unedited climbing a huge old oak (quite boring stuff)

[Peter_bomen]

The reason I started filming my climbing and pruning was to be able to watch and learn from it afterwards. Many times when I see myself climbing from my comfortable chair, I notice things that I could have done more efficient, and notice where I am losing time and/or energy...

Only after a while I started editing little films with music just for fun (I have a background in music production), and throwing this online. After quite some questions from people it made me think about where I am going with this..

Future ideas aside, I decided to already throw (very boring) unedited climbing online, and maybe it can already be inspirational for some, or maybe I can get commented and learn something from others... Learning from it was the first reason anyway.

 

[Matias]

That's a great idea. I don't know how much time I could really dedicate to watching hours of footage after the fact, but I like where your head's at.

 

[Peter_bomen]

That's a great idea. I don't know how much time I could really dedicate to watching hours of footage after the fact, but I like where your head's at.

Yeah I don't watch all of it afterwards either.. In this climb for example the action at around 11'30" in the video didn't feel like it was the best option. So Afterwards I can just go check that part and see myself fooling around and see what I could have done differently.

 

[DBH]

thanks for sharing— I’ve thought about doing this but only recently developed enough as a climber to feel it might be worthwhile. A few questions:

What was the device you used for the “most unnecessary three to one”?

What cordage are you using for your lanyard? Looks like 10mm Sirius?

I sometimes get stumped breaking these spready trees into efficient, workable sections. Any tips beyond do it more?

 

[Peter_bomen]

thanks for sharing— I’ve thought about doing this but only recently developed enough as a climber to feel it might be worthwhile. A few questions:

What was the device you used for the “most unnecessary three to one”?

What cordage are you using for your lanyard? Looks like 10mm Sirius?

I sometimes get stumped breaking these spready trees into efficient, workable sections. Any tips beyond do it more?

I use the CT cric for a 3:1. Genius little device in my book! And indeed I use a 10mm Sirius for lanyard. The reason for this is because it works so well with the trango cinch that I use as lanyard adjuster. The most magical thing it does is allowing me to take slack with 1 hand.. I’ll see if I can give a timestamp in this video where I do this.

About route planning, it depends a lot if you climb SRT or DRT. It takes totally different climbing between the 2 systems.
I mostly climb SRT (sometimes DRT). So I think in lines down from “main redirects” as pieces of a pie. Make a good redirect and do one or several lines down and up again from this redirect (maybe making other redirects along the way). And I try to plan out my routes from different redirects before starting. So I don’t waste energy trying to get somewhere that is easier to get to from another line down.
Take your time up there to observe the tree. Even if it looks like 5 minutes doing nothing, well planned climbing will make up for that time, and save you energy.
Also take your time to make a good redirect (same reason as taking your time to observe the tree).

And there are 2 ways to look at the tree for route planning. You can find a good redirect and see where you can get from there. And you can look at your destination and see from where you can best reach that. So when looking at lines, look at other lines and possibilities at the same time.
That’s what I learned so far…

 

[Peter_bomen]

thanks for sharing— I’ve thought about doing this but only recently developed enough as a climber to feel it might be worthwhile. A few questions:

What was the device you used for the “most unnecessary three to one”?

What cordage are you using for your lanyard? Looks like 10mm Sirius?

I sometimes get stumped breaking these spready trees into efficient, workable sections. Any tips beyond do it more?

Here at around 8:15 you see how I can pull slack with one hand. Sometimes it need a bit of a wiggle at first (like here) but then it pulls slack very smoothly...

 

[DBH]

I use the CT cric for a 3:1. Genius little device in my book! And indeed I use a 10mm Sirius for lanyard. The reason for this is because it works so well with the trango cinch that I use as lanyard adjuster. The most magical thing it does is allowing me to take slack with 1 hand.. I’ll see if I can give a timestamp in this video where I do this.

About route planning, it depends a lot if you climb SRT or DRT. It takes totally different climbing between the 2 systems.
I mostly climb SRT (sometimes DRT). So I think in lines down from “main redirects” as pieces of a pie. Make a good redirect and do one or several lines down and up again from this redirect (maybe making other redirects along the way). And I try to plan out my routes from different redirects before starting. So I don’t waste energy trying to get somewhere that is easier to get to from another line down.
Take your time up there to observe the tree. Even if it looks like 5 minutes doing nothing, well planned climbing will make up for that time, and save you energy.
Also take your time to make a good redirect (same reason as taking your time to observe the tree).

And there are 2 ways to look at the tree for route planning. You can find a good redirect and see where you can get from there. And you can look at your destination and see from where you can best reach that. So when looking at lines, look at other lines and possibilities at the same time.
That’s what I learned so far…

Love it— thank you friend!!

 

[DBH]

I use the CT cric for a 3:1. Genius little device in my book! And indeed I use a 10mm Sirius for lanyard. The reason for this is because it works so well with the trango cinch that I use as lanyard adjuster. The most magical thing it does is allowing me to take slack with 1 hand.. I’ll see if I can give a timestamp in this video where I do this.

About route planning, it depends a lot if you climb SRT or DRT. It takes totally different climbing between the 2 systems.
I mostly climb SRT (sometimes DRT). So I think in lines down from “main redirects” as pieces of a pie. Make a good redirect and do one or several lines down and up again from this redirect (maybe making other redirects along the way). And I try to plan out my routes from different redirects before starting. So I don’t waste energy trying to get somewhere that is easier to get to from another line down.
Take your time up there to observe the tree. Even if it looks like 5 minutes doing nothing, well planned climbing will make up for that time, and save you energy.
Also take your time to make a good redirect (same reason as taking your time to observe the tree).

And there are 2 ways to look at the tree for route planning. You can find a good redirect and see where you can get from there. And you can look at your destination and see from where you can best reach that. So when looking at lines, look at other lines and possibilities at the same time.
That’s what I learned so far…

What are you using for your climb line? Read a review of the CT cric complaining about it not fitting larger diameter ropes… I’m currently climbing blue moon

 

[AP1017]

What are you using for your climb line? Read a review of the CT cric complaining about it not fitting larger diameter ropes… I’m currently climbing blue moon

I use the cric on the daily and I climb on yale 11.7. When you install the cric on the rope, pull down to set the cam and then put tail of rope over the pulley.