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Chinchen

climber

Way out there....

Oct 18, 2012 - 11:17am PT

.....bury your tampon applicator under the Iron Man Traverse.......

Rhodo-Router

Gym climber

overchalking on Grant's Crack

Oct 18, 2012 - 12:31pm PT

Piss under the overhang where it never rains.

Learn to aid climb on the start of the Salathe while people are trying to start the route.

Crank your boombox so loud that you are forced to name-drop at an even louder volume between drags on nasty butt. [Shelf road, weekend, never again!]

Create massive log/branch pile to level out landing beneath boulder and leave without dismantling.

Tick holds.

Tick every single hold.

Tick footholds too.

Tick every single hand and foot hold, even on the 5.8 moves on a 5.11 route.

Tick in crayon (!) so it will never go away.

Knock my partner's water bottle off the Rostrum midway ledge and fail to apologize, while cutting ahead of us.

dejavu75

Trad climber

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

Oct 18, 2012 - 02:44pm PT

Let your dogs run loose on a talus field, knocking rocks down onto people below...

Fletcher

Trad climber

Fumbling towards stone

Oct 18, 2012 - 02:53pm PT

Practice aiding on a well travelled classic like Jam Crack. Granted, it was midweek in November, but a classic's a classic and I wanted to climb it that day (and take my friend up it, who'd never climbed it).

Eric

ladyscarlett

Trad climber

SF Bay Area, California

Oct 18, 2012 - 03:52pm PT

Yes, I think it IS bad form to lock up that many routes...

I'll say, there's much a group can do to mitigate bad feelings...like sharing the top ropes. One group, upon seeing me and my partner considering one of the already roped routes, offered to take down their rope, and haul up ours if we wanted to top rope it. The only concession was to haul up their rope and set it up again once we were done with the route.

It worked out well as we were going to TR it anyway...

I'll say, I'm much more hesitant to hop on other people's ropes when they offer on a crowded wall, as that's how I ended up climbing on the rope in my avatar pic...apparently we didn't know we were supposed to climb on the other end...the 'good' end...HA!

And the worst case of bad form I've experienced so far wasn't farts (cause those can be involuntary or whatever), but this. One partner asking for some water at the summit (he had none of is own), and using the last of my water...TO WASH HIS HANDS!!!!

It was a long thirsty walk of that day, and lessoned learned.

Cheers

LS

Seamstress

Trad climber

Yacolt, WA

Oct 18, 2012 - 07:53pm PT

Take an organized - and I mean organized and coordinated - group climbing and systematically tie up every moderate climb for an entire weekend. We witnessed this several times at Smith. The group of 60 fanned out at 8 AM, in trios, each trio with their assigned area. Leaders stayed firmly in place armed with GMRS radios to choreograph their swaps of climbs and/or climbers. No climb rated below 5.9 was left for the general public to have access. There was no way to cut in the endless procession. No commercial group would/could do such a thing, but apparently a "club" which collects funds for its classes will do so. And complaints to the Park were received with sympathy, but no action.

g-tech

Trad climber

Oakland!

Oct 18, 2012 - 08:19pm PT

I climb with large groups often, 6-20 people. We tie up lots of routes. When another group approaches, I will offer them the use of our rope or to pull it. It just seems appropriate when ur bringing a group.