Every year spring rolls around and I start whining about bouldering season being over. Mostly because I’m a weenie, but partly because it’s no fun to pull on sharp, microscopic holds or sandpaper/crystaly/glassy slopers when it’s warm out. Fact.
This gripe leads inevitably to someone saying something like, “Yeah but rope climbing season is just getting started.”
Ok but so does that mean when you’re tied into a rope holds become less sharp? Do you sweat less in a harness? Are there fewer rage-inducing insects biting the shit out of you? The whole thing kinda confuses me.
So I put together a Venn diagram to try and clear it up…
Nope. Doesn’t help. Oh well.
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very scientific.
ahhhh, if I had the answer to everything....
But then again, I do have these:
Yes, when you're tied in, holds are less sharp, unless you're projecting some heinous 13+ stuff. Rumney for example: not hard to find mid-12s with mostly big holds and big moves between them. Big holds I mean by bouldering standards.
Yes, I actually do believe there are less bugs around crags than there are around boulders. Unless the crag overlooks a swamp. But bugs are hell for everyone. It's illegal in Canad-eh, but I know you guys can buy some flesh-melting 90 proof deet stuff.
And sweating in a harness sucks for sure, but it's either that or staying home fixing shit around the house and sweating just the same.
The bigger issue, though, is how one approaches the whole climbing gig. See, I don't mind climbing fun 10s all day if it's too hot and sweaty to try more committing stuff. But bouldering V0s all day would probably bore me. And I'm not a project driven climber. I have a ticklist, but I'm in no rush to tick anything.
Oh man, now this comment is going on a tangent from tissue's post, and I just realized I could've summarized the whole thing in one sentence: climbing outside when it's hot and sweaty beats not climbing, climbing in a gym, and climbing in a garage.
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