Things climbing-related that annoy you

Jay Crew wrote:

gumby, flailer..... and your girl, she 'keeps trying to slide into my DM's

Haha.   You hand my girl a blank rope and she’ll force you to your poseur knees and make you tie her in fully using your ragged lips and tooth.  Then send you off for snacks. :)

Guidebooks that use cheap glue on the spine. I have lost a few pages to the wind.

Solid gate biners on a trad climb. It’s not 1995 anymore 

Bailing on a fancy wire gate because I forgot to throw a couple leaver biners - solid gates - on the slings.

Cherokee Nunes wrote:

Weird thing about fig-8: I tie it backwards ...

Bottom-up through the tie-in isn't the normal way? Apart from annoyance with certain partners who insist on retying the starter knot for a 10-inch tail, can't say I've ever had issues tying in with a starter, or noticed or cared which way my partner re-threads theirs, as long as we all end up with a semantically-perfect-enough fig 8. Which we do.

/self-indulgent contentment in the bitchin' thread

Cherokee I’m the same way. I always untie every time. It takes an extra 10 seconds and it prevents me from having a funky knot that’s hard to untie or one with too much tail for my liking. Simple as

Cherokee Nunes wrote:

Weird thing about fig-8: I tie it backwards than most climbers I know. I thread the 8 from the bottom up;, through my tie-in point. The way I twist the rope to tie the initial 8, before the rethread, is so that when I pull the rope up through the tie in point, the knot is perfectly presented for the rethread.

I tie it the same way you do. It's how I was taught and how I teach it to others. Almost everyone I see does it that way as well.

Folks who won’t cut the relevant pages out of their guidebook (or photocopy) and bring the whole thing everywhere. It’s a guidebook, not a collector’s item. (Except for those that are collector’s items.)

I tie my figure 8 'backwards' too, because I'm left handed. So I take the knot completely out when I'm done and if someone leaves the first 8 in, the first thing I do is take it out. I could finish with an existing right handed first 8, but I'm used to doing it my way and having a perfect rethreaded 8 that doesn't need any dressing, so it's quicker for me to start over. I've never compared it to how other people do it to see if there's come out perfectly rethreaded before any dressing.

I have never, not once, thought about what ‘direction’ my figure 8 was in. Just whether it’s otherwise proper, well dressed, and with a couple fists or so of tail.

The heated argument mid-route between a  guy/girl  that they think nobody's hearing but actually everyone's hearing. Totally annoying, but also sort of awesome too. 

Hank Caylor wrote:

The heated argument mid-route between a  guy/girl  that they think nobody's hearing but actually everyone's hearing. Totally annoying, but also sort of awesome too. 

If they're arguing that loudly, they're looking for audience participation IMO. 

Hank Caylor wrote:

The heated argument mid-route between a  guy/girl  that they think nobody's hearing but actually everyone's hearing. Totally annoying, but also sort of awesome too. 

I always think, "at least it isn't me.... this time"

Hank Caylor wrote:

The heated argument mid-route between a  guy/girl  that they think nobody's hearing but actually everyone's hearing. Totally annoying, but also sort of awesome too. 

Jokes on them;

Can't get into a fight with your girlfriend on route if you never have one

Sean Tuttle wrote:

Why would I want to tear a page out of a guidebook when I can just carry the whole thing and the book stays intact to serve another day?   Is it really annoying that we would actually have a complete guide book at the crag?   I ain’t rich and those books ain’t cheap.  

Yeah that is just unhinged behavior. Destroying all your guidebooks to save a few ounces on the hike in and then you have just a pile of loose guidebook pages???

Take a picture of the relevant pages on your phone if you are really trying to save weight or whatever, no need to destroy your guidebooks. 

Sean Tuttle wrote:

Why would I want to tear a page out of a guidebook when I can just carry the whole thing and the book stays intact to serve another day?   Is it really annoying that we would actually have a complete guide book at the crag?   I ain’t rich and those books ain’t cheap.  

Guys, binders totally exist. You don’t need to have a pile of loose pages at home. And you don’t need to risk the rain and soil on the pages you’re not using today.

I haven't photocopied a guide for a multi pitch in at least a decade. I used to scan it, print it out and  laminate it. now I just take a picture on my phone. 

Sep M wrote:

Folks who won’t cut the relevant pages out of their guidebook (or photocopy) and bring the whole thing everywhere. It’s a guidebook, not a collector’s item. (Except for those that are collector’s items.)

Guilty as charged. :)

Still, I miss the ease of paper copies on multi-pitch routes ... as well as the weight-savings in leaving the phone behind.

now that I am old and decrepit I bring the phone for emergencies...