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boulder,co
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 20, 2009 - 01:21am PT
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Just yesterday I was climbing a non -descript 5.10 at the Pool Wall in Ouray. As I was nearing the end of my lead my belayer short-roped me a couple of times. Then when I was lowering off I looked down and saw the problem: R. was talking on the cell phone! Is this considered a safe practice? He was using an ATC type device, not a Grigri.
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climbrunride
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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Aug 20, 2009 - 01:24am PT
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Sure. Answering a phone call is like answering Pavlov's bell. Texting even more so. Just be glad he wasn't eating and doing his makeup also.
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mission
Social climber
boulder,co
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2009 - 01:31am PT
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BITD you would look down and see your belayer torching some weed, but that just made it safer.
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mission
Social climber
boulder,co
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2009 - 01:41am PT
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Out here in the 'Rado I've seen Sport Climbers take a hang to answer their cell phones.
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kc
Trad climber
lg, ca
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Aug 20, 2009 - 01:43am PT
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SUCH bad form. I can't even begin to say.....
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kc
Trad climber
lg, ca
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:00am PT
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Gotta love a man who has his priorities straight, locker! :)
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apogee
climber
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:01am PT
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"R. was talking on the cell phone! Is this considered a safe practice?"
If you can't figure this one out, you shouldn't be climbing.
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froodish
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:06am PT
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> R. was talking on the cell phone!
> Is this considered a safe practice?
The cell phone wasn't attached to him with one of those skinny dyneema slings was it?
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:09am PT
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WAKE UP
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Sarah Funky Fresh
Trad climber
Fresno, CA
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:30am PT
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Are you going to let this person belay you again?
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apogee
climber
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:35am PT
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"Are you going to let this person belay you again?"
That depends...was he hot, or was he....
H-H-H-H-H-H-O-O-O-O-O-O-T-T-T-T-T-T!!!!!!!!!!1111111
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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Aug 20, 2009 - 03:42am PT
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that's what the bluetooth is for...hands free
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Aug 20, 2009 - 03:46am PT
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what is short roping?
is that like .......ummm...........something?
man this blue cheese is Killin me.
i can't even form a sentance or remember why i went to the bathroom in my gorfriend's closet last night.
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hooblie
climber
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Aug 20, 2009 - 03:56am PT
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oh, wait a minute, i've got another call, can i put you on hold for a minute?
hello...SLACK!
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Porn, CA
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Aug 20, 2009 - 04:03am PT
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What a crew
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Aug 20, 2009 - 08:03am PT
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Walking down the carriage road last year, I noticed a couple, sitting on one of the boulders. They were sort of hunched over, turned away from each other at about 45 degrees.
A quirky sight.
As I got closer I saw that the both other them were working their Blackberry's.....
They weren't belaying, and the truth is that it had rained the night before and they said they were passing time allowing the rock to dry a bit, but it was still a funny sight.
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mission
Social climber
boulder,co
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2009 - 09:02am PT
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I have attempted to drop rocks on "R." on several occasions, but so far no luck....
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 20, 2009 - 09:49am PT
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Mission knows, because I climb with him, that you NEVER take your belay hand off of the rope; except, of course, when you're taking pictures.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Aug 20, 2009 - 10:06am PT
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Saw a "motorcycle" looking guy with a leather vest on yesterday at Subway over lunch. You could just see the upper part of the vest and read "Hang up the phone and drive..."
Then he stood up... the whole thing said:
"Hang up the phone and drive fu(ktard!"
Loved it.
People and their cell phones/Crackberrys are ridiculous.
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mission
Social climber
boulder,co
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2009 - 10:11am PT
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Once on the way to Longmont I saw a modern guy driving, talking on the phone, and shaving his head with an electric razor.
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Aug 20, 2009 - 10:42am PT
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Nice screed DMT. My wife is the same way--can't stand to let the phone ring. I leave mine in the car when I go climbing. I learned that the most important button on the damn thing is the one that turns it off. I saw this 6 years ago in Korea:
Honest to God, this was 2 pitches up. The leader had started to climb and the belayer was starting to rig his belay device when his cell phone went off. He just dropped everything and answered the damn thing.
And this:
Every year all the middle-school teachers get a day of rock climbing training on one of the city walls. The guy in the picture is an instructor and was belaying a student when his phone went off.
And just for fun, this: Check out the shoes!
Climb safe,
Mal
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Aug 20, 2009 - 11:52am PT
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"SLACK! CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW???!!!"
