How NOT to Trad Climb

[@HowNOT2]

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[@jarodlojeck5150]

Multi-pitch, watch it again. Rappelling, watch it in reverse. Caving, watch it in reverse in the dark.

[@AdamHaberlach]

Canyoning, watch it in the shower...

[@jarodlojeck5150]

@@AdamHaberlach I watch them all that way.

[@stephenmartindale]

Big wall climbing: put it on repeat for a few days.

[@doughobbs7706]

Winter ice - do it in the snow with sharp bits

[@roamerreed]

This thread deserves so much more love.

[@davidkoch3388]

Proud daddy moment. My 11 year old daughter walked in while watching intro and went wide eyed and exasperated face. I asked her what she thought was wrong and she flat out said, "too much gear".

[@Kbowma]

Yes, I would definitely like to see more climbing content. Potentiality some more videos on aid climbing and big walling

[@justjosh6370]

yes! would love to understand aid climbing a bit more

[@barryodonnell4860]

YESSSSS thats exactly what I want to see as well.

[@alfrednOObel2]

Yes! Aiding is pretty obscure art which you can reveal to us!

[@Olli999Olli999]

Yess

[@Kvathe]

A multi-pitch video is exactly what I need. KZbin "tutorials" are always just a short vid of two guides messing around with ropes at the base of a pitch followed by some elaborate anchor-building. I'd love to see an actual multi-pitch climb explained.

[@saxtonhine4843]

I second this

[@TileStonePro]

10:55 - YES!!! La Sportiva Mythos & Socks! Been climbing like that for over 3 decades! Thank you Ryan. I don't feel alone anymore.

[@saxtonhine4843]

Seeing the whole climb and you struggle is quality content. I can't relate to fearless pros.

[@climbing200]

Love the beginning. Hey! Thanks for all you do. As a... Not new climber? But more actively involved climber... I appreciate all the education you put out. I have been learning a lot, and I appreciate it. I learn a lot from those I climb with, but I also learn a ton from those who climb elsewhere. So thanks for all the effort y'all put into this

[@jesseclarke8164]

Love seeing your unedited nerves on that ultra classic. As a longtime trad climber who’s still scared of trad climbing it’s refreshing to see you nervous, even after all the time you spend off the ground! More videos!

[@heywoodlittle5439]

Yes more climbing videos! I think you could fill a niche that hasn’t been filled out in KZbin videos so far. Something like: climbing reality: the stuff they don’t normally teach you, could bring comedy and show more realistic climbing experiences. Like how belaying from above kind of sucks and is uncomfortable sometimes, ****ropes getting tangled on multi pitch climbing***, climbing and getting scared, placing gear and risk management. I think there is some value in watching you guys climbing a route, making jokes, making decisions, while not particularly being good at it will bring connections to a wider audience. then you can also have videos bringing in other people doing different methods.

[@mls01981]

How about getting to the next belay station and seeing excellent cracks to build your gear belay and looking at your harness to see that you have all the wrong sizes! Then deciding if those sub-optimal placements you could make with your remaining gear are good enough or if you have to down climb to back-clean for better sized pieces!

[@jumpmaniaccrazy]

Rappeling with saddlebag ropes would be a sweet video. also rope management for multi pitch switch overs/swinging leads. Awesome content!

[@JohnSmith-ed1sr]

I can teach you saddle bags in 30 seconds over the phone! Call me ! 🤪

[@zachschmidt7417]

I love it -- it's great to see reasonable routes, as well. Everyone is out there doing 5.13's, and I can barely get off the couch.

[@sqreon9401]

Could you do some pull tests on stacked gear (2 hexes or nuts stacked together for example)

[@mowgliadventuresnet303]

I would add 4 parts that are critically important to placing Cam & Nut equipment. 1) strategizing the correct piece for the placement by size and width: I personally accomplish this by using my fingers to measure the crack and then bringing my fingers down to the appropriate cam or nut as a measurement of the crack of half of the Cam for correct placement. 2) placing the cam at the correct angle of the falling whip: this helps ensure that when you fall on the Cam, it is place at the angle in which your body will be after you fall. 3) Stop cams from walking inward or changing angles: Using long sling for extenders for deeply placed Cam's or changing directions will create different angles and allow the cam to walk in word. (ie. that Cam would not have unclipped self when the second climber was flicking the rope around to get it off the rock) 4) setting the cam, once placed, is pretty awesome. So that placement doesn't move or walk around after you leave that location . otherwise the beginning parody of bringing too much gear and having a shitty belay was hilarious. *sidenote Chest harnesses can be very helpful for equipment management because when you lean back-and-forth all your gear throws your weight around as it slides on slings under your armpits not to mention the chokehold on your neck. Where as chest harnesses have gear loops that keep the gear exactly placed where it's clipped because your chest harness gear loops do not slide/move the gear as you shift your weight balance. bonus tip* both climber should be tied in with the figure 8 before they start the route. This prevents any ropes from extending up past the following climber as the rope is pulled up! 🌺 Aloha Life 🌴

[@kazo0ie]

Very accurate suggestions. Especially the second. Lastly, I find that the finger comparing nut choice is too time consuming.

