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Jeffo
Trad climber
Virginia
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 1, 2006 - 11:23am PT
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Pro's....Con's.
Anybody considering doing some solo aid in the rain?
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Free climbing in the rain is fun, but you better be careful, and leave the chalk at home, LOL. Quick dry clothes are good.
CLimbing though waterfalls is COLD in February, even in the southeast. Go waterproof right down to the shoes, and watch out for slime n mud.
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Get yourself a paddling jacket. With rubber gaskets at the neck and wrists water can't get in.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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synonymous with climbing in Canada...
...cowboy up and send!
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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upper pitches of Royal Arches in a hard rain, cold and sun going down!! Didn't want to bivy on the route so, took out a pair of sox, put them over my climbing shoes, and away we went. Had to take a litle more time, but got us on top without any problems. Circa:'78 or'79
Peace
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Be more specific... climbing in the rain and getting soaked, or climbing outside when it's raining (thunderstorm!) and staying dry as a bone due to the steep nature of the area in which you are climbing?? You can climb every weekend rain or shine down here if you're willing/able to climb steep rock.
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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa Mexico
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I solo aid in the rain and snow on stuff at J-tree to test my foul weather gear. if I'm on a big wall I want this stuff right and tested.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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These days I mostly avoid the rain because it's easy to do living in California.
Lately, going to the Valley aid climbing in the rain, or just after a rain. This is wet, but not too bad and I like to think it toughens up my character (it doesn't... much).
About a month ago Aaron and I were avoiding thunderstorms in Tuolumne Meadows, backed off one climb and went down to Stately Pleasure Dome to do Dixie Peach. Aaron made the chains and I launched up racing an oncoming squall which I tracked from Olmstead Point. Didn't quite make it and had to squeeze out the last few moves on slab with it totally wet. Kinda fun, if careful, you really spot the edges and move precisely!
In the past when I lived in the east the rains would last so long in the spring that nothing kept us away from climbing. I remember going to the 'Gunks and climbing much easier climbs in the rain, just to climb... possible there because the character of the climbing seemed to allow for upward progress, at least on the easier climbs. I remember doing Belly Roll and getting completely soaked.
Then there is Canada... when summer is "normal" in the lower 48 it means the Pacific highs are blocking the storms coming in from the Gulf of Alaska, they block the storms to track through Canada... giving climbing there one of its primary characteristics: precipitation (the other is the fact that the Canadian Rockies are mostly large piles of chip sized rocks, glued together by ice, at least when it's cold). We climbed Mt. Athabasca, North Glacier in a rain, probably pretty stupid, at least that is what I thought when we were trudging over the serac/avalanche debris, we couldn't see anything, at one point I couldn't see the lead climber on a 3 climber rope. We summited, and then descended. Thankfully a pretty easy climb, and warm enough not to be snowing at altitude... yikes! The next day we drove south to find some better weather, staying in Canada...
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Another vote for the steeps, I've spent a few days at Rifle, when it poured and it didn't affect our climbing at all.
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