Not a bad day at all! Can't wait to do it again next weekend!
Kate
· 2 years ago
Heck yeah!
Bruce
· 2 years ago
Allow me to be the village idiot. I'm a little out it for climbing terms.
"Mark pulled the rope and pink-pointed it". What's pink-point?
"Doug started up this one first, with only a little bit of beta, and having never seen anybody struggle in the crack before." What does "beta" mean here?
It's a great story regardless of my inadequate vocabulary.
-Bruce
Kate
· 2 years ago
Hi Bruce! Thanks for the comments!
Yeah, I've been struggling recently with how much detail to include in these posts, and how concise I want to be. It's a hard balance to strike: making a nice, short little blog post with pretty pictures or writing a detailed and information-packed story?
So, to answer your question, "pink-point" means that Mark lead the climb (climbed it with the rope going directly from the belayer up to the climber, not up to a top anchor) using the gear that I had previously place to protect my lead. So he did not have to place his own gear, which makes it easier to climb.
"Beta" in this context simply means "helpful information". Before Doug went on the climb, we showed him where a few hidden ledges were inside the crack, and how to do a heal-toe, and that was about it. He figured the rest of it out on his own. Because he kicks ass!
Thanks for your questions, I'm trying to figure out the most interesting way to write these trips up, I need to remember that not all of my audience are climbers!
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"Mark pulled the rope and pink-pointed it". What's pink-point?
"Doug started up this one first, with only a little bit of beta, and having never seen anybody struggle in the crack before."
What does "beta" mean here?
It's a great story regardless of my inadequate vocabulary.
-Bruce
Yeah, I've been struggling recently with how much detail to include in these posts, and how concise I want to be. It's a hard balance to strike: making a nice, short little blog post with pretty pictures or writing a detailed and information-packed story?
So, to answer your question, "pink-point" means that Mark lead the climb (climbed it with the rope going directly from the belayer up to the climber, not up to a top anchor) using the gear that I had previously place to protect my lead. So he did not have to place his own gear, which makes it easier to climb.
"Beta" in this context simply means "helpful information". Before Doug went on the climb, we showed him where a few hidden ledges were inside the crack, and how to do a heal-toe, and that was about it. He figured the rest of it out on his own. Because he kicks ass!
Thanks for your questions, I'm trying to figure out the most interesting way to write these trips up, I need to remember that not all of my audience are climbers!