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Hey to the #climbing community, I often do some calculations of fall factors and so, so I wrote a little web tool for that: https://fallcalculator.poxviridae.fr/

Don't hesitate to send me your feedback, all suggestions/reviews will be appreciated!

Fun hobby #climbing

Outdoor season opened yesterday at Mustavuori, Tampere (see my bright blue pants in the upper right corner). Climbed easy sport routes, most of them in a top rope. Heroically I did try to lead the very first route, but rock felt so different after long winter months indoors that my nerves gave up after four quickdraws. But it was a good try, all things considered.

Today everything hurts, but who cares.

#climbing #rockclimbing #kiipeily #deartrainingdiary

Silent Sunday

Relaxing after a morning climbing on the sea cliffs in Faroe

#SilentSunday #Climbing #Faroe #Vágar

This #bouldering #climbing cake my wife just made for my daughter.

Buenos días. Ayer nos dimos un paseito por el fantástico Congosto de Montrebei entre las provincias de Huesca y Lleida. Vertiginosas pasarelas que humanizan, en ocasiones demasiado, este espacio natural que siempre merece una visita.
#montañismo #landscape #photography #huesca #nature #paisaje #naturaleza #fotografia #hiking #climbing #escalada #mountaineering #pirineo

Sunny day at the crag, after a long sequence of shifts #rockclimbing #climbing #climbinglife #bouldering #sportclimbing #freeclimbing

Getting to the crux...
#MalibuCreekStatePark
#california #photography #nature #outdoors #gooutside #Calabasas #hiking #malibucreek #scrambling #climbing #bouldering #losangeles

So there was actually climbing on the Nice climbing trip, too (between the rain... which managed to be both more and less than expected...). La Turbie, as it turns out, felt really kinda sandbagged grade-wise (or maybe I was just sucking?)! But then the fun is in the movement and unlocking the puzzle, not the grade and it was a great trip with a fun bunch; Alesia Sidliarevich (with the excellent catches), Helen Finn, Carole Dawson, and Roy.
#climbing #ClimbingIsMyPassion #SportClimbing #LimestoneClimbing #Nice #LaTurbie

El Diente de Llardana (3.085 m) en el PN Posets Maladeta (HUESCA) es una bonita y vertiginosa aguja que nos encontramos tras subir la Canal Fonda en la ascensión al Posets.
#montañismo #landscape #photography #huesca #nature #paisaje #naturaleza #fotografia #hiking #climbing #escalada #benasque #alpinismo #mountaineering #pirineo

Ripped some finger skin while #climbing ? Keep calm, tape it up, and up you go

Throwback to some #bouldering shenanigans in #fontainebleau.
#font #bleau #outdoor #climbing

Bit of a miserable day of #climbing in #Beez, #belgium yesterday. Got spooked while leading the first easy climb. Continued on top-rope and couldn't finish any of the subsequent routes without hangdogging. Frustrating...
It's a style of climbing that's not really my favorite though. Slightly overhanging with lots of pockets and you can't really see which are the good ones until you move to them. So lots of trying, retreating, etc. Which requires more strength than I have available.

I think the time spent on the Moon Board definitely helped with this crimpy, lanky problem. I normally wouldn’t have gone anywhere near it.

#climbing

Regrettably accepting that I will not be sincerely good at rock climbing (climb 5.12+) unless I legitimately lose 30 lbs. I'm about 205 lbs now on a 6'2 frame, which puts me at a BMI of 26.3. I've become pretty large muscle-wise after switching from climbing to BJJ, since the sport facilitates & also advantages that. Even before switching from climbing to BJJ I noticed I had to use *way* more force to hang onto certain holds than other people I climbed with, just because I weighed more. Losing 30 lbs would get me to 175 lbs, 22.5 BMI, which (limited) data suggests is around where you want to be to be decent at climbing (ideally even lower).

There's also a safety aspect to this. Past 200 lbs, ropes will shred more easily when running over sharp edges after taking a fall. More force just means less safety.

At age 34 though losing 30 lbs is like a fantasy. I have no idea how I would even do that. Climb Mt Si 3x/week with a 40 lb pack maybe? Spouse points out that I eat quite a lot of bread per week, so maybe will start with substituting that for something else.

#climbing

Yes, IMHO the pinch is better than the gri gri. #climbing https://youtu.be/GZ5gSEC0M60?feature=shared

Is 10 minutes enough time to recover between hard flash attenpts? Probably not, but oh, well! This one was just too tempting, and I was hoping the anecdotal evidence of it being easier wasn't wrong. Was it? Let's find out... Send or not?

Spoiler alert (or is it?): Thanks to Jon Koplin for keeping me alive with a solid catch!
#Climbing #LeadClimbing #IndoorClimbing #ClimbingGym #ClimbingIsMyPassion #Whipper

A question for the TRS folks in the climbing community...

This past Monday I went out and top rope solo'd for the first time. It was a nice experience and I learned a lot. I look forward to honing some of the practices (e.g. refixing strategy, bottom weight, etc.)

One thing that I was not prepared for was a specific knot that Brent Barghahn teaches in his TRS video with Ryan Jenks from How NOT 2. He states that he refixes his rope to prevent rope abrasion (), and this can be done in a number of ways. He now prefers to tie a slipknot with a full twist (instead of a half-twist), instead of something that requires him to stop and untie, like an alpine butterfly.

I attmepted to tie this knot a number of times in preparation (and on site), but it never looked right. I ended up using a butterfly.

Later I rewatched the video and practiced the knot for a full half hour before I figured out exactly why it didn't look right. Can you figure it out?

Here is the knot tied correctly, and then incorrectly. Can you spot which is which?

#climbing #arco