Climbing Pet Peeves

[One-Fall]

- People who see climbing as a competition and judgement of self-worth and project that onto others around them.

- When someone is repeatedly falling on a climb and they start proclaiming all their sends that are 2-3# grades harder than what they are falling off of.

Your tick list is not a validation of how good a person you are.

Conversely:
I love climbing with newbies because they haven't developed the ego associated with climbing
I love climbing with people who have been in the sport long enough, that they have transcended the notion of high grades = respect

[marathonmedic]

Tick marks.
Groups of people who are talking so loudly that I can't communicate with my sketched-out partner.
People who complain about having such a huge recreational area free for use but put very little into developing/maintaining it.
People who expect a route that is 1 month old to be as clean as one that is 10 years old.
Groups that tie up all the routes of a single level at the crag.
Did I mention tick marks?

[Toad]

Getting bitten in the middle of the back by an ultra satanic blood thirsty rabid sabertoothed deerfly.

People that talk about their "injury" loudly enough so everyone at the crag can hear them so that they can look like a hero for being out climbing or as a preamble to their weakness.

False modesty.

Bad belayers and climbers showing up at a cliff and won't take friendly advice on how not to die and screw up everone's day.

People reserving routes because somebody's going to climb it when they're finished hang-dogging the other route they're hogging.

Entitlement.

People that show up, watch you put up a route that they would never have looked at in the first place, and want to climb it only because your draws are on it. Then they take forever to get up it. You loose your warm-up. Etc...

When somebody says, "Dude. My bad." after they f***** up something that's yours at the cliff.

I'm sure I'll have more later...

[Yasmeen]

It bugs me when anchor draws are hung on the last chain link or rap ring because it makes cleaning more time consuming.

I do this, but only because I remember a thread a year or so ago that pointed out that hanging the anchor draws directly off the anchor is not the best idea:
http://www.redriverclimbing.com/viewtop ... ght=anchor

[merrick]

ok pigsteak, I know reading is hard for you. lets analyze my statement...

i first said that climbers all annoy me.

then i said that i would rather hang out with climber than others.

now the logical and implied conclusion to draw from this is that others annoy me more.

ergo...i hate everyone and am not a peacenick, hippie, buddhist person.



in actuality i really don't get annoyed by anyone and generally find pet peeves to be amusing ideosyncricies. and of course i could never hate sprawga or any of those other mothercluckers

[Spragwa]

It bugs me when anchor draws are hung on the last chain link or rap ring because it makes cleaning more time consuming.

I do this, but only because I remember a thread a year or so ago that pointed out that hanging the anchor draws directly off the anchor is not the best idea:
http://www.redriverclimbing.com/viewtop ... ght=anchor

This irritates me too but I don't say anything b/c of the thread Yasi posted. Instead, I take up three draws with which to clean, knowing that the draws are through the last link or rap ring. It's a pain but worth it I guess.

[rhunt]

It bugs me when anchor draws are hung on the last chain link or rap ring because it makes cleaning more time consuming.

I do this, but only because I remember a thread a year or so ago that pointed out that hanging the anchor draws directly off the anchor is not the best idea:
http://www.redriverclimbing.com/viewtop ... ght=anchor

That thread is addressing a very specific type of anchor. Most chain anchors at the Red are not this type.

[StephyG]

Aren''t some of those rings rolled aluminum - meaning hollow and weak? Thats why I clip into the hangers. Its hard to tell without feeling their weight.

[TradMike]

People with the holier than thou attitude that can't keep it to themselves.

Being taken off belay when I'm still climbing but you are forgiven.

[Christian]

1.people smoking right below you on a climb(physics: the smoke rises)
2. people giving unsolicited beta
3. people giving beta to a climber like the climber is in fucking grade school:
"That's good little johnny. keep trying . just one more move and you'll be off the fucking ground johnny. that's good johnny, now keep breathing blah, blah blah..."shut the fuckup brother beta.