[@mowgliadventuresnet303]

@@kazo0ie I completely agree the measuring with your fingers takes a very long time. It's a something I learned at the very beginning of trad climbing. Once you do it enough times you don't have to use that finger trick any longer.

[@mowgliadventuresnet303]

What is your technique for identifying the right piece for the placement when placing Trad equipment?

[@kazo0ie]

@@mowgliadventuresnet303 just as you said, if used as a learning trick, all is well. Personally I don't suggest it at all because i have observed, many climbers don't get over it.

[@kevinbenevides9926]

I know the exact route on that crag you’re on in “tahoe area”. Props to you for carrying the gear up that approach.

[@charlescqian]

What's the name of the route?

[@BenihanaX]

@@charlescqian Gingerbread on Upper Spire at Phantom Spires.

[@professorsogol5824]

In the pre-barcode era, price tags were often glued directly onto the item and I generally didn't remove them. At the sort-out at the end of the climb, I would look for the tattered remnants of the price tag to spot my gear, and I didn't have to add paint or tape or some other mark to help me identify my gear. On the one hand the extra weight was never an impediment, and on the other I didn't waste any time or add any weight in order to personalize my hardware.

[@ehgeese]

Nice! Another reason for the follower to be tied in before you start is that you can buddy check the whole system. Buddy checks are jolly good.

[@danielchristopher6105]

Absolutely amazing video, actually LOLed during the intro. Would love to see more climbing videos.

[@janellasamson1079]

Appreciate the authenticity here. Yes please more climbing videos!

[@beginna]

Please, make videos about stuff *you* are stoked about. But yes, I'd love to see more climbing videos. 🧗⛰️

[@UNPAVEDTV]

That intro tho! 😂 “I ended up leaving the tags on there....don’t think the extra weight is gonna get me”

[@nickvehive7071]

What a great authentic, entertaining, and informative video.

[@reorseX]

No joke, great video. Make more pls.

[@FelipeAdventures]

Yes, I love the climbing videos. I need to remember how to climb again after a few years without climbing :(

[@termivan]

I couldn't stop laughing for that intro section 😂

[@UNPAVEDTV]

Right!!! It was hilarious 🤣

[@ricardobecerril1783]

Please more climbing vids , it’s nice to see you guys struggle as much as I do

[@AZDesertExplorer]

Nice one! Definitely make more climbing videos.

[@SavvasHiker]

Gate-in is my preffered method. Using the index to pull or hold the gate like a trigger. That is natural!

[@cobraclarke203]

Love the funny, fun climbing vid. Keep it coming. Thanks for all the great videos you guys produce.

[@tommuhlemanjr.3871]

Yeah, more please. We will all watch and enjoy regardless if it’s about climbing or slack lining, but I’d like to see more climbing content. Especially tips and gear how to’s and advanced gear management. Thanks.

[@andrew3p1]

good stuff. how about a video on hanging belay, factor 2 falls....etc? thanks for the great content

[@walterwadlow9438]

Thank you! Excellent, entertaining, real, and at a level that’s realistic for trad climbers that would watch this video!

[@nickdunsbergen]

More climbing stuff is always awesome! I’ve laughed out loud in the intro🤣 Can’t wait to go climbing outside again!

[@plcnoob]

More climbing videos and advanced climbing videos. Your content is awesome.

[@michaelolague2806]

The Multi-Pitch joke at the end mad me laugh so hard!

[@GavynPendleton]

Nice work on this one Ryan! There are many other different thoughts for racking up. I think the important thing is to have some sort of system and be used to it.

[@gregdavidd]

I would love to see a video on making a trad anchor in multipitch. Various scenarios such as need to protect from upward pull etc.

[@mihaidarius1693]

I really like to see more climbing videos

[@Tac0caT0]

I’d be pumped to see how you all approach establishing multi pitch, new routes, ground up. All of the looking, planning, binocular time, and planning how you approach a new route.

[@davidf6154]

More climbing vids please but great full for anything. You guys rock!

[@barefootgardener316]

Keep climbing!!!! love all the vids

[@icejunki]

I enjoyed this THOROUGHLY. To the thorough, on the thorough, thoroughly, much thorough.

