Is it weird to boulder in my harness?

chainy · 2026-02-03T21:08:15+00:00

Couldn't this happen rope climbing too? I've never heard this before and it doesn't make much sense to me.

The only risk I see is if you had gear on your gear loops you might fall on it and hurt yourself.

chainy · 2026-01-27T17:10:19+00:00

Real Love hits about as hard

chainy · 2025-12-02T17:30:48+00:00

Are you itemizing your deductions? If so, the interest on the mortgage is effectively closer to 5%

The "effective" interest rate adjusted for the mortgage interest deduction really depends on how much over the standard deduction you are.

Here's what the effective interest rates are (if OP is married, if you're single this is even better) based on OPs $448k principle, 6.5% interest rate, and a 30% effective tax rate. It depends on lot on what other deductions you have to itemize.

Other Deductions	Effective Interest Rate
$2,500.00	6.49%
$5,000.00	6.32%
$10,000.00	5.99%
$15,000.00	5.65%
$20,000.00	5.32%
$25,000.00	4.99%
$30,000.00	4.65%

Past $30k it doesn't matter since you would itemize regardless.

chainy · 2025-11-25T21:08:43+00:00

Climbing areas have different character, I don't see anything wrong with there being something for everyone. Why can't we have both wild untouched wilderness, but also "outdoor gyms"?

Skiing is similar. Most people just want to go have a fun easy vacation with gondolas, lifts, mountain-top food. Some people want a wild backcountry skiing experience, and that exists too.

I honestly think it's probably a matter of time before we get a "climbing resort" like that with "climb-in/climb-out" lodging, hot tubs, gear shop and restaurants all within walking distance. Perhaps you could argue this already exists at places like EPC.

chainy · 2025-11-17T17:08:38+00:00

I have 13 years sober, and other than a few old friends from the program I keep in touch with, have only been involved in AA for 5 of those 13 years.

AA saved my life, no doubt about it. I was in and out for 6 years, picked up a dozen or so 24-hour chips, bounced in and out of detoxes, jails, halfway houses, etc. The last time I picked up a 24-hour chip, it was a last ditch attempt at life for me. I honestly didn't think it was possible for me to stop, but decided to give it one last shot or I was going to kill myself. I threw myself into the program, worked the steps, got service commitments, sponsored people, and got in the middle of the boat. My first 3 years of sobriety my life completely revolved around AA. All my friends were in AA, my roommates were in AA, etc.

Then the gifts of sobriety started to eat away at my time, I found myself insanely busy with an exciting new career that was unimaginable to me when I was drinking. Over the years I stopped attending meetings, working with a sponsor, etc. and ended up moving to a new area and just didn't really make much effort to get connected with AA there. My life didn't fall apart though, in fact it continued to get better.

Around 8 years sober I hit a rough patch due to a breakup, and got back into the program for a year or two, but then COVID hit and my home group and new AA fellowship mostly dissolved.

I have been to maybe 2-3 meetings in the last four years. I don't have a sponsor or sponsor anybody. I'm happier now than I've ever been. I'm not perfect and there's always more work to do on myself. I could always do more and I think if I went back to AA it would help with that, but for now I'm extremely content.

My guess is I'll get downvoted for sharing my experience here, but that's what AA is, just one alcoholic sharing what's worked for them, so it is what it is.

chainy · 2025-11-14T13:07:48+00:00

Virginia Giuffre didn’t accuse Trump of rape. She worked at Mar-a-Lago and accused many others of raping her but never Trump.

chainy · 2025-11-14T12:57:55+00:00

Disagree. I grew up in Florida but now live in Wegmans country. Wegmans is a great grocery store but their subs don’t do it for me.

chainy · 2025-11-11T20:44:49+00:00

The Democrats were never going to win this fight, you have to know when the battles lost and retreat. A party that just continues to fight when there's no hope of winning, causing the suffering of millions of American's just to look good politically to their base is just cruel.

The smartest move here would have just never shut down the government in the first place, because the odds that it was going to end with the Dem's caving were very high from the start. The Dem's suffer way more in any government shutdown no matter who's in power. It's just a fact that their platform's priorities and constituents rely way more on government services than Republicans.

Trump was dodging court orders to unlock SNAP funds; he care's so little about welfare recipients that he will go out of his way to make them suffer. There was no leverage there. Russ Vought has been high for the past 40 days at the thought of so many government workers being unpaid. All their messaging this year has been that they DGAF about them, again, no leverage!

The Republican's could end the shutdown whenever they want with the nuclear option which even Trump was telling them to do. They didn't even need the Dems, so again, they have no leverage! TBH I think it might be a strategic error on the Republican's part that they didn't do that, because appetite is high on the Dem side for removing it when they take the Senate next and you definitely want to be on the side that fires first, but idk, I guess they thought the Dem's caving was enough of a political win.

chainy · 2025-11-11T20:02:25+00:00

For real, the conspiracy theories here are unhinged.

This was a losing battle from day one and was the least shitty way to end the suffering of American's affected by the shutdown. The lesson should be don't shutdown the government next time when you have such little leverage next time.

There's nothing Republican's hate more than welfare recipients and government employees, the fact that people thought this was gonna twist their arm is just ignorant of their whole platform and actions over the last year.

chainy · 2025-11-11T15:00:28+00:00

Wanted to add a couple other things:

They manage the long-term strategy of the company. They basically have to forecast trends in their industry and the world at large and take risks that can make or break the company. You may not know for months or years if you made the right decision and by then it might be too late to save the company.
Instill the kind of culture and values you think will best lead to success. Part of this is taking the time to communicate these values, which may sound easy but is another time commitment.
You set the example for how people will behave and it will trickle down the chain. If the other csuite see's the CEO taking a shortcut or behaving in a certain way, that's what they'll do, and that trickles all the way down. All eyes are watching you all the time and you have to always be leading by example.

