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Dan Africk

Brooklyn, New York
43 years old · Male
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May 17, 2014
Last Visit: 21 hours ago
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Likes Trad, Sport, Gym
Leads Follows
Trad 5.7 5.9
Sport 5.9 5.10b
Boulders V4
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Anything Outdoors. Foraging & Primitive Skills. Vegan food, good beer.
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Sep 4, 2018
Gunks > Trapps > d. Strictly - The Cei…
Ribs 5.4
● P1 is one of the best climbs for a new trad leader. Easy climbing, well-protected (though not super abundan… View Comment
Sep 4, 2018
Gunks > Trapps > c. Frog's Head - the…
Easy Street 5.6
● Second pitch is well protected throughout. It's basically a one-move wonder, the move at the flake is spicy… View Comment
Sep 26, 2017
Thacher State Park
● FYI Many of the walls at Thacher have a community stick clip that lives on site (as of 9/23/2017), so if yo… View Comment
Sep 26, 2017
Thacher SP > Horseshoe N Cliff > Hyphen Section
Trylo Bite This 5.7
● Straightforward corner climb, with bolts on the left face. Lots of textured rock for smearing and mantling,… View Comment
Aug 26, 2017
Gunks > Trapps > g. V3 - Middle Earth
Alley Oop 5.7
● Led this today, all the way to the top. There are no longer any rappel anchors on any trees, and based on t… View Comment
Aug 7, 2017
Adirondacks > Lake Champlain… > Deadwater > Main Cliff
Bozeman Bullet 5.6
● The start was surprisingly thin and runout, not much pro besides the piton. So as others mentioned, it migh… View Comment

Forum Messages View All 196

Gear > Climbing Gear Discussion
Reply: Edelrid Slider Issues.
Dec 5, 2022 You replace all your cams after only one year of use? I've never heard of anyone doing that, that seems crazy to me. Especially with totems, those aren't cheap.. I replace… View Message
Gear > Climbing Gear Discussion
Reply: Edelrid Slider Issues.
Dec 4, 2022 Exactly. The issue isn't that they made a defective product, it's the way they responded and failed to address it. In their response to me in 2016, they claimed that they… View Message
Gear > Climbing Gear Discussion
Reply: Edelrid Slider Issues.
Dec 4, 2022 I use locking carabiners in situations where a failure would be critical, where they are not redundant and that carabiner is the only thing between me and falling to my death.… View Message
Gear > Climbing Gear Discussion
Reply: Edelrid Slider Issues.
Dec 2, 2022 I assure you they have not taken it seriously, and it's not all that rare. If they had taken it seriously, they would have issued a recall back in 2016, or 2014, if not so… View Message
Gear > Climbing Gear Discussion
Reply: Edelrid Slider Issues.
Dec 2, 2022 They are lying. Or at least ignorant and incompetent to the point of negligence. As described in my post above, there had already been multiple reports of this issue back… View Message
Gear > Climbing Gear Discussion
Reply: Edelrid Slider Issues.
Dec 2, 2022 I had the exact same issues back in 2016, with the HMS version of this carabiner (exact same mechanism). And I received a similar disappointing response. Even back then, t… View Message

Route Scores View All 123

5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
 503
● Disneyland
Trad 2 pitches
Gunks > Near Trapps > a. Beginning of cliff…
WI3-4
 83
● Pitchoff Right
Trad, TR, Ice
Adirondacks > … > Keene Valley &… > Cascade Pass
WI3
 194
● Chouinard's Gully
Ice 2 pitches
Adirondacks > … > Keene Valley &… > Chapel Pond
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
 459
● Apoplexy
Trad
Gunks > Trapps > a1. The Uberfall - left
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
 199
● Bozeman Bullet
Trad
Adirondacks > … > Deadwater > Main Cliff
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
 400
● V-3
Trad 3 pitches
Gunks > Trapps > g. V3 - Middle Earth
Route Name Location Star Rating Difficulty Date
● Disneyland Gunks > Near Trapps > a. Beginning of cliff…
Avg:  503
Dan:
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b Trad 2 pitches
● Pitchoff Right Adirondacks > … > Keene Valley &… > Cascade Pass
Avg:  83
Dan:
WI3-4 Trad, TR, Ice
● Chouinard's Gully Adirondacks > … > Keene Valley &… > Chapel Pond
Avg:  194
Dan:
WI3 Ice 2 pitches
● Apoplexy Gunks > Trapps > a1. The Uberfall - left
Avg:  459
Dan:
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Trad
● Bozeman Bullet Adirondacks > … > Deadwater > Main Cliff
Avg:  199
Dan:
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b Trad
5.6 PG13
● V-3 Gunks > Trapps > g. V3 - Middle Earth
Avg:  400
Dan:
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Trad 3 pitches
5.7 PG13
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