I learned something today. So I can take a rack of 12 draws, and climb a trad route?Day wrote:It can be 100% fixed gear and still be trad. Many Tuolumne and Joshua Tree classics are 100% bolt protected. These routes were established ground up, on lead, and are most definitely not sport climbs.
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yes piggie. sometimes you should try getting off your fixed rap bolting static line and road trip some. go get on an old school slab route in j-tree. i was skered shitless a few times and most the time it was on 5.9 or less. the gear routes are much tamer ! or go get on some of the north carolina "bolted" routes and see if you think they are sport.pigsteak wrote:I learned something today. So I can take a rack of 12 draws, and climb a trad route?Day wrote:It can be 100% fixed gear and still be trad. Many Tuolumne and Joshua Tree classics are 100% bolt protected. These routes were established ground up, on lead, and are most definitely not sport climbs.
imo,1 bolt on a trad route is acceptable if there is a fall that will mame or kill you and no possible option for gear. thats what i consider a mixed climb. but most the time trad is trad, sometimes falling is not an option, when in doubt run it out.
its all situational/hypocritical ethics and every ones is different and from what i have experienced every ones has changed or will change at some point. a lot has to do with the area. the red all and all is a sport area, especially the newly developed areas like muir and the southern region. to me its goofier than hell to have 8 bolts and one piece of gear on a climb. are you really respecting the rock and all the people that follow by drilling 8 holes in the wall instead of 9 ?
piggie as scary as it is i agree with you on a lot of points. why do people get so carried away about putting a bolt close to a vertical crack but bolt or dont complain at all if a bolt is placed close to a horizontal, chicken heads, other natural feature ?
A LOT of the routes in the red could go on gear and be somewhat "safe". if people want to go balls out then lets go on a chopping spree and go balls out !!! but have your "ethics" in check and dont change them when the move is hard for you or you get a little skered of a fall.
situational ethics rule !
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here's my take:
If i have the possibility of placing a piece of traddy gear, it's a mixed line. So:
There are no sport routes in the Red River Gorge. There are a lot of routes with bolts that could take gear if you wanted to/were able to place it. FAs of bolted routes were all done by pansys who placed bolts because they were too scared to place gear.
Now days we can choose to climb the route with all gear or just clip all the bolts if we're chicken like the FA (probably pigsteak). If you really wanted to "sew it up", you could even place gear between the bolts (or right next to them at times), and make it nice and safe.
So all RRG routes are trad or mixed, there is no sport climbing.
thus sayeth the lawd.
If i have the possibility of placing a piece of traddy gear, it's a mixed line. So:
There are no sport routes in the Red River Gorge. There are a lot of routes with bolts that could take gear if you wanted to/were able to place it. FAs of bolted routes were all done by pansys who placed bolts because they were too scared to place gear.
Now days we can choose to climb the route with all gear or just clip all the bolts if we're chicken like the FA (probably pigsteak). If you really wanted to "sew it up", you could even place gear between the bolts (or right next to them at times), and make it nice and safe.
So all RRG routes are trad or mixed, there is no sport climbing.
thus sayeth the lawd.
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damn all those pansysJB wrote:here's my take:
FAs of bolted routes were all done by pansys who placed bolts because they were too scared to place gear.
just clip all the bolts if we're chicken like the FA
there is no sport climbing.
thus sayeth the lawd.
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Quite trying to make Face Up To That Crack a sport route. It's the perfect beginner Trad Climb. You sissies, I've seen countless beginners climb that thing without the bolt and they all loved it. Probably the only climb they will remember. Perfect if you want to place your first piece on lead. Respect the FA. You all are just jealous you didn't get there first.
no, you missed my post. face up is definitely a mixed climb. there is no such thing as sport climbing.TradMike wrote:Quite trying to make Face Up To That Crack a sport route. It's the perfect beginner Trad Climb.
heck yes i was a pansy on chocolate waterfall and i put bolts where i didn't find gear and was too chicken to run it out. and shame on you for reminding me that my first and best bolted route is now closed!RRO wrote:damn all those pansys icon_smile.gif
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