Posted: 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?
Is that climbing two pitches?
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:01 pm
sure is.
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: 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...
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:07 pm
Sorry, that's what a pitch is.......really, it's not my fault.
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:39 pm
A pitch ends where the belay changes. It can be any length shorter than your rope.
Posted: 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
Mj
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: 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.
Posted: 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.