Things that give you "the ick"

Carl Schneider wrote:

People who can't talk about ANY thing else other than climbing.

I recently had to steer a campfire discussion away from climbing, it had gotten out of hand and was making me want to hit the sleeping bag early!

Jake Jones wrote:

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 G wrote:

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 C wrote:

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 C wrote:

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 K wrote:

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 Beckwith wrote:

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 Johnson wrote:

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

Klaus theK wrote:

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.

Jiggs Casey wrote:

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