Does your gym allow you to take your shirt off?

Our gym does allow men to take off their shirts. i have done everyone a favor by never taking my shirt off in public. i have a sixpack down there underneath my ponykeg.

so how do you attach one of those gourds? is there some kind of strap or do you have to be a bit excited all the time?

Shawn,
Sorry to Disappoint - Climbing is way more important than talking about climbing - with or without a shirt...

And to all the projecteers that posted on this thread over the weekend - shame on you - you're fingers should have been to sore to type from pulling crimps (real or plastic).

The real point of this is my amazement that this thread is actually continuing????

Aw, Doug,

Whassup didn't mean "how could you bail on the thread?" it meant "what did you climb?" Weekend report! Share people!

Deaun, funny story. Did you notice if the tyrolean to Cobb is up? Edit update: Per Doug below, I guess it is :)

Okay here's what I did...It's not as impressive as car to car in an hour and ten on Freeway...

Friday - left work and thread for BC - climbed at Cob Rock - some 5.7 choss pile - Interesting line two pitches and rapped in the dark...

Saturday - No Climbing - ran Royal Arch after my part-time job at an outdoor store (an acronym)

Sunday - Climbed/Hiked at the Monastery - some tall sport lines that you need two ropes to get down 5.6-5.9...First time there - pretty cool minus the approach and descent...

Cool weekend Doug. Friends, climbers, MP trolls and lurkers: don't leave D & D hanging out there alone. What did you pull on the last coupla days?

oh...my...god...is this thread still going?

Bob D'Antonio wrote: Same goes here...hope you know I was just teasing.

I was sure it was something to laugh at this whole time;p but seriously let's get out and climb sometime (with proper 21st century North American attire).
As for this weekend, I climbed 3 pitches at Elephant buttress and rode an inertube down Boulder Creek. I know that sounds weak, but I was on call for work (hence I only trolled this thread while on the clock and never during time I could be climbing).

Finally somebody posts up a picture of a clown! It's just a stupid creepy lamp, but it is a clown. The offer of free cheese still stands for anyone who can send a .10 or better wearing clown shoes. Shirt or no shirt, I don't give a f*ck anymore.

No crags in my weekend, sad to say. Jeff and I haven't squeezed the Lemmon for over a week - and he's going to Smith Rock this weekend - lucky dog! I'll be at the gym whispering ave marias under my breath as I get a belay from our ESL pal. Looks like it's another two weeks of plastic for my sorry ass. Then we get to go to D.C. for work and back to that mediocre Metro Rock gym if we can pass their fascist belay test! No offense to the gym staff (at least none to the ones who know what the hell they are talking about). I know it's all about their lawyers, but seriously what real purpose does a double over hand after an f8 serve?

That's a rhetorical question. Now I am going to go find a wiener gourd and go to the gym.

metrozen wrote:I know it's all about their lawyers, but seriously what real purpose does a double over hand after an f8 serve? That's a rhetorical question.

Exactly. I have never figured that one out. If a properly tied figure 8 fails your body has been subjected to forces you probably don't want to survive anyway. I forgot my belay device one time when visiting a new gym and proudly declared that I would "just use a Muenter Hitch" during my belay test. They told me that I'd be bouldering that night.

Kirra!! (I'm starting to feel like a regular at the Cheers bar :)

Not So Famous Old Dude wrote:I forgot my belay device one time when visiting a new gym and proudly declared that I would "just use a Muenter Hitch" during my belay test. They told me that I'd be bouldering that night.

*chuckle* That sparks a memory. My partner caught my first lead fall with a Muenter hitch on Hernia at Suicide Rock in SoCal, oh, about 29 years ago.

Where's the dude that started this thread? Probably on a sweet road trip climbin' and drinkin'.

Kirra please read thru all 10 pages before posting again. You've missed some very intellectual discussion and it is not about Bob upping his size - he already has the biggest penis gourd (that has been claimed so far). And what have you been doing offline that could possibly be more important than this website (and specifically this thread)?

NSFOD, I doubt many climbers these days know what a Muenter hitch is, much less how to use one. I learned many (many) years ago because I dropped my belay device from a few multi pitch routes. One time my partner and I both managed to drop our tubers on the first 2 pitches of an 11 pitch ice route. Amazing I bumbled my way up anything...

PRRose wrote:A Munter hitch puts a nasty twist in the rope. Real climbers use body belays.

Exactly PR...that's why I use a muenter hitch. You don't have to rub it in.

Deaun Schovajsa wrote:Kirra please read thru all 10 pages before posting again. You've missed some very intellectual discussion and it is not about Bob upping his size - he already has the biggest penis gourd (that has been claimed so far).

ahhh cummon Deaun~ now reading ALL of that could SERIOUSLY impact climbing time ~(: >> seems all ok as I didn't miss any beer night, perhaps I could leave 'ketchup' for the DarkHorse or base of the next crag ~ beer or climbing anyone..?

Please if you could be so kind, tell me if this topic ever drifted to guys & their nip-piercings... and if you think any x-tra visual distractions are a 'positive thing' in a climbing gym where folks should really be trying to focus on their partner at hand

hey where's chelsea... isn't she still missing her prana top..???

PRRose wrote:A Munter hitch puts a nasty twist in the rope. Real climbers use body belays.

I tried to do one of those body rappels one time. Ouch. That must have been for significantly less than vertical terrain and with a whole bunch of wool layers on.

Yeah, you definitely can't body belay/rappel shirtless...

PRRose wrote:A Munter hitch puts a nasty twist in the rope. Real climbers use body belays.

Oh man, another memory. So, a (different) buddy and I climbed the Nose when we were 17, pre-sticky rubber and pre-cams (they had just come out and were exotic and too expensive, 'specially for us). For whatever reason, we hip belayed all the way up. Not sure why we shunned Sticht belay plates; probably thought the body's natural flex was a softer catch than the static locking on a plate. I shudder to remember his grunts and moans as I kicked across King Swings.

Also shudder to remember that, clipped to the fixed knife blade after the first pendulum, I forgot to tie into a bite of rope before untying the end to pass through a ring to lower for the second pendulum. It suddenly struck me that I was hanging from a rusty, Harding-era blade, with the end of the rope in my hand...1,600' up. Fastest knot I ever tied!

That might be a useful thread: what's the stupidest mistake you've been lucky to survive? Has that already been done on MP?

Edit: Lol, Doug. Keepin' it relevant!

If we are going to take this thing to it's grave - we have to keep it relevant and on topic to exhaust all possible thoughts on the topic of personal climbing attire.

Edit: Page 11? This is ridiculous

what about those friggin low-rider pants half way down to the knee. yeah, you're cool -- a real american hero,

mr. wear my pants down past my ass dipshit

Mark Nelson wrote:what about those friggin low-rider pants half way down to the knee. yeah, you're cool -- a real american hero, mr. wear my pants down past my ass dipshit

I'll thank you to not talk that way about my teenage son! ...and half the other kids out there :)