Climbing Rangers and armyranger.com members?
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Climbing Rangers and armyranger.com members?
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?
If you do climb, what kind of climbing and where?
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--crossed to army--
March 2006-May 2006 WOCS Class 06-07
May 2006-Nov 2007 B Co. 1/145th
Nov 2007-In a US army CAB
Oct 2008--Oct 2009 Camp Speicher B. 3-10 AVN
Oct 2010--Present JAF Task Force Six Shooters (Calvary)
AIR CAV!!!!
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V-Rod wrote: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??
Nov 2001--March 2006 52 SFS, 49 OSS
as active duty air force security forces
--crossed to army--
March 2006-May 2006 WOCS Class 06-07
May 2006-Nov 2007 B Co. 1/145th
Nov 2007-In a US army CAB
Oct 2008--Oct 2009 Camp Speicher B. 3-10 AVN
Oct 2010--Present JAF Task Force Six Shooters (Calvary)
AIR CAV!!!!
as active duty air force security forces
--crossed to army--
March 2006-May 2006 WOCS Class 06-07
May 2006-Nov 2007 B Co. 1/145th
Nov 2007-In a US army CAB
Oct 2008--Oct 2009 Camp Speicher B. 3-10 AVN
Oct 2010--Present JAF Task Force Six Shooters (Calvary)
AIR CAV!!!!
No.avidwanderer wrote:V-Rod wrote: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??
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
![Embarrassed :oops:](./images/smilies/o_icon_redface.gif)
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
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I can still remember watching my sandwich fall.........
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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.Saltbitch wrote:I'm more into mountaineering than sport climbing; although the technical climbing aspects makes it possible to the 'whole enchilada', so to speak.
Nov 2001--March 2006 52 SFS, 49 OSS
as active duty air force security forces
--crossed to army--
March 2006-May 2006 WOCS Class 06-07
May 2006-Nov 2007 B Co. 1/145th
Nov 2007-In a US army CAB
Oct 2008--Oct 2009 Camp Speicher B. 3-10 AVN
Oct 2010--Present JAF Task Force Six Shooters (Calvary)
AIR CAV!!!!
as active duty air force security forces
--crossed to army--
March 2006-May 2006 WOCS Class 06-07
May 2006-Nov 2007 B Co. 1/145th
Nov 2007-In a US army CAB
Oct 2008--Oct 2009 Camp Speicher B. 3-10 AVN
Oct 2010--Present JAF Task Force Six Shooters (Calvary)
AIR CAV!!!!
Re: Climbing Rangers and armyranger.com members?
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.avidwanderer wrote: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'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.
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.
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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.
I hike a lot and go places that most would avoid still.
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