Terminology ~ is it just me or... "Really?... C'mon!"

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TrundleBum

Trad climber
Las Vegas
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 21, 2014 - 04:14am PT
I know I have an issue with some accepted contemporary terms...
Is it just me or what?

Would you call a six pitch climb a wall?
Would you call this a Hanging Belay ...?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 21, 2014 - 06:42am PT
"Or what?"

Or WHAT?

Are you shtitting us?

And WTF is this crapola ~ ?

Whaddya?

Belay that.

I'm hyper tonight!!!!!!!!!!!

And I'm standing on that. Like in the photO.

Their S is hanging by this thread, you realize...

And no thread is complete unless accompanied by illustration.

Thx GI.My mistake, it's Pembroke, not Cornwall.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jan 21, 2014 - 09:55am PT
It's a "hanging out" belay. You could put a putting green on that ledge.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 21, 2014 - 09:59am PT
BWA HA HA HA hahahaaa!!!
Srbphoto

climber
Kennewick wa
Jan 21, 2014 - 10:25am PT
from that thread...


"Hanging belay means you are belaying while on the wall. Usually you are actually hanging i.e. sitting in your harness."
emphasis added
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Jan 21, 2014 - 11:44am PT
Lots of walls in my house. It would fall down without them.
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