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Crack climbing gloves - the ethics |
11-Feb-2011 At 11:51:44 AM |
singersmith
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Style only affects your ascent, ethics affects everybody else who climbs the route. Therefore, chipping is an ethical issue whereas tape gloves are a stylistic one. Chalk could be either but is no longer really an ethical issue except in some areas such as the Czech Republic.
Reusable tape gloves are crap if you're doing anything hard (bulky, loose, poor coverage - particularly for thumbs down thin hands) , standard tape gloves work over the skin on the back of the hands if you're putting them on/off everyday for more than a couple. I was running fingerless leather gloves until I lost them somewhere along with my straw hat (marked "Ceres" on the brim). Anyone seen them? Maybe atop of Angels or on a ledge thereabouts?
In the Creek we used to say three layers on the hand, two on the fingers for protection; after that it's aid. "Some" climbers are seen with 8 or 9 layers on the fingers to make them the right size for the crack. I'd call fingerless leather aid but you can sure swim up Angels with the them. |
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