Hats off to you, I can't even comprehend what you're planning.
What makes someone want to climb a wall upside down on their fingertips?
It is Dumbuck Just around the road from me.
Fear of heights is good, fear of the ground is healthier though.
I admit its out of my technical ability, not that that will stop me, The pitch isn't going anywhere, no matter how many attempts I fail it cant escape
I've been to Aucinstarry a really good day out to be had there, anything over E2 kicks my ass though, but I never really had the drive nor inclination to really go to town.
Similarly with some of the pitches in Ratho and my old haunt up the cobbler (the rock conditions at Arrochar have gone downhill though, every old pitch I used to climb is all crumbly and fairly dangerous now... maybe it always was and i was just too young and stupid to care though)
I'm planning Happiness in slavery and possibly Devastation generation if happiness works to plan this year and next year hoping to tackle the castle's Rhapsody route, not all that confident about training for an E11 climb though, but its a local route I've always drooled over thinking "one day."
Been training flat out for happiness though so if I can continue to keep up the pace till next summer and spend the winter abusing finger/peg and campus boards I might actually stand a chance.
This is coming from a fatass 16.5st lump of shit at the beginning of the year though. Just hit my goal of 12st in April however, so like I said I've been hitting the training hard, 4hrs on average per day.
@ RedSpider.
You can walk up to the top RedSpider, its a quarry face, means I can check the bolt condition before asking any of them to support my weight + gravity force from a fall.
Think of most climbing like a multi storey building where you can either take the lift or tackle the stairs. Getting to the top of things is always easy, getting to the top via a specific route... not so much.
Its far more interesting to ascend though
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Hats off to you, I can't even comprehend what you're planning.
What makes someone want to climb a wall upside down on their fingertips?
Because you can!
Climbing as a sport takes a lot, its not just physically demanding, its also mentally and emotionally exerting.
The easy bit is getting into physical condition and being able to balance your entire body from between 1 and 4 points of contact, like a combination of weightlifting and ballet.
The hard part is the mental factor, when your over 20ft in the air and holding on to tiny dubious holds you can feel the shit running down the back of your legs. Its feeling that intense fear and being able to overcome it and still focus your mind on the next series of motions that's the challenge, its extremely fun, even on an easy climb you still get the buzz and an overwhelming sense of self confidence when you complete a route.
Cant beat tackling something unknown, unsure as to whether you have the ability and coming out safe and OK at the other side, the harder it becomes the greater the payoff
What makes a person want to do any sport? I mean when you think about it football is just as insane, 22 guys chasing a ball around a patch of grass.
Hemingway put it best when he said "There are only three real sports, Bullfighting, Mountaineering and Motor racing. The rest are merely games."
I assume its because in each there are real, tangible, fatal risks involved.
Knowing I didn't die whilst dangling off the edge of the world appeals more to me than chasing a ball is all.
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Wasn't having a dig, was just curious on a personal level. I admire what you're doing, don't get much sport myself. Are you involved in rescue or similar?
I didn't take it as a dig, every time I talk about climbing there's always someone who wonders wtf for
Not involved in anything, I've got a summer mountain leadership cert and my spa, still need to get in for my winter mountain cert but ive never had a valid reason to get up to glenmore in the winter.
The only reason I hold any of them was to cover insurance criteria for youth groups years ago.
TBH this entire absurd goal is just to motivate me into getting fit again and getting me back out into more technical hills this year.
Any excuse really, but I've always liked a challenge
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
BUUUMMMPPPP
wEll mr chroma did you mange this - or are you still there?
Thanks
Meat
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dont think he been on here for ages meat but i can send him a message on fb if you want.
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BUMP NUMITU BUMP.
Hoping to go on vacation to Blackpool, to see the rotten pylon, then hopefully meet a few DK members
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Good luck Chroma follow your dreams m8 life's to short wish I could come with you.
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Seen the orginal thread date Woodward mate
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WOODWARD395 (5th January, 2015)
Must be a very long thread his climbing rope
Or he didn't make it?
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