Things that likely frustrate every climber at least once in their career

[Shadowscape]

Climbing MRS and finding your climb line on the ground is buried to the point you can't free it up and you can't get down. And of course, you are solo that day.
***Raises his hand multiple times***

 

[Bart_]

Is it a "cinch" to solve that problem? Then you have to figure(8) how to get down... It could take you a Munt'er longer to solve that problem.

 

[southsoundtree]

Climbing MRS and finding your climb line on the ground is buried to the point you can't free it up and you can't get down. And of course, you are solo that day.
***Raises his hand multiple times***

This is where a Hitchhiker shines.

You can ascend and descend on a tensioned line.

I've HH'er up a taut diagonal line to top a dead tree that was out on its own, before falling the stub, with a tall tree 20 ' to the side.

 

[Shadowscape]

This is where a Hitchhiker shines.

You can ascend and descend on a tensioned line.

I've HH'er up a taut diagonal line to top a dead tree that was out on its own, before falling the stub, with a tall tree 20 ' to the side.

You can. I can't. Bet when you are 70 years old you can't either.

 

[Bendroctanus]

You can. I can't. Bet when you are 70 years old you can't either.

Game on!

 

[Shadowscape]

Game on!

Problem with that bet is, when you are 70 I will have been dead for a very long time and won't be able to collect.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Problem with that bet is, when you are 70 I will have been dead for a very long time and won't be able to collect.

We’ll square up somehow. I’ll hold the money up in the tree, whilst switching MRS to SRS.

 

[oldoakman]

They just don't understand shadow. I did a small job for a friend the other day and the heat and humidity nearly killed me.

 

[Shadowscape]

They just don't understand shadow. I did a small job for a friend the other day and the heat and humidity nearly killed me.

They will learn.
The Golden Years are nothing but a myth started by AARP to get you to join.

 

[Bendroctanus]

I respect you gents greatly. It is a goal of mine to climb as long as I can. But life makes me more and more of a realist. I will take your word for it and remember you fondly when I get there.

 

[Shadowscape]

I respect you gents greatly. It is a goal of mine to climb as long as I can. But life makes me more and more of a realist. I will take your word for it and remember you fondly when I get there.

We are not giving up, just slowing down as our bodies fall apart. My goal is to be found dead high up in a tree. It will be my last contribution to the fire department training as they try to figure out how to get my carcass down. I hope they actually drop me and wonder if I may have still been alive before they did that. Isn't one of them that knows how to climb a tree, let alone rescue someone in one. They are all just volunteer firemen that like to drink beer at the firehall.
I run a base anchor through a Petzl Rig. I can see one of them just pulling the handle on the Rig and me just plummeting to the ground. Should be worth the cost of admission just to watch the show.

Back to the regularly scheduled program... Carry on.

 

[Jonny]

Dog shit.

 

[Vicente]

Dog shit.

500$ extra if I step on doing the bid.

 

[Njdelaney]

This isn't a climber-specific thing but a branch finding a perfect way to slide down the pole saw pole and smack you no matter whether you were expecting it and planning to avoid it or not.

 

[Chris Schultz]

This isn't a climber-specific thing but a branch finding a perfect way to slide down the pole saw pole and smack you no matter whether you were expecting it and planning to avoid it or not.

Fuck, that happened to me a few weeks ago….. 3 sections of Jameson poles knocking a few dead Aspen branches (real go getter OCD shit) popped me right in the lip. I thought it knocked my front teeth out…..

 

[Sgfinco]

It was winter, I was heavily layered, I had the strangest wedgie I've ever felt from like 8am through the end of the day

Got home and a stick had wedged itself perfectly sideways between my butt cheeks...

 

[Bendroctanus]

It was winter, I was heavily layered, I had the strangest wedgie I've ever felt from like 8am through the end of the day

Got home and a stick had wedged itself perfectly sideways between my butt cheeks...

That made me laugh out loud!

 

[Neill]

Doing a nice prune job only to come back some time later to just cut it down

 

[Boomslang]

Nature in general. It's too hot, or too cold, or too windy, or too wet. The bugs are bad. Everything's scratchy. Who put that rock there? What colossal fucking genius allowed the tree to grow around a solid steel bar‽

 

[Bart_]

Freshly planted shrubbery/garden fruit trees new fence etc just before they ask you to remove the tree overhanging them.