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Post by jrblack on Nov 12, 2017 10:43:21 GMT -7
I'm currently hangboarding and trying not to do anything on my rest days in between, but I'm pretty psyched these days and I feel like I need to touch real rock every once in a while just to stay sane. I sometimes go hiking, or scrambling, or even soloing moderate routes just to get a fix. But lately I've been dreaming the impossible dream: climbing harder than I ever have before in my life.
So during my HB phase I've been doing something I've never done before: rappelling-down and/or stick-clipping-up sport routes just to check them out.
This has surprisingly been kind of fun: I get my dose of exposure (depending on the route), get to judge the aesthetics and the rock quality, and get to see what kind of holds I'd be facing should I decide to project the route.
Back when I started climbing, these antics were considered unethical: to "preview" a route was akin to child murder. All climbing had to be "a vue". But these days... no one cares.
Of course there is a huge temptation for me to grab holds and try a few moves, in blatant violation of my Rest Day Pledge. In order to curb my lust, I purposely don't bring rock shoes (a partial remedy at best, but mostly it works). The one thing I can't avoid if stick-clipping up a route is some thuggish pulling to get up steep routes: even with jumars you kinda have to use your arms quite a bit.
So... what crazy things do you do during rest days? Mark already shared with us his affinity for couch-surfing and chocolate-milk-quaffing. Anything else?
=D
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Post by RobF on Nov 12, 2017 13:01:10 GMT -7
Wasn't really a rest day, but got super psyched watching Valley Uprising this afternoon on Netflix...
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Post by jetjackson on Nov 12, 2017 14:59:06 GMT -7
I watch videos of different routes and climbers online, watch them solve problems and how they move. If there is a live feed for an IFSC event or similar, I'll watch that.
I also film and edit a bunch of climbing videos for youtube - that's my hobby outside of climbing.
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Post by MarkAnderson on Nov 12, 2017 19:23:48 GMT -7
Harder to do now that I have kids, but I used to love to hike around climbing areas with binoculars & guidebook and scope routes. We used to call it "Rock Staring". These days I will occasionally bolt routes on rest days, but it isn't very restful so I don't do that very often.
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Post by jrblack on Nov 12, 2017 20:03:45 GMT -7
Wasn't really a rest day, but got super psyched watching Valley Uprising this afternoon on Netflix... It's definitely a good show. I'm impressed at how much effort they put into animating still photos and giving them life. Of course I was appalled at the omission of a few people, but Yosemite history has so many players it's hard to include everyone. There is a huge list of omitted people at the end of the flick that at least tries to acknowledge the tons of missing people.
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Post by jrblack on Mar 25, 2018 17:52:06 GMT -7
Harder to do now that I have kids, but I used to love to hike around climbing areas with binoculars & guidebook and scope routes. We used to call it "Rock Staring". These days I will occasionally bolt routes on rest days, but it isn't very restful so I don't do that very often. I decided I wanted to try this, so I (being the stupidest person ever born) bought a spotting scope and tripod. I had no idea that 20x was way way too powerful. I hiked out to one of my projects today to scope it out, and the bolt hanger filled the entire view, even on the lowest magnification. I could read the writing on the hanger! Bleh...
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