Trad gear in climbing gym

Wait  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . ? ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?! ! !  .   .   .   .   .   .  .  .  There Is some Kind Of In-Door Climbing?   .    .   .    .   .   .   .   .  ..  ..   .  .   .  . Really?  ?  ?  ?  ?

 Please tell me more. . . .

A gym I work at has a couple cracks. One day I brought my gear and plugged a piece in,  it held my body weight so I decided to take a small whipper on it.  It popped, I hit the ground and we all started busting up laughing. 

David Kerkeslager wrote:

Just as long as they don't start bolting plastic holds onto outdoor climbs.

RIP Opal Traverse.

Sam Sala wrote:

RIP Opal Traverse.

Here I was making a joke, and it turns out this is a real (horrible) thing. Wow.

At least it wasn't poop :O

RIP Monkey Traverse :(

David Kerkeslager wrote:

Here I was making a joke, and it turns out this is a real (horrible) thing. Wow.

You’ve never heard of Dan Osman’s glue-on plastic holds on an area near Tahoe to create an outdoor training area? 

James White wrote:

LOL.. OMG..  Let it go.. its not a federal case.. If I could delete the post I would but I can't since there are so many replies. Please look for some other forum post to be critical of.. I am sure there is another out there to beat up on .. lol

Bro if you think MP is bad, you should go over and post the same thing on supertopo

Jack McNeil wrote:

Bro if you think MP is bad, you should go over and post the same thing on supertopo

Lol, I've actually posted about climbing in the gym with trad gear on in a thread on ST and no one really cared. They probably didn't care because it was just a post and did not come with the weird trolling the OP has an iniability to prevent himself from engaging in.

(full disclosure, I climbed in the gym with trad gear on my chest harness a few times specifically to get used to the shifting weight differences. I then realized I could just replace the gear with ankle and wrist weights attached to my chest harness loops and get the same effect with half...errrr.... slightly less ridiculousness.)

Every time I go to the gym I clip some RPs, a couple ice screws, and some rusty lost arrows to my harness just so the gym rats know I'm not fucking around /s

Jack McNeil wrote:

Bro if you think MP is bad, you should go over and post the same thing on supertopo

looks like all three James White accounts go fed up after Nov 21st and bailed. 

David Kerkeslager wrote:

Just as long as they don't start bolting plastic holds onto outdoor climbs.

This is part of the climbing history at City of Rocks, if I remember correctly. "Climbers behaving badly" in the guidebook. 

They were part of a comp, long ago. A spot nearby us also had manufactured routes (look up Leslie Gulch, Oregon), which partially caused access to be shut down. 

Tablerock, in Boise, was (and is) quarried. It has been shut to development for decades after a flat out feud early on. 

Climbing history is colorful, to say the least! Talk to your BITD locals, and you'll discover your area most likely has it's share of hijinks.

Best, Helen