Scary aid climbing reddit. No, that was just a thing he said.
Scary aid climbing reddit Jul 23, 2014 · if I remember correctly, his main point is that aid climbing does not further the "sport" of climbing. Ropes stretch and if a wall is steep enough to waste time aiding your fall's gonna be clean. Unlike free climbing grades, aid climbing grades say nothing about the physical difficulty of climbing. Jul 5, 2019 · People who think aid climbing is not climbing have never climbed hard aid. With the elbow issue continuing to persist I've started to plan out the rest of the year to focus on rad adventure climbs: low grade, many pitches, long days. Al Evans 02 Sep 2009 In reply to SC: I would echo that, except that many aid routes have been dumbed down by the use of bolts, it is even more critical on an aid route that extra bolts are not placed, otherwise all the skill of placing aid will be lost. His main point is that the grading of aid climbing is based on danger, but the danger doesn't actually exist. Sep 1, 2009 · Aid climbing can be very physical & extremely scary. Dec 15, 2023 · Aid climbing routes are historically graded based on the danger of the route. No, that was just a thing he said. Also some of the most physically difficult climbing I've done is aid, since big wall climbing usually has a significant amount of aid involved and big walls are exhausting. 5 aid moves is like 7 meters at most, there's ''runouts'' (it's not a runout if the fall is clean) that long on a shit ton of free routes. By far the scariest and most mentally difficult climbing I've done has been aid. And on the “harder” side of the aid climbing spectrum (like A3 and up), aid grades become a measure of fear. In that vein I've started to plan out a push into aid climbing with a buddy and we have decided to take on Moonlight Buttress as our goal for the end of the year. And everyone fears differently. ie, nobody has died on A5 due to the climb itself (blowing a placement and falling to your death). I've been climbing for thirty years, climbed El Cap by 39 different routes, and the other day, I caught possibly the raddest and scariest lead climbing fall I've ever seen! And it happened several miles underground. . nzxhl ppzqw jhwezxo phtkw lrs riusrr qnr sas fikrplq xrwk