Climbing Carnage
Let’s start a new category here, one that every climber can empathize with: Climbing Carnage!
Let’s face it – scrapes, scratches, flappers, sprains, breaks (God forbid) and all sorts of other bodily harm comes with the territory that so many of us love. For some, an injury marks the end of a climbing session. For the rest, an injury is more of a badge of honor or that motivating factor that shouts “this route will not beat me… bring it on!”. The only remedy: tape up and keep going. Most people think we are crazy, but in a strange, twisted reality… we are used to it.
Flapper courtesy of campusing a V3+ at Sportrock. The route wasn’t meant to be campused, but it certainly added another level of difficulty to the route (and drew a crowd).
Posted in Climbing Carnage
July 16th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
When climbing a route that including jamming, my Uncle proudly exclaimed that to prove you climbed well and to the best of your ability, you needed to be bleeding by the end of the climb. At first I thought it strange for him to say but by the end of the climb, I knew what he meant. It brought a sense of accomplishment and an “I owned this” attitude when I looked down at my knucles and saw them scraped and bleeding.