How many days did you climb in 2012?

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mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Dec 23, 2012 - 06:51pm PT

weekly bruises +pitch total\ 2 = climb total

Well sh#t, I've only climbed but twice then. Who knew my immaculate technique would limit my days of climbing...

lucander

Trad climber

Shawangunks, New York

Dec 23, 2012 - 10:27pm PT

101. It was 99 when I last posted, but I recounted while not having been working all day. Incidentally, day 101 came today as a surprise. Day 100 included my ump-teenth lap on my favorite climb in the Gunks.

LuckyPink

climber

the last bivy

Dec 23, 2012 - 10:36pm PT

amazing record keepers ! I don't even take pictures. Luckily I get out a lot for climbing moutnaineering skiing kayaking and now some rafting. But I wouldn't even begin to count days or pitches. I'm lucky to have a home crag too. Normalizes it a bit.

richross

Trad climber

Dec 23, 2012 - 10:47pm PT

Day 100 included my ump-teenth lap on my favorite climb in the Gunks.

Which one of my routes is that? :-)

GDavis

Social climber

SOL CAL

Dec 23, 2012 - 11:20pm PT

It's kind of like a quality vs. quantity thing... like, I'm sure I've gone out dozens of times to huck a few TR laps or something before it got dark. I've also done longer routes on big mountains that took the whole day.

I like to take a lot of pictures now, mostly of my friends and the routes we did. SOmetimes I'll jot down a few words about that day - it used to be oh, I led that then I led this and then I got my ass kicked on this. Now it's more like Lucas sh#t his pants, then I forgot my harness so had to belay on a bowline on a coil. I'll write down funny things that happened on the drive up or what a chossy peice of sh#t was so hopefully I remember - those stories are AWESOME. Something about everyone laughing AT you at your idiot predicament, pulling off flakes and missing hangers.

If the goal is to climb outdoors more for the experience, then the goal is the experience... right/left brain, sure, quantity vs quality. I like to use those numbers to catalog and reference things, but keeping the experience paramount and being objective enough to look at what your doing and say "is this the best experience I can give myself?" seems to be the way to go. Lots of times my voice says the best experience is to try to train harder to be a better climber to experience more beautiful lines, which can be thought of as extreme left brain. I don't think it is, I think its like I have a hand on each side of the wheel and I shuffle them alternating up and down to follow a path that seems the most fun.

lucander

Trad climber

Shawangunks, New York

Dec 23, 2012 - 11:28pm PT

Hey Rich,

It was Never Never Land - not one of yours, but just to the right of your vastly under appreciated classic, Nevermore.

One of your climbs came on day 99 though, Grave Yard Shift.

DL

Rhodo-Router

Gym climber

sawatch choss

Dec 24, 2012 - 08:55am PT

I didn't keep track, which is unusual for me. I spent most of 2011 wearing a hole in my bike seat (or was it my butt?) so every day out this year seemed like a gift.

Jan-Feb.: Lots of climbing in the Southeast- some familiar spots, and some new ones. Low-key fun climbing with my wife. Scampering around Rocktown is amazing.

In March we got to go to the desert in Utah for a couple weeks. More low-ambition fun, except for a major beat-down on the Big Guy.

Two great days out in the Black with solid partners: Atlantis, and (most of) Astrodog. Both new to me. I still need to clean up the Astrodog, as we didn't quite start at the bottom.

Worked a couple days in Vedauwoo on an OB course. Snuck out one evening to hang tough on Spectreman, the only personal climbing we managed on that trip.

Highlight of the year: 3 weeks in the Sierra with friends new and old. Thanks y'all.

The other highlight: finding a couple new bouldering spots closer to home. I almost delayed my departure for the East Side in order to keep climbing there, but came to my senses and met up with Hoots in Mammoth.

This is probably going to be the first fall in a long while that I don't make it to the T-Wall at all.

bbbeans

Trad climber

Missoula, MT

Dec 24, 2012 - 10:28am PT

Reminds me of skiers counting their days. A bit of a pissing contest. If you climb a route and go home is that a 'day'?

MisterE

Social climber

Dec 24, 2012 - 10:45am PT

I think bbbeans answer is "not enough" days. Being pissed off about it required a more cryptic response.

GDavis

Social climber

SOL CAL

Dec 24, 2012 - 10:48am PT

I didn't keep track, which is unusual for me. I spent most of 2011 wearing a hole in my bike seat (or was it my butt?)

I recommend taking the whole seat off entirely, makes it harder to fall off and it's more fun!

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Dec 24, 2012 - 10:50am PT

Zero in 2012.
I do keep an activity/training log and it says that I've done better.

Brian in SLC

Social climber

Salt Lake City, UT

Dec 24, 2012 - 11:35am PT

My locations (didn't list repeats):
Moab
Little Cottonwood
Spanish Fork Canyon
Tahquitz
Joshua Tree
West Desert Utah
Big Cottonwood
Castle Rock Idaho
City of Rocks Idaho
Tetons
Hellgate (LCC)
Sirta Italy
Val di Mello Italy
Albigna Switzerland
Legalb Switzerland
Sasso Biano Italy
Vho Italy
Bondasca Switzerland
Sasso del Drago Italy
Uintas
Devil’s Castle (LCC)
Superior (LCC)
Rocky Pass Utah
Suicide
Limekiln Canyon AZ
Sunset Alley Utah
Red Rock
Provo Canyon

eeyonkee

Trad climber

Golden, CO

Dec 24, 2012 - 11:45am PT

7. All were short days. Went to the gym yesterday and felt like Will Ferrel in Blades of Glory.

Mark Hudon

Trad climber

Hood River, OR

Dec 24, 2012 - 12:18pm PT

Not as many as I'd have liked due to a crag raptor closure and a biceps problem (since cleared up), but I feel I ended up with a very full value year.

From a total breakdown on Iron Hawk, two El Cap routes with Cheyne Lempe, an El Cap route (and the promise of more) with my long time friend and climbing partner Max Jones, my first time up Leaning Tower (a surprisingly good route) and first time climbing Skot Richards (a n00b today but very soon a Big Wall Wallrat) I had one of the best, most memorable climbing years of my life!
Add in all the great people I met along the way and it simply can't be beat!

phylp

Trad climber

Millbrae, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2012 - 01:17pm PT

Brian in SLC, I looked eagerly to read a trip report of the climbing adventures in Italy etc that you listed and found ZERO!! I know it' s a lot of work but if you have any time at all over the Holidays, could you write up some of that? Even if there aren't a lot of pictures, what I enjoy tremendously is people's impressions of the areas, the people, and the routes.

Merry Christmas Eve Day!

Brokedownclimber

Trad climber

Douglas, WY

Dec 26, 2012 - 03:14pm PT

Not. Nearly. Enough!

I only managed 6 days on the rock this year, due to a combination of business and legal hassles.

James Wilcox

Boulder climber

The Coast

Dec 26, 2012 - 04:01pm PT

If bouldering counts I'd estimate 125

mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Dec 26, 2012 - 05:09pm PT

boldering is neither

CascadeOtto

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Dec 26, 2012 - 05:31pm PT

28 days total, all in Darrington, WA. 25 of those were putting up a new route, almost all ground up. 7 of those were just establishing a way to the base...