When I was a kid, maybe 14 or 15 years old, I learned to rappel out of a tree on 1/4" hemp rope reading a book by Gaston Rébuffat taken out of the public library for weeks on end. Fortunately I was probably only 10 feet up and the rope never broke. Body abseil hurts.

@BetaClimbers

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@AGENT_RED

2 жыл бұрын

I leant it from the S.A.S hand book.... hahaha good to go...

@TheOKayStonemaster

2 жыл бұрын

Lol ... when I was 8 I made my first "zip line" out of some random poly cord climbed a tree to fix the top anchor and bottom anchor was another tree. Well when I tried that bad boy out I clipped a key chain carabiner to my belt loop on my pants and mad it about 10 feet before the inevitable struck lol

@roo9569

8 ай бұрын

@@TheOKayStonemaster hahahaha, I was probably 10-12 years old and remember building a zipline in my front yard between 2 trees. I used the ATV to tension and wrapped it around the tree. just tied a fuck ton of half hitches, like ya- good enough. It worked. I dont remember what kind of rope it was, but it held and it was good fun!

Ive seen people rappel off of water towers with extension chords about 100 ft from the crag where I live. Always wondered if they succeeded ha!

@BetaClimbers

2 жыл бұрын

😑

Vintage climbing photos showed us that back in the day people used hawserlaid rope. In my country/area 50m of 12 mm nylon hawser is about half the price of my 50m Tendon dynamic rope (I suspect it's afmy surplus)/a third of other popular brand, honestly I might be tempted to use the hawserlaid. But, I know that nylon is the material used to make kernmantle, so I won't entertain the thought of using rope made of another materials.

@BetaClimbers

2 жыл бұрын

Well climbing was a lot different as well. You just never fell.

Just left Baton Rouge for the north last year after 23. I don't miss that humidity one bit

So it’s static which I guess is not terrible for top rope but that combined with around a 500lb breaking load…

Are ya gonna do a climbing fail video soon? I just saw a gnarly whipper on insta. The guy fell far down and backwards eeesh...looked so scary thank you! Miss the vids

@BetaClimbers

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah coming soon this job will be done this week and I can travel back to the studio. 🤙🏻

I haven't even started climbing (yet) but damn it this is just common sense to me. If I can't, or don't want to, afford proper equipment to save my life, I won't go climbing.

You’re saving lives

just set website to send you an email when there's a discount. my current rope is beal antidote 10.2 and i bought 50 metres of it for 71 dollars

Hey, if you want an epic fail (or win) look up the Hallett Peak rock slide. A team of boulderers broke...a mountain.

@Steven-ro6os

2 жыл бұрын

???? It was not caused by boulderers. That's not possible, at all. Bouldering cannot cause a mountain to slide like that. The Hallet Peak slide is thought to have been caused by seismic activity.

@roo9569

8 ай бұрын

@@Steven-ro6os While scrambling a boulder field, I've been on some pretty big rocks and it felt semi stable, then I made one wrong step and I shit you not, a 15ft radius around me started sliding

@Steven-ro6os

8 ай бұрын

@@roo9569 What you're saying actually makes sense, though, as opposed to OP. Big, loose blocks obviously exist in the mountains. Bouldering doesn't cause peaks to slide like the Hallet. Sure, you can cause some relatively minor rockfall, but the weight of a human does not have the potential to break the entire mountain like that.

Or this could be the best troll ever. They all have climbing shoes which throws me off.

@cellometal3

2 жыл бұрын

They probably went bouldering once in the gym and they decide they were ready to climb outside

@BetaClimbers

2 жыл бұрын

They are rentals 🤣

@sdriza

2 жыл бұрын

It's a troll job for views

The funny thing is apples would have to say CYANIDE if they had a label 😂

@markifi

2 жыл бұрын

quercetin, catechin, chlorogenic acid, potassium, 10% sugar too. put this list on a soda and i'm not drinking that shit.

122°F? That's 50°C! That's horrible. I'm guessing that's a high reading because your car's wasn't parked in the shade, but stay safe dude. No weather for working out

I question your hat standards, sir.

I don't even trust Home Depot for faucets.

What part of Louisisana?!?!

@BetaClimbers

2 жыл бұрын

Near Lafayette been hitting up “uptown”

@lemur1105

2 жыл бұрын

@@BetaClimbers i’m in Baton Rouge. You’re the reason myself & kiddos started going to the uptown here. They better be rolling out the red carpet for you!!!

@BetaClimbers

2 жыл бұрын

@@lemur1105 😂 yeah tell them at the front desk they will laugh. I have been going on the weekends when I can.

@lemur1105

2 жыл бұрын

@@BetaClimbers 🤦‍♂️ Unacceptable. i’ll make some calls.

There are things in life you can go cheap on; sometimes the Walmart shit is as good as name brand. Brakes....no. Guns...no. Life safety climbing gear.....that is where you buy the most expensive shit. Did you say 122 degrees? Dude. That is ick-nasty!