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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oh yah, is that rattle snake still in the crack you're about to & need to use?
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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"Belay's shitty, don't fall!"
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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"See this knife? If you fall, I'm not going with you!"
LOL! I'm going to use that one!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has refused to tie in when there was no anchor and no pro, am I?
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Finally got to a good drilling stance.
"Dude, you forgot the drill, send me down the PDL and hang on"
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Aya K
Trad climber
Boulder, CO!
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On some picked out ice pitch or another, I was complaining about not having any un-used ice in which to put a screw
"Oh, you're an old screw hole!"
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has refused to tie in when there was no anchor and no pro, am I?
No you are not alone....
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GrahamJ
climber
In the rain
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While I was being particularly slow leading a hard pitch: "Get the sand out of your pussy and MOVE!"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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guyman, that was yer cue to tell us a story not to tell me what I already knew. :-)
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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"Get back down here so we can smoke this.."
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TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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After sending a microwave-sized block directly towards my belayer, the best thing I ever heard was him asking if I was okay.
TE
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Just remembered this one...."Uh, if you step about 5 ft to the right, you'll actually be on route and the difficulty will go down substantially".
Edit:(on something in Boulder Canyon, I think on Blob Rock)
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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belay off
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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After being out of sight for a few minutes my belayer yells up, "OK, I'm back now".
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jstan
climber
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The worst think you ever hear from a belayer while leading...
As you are at the crux. "Holy shit! Did you see that babe that just went by?"
Bad on any level you look at it.
Has to be a Sheridan Anderson graphic on this. Sheridan's work was far too serious to call them cartoons.
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Port
Trad climber
San Diego
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"Hold tight, there's a bear coming"
First pitch I ever climbed in Yosemite.
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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One of my favorite things my belayer has said was when I was about to enter the crux on a climb, I look down to see him making a f*#king sandwich, no hands on the rope, and on an ATC.
When I asked him what the f*#k he was doing, he kind of shrugged it off and said he was hungry.
I haven't climbed with him since.
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Ed H
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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I took my ski buddy climbing on a moderate route. He says 'I don't see why I have to stand down here doing this, you're not putting any of those things in'
Good point! Get some gear!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"Christ Fritz!” “When is a belay, ever, really good!” Pachydermial Pleasantries 1977
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I had just belayed Dusan down over the bergschrund at the top of Liberty Ridge. It was almost
pitch dark, the approaching storm's gusts were approaching 40 knotts, it was late January,
and we had no bivy gear. When I descended to the upper lip of the schrund i heard a voice,
"Reilly, don't come down that snow bridge, go east about 50 feet."
I couldn't see anything below me but there was enough light left that Dusan could see me.
I walked east until I heard him say,
"Stop there. Now, jump."
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