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Post by alexandra on Apr 28, 2016 7:59:07 GMT -7
I recently came back from a trip to the Bay area where I climbed two half days (about 3 hours of attempts/rest) at Mortar Rock in Berkeley. By the end of the second hour I found my skin to be completely wrecked already, which clearly doesn't happen on sandstone which is what I am used to. The picture attached shows how my skin was, after only one half day of climbing, and having not climbed for 2-3 days prior to that (so I started with pretty good skin). It doesn't look too horrible in the picture, but it did fee horrible. Some of the locals mentioned that people put superglue on their tips before climbing, I was wondering if anyone has experimented with this and if so, what were the results? Attachments:
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Post by jessebruni on Apr 28, 2016 8:27:53 GMT -7
I've only ever heard of using superglue to fix split tips (which works incredibly well in my experience). The only superglue I've ever used is pretty slick when it dries, so I don't think coating your tips with it would do any favors to your climbing.
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Post by nate on Apr 28, 2016 9:17:44 GMT -7
I've tried it but it didn't seem to do much for me.
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Post by MarkAnderson on Apr 28, 2016 10:31:15 GMT -7
I'm with Jesse, I've only ever used it to cover/fill bleeding wounds. I've never used it pre-emptively. As a wound treatment, it's questionable at best (IMO). I've had it soak into the adjacent skin, then get ripped out of my finger, taking the surrounding skin with it (not a pretty sight). At this point I would only use it on a finger pad if I were going to tape over the glued area. If you're taping anyway, glue probably only makes sense for a split (or similar, where you are afraid the wound could grow even with tape over it).
Taping pre-emptively is another good option though. The best thing to do is just pace your skin through the day/week/season. You should know when you're getting on something sharp, and think about how long you want to spend on it. Once the damage is done it's pretty hard to recover from within a season.
Ps, that problem looks crazy steep!
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Post by alexandra on Apr 28, 2016 11:37:29 GMT -7
Haha, its a little steep but not nearly as much as the angle of the picture makes it look like. It was not intentional to look like this, but now that you mention it it seems cooler that the original angle of the problem I was climbing ;p
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Post by brendann on Apr 28, 2016 20:34:39 GMT -7
You can prep your tips for a trip by sanding them a few weeks ahead. If you achieve the pink tips in your photo a few weeks before actually touching rock, you will have thick calluses ready.
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