Sticker Day! Now if you can connect me to the UP Customer Service department, I'd like to request a refund for those 90+ temps this past weekend. The Sturgeon didn't even feel cold.

dylan grabowskiwrote:

Climbing since 2015, mostly trad. After witnessing a fatal 800 foot fall, losing friends and acquaintances over the years, and seeing so many capable climbers succumb to the mountains, I actually have begun to question if any of it is actually worth it. 

As a climber you are bound to witness some carnage, don’t fret, you get used to it. Stick with climbing, it IS worth it!

F r i t zwrote:

Happy Bumper Sticker Day! Now if you can connect me to the UP Customer Service department, I'd like to request a refund for those 90+ temps this past weekend. The Sturgeon didn't even feel cold.

LOL. I will mail you a new Slug Fest sticker as compensation for our hot temps.

John Millerwrote:

LOL. I will mail you a new Slug Fest sticker as compensation for our hot temps.

Death

Climbing on passive protection is even more death defying!

If nothing else, Dangers of Trad makes a great spoonerism. Trangers of Dad!

Could be a good band name. : - ) 

Houghton Gremlinwrote:

Traditoinal climbing is very dangeours and everybody should stop doing it.

What is "traditoinal" and what is "dangeours"? These are new words for me.

I got off route in the valley today and by the time I realized this was not a 5.5 crack but was in fact at least 5.9 OW I was run out on marginal gear. One piece held, the upper one didn't. Took an inverted thirty footer; foot caught on the rock somehow. 

If I can do something that profoundly stupid and just have some scratches, a broken phone screen, and a damaged camelback that sent three liters of water down my leg, then I think trad is pretty safe, actually. 

Ricky Harlinewrote:

I got off route in the valley today and by the time I realized this was not a 5.5 crack but was in fact at least 5.9 OW I was run out on marginal gear. One piece held, the upper one didn't. Took an inverted thirty footer; foot caught on the rock somehow. 

If I can do something that profoundly stupid and just have some scratches, a broken phone screen, and a damaged camelback that sent three liters of water down my leg, then I think trad is pretty safe, actually. 

Three liters of water down your leg, sure ;)

F r i t zwrote:

Happy Bumper Sticker Day! Now if you can connect me to the UP Customer Service department, I'd like to request a refund for those 90+ temps this past weekend. The Sturgeon didn't even feel cold.

Did you get devoured by bugs tho? Winning!

Duncan Dominguewrote:

Three liters of water down your leg, sure ;)

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Houghton Gremlinwrote:

Traditoinal climbing is very dangeours and everybody should stop doing it.

just stop using all the gear. 

think of all the money you'll be saving

10/10 thread of the year. 

https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/119911393/the-glen-canyon-challenge

You'll be relieved to know that not a single climber has accepted the Challenge, proving unequivocally, that everyone has indeed, "Stopped doing it." ;-)

Ricky Harlinewrote:

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

So it was sticky as well. You're not really selling the 'water' angle.

Ignatius Piwrote:

So it was sticky as well. You're not really selling the 'water' angle.

Or.... you could say that "three liters" of sticky, puts him in a whole separate level. I mean, it all depends on WHAT, he is selling. : -) 

Houghton Gremlinwrote:

Traditoinal climbing is very dangeours and everybody should stop doing it.

Are you hammered like right now?  You first.