>>2326838What do they say about the condition of your gear?
How about women who think that fucking a lot of climbers makes them knowledgeable? Sorry hunny, knowledge is not passed through the semen. I saw these two girls sporting, the one was cleaning and the one below -seeing the other was tethered- shouted unprompted "i took you off belay". Apparently that's just how they communicate. And then the cleaner rappels down with no third hand, instead just a quickdraw clipped to the brake strands and belay loop -as if that accomplishes anything.
On the flipside, i really respect people who ask for help. One guy was about to rap with a grigri down a hardware store rope (he was setting up a toprope and didn't know how to rap down his doubled rope and he had no atc, just the grigri)
*Side note: grigris in general piss me off because it instills a false sense of security in beginners, teaching bad habit of lazy brake hand. I'm not against using them, but you gotta treat the grigri like an atc in case it doesn't lock
Anyway, i set up the guys toprope for him and it was all good and i explained how to do it in the future.
And another gripe: how liberal climbing is, this culture of getting MORE people into climbing as if we need more people, bolting everything, new belay bolts on historical pristine classics that never needed bolts even before cams existed. Big sad. And then the tolerant liberals boot you off every climbing Facebook group for being sightly critical or not pretending to be nice all the time.
Do you think Tommy Caldwell posts here?
