Have you ever placed a pin?

[woodchuck008]

That' what I thought. Mostly old timers. I started climbing in 1971 (yes I am that old) right on the cusp of the clean climbing revolution. On of my first climbing partners had machine nust with the threads ground out on his rack. My experience back then was using pins for aid.

I started a couple years later, and much the same conditions. Have placed more than my age , that's for sure (61)

[ynp1]

Have i placed more pins then my age... Yes, pitch after pitch.

Aid climbing is the purest form of chipping and all you free climbers should be thanking us.

I pounded pins in the hardest trad climb in the red. where is my thanks?