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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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"TITS"
Greatest idea for holds in a gym I've evah heard.
It has my full attention and support, Braw!
"Five twelve, D dup."
The thread lives.
The BVB is a genus!
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David D.
climber
Pacific Grove, CA
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Sanctuary Rock Gym in Monterey has a few "real rock" holds scattered about, they are mainly big jugs though. I don't know how you would make smaller crimpers and such, it seems like it would be harder...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Please...let us not let rock get in the way of rock climbing.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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A friend of mine, who lives on the New River Gorge, covered the inside of his cabin with natural rock holds.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Almost every time i go on a trip, depending on the area i'll grab a nice piece of stone off the ground that has one good flat side, usually around the shape of a credit card and not more than 3/4 " thick, pocket sized. Any sort of heavy duty construction adhesive will work fine on a vertical wall. Right now my garage traverse goes from Squamish, to Bliss to Red Rocks, to Joes Valley. Still have a few rocks to go up on the overhang including a hold a friend broke off a very classic squamish boulder problem, a nice leavenworth pinch, some little sierra knob footholds, and a nice crimper from the druids, for the bigger ones I will probably use something similar to Bruce's technique to hang. Thanks for the ideas.
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M Flesher
Social climber
Kennewick
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Jan 19, 2014 - 12:31am PT
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This summer I built a wall in my backyard grand kids play area and used some molded and some natural rocks. The natural rocks are rainbow sand stone called "Real Rock" from southwest stone products or grip a rock. They are screw in variety, and affordable at about 50 holds for $75. If you tighten the screws too much they will crack, or sometimes crack with temperature changes. They are outside and seem to be holding up to our winter weather well, they are under a small overhang on a shed wall so not getting wet.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Jan 19, 2014 - 02:18am PT
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I've posted pics of some of my river-eroded volcanic holds on an older thread here, but even thin rock destroys drill bits fast ($).
I would look at real rock as a blueprint of sorts, but not as the final product (so what if it's a real stone, if it's bolted to a flat sheet of 4x8 plywood is a waste of time cuz rock is never straight or level perse).
It is a good thought,
but just too simplistic.
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