I like trad because I can be honest with myself. It is like a mirror where you see your default and quality. Minimizing the risk is a chess game for me and trying harder and harder thing just for the pleasure of being proud of what we can accomplished without competition is relaxing. climbing trad with a partner just to go to the summit with all our skill and stress, laught and critic, without telling to any one what we did.
You missed the option: Because i live in England and they think using bolts is for pussys = everybody has little to no choice and must risk their life to send hard in trad.
You missed the option: Because i live in England and they think using bolts is for pussys = everybody has little to no choice and must risk their life to send hard in trad.
Trad(itional) climbing is just that: the way people for generations have climbed under their own power, using simple equipment and lots of skill and creativity and thought to remain safe and arrive at one's destination.
It's also a wonderful way to experience the heights of the world, to visit alpine environments by one's own strength and skill, and can be a spiritual experience if undertaken with the right frame of mind.
Because I know that every time I place a slung hex in a 20 foot 5.4 gully in Pennsylvania, I AM the next logical step in a tradition of boldness paved by Roman gladiators, long-distance Polynesian fishermen, Christian martyrs, Vinland Vikings, Spanish conquistadors, Lakota coup counters, and Japanese kamikaze pilots.
I didn't like trad climbing when I first started so I stuck to sport climbing for 10 years. Then I got bored and I wanted to be a more well rounded climber so I started going out to the Creek with a buddy. Now I enjoy both types of climbing.
does IC really count as trad climbing? it's not like you have to think to place teh gearz there....
Because I know that every time I place a slung hex in a 20 foot 5.4 gully in Pennsylvania, I AM the next logical step in a tradition of boldness paved by Roman gladiators, long-distance Polynesian fishermen, Christian martyrs, Vinland Vikings, Spanish conquistadors, Lakota coup counters, and Japanese kamikaze pilots.
dean potter soloing 5.13 with a chute is the next logical step.
Because I know that every time I place a slung hex in a 20 foot 5.4 gully in Pennsylvania, I AM the next logical step in a tradition of boldness paved by Roman gladiators, long-distance Polynesian fishermen, Christian martyrs, Vinland Vikings, Spanish conquistadors, Lakota coup counters, and Japanese kamikaze pilots.
If I was a Viking warrior I would kill you with my Axe for saying I am so weak at climbing. If I was a Spanish conquistador I would fee you to my dog for your shameful comparison. Since I am a long distance Polynesian fisherman I sau Ufa Kefe to you Melani. Agreed, Dean potter soloing 5.13 is a progression, slinging hexes on a 5.4 is the past.
I didn't like trad climbing when I first started so I stuck to sport climbing for 10 years. Then I got bored and I wanted to be a more well rounded climber so I started going out to the Creek with a buddy. Now I enjoy both types of climbing.
does IC really count as trad climbing? it's not like you have to think to place teh gearz there....
This iz proly true. Guess it's really considered teh New Wave Trad. But sumtimes thinking suks and gits in teh way of the whole spiritualness of teh Tradz.