Trad climbing at a young age is a thing many young climbers are afraid to do. Althought I am not. I am a 13 year old climber from Oregon. I can climb 5.13 trad and it does not scare me a bit. In truth, trad climbing feels safer than sport climbing to me, because if you feel you are about to fall, you can throw in some gear, and continue climbing. While if you were sport climbing and you wqere struggling, you couldn't get any protection in until you reached the next bolt. Trad climbing is also a better thing for young climbers to do because it is less stress to their body. Trad is also better because it is less harm to the rock, where as placing bolts is ruining the rock.

Go have fun Climbing,

Wolfgang Braun
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hello, I like to spray about my hard climbing and higher morals. What shoes should I get?

Too good of grammar and spelling. Not perfect but I've never seen a kid post here whose writing was even understandable.

I'd give 10 to 1 odds that this kid doesn't exist.

Internet troll or teenage douchebag; either way, quite the auspicious beginning.

Trad climbing is also a better thing for young climbers to do because it is less stress to their body.

I can climb 5.13 trad and it does not scare me a bit. In truth, trad climbing feels safer than sport climbing to me, because if you feel you are about to fall, you can throw in some gear, and continue climbing.

I think his profile has too much flash to attract them fish- but lets see who takes the bait.

You've obviously never been on anything but a G rated route. Go to tuolumne and tell me that the old school 5.9 - 5.11 routes feel easy and safe. Ever heard of the Bachar - Yerian?

ruby's cafe is a sport climb.

My hardest trad climb is rubys cafe in indian creek

yea, so are all the climbs in his pics

you really climb A3+?? Because if so do you want to guide me up P.O wall

LSFTMFW

You've obviously never been on anything but a G rated route. Go to tuolumne and tell me that the old school 5.9 - 5.11 routes feel easy and safe. Ever heard of the Bachar - Yerian?

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Bachar-Yerian a Sport Climb? Just because a climb has bolts doesn't make it a sport climb.

Ground up vs. Top down, IMO.
-JR

That brings up a potentially interesting question; if a route is only protected by bolts at what point is it considered a sport climb? Where's the line there?

the point at which you see people hangdogging, ticking, and "rehearsing" moves.

that is why I said that Ruby's cafe is a sport climb. If anyone here has onsighted it, I apologize.

And since when can people lead harder aid than they can follow?

For me it is the distance between bolts and my personal confidence at the grade. If it is a challenging grade and the bolts are more than a couple body lengths apart, I wouldn't consider it a sport climb as falling is not usually safe and I can't "practice" the climb in a sport-like manner. In the end it doesn't really matter what the difference between "sport" and "trad" with a few bolts is. I usually ignore these terms and call it either gear climbing (because a cam isn't really traditional in my opinion) or clipping bolts (where I differentiate by how run out it is). "The Line" is merely a point of discussion for internet forums and is of no use in a real climbing situation.

Hey Wolfie, let's meet up sometime. There's a lot of great routes in the Portland area which might be right up your alley. There are still a few hard gear climbs waiting for FA which i can point out to you.

In contrast, as far as I know there are several purely bolted lines at Stone Mountain in NC that nobody considers to be sport routes.

i've made a few trips to stone in the past month, one of which was two days ago and we are going again tomorrow. that is definately not an exageration. a 'bolted' line is not nescessarily a 'sport' line.... unless you consider two bolts amongst a 150' pitch of 5.10a slab to be sport.

No fucking way that's sport. 50' of hard unprotected slab? On lead I'd shit my pants, weep piteously, and bail without even leaving the anchor. Props to those with the sack to get on lines like that, I ain't one of em and I don't see that changing any time soon.

It'd be a damn shame if you never made it out there. It's amazing what you can get used to.

Hopefully one of these days I'll have my headspace sorted.

well, if you had 75' of 5.8 slab, a bolt, then a .10a move followed by another 50' of 5.6 slab, a bolt followed by a 5.9 slab move, then the anchor... you think you could wrap your head around that?

I've read both the climbing anchors books by john long, and before i started climbing how to rock climb. my dad and i's climbing friend is also a good trad climber, so thats how i learned to climb trad. I have done 100 mile road bike rides such as summit to surf, reach the beach, and the blackberry bramble

Ask him what "spray" means.

i've made a few trips to stone in the past month, one of which was two days ago and we are going again tomorrow. that is definately not an exageration. a 'bolted' line is not nescessarily a 'sport' line.... unless you consider two bolts amongst a 150' pitch of 5.10a slab to be sport.

A hard route with 50 ft. of runout between bolts is a far less "sporty" sport route but the bolts would make it a sport climb.