Climbing Rangers and armyranger.com members?

[avidwanderer]

Is there anybody on this board that enjoys rock climbing or mountaineering? I know all the Rangers here have been through the Mountain Phase, but I was wondering if anyone may have picked up an addiction there...

If you do climb, what kind of climbing and where?

[Earthpig]

I believe Ranger Spartan has done some climbing. Don't know if he is still into it or not.
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[Vee]

I was a climber before I went in the Army. Lots of opportunities and challenges in Wyoming.

Then one day I fell off a ledge in a canyon and damn near splatted.

Haven't done any climbing since

[avidwanderer]

I was a climber before I went in the Army. Lots of opportunities and challenges in Wyoming.

Then one day I fell off a ledge in a canyon and damn near splatted.

Haven't done any climbing since

Yikes!! Were you soloing??

[Vee]

I was a climber before I went in the Army. Lots of opportunities and challenges in Wyoming.

Then one day I fell off a ledge in a canyon and damn near splatted.

Haven't done any climbing since

Yikes!! Were you soloing??

No.

A friend and I were just relaxing on a ledge, eating a snack. We were about halfway up a 400 foot canyon wall. I, like an idiot, had detached from my safety line to eat. (It was a pretty big ledge )

I stood up and went to the edge to look down at the river and slipped on the gravel.....and there I went, snack and all. I got my left hand on the rope as I went over and when I came to a stop I had about 18 inches of it remaining, dangling below my hand

I can still remember watching my sandwich fall.........

[Parabellum]

I have gone free climbing a few times but nothing serious.

[Spartan]

I used to climb, lead 5.10. Climbed in NV, NC and OR (Smith Rock) and at an indoor rock gym. Lotta fun.

[Saltbitch]

I'm more into mountaineering than sport climbing; although the technical climbing aspects makes it possible to the 'whole enchilada', so to speak.

[avidwanderer]

I'm more into mountaineering than sport climbing; although the technical climbing aspects makes it possible to the 'whole enchilada', so to speak.

I am just starting mountaineering, after sport climbing and top roping for the past 3 years. I like it more, mainly because the goal isn't to finish a route, but to get to a summit. The views I saw on my last trip have got me sold on mountaineering.

[Reaper375]

Is there anybody on this board that enjoys rock climbing or mountaineering? I know all the Rangers here have been through the Mountain Phase, but I was wondering if anyone may have picked up an addiction there...

If you do climb, what kind of climbing and where?

I climb. I got into it more and more when I would come home on leave and climb at a place called Planet Rock, in Pontiac Michigan.

I've climbed throughout Colorado, but mainly I stick to places in the midwest and east coast. The place I work at has a 70 foot rock wall indoors, so I climb on breaks when I can. I am not the best climber in the world - I'm not light enough - but I do love it.

I bought a Misty Mountain Cadillac harness from REI, use Edelweiss stratos dry rope, and Five-ten Anasazi rock shoes. I use 2 different belay devices: a Black Diamond ATC belay device (usually for experiencede climbers who trust me), and a Petzl Grigri belay device for folks who are new and like to see that kind of belay.

For Beaners (carabiners), I pretty much just use Black Diamond. They make a wide array of quality gear, and I've never had problems with it.

[Swoff]

Just got into this whole climbing buisness and I got to say it is a whole lot of fun...... after going over this route several times I finnaly made it to the top :D Got to say I was darn proud at that moment. That route was a 6-, I am not sure if the same system for grading routes are used all over the world but that was what I was told I climbed.

[Chiron]

I loved climbing. Now with my ailment rendering my left arm not capable to hold my weight for long it has become a memory.

I hike a lot and go places that most would avoid still.