cmcc
Trad climber
Redding, CA
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m_jones
Trad climber
Carson City, NV
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Jan 23, 2013 - 06:34pm PT
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Yeah - spend your day in a busy recovery room of a skin cancer center and see if that makes you think just a little about giving someone crap about doing something to maybe keep their entire face for most of their life.
Best way ever to convince a teenage child that yes sunscreen is actually a very good thing.
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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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Jan 23, 2013 - 06:52pm PT
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I've been holding out on my Da Brim trip reports until I sort out my severe photo organizing and upload issues (which are not technically insurmountable problems, but other stuff has taken precedence for me).
So in the mean time, I'll give my quick review:
 Way more durable than chopping up broken straw hats and duct-taping to helmets, which was my previous preferred strategy. They survive taking the rack sling on and off over the head, getting smashed into a backpack, etc. This process usually makes the straw hat solution last only 2 trips, but no damage to Da Brim.
On near vertical cracks like Reed's Direct, it can be distracting when leaning in to check a gear placement, shifting back and forth, etc. because the rim of Daa Brim bangs against the wall. But hey, make it smaller to solve this problem and then you don't have the sun protection any more. It could maybe be a little floppier to solve the problem, but then it would fall down in front of your eyes. So overall I think the design trade-offs are pretty good in this product.
Easy to put on / take off as desired. With my duct-tape creations, it was on for the duration of the adventure until it wasn't, and then there was a big wad of duct tape waste to deal with. Now it can come on/off on a pitch-by-pitch or even mid-pitch basis
You just can't beat the cool factor, the I'm-ahead-of-the-crowd panache, and the fashion vanguard status you enjoy as a wearer of Da Brim. Some of you may scoff, but you lack vision and a refined sense of style and personal protection. Just look at how cool MisterE is with it!
I must make a disclaimer. It is true I am a professional climber now. I am sponsored. I didn't tell the Da Brim dude when he gave it to me, but I was considering a purchase anyways when I ran out of busted old straw hats!
Some pictures of older solutions functionally inferior to Da Brim (albeit imbued with their own unique style):
No skull bashing protection here, but good sun solution with ventilation:
http://vimeo.com/16755653
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Screw Da Brim. Save Money and do it Red Neck style !
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Hey, do I get to join the club? Fed ex just arrived with my new brim. :). Just the thing for cycling in the desert.
Now that is one ugly f*#ker. Wouldn't be caught dead hanging with that guy in public. But after two rounds with skin cancer I gotta do what I can. Ha
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locker
Social climber
Some Rehab in Bolivia
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"Hey, do I get to join the club?"...
Keep at it and you're soon to be President of the company...
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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2013 - 11:54am PT
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Hey! That guy wearing the duct-taped straw hat looked a lot like a guy that showed up at Devil's Punchbowl last weekend wearing "DaBrim®"...
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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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I've got a justthemaid sighting in Da Brim I can post up, unless she pays me enough protection money...
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rSin
Trad climber
calif
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watched a hiker on top of mckinley posing for snaps lose his brim to the wind...
always though those fedora's were cool
course back then, i wanted to smoke cigars, rob banks and shoot people
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