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How to climb trad #1 Scramble
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2020
- The first in a series on how to climb trad, from the absolute basics right through to E11. Its a huge subject and not one where taking shortcuts tends to work out well in the long term. In this video, we start easy, and fun!
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Scrambling was how I started years ago. The progression from there was defined by increasing laziness and i therefore finished up as a boulderer :😂
Corona Bouldering has improved my trad game immensely!
the start of what will no doubt be a spectacular series, right on dave, keep it up, stay safe
this is a great idea for a series... learning to trust gear - so important.
Here comes the first episode of a very interesting series! Thank you for doing this!
Nice one Dave, love your chats. Always some absolute gems to think about 🤙
Good too hear from you again Dave, that looks like a fun evening of scrambling indeed.
Very excited about this series! Thx Dave
Brilliant idea for a series. Looking forward to the next installment already :)
Lookin forward to the rest of this series!
Looks great. Looking forward to all of these
Great idea for a series! I've just come back from my first trad trip and definitely feel like I need a few more before I'm comfortable with leading
Thanks for this! I’m just starting trad climbing. Can’t wait for the next episode.
I could listen to you talk all day Dave. A fair about scrambling to aid in trad progression. I’ve found it really benefited my alpinism too.
You had 4,500 respondents to your survey?! That's amazing. We have clinical research survey projects and are happy to get 100 folks to reply. With such a large data set you should be able to make some fairly strong assumptions about climbing diets. Taking the survey was somewhat informative to my own diet since it forced me to quantify my normal eating habits. Looking forward to reading your results. Interested to see how you handle your survey being very European diet centered and respondents being from vastly different food ethnicities. Best, Doug
Perfect timing! Starting a trad course at my local club this month :)
Wonderful David!
Love it Dave! With that kind of dedication to setting up your camera (and getting down again to retrieve it after every shot) you can do a collab survivorman episode with Les Stroud!! 🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
Excellent really enjoyed this as is the case with all your content 👍🏻
I am so excited for this series! I have some trad gear, but I've only used it on routes the are mixed sport and trad. I have been too scared to go full traditional.
Hi Dave, this is a really helpful video. I have done about 10+ scrambling routes through north wales with my friend and done our 1st HS route last week and would love to know how to progress further. Looking forward to coming videos
Steep or not, that's some lovely looking rock, Dave.
heck yea! thanks for this.
Thanks Dave
You read my mind, I’m in exactly the same position as you were, strong ish boulderer, love trad but I feel like I’m soloing so I struggle to do anything past about HVS. Can’t wait to see the next video!!
I got stuck on VS for ages; about 3 years. For me, it was just starting to solo lots and lots of VD/HS grade climbs and getting really confident so I didn't mind being above my gear. Good luck!
I'm watching this series with interest as my 13-year old son is just starting his trad journey; he's led 6c indoors and a couple of VS outdoors, but I really want him to learn the basics before rushing forward to the higher grades where he could get himself in trouble. I'm old enough to have started climbing before there were many climbing walls, so you learnt climbing by climbing trad, which meant most people progressed much more slowly through the grades, learning this stuff as you go and becoming really solid on the routes. My son can second me up E1/2 outdoors without too much trouble right now but he has no "trad craft" at all. I'll make him watch all of these as they come out! This is a great idea for a series, Dave, good work!
I was actually planning to do a parent/youngster specific episode in this series. Ive seen three separate father/son incidents on mountain crags that were some of the scariest situations I've witnessed in the hills. All thankfully with only a near miss but I don't think the folks involved even appreciated how close they were to a really bad accident.
I participated in your study and really interested in seeing the results of your study. Sounds interesting!
Really good, looking forward to further episodes. If it’s as good as your Nevis Faces work then I can’t wait.
Thanks. Filming yourself is pretty difficult to be as good as being behind a camera filming someone else. But I'll try!
I am at the point of wanting to start leading on trad but fear is a major problem. My other issue is that scrambling or at least the scrambling I have done I also found terrifying. Its a strange mix of emotions as I love climbing more than anything but I am constantly trying to manage fear when I am outdoors. Looking forward to the series Dave this is exactly the sort of thing I need.
Nice one for giving it a go! Maybe try roping up for some super easy routes/ scrambles you’d be comfortable soloing and go from there?
In my opinion the paradox of the love/hate relationship I can have with climbing at times is what can make it so engaging but also so soul destroying at time hahaha
Thanks, Dave. Do you happen to remember which crag and routes you climbed when you went from HVS-E4 in a day? Cheers.
I can so relate to not trusting my gear placement. I am looking forward to next video. :)
But how can you trust your gear placement? You’d have to take falls to test it.
@@Mike-oz4cv With experience you learn how to tell if a placement is good just by looking.
After a 5 year break . going back at it , starting at the basics again.🤠
Great! I’m learning trad climbing at the moment in Austria before I return to the uk and climb proper trad. There isn’t really much trad routes here at all or someone to follow. So I found some small cracks on different routes and put some gear in literally above the bolts and jump off and test placements. Safe way to literally test my placements and build some confidence I find (obviously small falls first). I test each type of gear, so I know how to place each well. Anyone else do this?
yes, i have done it
Not sure about Austria, but for Switzerland there is a guidebook that also contains routes in bolted crags that can be climbed on trad gear. This is a great way to learn trad as you can reduce the number of clipped bolts once you trust your gear more
Hello, Dave. Regarding the study, I'm quite curious of the results. Hopefully the video comes out soon, I can't wait! :D
Thanks. It may not be that soon. Scientific publishing can be slow process.
@@climbermacleod I agree and I think it's also important to take the time to interpret the results correctly. I'm looking forward to the video, no matter when it comes out. I think it'll be quite interesting :)
Should I be wearing trad mountaineering boots for scrambling? Or do you think that is overkill?
Can anyone tell me where that initial scramble is located as I'd really like to try for myself, thanks....
I'm new to UK, what would be a good way to find good scrambling routes? I love the simplicity of just going out on my own, not worrying much about the logistics, gear and partner and just having an adventure.
There are excellent scrambling guidebooks available. For Scotland, see the series published by the Scottish Mountaineering Trust.
That view is making me regret my urban-oriented life choices 😁
Totally had dave down as a trad climber first and got into bouldering as more of a training tool.. teach me for making assumptions about people.
I prefer scrambling if the weather is good. It's freeing.
There's a mountain you mention a lot, and every time I hear it it sounds like "Benny and Shoes". What are you actually saying?
Binnein Shuas.
@@climbermacleod Thanks so much.
Too much off-topic discourse. But, don't get me wrong, I LOVE the series...!
Arguably, some scrambles are potentially more dangerous than roped climbs.
1:10 5.4 free solo!
Way too slow. Too much talking and not a lot of doing.
I'd imagine most climbers eat absolute crap, mcdonalds, service station sandwiches, stuff they pick up on the way to a crag .