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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jan 21, 2015 - 04:21pm PT
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Climbers...bitch about EVERYTHING.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jan 21, 2015 - 05:29pm PT
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Traversing pitches with no potential for ground fall, ledge or corner impact pose a much smaller risk to the noggin.
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Texplorer
Trad climber
Sacramento
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Jan 21, 2015 - 05:34pm PT
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Rule #1 - have beers in the car waiting
Rule #2 - looking good
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Jan 21, 2015 - 05:38pm PT
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helmets are efficient in case of rockfall.
if you fall, it is quite likely the helmet will not play a role in the outcome.
I disagree based on my experience.
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rurprider
Trad climber
Mt. Rubidoux
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Jan 21, 2015 - 05:40pm PT
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No helmet?????.........WHAT?????
Looks like a couple of solid helmet wearing citizens there!!!!
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okie
Trad climber
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Jan 21, 2015 - 05:57pm PT
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It's a personal choice, until it's not... like seatbelts and all that stuff.
We live in the helmet era now though, the helmet being a metaphor for our hyper consciousness of trying to control all the variables and stifling freedom and adventure.
I miss the days when the guys riding the Tour de France wore soft caps, when hockey players fought with style, when the guys riding motorcycles felt the wind in their hair. That was MY America.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jan 21, 2015 - 06:42pm PT
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Yes, helmets are optional.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 21, 2015 - 07:46pm PT
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the helmet being a metaphor for our hyper consciousness of trying to control all the variables and stifling freedom and adventure.
Freedom and adventure? I'm just trying to stifle skull fractures. My own. You can do what you want, of course.
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redrocks
Social climber
Las Vegas, NV
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Jan 21, 2015 - 08:07pm PT
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Saw a pic of FA. No helmet.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 21, 2015 - 08:33pm PT
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if you fall, it is quite likely the helmet will not play a role in the outcome.
We've scraped quite a few folks off the climbing world environment who would otherwise be dead or in a wheel chair from falls who where wearing helmets.
Sometimes they make a huge difference.
Then other times if your number is up it wouldn't matter what you have on that you think will save you ......
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Jan 21, 2015 - 09:01pm PT
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And what about the objective hazard of falling helmets?
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Jan 21, 2015 - 09:12pm PT
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in the future, climbers will wear fully protective pressure suits. you can just put on your pressure suit and your lightweight composite future helmet and go out onsight soloing like a true thug. just pick a crag and start rallying up some 12a you've never been on, grease off the crux, take a nice bouncy digger at the base and try it again. "ha ha remember when they used to use ropes lol!"
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Jan 21, 2015 - 09:29pm PT
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Jan 21, 2015 - 09:42pm PT
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WTF! That dude forgot his helmet!
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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Jan 21, 2015 - 09:52pm PT
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About the stepping on the rope: I have heard it directly from the mouth of Jim Bridwell that stepping on the rope doesn't matter.
I get the not wearing helmet on the part where their bodies needed to come so close to the granite. Didn't someone tip off on Southern Belle because of a hat brim?
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Lasti
Trad climber
Budapest
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Jan 21, 2015 - 10:04pm PT
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It would be lunacy to argue that helmets do not reduce the likelihood or severity of head injuries. Not wearing a helmet is just one of the, for the most part, calculated risks we as climbers take.
Lasti
ps. I was recently watching gritstone climbing videos, where big, ground-scraping falls are not unusual and was thinking the same thing, i.e. why wouldn't more of the climbers wear a helmet? I don't think it has anything to do with cool or not, its more about risk perception and control.
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Jan 21, 2015 - 10:11pm PT
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"off belay Kevin!"
"you're off!"
"yo bro there's a lot of camera's up here so make sure you're wearing your lid!"
"gotcha!"
"i mean, we don't want to send the wrong impression, right? on belay!"
"climbing! yeah, I hear you bro!"
"climb on! yeah man, think about the children"
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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Jan 21, 2015 - 11:57pm PT
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unless you have worn a helmet while sending a 5.14+ on el cap
...you all got got nothing to say about it
helmets have their place on el cap, (especially in a normal winter where falling ice is persistant, prevalent, and one might say possessed), but this was not one of them.
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nopantsben
climber
europe
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Jan 22, 2015 - 12:33am PT
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i meant to say that helmets are not really designed to protect you in case of a fall, as, say, biking helmets are. of course you can hit your head in spots where the helmet protects when you fall and you'll be happy about the helmet.
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