Help. Their is a bat in my fermenter.

BionicEye · 2 days

Do you really live in reddit just to post about rabies facts?

BionicEye · 2 days

The only way to get rabies is for saliva to come in contact with your blood stream. No cases of rabies have been reported in association with transmission by fomites or environmental surfaces. So you can take rabies of the list of concerns.

Have you considered re-trapping it for an exotic fermented beverage a la Vietnamese rice wine?

indy_res_hole · 8 days

Ah, I didn't know, thanks for the correction.

indy_res_hole · 8 days

Yes, but that's at the Red River Gorge several hours from the New. You can camp at Rogers Rocky Top Retreat [Kaymoor #1 off Gatewood Rd. Fayetteville, WV 25840] if you want to be social or if you are a cheap bastard like me there is free camping under the Summersville Dam.

redditor54 · 8 days

I personally would not use any rope that I didn't know the history of, but I may be more conservative than most. You just never know what it has been through and as a potential single point of failure in your protection system you need to be sure its ok to use before you trust your life to it.

A while back I compiled all the manufacturer recommendations for rope retirement here. It has a great picture from Beal that shows acceptable and unacceptable examples of damage.

garethmb · 9 days

One large issue that seems to be debated is non-climbing-related posts of nearly naked women. There are a lot of fine lines here and I am unsure how best to propose a submission guideline. Perhaps a bullet point on the submission page that addresses the issue? Maybe it's one that's best left to the upvote/downvote process? Thoughts?

garethmb · 9 days

Another suggestion: nothing from the domain qkme.me

(I know this won't eliminate all meme posts but it will add another step in the meme posting process)

garethmb · 9 days

Here's one suggestion: Add a list of discount gear websites to the sidebar or FAQ and eliminate posts that reference sales on said websites.

workworkb · 10 days

Getting on things you can't do (yet) is part of climbing.

In addition to the bail biner you can often climb an adjacent route and retrieve whatever you left behind when you rap down or are lowered.

fewdo · 15 days

Is it cool/safe to bring up screw-on chain links and lower off those?

Absolutely not. You would be altering an anchor system that countless other climbers rely on with their lives. The description of the quicklinks that tradotto linked to both say "When closed with a wrench, it becomes a semi-permanent attachment point." Imagine if everyone else did the same thing?

Fixed protection should not be altered under any circumstance unless you know what you are doing and have permission from the route setter or local authority whomever they may be.

To answer your other question, rappelling is good practice as it minimizes wear. Most of this wear arises when people set up a top-rope system direct to the anchor then see-saw their friends up and down all day. If you setup your top-rope with biners and slings and only use the anchors to lower you will greatly minimize the wear. Until you feel safe rappelling you should continue to lower off the anchor.

carrotfueled · 15 days

I respectfully disagree. In most cases these posts link to discount sites that often have clearance items on climbing gear (i.e. theclymb and steepandcheap). If you are interested in these deals you can sign up for their updates and get alerts when climbing gear goes up.

I have complained about this in the past and been told that some people didn't know about the sites before the post. How about we compromise and have some sidebar content that advises folks where to buy cheap gear?

IMO the worst of this is people trolling for the $10 credit to get new members to sign up with the Clymb. At a minimum that really ought to be avoided.

frucknog · 16 days

Hey bro, sounds like great advice, whatever you do be sure to keep that shit polished and scratch free. Nothing screams n00b like someone who lets their gear get all dirty and scratched.

idontalwaysupvote · 22 days

Ten Sleep is my favorite sport climbing in the US. (I have also been to the Red, the New, Smith, HCR, Red Rocks, countless others).

It has very friendly bolting and lots of high quality moderates so a beginning leader would have a blast there. Also free camping!

Aleco06 · 22 days

Risk breeds reward. I worked a few years out of college and then quit my job, sold everything I owned and went on a global climbing trip for a year and a half. I had decent savings and lived cheaply (spent as much on plane tickets, food, lodging, everything as I do on rent and monthly bills in the SF Bay Area). I didn't work a single hour of the year and a half and climbed in the best spots in the world. The savings eventually disappeared and now I am back at work and planning my next dirtbag mini-retirement.

Dirtbagging is very cheap!

rift321 · 23 days

I have had a 12-month international-only plan and a 6 month US short-term plan to cover my recent dirtbagging periods, but nothing that would seem to apply in your case.

One thing I will say is to be on the lookout for extreme sports riders. In some cases rock climbing is specifically excluded from coverage without paying a higher premium. In the case of my international plan the premium went up 20% if I wanted them to cover climbing.

*edit: One other thing to look out for with international plans, if you end up getting one, is whether the plan is to evacuate you to the US or to treat you at the nearest location. In my case I had no US coverage for the year I was abroad so evacuation was not what I wanted.

ozzythewise · 23 days

Not sure what this special trick is but I just wanted to make sure that it is understood that you should NEVER have your rope contact webbing. There must be metal in between or your risk the friction from rope movement burning through your webbing/cord/sling.

paintingpainting · 29 days

I spent a few months in Thailand and spent $17.50 a day. This was staying put in one spot which is generally cheaper, but was also in a pretty touristy and expensive place. I also estimated that I could have spent as little as $12 a day if I had wanted to be super cheap. Details are here. (I was on a rock climbing-focused trip so you can ignore all the climbing details).

thehappyhobo · 1 month

I did the Danube from Budapest all the way to the Black Sea in September 2010. It was a blast. I kept a daily touring diary with tons of info and GPS tracks here. That same summer I cycled a bit of the Rhine (Basel to Sarrebourg) as part of a meandering trip towards Belgium. Deets here if you're interested.

Also, those books you got are available in English as well!

K1Stechschlagen · 1 month

Please stop posting content-less memes on an otherwise good subreddit.

lazed_and_confused · 1 month

I am pretty sure an emphasis on scenarios, using actual equipment/bandages, and stage makeup are all standard for any NOLS WFR course. I had the same experience and also loved it.

lazed_and_confused · 1 month

As an amateur field-dresser he was intending to skin it in the field, is this not a good plan? The thought was that it will allow the meat to cool more quickly and cleaning/burning off nasty boar hair seems like quite a task.

lazed_and_confused · 1 month

I didn't realize a boar was a male hog. I thought the term was gender-neutral. He is intending to get a young animal as these are supposed to be the most delicious. It's his first trip out in a few weeks so there's no telling what will happen. Thanks for the rank-ness warning.

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