Things that give you "the ick"

Tone Locwrote:

Ah, you’re all thinking about this two dimensionally. In Florida, it’s all about the surprise inverted mountains - the sink holes.

Well, that would be the 'low points'---a different (though undoubtedly more interesting and challenging) quest.

Drinking while climbing 

Eric Mosswrote:

Drinking while climbing 

Having climbed in Scotland there was always a flask with us. Makes the climbing and/or swimming less scary, and comes in handy in case you get betided.

Eric Mosswrote:

Drinking while climbing 

What about smoking dope while climbing? Did a lot of that in a younger day. 

Kevinmurraywrote:

What about smoking dope while climbing? Did a lot of that in a younger day. 

The paranoia makes you to check your knot five times on the ground, and then twice more while you're climbing.

That was never a problem for me.

People who bag dogshit, leave it by the trail, and then "forget" to carry it out

Jay Crewwrote:

People who bag dogshit, leave it by the trail, and then "forget" to carry it out

Wild isn’t it? It’s literally everywhere. Trails, parks, sidewalks, even snow parks.

What kills me, as a dog owner, is walking past people in the vicinity of one of those shit bags. I don’t know if they’re silently blaming me but I feel like they are.

If I’m already carrying shit, I’ll grab a bag, since two shits is about the same as one. I won’t grab a shit if I am not carrying one, since zero shits is substantially less shit than one.

It seems like a shit in the open, drying and decomposing is better than a shit in the same place in a bag. I’d advocate for neither, but if I had to choose.

Found this by a tree along the street near my house a few months ago…left them a little love note:

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsionwrote:

It seems like a shit in the open, drying and decomposing is better than a shit in the same place in a bag. I’d advocate for neither, but if I had to choose.

exactly... I think some folks would just like to be seen bagging it up; they feel some type of social pressure. Appearing to be doing a good thing is more important than actually doing a good thing.

Jay Crewwrote:

People who bag dogshit, leave it by the trail, and then "forget" to carry it out

When I’m retired and looking for something to do, I’m going to lurk in public parks and watch for this.  Then I’ll blow dart the scumbag and tag their ear .  No frickin excuses for this   

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsionwrote:

Wild isn’t it? It’s literally everywhere. Trails, parks, sidewalks, even snow parks.

What kills me, as a dog owner, is walking past people in the vicinity of one of those shit bags. I don’t know if they’re silently blaming me but I feel like they are.

If I’m already carrying shit, I’ll grab a bag, since two shits is about the same as one. I won’t grab a shit if I am not carrying one, since zero shits is substantially less shit than one.

It seems like a shit in the open, drying and decomposing is better than a shit in the same place in a bag. I’d advocate for neither, but if I had to choose.

yup.... I've literally got puppy poo bags in the breast pocket of every jacket or fleece I wear...

Bigger ick and hopefully karmic payback to the parent who changed their child's shitty diaper on the trail to rainbow falls in the smoky mountains and left the diaper and wipes all on the side of the trail.

My dog found a used wag bag at a local crag this fall.  

I would 100% rather see the shit than shit in a bag. That’s only adding human litter. Frankly, animals shitting in the woods has never bothered me anyway…I mean…thats sort of just how all this works. But people bagging the shit and then intentionally leaving it on the ground for another human to pick up? WTF?

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsionwrote:

. I don’t know if they’re silently blaming me but I feel like they are.

Yes I am 100%. 

grug gwrote:

Yes I am 100%. 

Well fuck off, miss Millie only shits rainbows and gumdrops.

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsionwrote:

Well fuck off, miss Millie only shits rainbows and gumdrops.

Nice try. No way I’m going to believe those shit bags are full of gumdrops again.

apogeewrote:

Joe Baker

Not so much ‘ick’, as ‘wretching vomit’.

You’ll love this. One of my partners ran into him yesterday on pitch 4 of moonlight buttress. He was on his second day, with 2 guides aid climbing the route and hauling 5 fucking bags and 3 portaledges. Apparently the guides decided to unionize around p5 and quit so Joe said “ok we’re going to the shuttle” and the guides said the fuck you are you’re helping us carry this 1000lb of gear you made us haul down dumbass.

Tanner Jameswrote:

You’ll love this. One of my partners ran into him yesterday on pitch 4 of moonlight buttress. He was on his second day, with 2 guides aid climbing the route and hauling 5 fucking bags and 3 portaledges. Apparently the guides decided to unionize around p5 and quit so Joe said “ok we’re going to the shuttle” and the guides said the fuck you are you’re helping us carry this 1000lb of gear you made us haul down dumbass.

Nice work Joe! Another embarrassing circus on another classic! 

Who is this Joe guy?

Lars Edmundswrote:

Who is this Joe guy?

I think its the clout chasing, piece of shit dad that makes a living paying guides to drag him and his 8y/o son up aid routes so they can say they climbed them on social media. If you look up "The El Cap Kid" its his dad.