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Aug 20, 2009 - 01:02pm PT
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I've had a belayer fall asleep on me. But I was replacing bolts on an ancient bolt ladder, so I wasn't really upset.
If I was sketchin and found my belayer wasn't really paying attention, either cellphone or some other distraction, that would be an ex partner.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 20, 2009 - 01:20pm PT
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I was at the trade show two years ago, and went to have a pee. Those of us doing so were treated to someone "doing a deal", quite loudly, by cell phone - all the while in a toilet stall for a #2. Complete with sound effects. It was unbelievable.
Someone in the telecommunications industry early on proudly boasted that they'd got the public so trained to answer the phone right away, that they'd interrupt love-making to do so. Presumably someone from Bell. In the 1920s or 1930s, when telephones became fairly common.
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:07pm PT
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some one got to the picture thing before me......
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Barbarian
Trad climber
slowly dying in the OC
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:21pm PT
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Phone while belaying?
Only okay when ordering a keg.
I once took a business conference call on speakerphone while repeatedly riding a rollercoaster....wanted to remind them that they were interrupting my day off...
"What's that screaming?"
"Oh, we were just going through a loop..."
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
Arkansas, I suppose
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Aug 20, 2009 - 03:06pm PT
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"I've had a belayer fall asleep on me. But I was replacing bolts on an ancient bolt ladder, so I wasn't really upset."
Me too, on the crux aid pitch on a wall. I can't fault him - I was on it for hours, and he was using a gri-gri.
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nutjob
climber
Berkeley, CA
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Aug 20, 2009 - 03:09pm PT
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For several years I ran a very small phone company, but it was pretty important to the customers that they could reach someone for help when their phone systems went down.
The biz wasn't big enough to operate effectively in my absence, and any time I went climbing I had to take this into account. So cell phone came along.
To my chagrin (and I'm sure much more to my patient partner's chagrin), a triumphant trip to a hotspring after Sun Ribbon Arete was canceled by a telecom emergency as I coordinated with other dudes via phone to fix stuff. Sorry le_bruce. But on the other hand, we did get to go on the trip and without a cell phone that would not have been possible for me.
I changed life strategies and priorities now... my weekends and evenings are mine again! And I've learned to not twitch and convulse in fear when the phone rings. The world isn't falling part anymore, my livelihood isn't crumbling before my eyes when my hip vibrates.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Aug 20, 2009 - 03:39pm PT
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This is a keeper thread!!!
too funny!
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redrocker
climber
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Aug 20, 2009 - 04:24pm PT
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Drivin' to work a while back and the chick in the car next to me was talkin' on the cell phone, smokin' a cig, drinkin' a cup of coffee, and puttin' on makeup using the rear view mirror. She was drivin' just fine too!!!
My wife always tells me men don't know how to multi-task.:)
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Aug 20, 2009 - 04:35pm PT
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Donini nailed it.
Prod.
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tomtom
Social climber
Seattle, Wa
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Aug 20, 2009 - 04:35pm PT
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Cell phone drivers have the same accident rates as drunk drivers.
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Fogarty
climber
Back in time..
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Aug 20, 2009 - 05:03pm PT
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WAY HOMO! Can You hear me NOW!
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Aug 20, 2009 - 05:17pm PT
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Hanging on a sport climb to answer the cell phone is weak. All phone calls should be placed or answered ground up and on lead ONLY.
Preferably some distance from your last piece of pro!
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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Aug 20, 2009 - 08:55pm PT
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I have answered the phone while on lead on trad standing on a big ledge, but my best was answering the phone while wedge into the V chimney on V3 in the gunks. SO secure!
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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Aug 20, 2009 - 09:00pm PT
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Its ok Mr. Gordon is on the sharp end
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truclimber
Trad climber
Nevada
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Aug 20, 2009 - 09:36pm PT
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This has been entertaining HAHAHAHAH.
If it were a grig with and a pile of crash pads i would feel so much safer.
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seamus mcshane
climber
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Aug 20, 2009 - 09:43pm PT
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If your phone rings and I hear it, Case of Beer Penalty. Period.
Climbing.
Hiking.
Skiing.
Golfing.
et al.
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adam d
climber
CA
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Aug 20, 2009 - 10:09pm PT
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lame for sure.
I would never do that.
But there was that ooooonneee time, and unfortunately there's evidence.
beyond daylight on the carriage road, Apoplexy.
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