Things that give you "the ick"

Jake Joneswrote:

Those PAS things are annoying AF!

"Redacted."

How to tie climbing knots videos, are without exception, ick. Faking ick!!

Most climbing videos are also ick - tired formats. Teasers, brief zoom in on the crux, back to the beginning, a childhood video climbing a liv ing room curtain or something, some hiking shots, "First Glimpse", yada yada yada they're all the same porn stories over and over, and over. And don't get me started on the sound tracks. Fak!!!! Can't you videographers come up with something, new? Original? Like, original original? Something really new? 

No. Ick.

ZT Gwrote:

Eric Moss rappel advice 

Anonymous cowards slinging mud 

Gates out

Route names and boulder problem names that are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, etc.

Wannabe speed climbers (maybe on a roadside 5.9 multipitch), timing each pitch for leader and second, anchor building, belay swap and then writing a pamphlet on the MP tick list. And scolding you because you are too slow. C'mon, are we climbing on Cerro Torre or what?

Head mounted go-pro climbing videos, a.k.a. nausea-cam (eg: FirstPersonBeta videos on YT)

Rocky talkies

Marc801 Cwrote:

Head mounted go-pro climbing videos, a.k.a. nausea-cam (eg: FirstPersonBeta videos on YT)

Agreed!!! Has anyone ever made a head mounted camera video that was good?.. besides the one where the guy gets attacked by the bear and kicks it back down the cliff. I liked that one.

Marc801 Cwrote:

Head mounted go-pro climbing videos, a.k.a. nausea-cam (eg: FirstPersonBeta videos on YT)

GoPro - showing the world your fuck ups since 2002.    

Littering and influencers

30+ year old pro climbers dating teenagers

Aaron Kwrote:

30+ year old pro climbers dating teenagers

30+ year old pro climbers dating teenagers they were legal guardian over because the teenager in question is a war refugee. 

Mary Elizabeth Beckwithwrote:

30+ year old pro climbers dating teenagers they were legal guardian over because the teenager in question is a war refugee. 

Who is this referring to? I have not heard about this one yet

Shaun Johnsonwrote:

Who is this referring to? I have not heard about this one yet

Klaus theKwrote:

And people who don’t have current valid calibration certificates for their clinometers that they bring to the crag. 

I have an inclinometer on my phone and it’s quite fun to measure the slope of a wall, I’ve found that things are much lower angle than they appear.

Tony Danzawrote:

I have an inclinometer on my phone and it’s quite fun to measure the slope of a wall, I’ve found that things are much lower angle than they appear.

I bet people love it when they finish a climb and you tell them the true slope of the wall

Shaun Johnsonwrote:

Who is this referring to? I have not heard about this one yet

Alex Megos. This thread on reddit discusses it: https://www.reddit.com/r/climbergirls/comments/1f1muyc/alex_megos_young_girlfriend/?rdt=55150

“Although their relationship eventually ended, Jenya mentioned that three other girls moved in afterward, including Sonya, who was underage at the time, with Alex acting as her legal guardian. It’s not difficult to see that Sonya is likely the same person Alex is now dating.”

Obviously its not illegal, but man is it icky. 

Nudist climbers. Especially at the crag with children out and about.

I guess different strokes for different folks, but I never saw the appeal of it. Maybe I was raised differently. Also imagining getting rope burn or falling and cheesegrating my wobbly bits doesn’t sound like much fun either.