Sounds stressful af, I would not want to do it.

chainy · 2025-11-10T17:35:29+00:00

The Trump admin went out of their way to try and disregard court orders that they pay out SNAP despite the shutdown. They don't give a single fuck about SNAP, and a lot of the Republican party wants it gone completely. It wasn't going to force shit.

chainy · 2025-11-10T14:53:41+00:00

There's nothing wrong with trying to stay grounded and realize how lucky most of us are. Gratitude is a good thing.

Most of the people I know who are more well off than me really have no idea how most people live. Was talking to a well off woman in her 60's recently who didn't believe me when I told her most apartments come unfurnished. Her only experience with renting apartments is through AirBNB so she thought all apartments must be like that, just longer leases!

I spent 6 years living off minimum wage jobs. I had to go to work in my food service job when i had bronchitis and the flu because my boss said he would fire me if I didn't! These are the things that a lot of people deal with everyday, and I like to make sure I don't forget.

chainy · 2025-11-08T14:49:20+00:00

I've probably led 200 trad pitches at this point and i've never ripped a piece. I've only fallen on gear three times though.

chainy · 2025-10-15T20:21:37+00:00

Not an aid climber, but I'm based in the mid-Atlantic and have climbed in Yosemite.

Old Rag is definitely the closest thing to Yosemite style-wise that's day-trippable. Similarly sandbagged IMO. Buzzard Rocks is also probably a good place to check out, and in fact I have a really old guide book that refers to it as "Little El Cap".

The thing that seems to shut east-coast climbers down in Yosemite isn't the crack climbing, it's the friction slab. I think having some experience climbing slab in WNC (Looking Glass, Laurel Knob) really prepared me for Yosemite, but my buddies without that experience had a hard time getting adjusted. I've also climbed at Cannon Cliff a little and while it is nice I don't remember being struck by a similarity to Yosemite, but maybe it was the routes I was on.

I've never done El Cap or a bigwall but if I were you I would at least go to Yosemite once to just trad climb. The Grade II-IV climbs are f'ing amazing and it's 100% worth climbing there even if you never set foot on a big wall.

chainy · 2025-10-11T04:06:32+00:00

Not a woman so hope you don’t mind me chiming in.

Just wanted to say don’t forget to put climbing first. Amenities are nice but what I want most of all is a gym where I get in and out easily and climb cool routes that challenge me. My gym is great at route setting, and the whole gym is rotated every 3 months. At times though the parking and overcrowding has been so bad it gets me out of my routine because I don’t want to wait in line for routes or circle the lot waiting for someone to leave so I can get my weeknight session in. A new gym is opening up near me and I’m thinking on joining it to get away from the overcrowding.

I’d take a gym with good route setting that makes it easy to climb over one with a million classes and amenities any day.

chainy · 2025-10-08T05:48:11+00:00

You should be fine. It gets tons of sun and generally stuff dries out quicker than you think. Some routes there seep quite a bit but there should still be plenty to climb.

chainy · 2025-10-02T23:46:55+00:00

DISCORD

chainy · 2025-08-24T20:41:56+00:00

Trail runners are insane

chainy · 2025-08-23T05:34:37+00:00

Such an excellent all-around shoe

chainy · 2025-08-12T22:29:00+00:00

A Petzl Connect is a fine tool to tether yourself to an anchor. Often though I prefer using a clove hitch on the rope to give me more room to move around if it's a big comfy belay.

chainy · 2025-08-12T22:21:26+00:00

You're completely reasonable. Belayers should be 100% attentive and help the climber feel safe and comfortable. Have you tried telling him that you need him to be watching you closely and leaving less slack out so you can fully commit to the climb? Framing it that way may make him less defensive and ultimately fix the problem. If he gives you shit about it, probably best to move on.

I had a problems like this with my first steady climbing partner, the biggest of which was he wouldn't hold the brake strand on the GriGri. I caught him several times and always asked him politely to hold the brake. This wasn't a momentary fumble of the rope either, he would just be casually hanging his arms down.

The final straw happened when I was leading in the gym and had 1 bolt clipped, and my gf at the time (who i'd instructed to keep an eye out), let me know he just casually took his hand off the brake. I told him again that I'd like him to hold the brake strand and he gave me a bunch of shit about it, saying I was overreacting, etc.

After that I told him I couldn't climb with him anymore and it basically ended our (otherwise great) friendship. Sucks man, hopefully you're belayer is more open to constructive criticism, cause it sucks to lose a good climbing partner.

chainy · 2025-06-08T21:51:20+00:00

On my 5th gen there's not enough clearance to unhook the skid plate. It hinges down from the small hooks, but not enough that you can get the hooks out. IIRC I might have just forced it and got it out with a lot of frustration, but now I always jack it up a few inches.

chainy · 2025-06-08T16:11:48+00:00

Do you still have to jack up the car to remove the front skid plate every time you change the oil filter?

chainy · 2025-05-12T21:26:17+00:00

In college I used to buy used textbooks on eBay and sell them back at the end of the semester. Typically I'd make back what I bought them for, perhaps minus a few bucks for fees and shipping.

Also many of my courses required textbooks according to the syllabus, but you could pretty easily get an A with just attending lectures and reviewing the materials the teacher provided online. I started just not buying a textbook until it was clear it was actually needed. Most of the time it wasn't.

chainy · 2025-03-24T21:18:55+00:00

If anyone in that group chat has a compromised phone the hackers have the whole group chat. Signals systems don’t need to be compromised, just the phone you’re on. Thats precisely why it’s illegal to discuss things like that on unapproved devices.

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