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Welcome to /r/climbing's Daily Discussion Thread, a thread for questions and comments everyone wants to make but don't warrant their own thread.

Please note: if you see a post that is of low quality hit report under the post for automoderator action.

Have a question about what color carabiner speaks to your soul? Want to talk some smack about pebble wrestlers? Wondering how chalk buckets work? Really proud of that thing you did? Just discover a meme older than most of our users? Awesome! Post that noise here.

New if you are unaware, there are many other climbing subreddits. Here are links to them, please check them out! They need your posts and comments.

• /r/Alpinism
• /r/Bouldering
• /r/Buildering
• /r/Caving
• /r/ClimbHarder
• /r/Climbergirls
• /r/ClimbingCircleJerk
• /r/Climbingpartners
• /r/CompetitionClimbing
• /r/ClimbingPorn
• /r/ClimbingVids
• /r/IceClimbing
• /r/Mountaineering
• /r/RockClimbing
• /r/Routesetters
• /r/TradClimbing
• /r/urbanclimbing

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• Are you American? You can help save Oak Flat from development by contacting your elected representative through this link. It's quick and easy and you would be helping a great cause.

• Please consider supporting Camp 4 camping reservation reform

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If you have a more serious question about climbing gear, technique, systems, etc. check out our Weekly New Climber Thread.

Please sort comments by 'new' to find questions that would otherwise be buried.

In this thread you can ask any climbing related question that you may have. This thread will be posted again every Friday so there should always be an opportunity to ask your question and have it answered. If you're an experienced climber and want to contribute to the community, these threads are a great opportunity for that. We were all new to climbing at some point, so be respectful of everyone looking to improve their knowledge. Check out our subreddit wiki that has tons of useful info for new climbers. You can see it HERE

Some examples of potential questions could be; "How do I get stronger?", "How to select my first harness?", or "How does aid climbing work?"

If you see a new climber related question posted in another subReddit or in this subreddit, then please politely link them to this thread.

Check out this curated list of climbing tutorials!

Prior Weekly New Climber Thread posts

Prior Friday New Climber Thread posts (earlier name for the same type of thread

A handy guide for purchasing your first rope

A handy guide to everything you ever wanted to know about climbing shoes!

Ask away!

Welcome to /r/climbing's Daily Discussion Thread, a thread for questions and comments everyone wants to make but don't warrant their own thread.

Please note: if you see a post that is of low quality hit report under the post for automoderator action.

Have a question about what color carabiner speaks to your soul? Want to talk some smack about pebble wrestlers? Wondering how chalk buckets work? Really proud of that thing you did? Just discover a meme older than most of our users? Awesome! Post that noise here.

New if you are unaware, there are many other climbing subreddits. Here are links to them, please check them out! They need your posts and comments.

• /r/Alpinism
• /r/Bouldering
• /r/Buildering
• /r/Caving
• /r/ClimbHarder
• /r/Climbergirls
• /r/ClimbingCircleJerk
• /r/Climbingpartners
• /r/CompetitionClimbing
• /r/ClimbingPorn
• /r/ClimbingVids
• /r/IceClimbing
• /r/Mountaineering
• /r/RockClimbing
• /r/Routesetters
• /r/TradClimbing
• /r/urbanclimbing

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• Are you American? You can help save Oak Flat from development by contacting your elected representative through this link. It's quick and easy and you would be helping a great cause.

• Please consider supporting Camp 4 camping reservation reform

• Save LCC Thread

If you have a more serious question about climbing gear, technique, systems, etc. check out our Weekly New Climber Thread.

Welcome to /r/climbing's Daily Discussion Thread, a thread for questions and comments everyone wants to make but don't warrant their own thread.

Please note: if you see a post that is of low quality hit report under the post for automoderator action.

Have a question about what color carabiner speaks to your soul? Want to talk some smack about pebble wrestlers? Wondering how chalk buckets work? Really proud of that thing you did? Just discover a meme older than most of our users? Awesome! Post that noise here.

New if you are unaware, there are many other climbing subreddits. Here are links to them, please check them out! They need your posts and comments.

• /r/Alpinism
• /r/Bouldering
• /r/Buildering
• /r/Caving
• /r/ClimbHarder
• /r/Climbergirls
• /r/ClimbingCircleJerk
• /r/Climbingpartners
• /r/CompetitionClimbing
• /r/ClimbingPorn
• /r/ClimbingVids
• /r/IceClimbing
• /r/Mountaineering
• /r/RockClimbing
• /r/Routesetters
• /r/TradClimbing
• /r/urbanclimbing

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• Are you American? You can help save Oak Flat from development by contacting your elected representative through this link. It's quick and easy and you would be helping a great cause.

• Please consider supporting Camp 4 camping reservation reform

• Save LCC Thread

If you have a more serious question about climbing gear, technique, systems, etc. check out our Weekly New Climber Thread.

Welcome to /r/climbing's Daily Discussion Thread, a thread for questions and comments everyone wants to make but don't warrant their own thread.