[@stevehammond3479]

Yes more climbing stuff would be neat

[@patrickhaller669]

Great video. I'd love to see more climbing stuff 👍👍👍

[@pierreostergren3241]

More climbing specifically more trad and always more Bobby

[@christophergardner8222]

Love your videos. Great mix of info and honest climbing comedy 👍

[@CUclimber]

Gate in. I feel like it's more natural to grab and un-clip it that way, especially if you're a little desperate/pumped.

[@jeromelavoie899]

When you're pumped, everything is allowed. God knows what foolish things have been done pumped. It's almost worst than drunk.

[@thomashaywood8086]

This is the best filmed trad video on KZbin!!

[@javierandresfajardo6552]

Nice video! I would like a video about anchors and how to build then when climbing. Most of the videos I've seen just show the theory behind the anchor setup.

[@coldwill4021]

9:30 clip your sling into a loop then when you need it, just grab the snap link, unclip one end and pull. Someone prob already said this. Best climbing vid I've seen for years.

[@coldwill4021]

Doh, just realised he's using 60cm slings so not an option. Ignore me.

[@bloodink9508]

More climbing stuff would be great. Ps. This channel may be one of the most under appreciated gems in the internet. Truly a resource not just content.

[@Adw595]

I loved this! Thanks for making it!

[@intosiberiaadventures1217]

Nice weather and climbing place! In Siberia we still have a lot of snow...

[@tomtom4405]

I can see what look like little patches of snow in the background, especially when they're at the end of the video. Maybe not as much as in Siberia though

[@bjorngronsson2273]

Yeah more climbing stuff please! Rope management on multi pitch, simul climbing, rappels and emergency management would all be awesome!

[@wchunko]

That was really cool! It's been along time since I've led anything (decades actually). But it was so nice to see, it brought back some great memories. I still climb, just in the gym for now and nothing difficult. Old age and injuries will do that to you... It's still loads of fun!

[@ParanoidLemming]

Clip it and flip it, gates out! I like my thumb on the gate. A vid on using the rope for anchors and tethers at a belay stance would be killer!

[@ricardobecerril1783]

Dude that was the shit. Much thanks and love the laughs. Keep sending and making clips .

[@timm6179]

Yes more climbing stuff

[@ananda_miaoyin]

Looks like a fun spot. I was a few miles down 50 from there last week. On the Lover's Leap BOOTY wall. You always come down with more gear than when you started!

[@mdk232]

This was great. I would love to see some more stuff on climbing please.

[@ohioflyer_12]

Gate out is the standard but sometimes there are places on my harness when in a weird spot that I do gate in

[@irakperez]

That route looks really pretty and appropiate to teach how (or how not to) place pro to my kids!

[@kadenbenford8106]

I would love a multi pitch climbing video!!

[@0780marco]

How do you feel about using that daisy chain? I’ve always read that, that style is mainly for aid climbing. Where as the daisy that is more of a chain style with complete loops is a lot stronger.

[@chatttenn4814]

Have to have at least one Cam with a tag on it. Mostly a conversation piece, but it probly would make it stronger

[@jeanmorin3247]

That's great! It's interesting to see how hard it is.

[@Rachel-wc8ie]

Good senses of humor. Very Good. Great content.

[@onsight2822]

More video's on climbing , big wall little wall any wall 🤘

[@JohnSmith-ed1sr]

Dude!!! Your videos are getting so awesome! Nice climb great video awesome editing good music at the end! More more more please!!!!! Please do another video on trad placement and please please please do one one on top belaying please!! Great stuff Ryan

[@marcusp863]

Thanks for the climbing content! I would love to see more videos on good and bad gear placements.

[@robertdavies9435]

Good video - more on climbing would be brilliant

[@JonnyOgg]

this channel is the linus tech tips of climbing

[@chriswyatt66]

Great vid guys.. For info In the UK we do things a bit different . If you have a meandering route - use twin ropes - it avoids drag and you dont need to extend so much. Also I would be using a lot of larger stoppers and less cams in that climb - saves weight and money.

[@youtubemissedaspot]

Multi-pitch video? Yes please.

[@eyescreamcake]

Just watch this video more than once

[@jacobbabcock8943]

Wow. What a route. Beautiful

[@jiwhit01]

Enjoyed this video enough to subscribe :) Looking for more instructional videos on trad climbing and what not to do. (And what to do)

[@philipps423]

Using devices like the reverso in multipitch can be very dangerous as you have 0 brake assitance until the first quick ist clipped in. Always out in a dummy runner at your stand!!

[@blackline2000]

liked, don’t mind the little things like the tags. Would like you to do an overview of the route explaining where you place gear and where you do not, taking potential grounders and section difficulty into account

[@8bba8]

As you placed the first cam, my though was, "Omega Pacific Link Cam huh? Pull test?".

