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Re: Have you ever placed a pin?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:27 am
by woodchuck008
captain static wrote: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)

Re: Have you ever placed a pin?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:06 am
by 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?