Is soloing becoming too "casual"?

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Bad Climber

Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 21, 2016 - 08:41am PT
@i-b-Gob:

Dunno, with that kind of soloing, I'd be hard pressed to leave the ground.

BAd
FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
Oct 21, 2016 - 08:47am PT
Way to casual

I never see Ties & tails anymore.
pec

climber
Oct 22, 2016 - 09:16am PT
Just to give a different perspective.
I'm a British climber but was in the US this summer and was really struck by how many people were soloing stuff, far more than I've ever seen on previous trips to the states. Almost everyday I climbed there was someone soloing like its become normalised. In the UK its very rare to ever see anyone soloing stuff apart from short gritstone routes (often only 30' or 40' long) but I know soloing was more common back in the 70's and 80's. Perhaps we've all just gone soft in the UK ;-) but I think soloing is definitely one of those things that comes in and out of fashion.
I'm reading Andy Pollit's autobiography at the moment (one of the UK's top trad climbers of the 1980's) and in one chapter he reels off a list of his friends who died soloing. Its a dangerous game but easy to get sucked into when everyone around you seems to be doing it.
i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Oct 22, 2016 - 09:33am PT
So casual people forget to put on clothes, like a day at the beach!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 22, 2016 - 12:12pm PT
This guy makes it look casual in This video,
The Solo of Marooned 11c-d, ? - ! ( full on 5.12, almost b, IMHO )[Click to View YouTube Video]
The holds all there, but the location of the thing, it has an unrelenting steepness, & is way out of bounds, a long walk, not a place to 'solo for a casual day out for the camera'
'casual?
He floats it,
grabs the no hands rest as if it were above water,
is he even breathing hard?
Stan Pitcher

Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 16, 2016 - 01:54pm PT

He makes it look pretty casual...

https://dreamingofgnar.com/2016/11/14/mega-mojo-mile-mission-success/
Bad Climber

Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 16, 2016 - 03:33pm PT
WAY solid climber, fo sho. Minus style points for the man-bun, tho.

BAd
Stan Pitcher

Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 16, 2016 - 03:54pm PT
No man bun in the link I posted. Just a story about a guy doing a vertical mile of hard soling back east.
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Nov 16, 2016 - 04:31pm PT
What was once special is now commonplace.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 16, 2016 - 05:06pm PT
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ho mahn Donini Spoke



Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado

Nov 16, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
Making soloing look casual and treating soloing too casually are two very different things.

If you don't make soloing look casual you shouldn't be doing it and if you treat soloing too casually you won't be doing it for long.
~


Quah,
Then
double dose

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2607974&tn=8360


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Things like calling it Free Solo Friday ? Can that be good?
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I'm not prothletizing the very way that one processes when fingers and toes are all that hold you in space is the most special place

Eventually giving it up or it giving you the chop


It is not a race to loose, the time and place to choose is before yo leave the safe ground


the time & place of demise you can choose

be in your own head zone , if you continue to reject the cord and go cordless

Proceed and fvck up the place, then is that a disgrace ? I'm not sure if that is winning or loosing the race.

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donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Nov 16, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
Making soloing look casual and treating soloing too casually are two very different things.

If you don't make soloing look casual you shouldn't be doing it and if you treat soloing too casually you won't be doing it for long.
rbord

Boulder climber
atlanta
Nov 16, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
This stuff is easy.

If we can elect Trump, we can do anything!

The way that people form beliefs about stuff (like soloing?) is changing in ways that we don't understand.

Moore's law is playing us for fools.

Time will tell whether or not we are fools, just like it did for those omniscient omnipotent dinosaurs.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
Jun 29, 2017 - 09:17pm PT
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clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Jun 30, 2017 - 05:57am PT

^^^ That video bugs me.
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