Please note: if you see a post that is of low quality hit report under the post for automoderator action.

Have a question about what color carabiner speaks to your soul? Want to talk some smack about pebble wrestlers? Wondering how chalk buckets work? Really proud of that thing you did? Just discover a meme older than most of our users? Awesome! Post that noise here.

New if you are unaware, there are many other climbing subreddits. Here are links to them, please check them out! They need your posts and comments.

• /r/Alpinism
• /r/Bouldering
• /r/Buildering
• /r/Caving
• /r/ClimbHarder
• /r/Climbergirls
• /r/ClimbingCircleJerk
• /r/Climbingpartners
• /r/CompetitionClimbing
• /r/ClimbingPorn
• /r/ClimbingVids
• /r/IceClimbing
• /r/Mountaineering
• /r/RockClimbing
• /r/Routesetters
• /r/TradClimbing
• /r/urbanclimbing

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• Are you American? You can help save Oak Flat from development by contacting your elected representative through this link. It's quick and easy and you would be helping a great cause.

• Please consider supporting Camp 4 camping reservation reform

• Save LCC Thread

If you have a more serious question about climbing gear, technique, systems, etc. check out our Weekly New Climber Thread.

Welcome to /r/climbing's Daily Discussion Thread, a thread for questions and comments everyone wants to make but don't warrant their own thread.

Please note: if you see a post that is of low quality hit report under the post for automoderator action.

Have a question about what color carabiner speaks to your soul? Want to talk some smack about pebble wrestlers? Wondering how chalk buckets work? Really proud of that thing you did? Just discover a meme older than most of our users? Awesome! Post that noise here.

New if you are unaware, there are many other climbing subreddits. Here are links to them, please check them out! They need your posts and comments.

• /r/Alpinism
• /r/Bouldering
• /r/Buildering
• /r/Caving
• /r/ClimbHarder
• /r/Climbergirls
• /r/ClimbingCircleJerk
• /r/Climbingpartners
• /r/CompetitionClimbing
• /r/ClimbingPorn
• /r/ClimbingVids
• /r/IceClimbing
• /r/Mountaineering
• /r/RockClimbing
• /r/Routesetters
• /r/TradClimbing
• /r/urbanclimbing

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• Are you American? You can help save Oak Flat from development by contacting your elected representative through this link. It's quick and easy and you would be helping a great cause.

• Please consider supporting Camp 4 camping reservation reform

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If you have a more serious question about climbing gear, technique, systems, etc. check out our Weekly New Climber Thread.

The Southeast face of the Rectory provides, in my opinion, the finest tower climb in Moab. I thought it had an overall techy feel, lots of steep climbing without any OW (i'm looking at you, Lightning Bolt Cracks), the bolted finish up the sunlit right side looked cool but we went with the original finish (shadowy corner at the top). When I got back to camp and was looking through MountainProject comments (as we do), I was stunned to find out alex h climbed it in 8:10 (yes, that's 8 minutes and 10 seconds and about 20x faster than our climb). There was allegedly an uncut video of the climb floating around in the ether but i haven't been able to track it down.

Me on the spectacular Dyno on my current project in the Altmühltal, Germany. The name translates to "piece of art" in an ironic way, because a lot of the holds had to be fortified with glue due to the nature of the rock in this cave. Whats your opinion on glueing holds? I think it's OK, if the route couldn't exist otherwise and if you're only fortifying, not adding holds.

Pic by my buddy Severin Able FA by Michi Kiess 2001

Welcome to /r/climbing's Daily Discussion Thread, a thread for questions and comments everyone wants to make but don't warrant their own thread.

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Have a question about what color carabiner speaks to your soul? Want to talk some smack about pebble wrestlers? Wondering how chalk buckets work? Really proud of that thing you did? Just discover a meme older than most of our users? Awesome! Post that noise here.

New if you are unaware, there are many other climbing subreddits. Here are links to them, please check them out! They need your posts and comments.

• /r/Alpinism
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• Are you American? You can help save Oak Flat from development by contacting your elected representative through this link. It's quick and easy and you would be helping a great cause.

• Please consider supporting Camp 4 camping reservation reform

• Save LCC Thread

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Prerequisite for Excellence, 5.8.

Welcome to /r/climbing's Daily Discussion Thread, a thread for questions and comments everyone wants to make but don't warrant their own thread.

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Have a question about what color carabiner speaks to your soul? Want to talk some smack about pebble wrestlers? Wondering how chalk buckets work? Really proud of that thing you did? Just discover a meme older than most of our users? Awesome! Post that noise here.

New if you are unaware, there are many other climbing subreddits. Here are links to them, please check them out! They need your posts and comments.

• /r/Alpinism
• /r/Bouldering
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• /r/Caving
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• Are you American? You can help save Oak Flat from development by contacting your elected representative through this link. It's quick and easy and you would be helping a great cause.

• Please consider supporting Camp 4 camping reservation reform

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Heading to Antalya in February and curious how the grades compare to the Chattanooga area. Typically when we travel I’ve found much of the grading to be a bit softer