Share Your Improbable Aid Placement Photos

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

Whether it held or not, there's nothing on pitch 12 that would require such a move. 

Kevin, honestly, what does this add to the convo?

Pitch 12 certainly involved multiple hook moves for me and is labeled as such on the topo. Likely there are better placements than this…but who hasn’t hooked something thin and sketchy only to see the bomber hook placement once you’ve already committed. Especially on first wall and/or in the dark. 

Ben Hoste wrote:

Kevin, honestly, what does this add to the convo?

Too much pecker smashing obviously 

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

Whether it held or not, there's nothing on pitch 12 that would require such a move. 

So core

Mega stack

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

I apologize for the pain my comment seems to have dealt some of you. my point was that though the placement may be improbable, it wasnt necessary. I'll admit though that most people's improbably aid placements come from either not having the correct gear at a point in a pitch or being off route and not using the placements that would be more obvious to a more experienced climber. Thus, my pointing that out ignores that most of the pictures in the thread suffer from lacking the purity of being a required improbable placement, which of course was not a requirement of the thread topic. We can't all be Taylor where her improbable pictures come from actually getting out there and riding the first ascent train rather than the trade route training wheels.

you are intensely annoying

So anyway….. you clip both ladders together, engage the trigger keepers and toss the #6 across this 8’ gap, hope the keepers pop (one didn’t), and then pull yourself across. 

Climbed a day at Montserrat a few weeks ago (didn’t do any aid climbing). This is a photo from the guidebook of what appears to be a leadhead trapping a loop of cord in a horizontal. Cool trick

Zay in Monterey wrote:

Pitch 12 of Lurking Fear. Was so astounded it held I had to take a picture.

Here's the song Zay was singing before the sun fully set   ...

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWSMavHMx4a/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Overshot with the hex toss

but something held, so got up on it to discover 

this body-weight wedged carabiner 

Isaac Leija wrote:

Not sure if this works but here's the song Zay was singing before the sun fully set   ...

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWSMavHMx4a/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Lyrics:

Cheat stick, I love you cheat stick

You make me feel so safe when I'm in danger

Oh yeah, oh give it to me cheat stick

Rprops wrote:

So anyway….. you clip both ladders together, engage the trigger keepers and toss the #6 across this 8’ gap, hope the keepers pop (one didn’t), and then pull yourself across. 

lol.  Is this OW Negative? 

Dylan Valvo wrote:

60’ of nothing but natural circle head placements on the horizon installed for instant equalization. Established 1985

What are we looking at here?

tricam hex stack

Climbing Weasel wrote:

What are we looking at here?

60’ of nothing but natural circle head placements on the horizon installed for instant equalization. Established 1985

jc5462 wrote:

tricam hex stack

Thats not legal. 

scott rourke wrote:

Climbed a day at Montserrat a few weeks ago (didn’t do any aid climbing). This is a photo from the guidebook of what appears to be a leadhead trapping a loop of cord in a horizontal. Cool trick

Yes, you can find some weird stuff climbing at Montserrat… fixed wooden blocks, fencing wire through holes… The popular routes are pretty clean, though. 

Hey what happened to Kevin DeWeese? looks like he deleted the last two years of comments and changed his name and profile photo?

(sorry this is totally out of context)

He did get owned by Tobin pretty hard upthread. 

If he bails, how will we know we’re doing it wrong?

lol oh no