Gym Climbers ***Free Sticker***

I need a new “nobody cares you place tricams”  sticker. Wonder that guy still here.

M Mwrote:

 Growing the "community " is good for the crags, trails and parking how? Gyms can handle unlimited growth, the outdoor environment cannot 

Oh, ok, I get it now. You’re allowed to go outside but people who learned how to climb in a way that’s different from you are not. Got it. Sorry, still just learning all the rules of earning outdoor access.

Can I get my “approach trail hiker” certification tag from you? Or are there other people involved in the decision? Is there like a route setter out there that handles that? I can’t wait, it’s going to look sick next to my new lead belay tag. 

Charlie Bwrote:

Climbers who started in a gym: 

Honnold

Sharma

Emily Harrington 

Jonathan Seigrist

Daniel Woods

Matty Hong 

They are all better than you. 

… do we really need to keep going?

Only if you have the names of 2000 gumbies for every one of those names that fucks things up for everyone else when they go outside.  Otherwise, no.

Danny Herrerawrote:

should have done during covid for max effect.

Now that’s a legit comment. So many V0 “FAs” during Covid. So. Many.

I can’t whip up nearly enough froth to want one of these stickers. Maybe if I were a requisite weekend warrior, subject to the madding crowd….

Various: "Be the change you wish to see in the world"

Old traddies: "Nah, I'd rather just shit on everybody instead"

Lest you think I'm speaking in hyperbole:

According to various published accounts... The locals threatened Smith and Jensen with violence and even death, harangued them constantly as they climbed, pulled down their ropes and defecated on them when they descended for a night, and chopped their anchors. One pair of climbers reportedly made a leisurely ascent of a route on the wall above Smith and Jensen's line just so they could bombard them with bags of feces every day."

From Hangdogs Days by Jeff Smoot. This was in response to the perceived transgression of a duo of non-locals threatening to establish a new route up El Cap using (at the time, now forbidden) established methods of placing protection.

Isaac Graywrote:

Oh, ok, I get it now. You’re allowed to go outside but people who learned how to climb in a way that’s different from you are not. Got it. Sorry, still just learning all the rules of earning outdoor access.

Can I get my “approach trail hiker” certification tag from you? Or are there other people involved in the decision? Is there like a route setter out there that handles that? I can’t wait, it’s going to look sick next to my new lead belay tag. 

Gyms are fun and environmentally friendly, there is nothing wrong with being a gym climber.

M Mwrote:

Gyms are fun and environmentally friendly, there is nothing wrong with being a gym climber.

Unless said gym climber wants to learn how to climb outside? 

This sticker wins 

Isaac Graywrote:

Unless said gym climber wants to learn how to climb outside? 

I believe that's the gist of the thread

PWZwrote:

I believe that's the gist of the thread

Some folks are always looking for some Utopian form of life where everyone pats each other on the back and invite homeless people to live in their homes and I gotta say it's just setting yourself up for a life of disappointment! 

Hey Op,

Love the work. Any way you can incorporate the PAS thong to the illustration?

Just want to speak up with a positive voice here. Love the sticker. It's a humorous and topical way of saying "get off my lawn!" 

Can you incorporate an off leash dog and a blue tooth speaker powered by solar panels?

Colonel Mustardwrote:

Can you incorporate an off leash dog and a blue tooth speaker powered by solar panels?

Only if you have a Sprinter and Patagonia trucker hat

I think I have a different definition of ‘gym climber’ than others … it’s a light hearted jest to label silliness… akin to trad dad, boulder bro, gumbie, whatever 

I’m all about spreading the gospel of the outdoors. I’m not trying to categorize anyone as ‘other’ to exclude them…. I can’t justify the sophomoric, rude, immature, elitist, whatever of it all…. It’s just a sticker I’ll put next to my other stickers, on my water bottle that I bring to my climbing gym…

If you reached out, It's mailed. If you still want one, I have way too many and please feel free to DM me. 

Can you make a Board Bro sticker?

Bill Kirbywrote:

I need a new “nobody cares you place tricams”  sticker. Wonder that guy still here.

But I love my tricams

Lone Pinewrote:

Hey Op,

Love the work. Any way you can incorporate the PAS thong to the illustration?

A gym climber wouldn't have one of those most of the time. I would go with two slings girth hitched to their belay loop.