DavidR

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Just another software engineer. Longtime outdoor sports enthauist. Avid rock climber.

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Jan 24	comment	How do I mount a hangboard in an apartment? Painful in a good way? :)
Jan 22	comment	What's the best protection for my knees while bouldering? sure, that makes sense. I just wanted to make sure that my answer (wear something that covers your knees) applied. :)
Jan 22	comment	What's the best protection for my knees while bouldering? question - you're just getting scrapes on your knees, right? You aren't feeling orthopedic knee pain from twisting your knee the wrong way, or landing badly, right?
Jan 16	comment	Safest months to hike in Colorado Just a quick comment - the summer storms in the mountains in Colorado are usually pretty predictable - they hit in early afternoon on most days, and don't last more than an hour or so. It's not too too hard to be back in the valley or below the tree line before they hit. That can't be said of, say, avalanches, rhime ice, frostbite, white outs, or the other hazards that go along with the winter. :)
Jan 13	comment	Methods for taping hands, wrists, and fingers for climbing? Gotcha. I just wanted to make sure that if you had a particular problem, that it got addressed. FWIW, I don't know of a taping pattern that would address wrist pain in climbing, although one may exist.
Jan 11	comment	Methods for taping hands, wrists, and fingers for climbing? Are you starting to experience a specific problem in your climbing? More pain in your fingers or finger pulleys? Wrist problems? Are you getting into crack climbing and hand jamming, where you would need a tape glove to protect the skin on the backs of your hands?
Jan 11	comment	How to avoid pendulum descent when belaying? Can you keep your feet against the wall and walk / hop down as you're being lowered? Also, was the rope twisted and kinked up on your (the climber's) end? The only time I really experience a lot of swinging and twisting is when I'm being lowered over something dramatically overhanging and I can't touch the wall, or if the rope is twisted a little and needs to be un-kinked some.
Jan 2	comment	What are the key factors when choosing a sleeping bag for backpacking? can you rent one before you make any purchases? Some stores (REI) offer them for rent sometimes.
Dec 19	comment	How to carry dslr camera when rock-climbing I just carry a point-and-shoot in my pants pocket when I'm doing a multipitch route, and leave the DSLR for sport climbing. But you can tell that from the quality of pictures I take on trad climbs. :( So I'd be interested in hearing an answer too
Dec 18	comment	Is a varied diet necessary while backpacking? +1 - fiber is something I usually regret if I skip.
Dec 17	comment	What are the best ways to increase your draw weight? +1 - good to ask about the OP's strength, experience, and specific goals. Beginners might get totally different answers than experienced archers.
Dec 13	comment	Trail maintenance: what is considered inappropriate when maintaining a trail? +1 for "avoid looking too hard". Park services have strange and sometimes conficting priorities (balancing needs of hikers with nature conservancy / biodiversity, for instance, or balancing the needs of regular hikers with rock climbers). If one person starts making large, impactful changes on a trail on his own (setting up cairns, sawing off branches that have fallen in the trail) it could aggrevate existing tensions in the park
Dec 9	comment	How can rope/cordage be packed to minimize tangles? +1 - I use a butterfly coil for my 60m (200') climbing ropes, and rarely have significant tangles.
Dec 9	comment	What can I do to prevent altitude sickness? Both sides here have valid points: diamox isn't magic, and doesn't replace proper acclimation. But it can play a positive medical role (doesn't just hide symptoms). I've been on 4 trips above 10k feet, and for 2 of those I had a prescription for diamox, and generally felt better than the times I didn't have it. But there are side effects, and you should talk with your doctor first.
Dec 9	comment	What can I do to prevent altitude sickness? "Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hils" recommends diamox (acetazolamide) quote : "Acetazolamide doea appear to be effective in preventing and treating [acute mountain sickness] as well as irregular breathing brought on by high altitude" (7th edition, pg 490). There are side effects, and you should talk with a doctor, but the medicine is presented as treating and preventing altitude sickness. The book does NOT recommend diamox as a substitute for proper acclimatization, but as a supplement that may help some people.
Dec 7	comment	What hand and finger exercises help with climbing? FWIW, I like this one: rei.com/product/478026/power-putty-hand-strengthener I find the putty lets me move my fingers in a natural pattern, and provides a decent amount of resistance. I've also used the Black Diamond "O-Ring" gripper, but I don't like it, some times I can catch my finger from a bad angle and aggrevate old injuries. YMMV.
Dec 7	comment	What hand and finger exercises help with climbing? to answer the Bella's question - I use some of those products as a way to warm up when I'm driving to the climbing gym / crag. But I don't think that any of them are all that good at building finger strength. @Bella - do you have access to a climbing gym or outdoor climbing where you could actually climb 2 or more times a week? You'll see good progress from doing that, esp. if you're a beginner. You can include other stuff in your training plan (like hangboards), but they come with a risk of injury, and you need to know how to fit them in and adjust your training plan to be safe.
Dec 7	comment	What hand and finger exercises help with climbing? +1 Performance Rock Climbing is a great book
Dec 7	comment	What hand and finger exercises help with climbing? hey man, I'm sorry. I got a bit snippier than I meant to. I went back to edit my comment, but you had already replied to it.
Dec 7	comment	What hand and finger exercises help with climbing? Your argument was that because you can do it, every beginning climber should be able to as well. Which is not true. That was precisely what I was disagreeing with. I'm happy that it works for you. I didn't mean this as a personal attack. :) Its just out of line with the experiences of friends of mine, and inconsistent with training recommendations that surround hangboards and campus boards.