One Pitch

Post by **Artsay** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:59 pm

OK, so what if you climb a 60ft route and then downclimb it...
Is that climbing two pitches?

Post by **pigsteak** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:01 pm

sure is.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:29 pm

Don't say pitches. Quantify it by saying " I climbed XX vertical feet.
FYI a true pitch is a full length of rope. Hence, a pitch of rope. Get a 30 meter rope and 30 meters is a pitch.

Post by **pigsteak** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:32 pm

ou oh dirt..you is gonna inlfame all the sporties who like to spray about how many pitches they do in a day at the red...they need to cut their sprays in half now...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:07 pm

Sorry, that's what a pitch is.......really, it's not my fault.

Post by **ynot** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:39 pm

A pitch ends where the belay changes. It can be any length shorter than your rope.

Post by **SikMonkey** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 4:05 am

I agree Ynot. My rope ends and the belay changes every time I lower off a route.

Mj

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:38 am

I am using the nautical term for clarification of what a "true" pitch is. Anything less than what the original definition of IT is is a less than original definition.
And while we are on the subject of nautical terms...... I wince everytime I hear someone say "flaking out a rope". The nautical term is to "fake down a rope"; It is an ancient mariner term. It's just another word or term in proper English that has been dumbed down for the masses. I don't expect any one to change their syntax. It's just a thing that gets me.

Post by **Meadows** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:14 pm

dirt, Language is not constant anyway. Faking a rope is coiling it so does "faking down" mean uncoiling? If not, "flaking out" makes sense, in a way.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 3:04 pm

I know it can change. I just think that its a cool term. Probably coined by illiterate sailors and remarked on by some scholar who was on board. I hate to see it reabsorbed.