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rockgirlCO
Sep 23, 2009, 7:26 PM
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I'm sort of ressurrecting an old thread that discussed how bruised and "battered" we get while trad climbing. I just started trad leading this summer. Last time I went was Sunday. Last night was the first look I had at my right thigh. It was dotted with bruises. I thought: oh, must've been that squeeze through rough rock that did that.
Ding ding ding. The bell went off in my head as I recalled the previous thread here about bruising from carrying trad gear. Yep. I'm bruise speckled, from pointy cams no doubt.
Not sure I'm happy about being in this "club". And I would never have thought of myself as easy-to-bruise. But, there you go.
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clausti
Sep 23, 2009, 9:58 PM
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to be fair, this is worthless without pictures.
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smallclimber
Sep 25, 2009, 1:57 AM
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Something to watch out for while seconding trad is getting hit in the face with the draw as you prepare to take the gear out. This seemed to happen to me a lot when I started climbing. I would climb towards the piece of gear, a small amount of slack would build up in the rope and then the leader would pull up the rope hard, jerking the draw up and the biner on the gear end would hit me in the face/eye/teeth. Much worse than bruises on the thighs! Somehow it doesn't happen any more, I think a combination of me being more aware of the situation and the leader not keeping the rope so tight any more.
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granite_grrl
Sep 25, 2009, 12:37 PM
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smallclimber wrote: Something to watch out for while seconding trad is getting hit in the face with the draw as you prepare to take the gear out. This seemed to happen to me a lot when I started climbing. I would climb towards the piece of gear, a small amount of slack would build up in the rope and then the leader would pull up the rope hard, jerking the draw up and the biner on the gear end would hit me in the face/eye/teeth. Much worse than bruises on the thighs! Somehow it doesn't happen any more, I think a combination of me being more aware of the situation and the leader not keeping the rope so tight any more.
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carabiner96
Sep 26, 2009, 3:09 AM
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granite_grrl wrote: smallclimber wrote: Something to watch out for while seconding trad is getting hit in the face with the draw as you prepare to take the gear out. This seemed to happen to me a lot when I started climbing. I would climb towards the piece of gear, a small amount of slack would build up in the rope and then the leader would pull up the rope hard, jerking the draw up and the biner on the gear end would hit me in the face/eye/teeth. Much worse than bruises on the thighs! Somehow it doesn't happen any more, I think a combination of me being more aware of the situation and the leader not keeping the rope so tight any more. That sounds....unpleasant. Thankfully, I avoided this particular rite of passage (though my face has certainly not avoided some of the other "fun" experiences given to me both trad climbing and ice climbing).
WanderlustMD took a chunk out of my tooth that way. It was really no one's fault than mine for climbing with my mouth open...but I still like him to think it was his own fault for taking so jerkily!
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tedman
Oct 15, 2009, 5:15 AM
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wait til you blow a piece you are bounce testing/weighting on an aid climb. Only takes one supersonic nut to the face to realize that they arnt joking when they say dont look at the piece when you are testing it
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