Things that give you "the ick"

J P wrote:

Whoosh!

As in over my head? LOL. It is quite telling that it took me a while to get the next guy's joke about raid bug spray. 

Becca Joy Steinbrecher wrote:

The random gym dood scream-cheering you on on your v0 warm up -_-

I wish random dudes cheered me on…

Becca Joy Steinbrecher wrote:

The random gym dood scream-cheering you on on your v0 warm up -_-

Then asks if you're okay when you fall. 

apogee wrote:

Drones in the mountains.

Hate hate hate ‘em.

Edit: Was climbing today at a quiet mountain crag, and one of those damn things buzzed in overhead. I flipped it off…if I’d had the right tool with me at the time, I would have shot the fucker right out of the sky.

The amount of guides doing that for the gram inside protected areas. Ick. Burn. Purification of Mankind.

Mikey Barro wrote:

I don't get this. When I was learning to clean routes in 2014 I learned that the ethic at many sport crags was to rappel a route in order to avoid undue wear and tear on the gear. I learned that typically the ethic is determined by what kind of gear is used on the anchor bolts. Welded aluminum rings that are hard to replace? - Rappel. Quick-links that are cheap and easy to replace? - Lower off.

I usually rap just to save wear on my rope.  Major ick is listening to it scrape over an edge as you lower.

Getting a sweet breakfast burrito before going climbing and the pico de gallo is so wet that it soggs out the burrito wrap.

Gen Z lingo taking over MP

Mikey Barro wrote:

As in over my head? LOL. It is quite telling that it took me a while to get the next guy's joke about raid bug spray. 

Repel vs rappel. 

Marc801 C wrote:

Repel vs rappel. 

LOL! Yeah I finally got there

break hand vs brake hand

Eric Moss wrote:

I usually rap just to save wear on my rope.  Major ick is listening to it scrape over an edge as you lower.

A bigger ick is if you have to traverse left or right half way down the rappel and then the rope shifts over an edge above you

Ick: smelling fish sauce

Yum: eating fish sauce

Mikey Barro wrote:

A bigger ick is if you have to traverse left or right half way down the rappel and then the rope shifts over an edge above you

Definite sphincter clencher.

Nicholai Petrunin wrote:

Ick: smelling fish sauce

yum: eating fish sauce

Yuuuup

Harness wedgies.

Eric Moss wrote:

I usually rap just to save wear on my rope.  Major ick is listening to it scrape over an edge as you lower.

How is  lowering putting more wear on your rope than rapping?

Marc801 C wrote:

How is  lowering putting more wear on your rope than rapping?

Tension movement over a carbiner vs static load on a carabiner then just the weight of the rope moving across the biner. 

John Clark wrote:

Tension movement over a carbiner vs static load on a carabiner then just the weight of the rope moving across the biner. 

Definitely, getting lowered all the time wears on the rope a ton. 

“Come on, so strong” 

Marc801 C wrote:

How is  lowering putting more wear on your rope than rapping?

When you lower, the rope is under body weight tension as it runs over bulges and edges. With rapping the only rope drag tension is the weight of the rope.  

If you have to lower with rope drag, the person being lowered can hold the brake side of the rope to take out some tension, or even attach their belay device to the brake side and self-lower for 5/8 the tension.