[@kazo0ie]

pretty pricey experiment.. the other day i found one green omega pacific on Eye of zeus at olympus mountain, Greece and i felt like christmas came eaerly

[@chrismarshall4486]

Oh damn. First off your intro was great. Second that picture of the person with their mouth all jacked up. Damn. I have to watch that video. Great video. Thanks for making them. Very entertaining. Another tip on learning, that you may mention later but I’m only halfway through this video, is to go hang out at popular trad routes and offer to clean routes for people. That way you get to see proper gear placement, as long as the people you’re following are in fact placing the gear properly

[@autom7134]

So true, keep finding other uncomfortable positions. Gear climbing is quite often Type 2 fun... but totally worth it. One thing I always tell newer tradies when they ask. Especially if you've been playing with gear a little while and have the fundamentals down; go and hire a guide it will save you a HUGE amount of time and frustration when it comes to dialing in your systems and becoming more efficient.

[@joelgarces3834]

Please. More. Actuality i ´m beginning in trad . Your videos are very helpful.

[@barryodonnell4860]

Another deadly vid from the boys! Keep em comin and ill keep watching.

[@CrazyCragg]

Hey Ryan, what are those gloves that you’re wearing? I’ve been after something just like them to protect my knuckles! Thanks

[@owensigal3468]

look like ocun crack gloves

[@StoufSto]

I think they are called aid

[@SK-fo3hk]

Good job guys!

[@thebearded4427]

Very good video! I want to get out climbing now!

[@Dakero]

legit lol'ed at the "Aggghhh, I don't have any placements for my feet!"

[@partybather]

Would be cool to see similar video but focused more on placing gear, where to a what to look (out) for. Also as you joke about multipitches, some closer look on anchors and organising could be interesting. You could maybe show few types of sling anchors and then break test those different types, so we could see if sliding x or sliding x with limiter knots is better, or like "shelf only" compared to just regular "8 on a bight" and what happens if you put a carabiner into the 8 on a bight so it would be easier to untie, afterwards.

[@lukaxbd2384]

More climbing, also sport climbing multipitch

[@willsurferk]

Definitely more climbing video! Also thoughts on using a multidirectional placement for you first piece? I video on multidirectional placements and trad anchors would be cool!

[@Govanification]

I do a thing this way. He does it that way. Conclusion: People are split 50:50. Basically how people think surveys and statistics work lol.

[@TheSilentStar]

Hi Ryan, This message is direct for you, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE break test the Beal Escaper, PLEASE!!! Love the channel, love all your videos, you guys are BRILLIANT!!!

[@joegleiter9260]

"This piece is over cammed that's how you know your scared"........ TRUE LOL

[@lennynobel5356]

@hownot2 do you always have to clip a quick draw to the cams or can you clip the rope straight into the biner on the cam ??

[@eyescreamcake]

Climbing is the best! More climbing videos!

[@plcnoob]

Could you guys do a video on open rappelling like pit rappelling and doing it with another person clipped to you or below you as I have seen a few times.

[@andymorris17]

A video on how to trad climb without a single passive gear placement shown on the route, does everybody have a double/triple rack of cams in America?

[@mattbaker1683]

Anchor building when there's no bolts would be useful for a lot of your audience, I heard you say quad anchor and I was like wtf on trad!? But I'm UK so there's no bolted anchors on trad routes... Strange how things are so different from the USA, nobody uses cordlette either but it's so useful if a 240 isn't long enough. I also did a wtf when your belayer had a gri gri...

[@50StichesSteel]

What was Bobby using as his belay/rappel device? I'm a bigger guy and don't really trust my tiny GriGri too much lol...I usually use a Petzel Rig but Bobby's setup looks to be smaller yet still strong

[@Kbowma]

I’m pretty sure it’s a camp matik

[@50StichesSteel]

@@Kbowma Yep, that's it. Thank you sir

[@bobbyhutton1989]

Yes, Camp Matik. I like it for the price I paid for it. I couldn't justify buying it at retail at twice the weight and price if a GriGri. If both are on the gear wall I am gonna grab the GriGri everytime.

[@50StichesSteel]

@@bobbyhutton1989 Really? Weight of the device aside, is there any other reasons you like GriGri over the Matik? I have a barely used blue GriGri if you'd like to make a trade lol

[@bobbyhutton1989]

@@50StichesSteel I have found that the Grigri (2019) feeds smoother on a wider range of rope diameters. The matik also has an anti panic function like the Grigri plus. Those sound good in theory but functionally drive me a bit crazy. Happy with the durability of the matik bc I wear out about 1 GriGri a year, but the GriGri just handles so much better. The Rig is great too, I have used the original one for years at work, bulk and price are the only reasons I don't use that more.

[@matthewlueder2656]

It would be cool to see you do a video testing different climbing shoe rubbers. You could see which has the best friction for different types of rock and which is the most durable.