Newbie climber

[treequip]

Quite a few.

 

I think you will find that the VAST majority use non permanent devices or simply rely on the size of their gonads.

 

Drilling is very much frowned upon to the point where such practices would get you quite literally thrown off a rock face, its tantamount to spiking a tree you aren't going to fell.

 

I did like the tube vid on the hand drill, how do you work that while hanging on with your finger nails?

[bluebedouin]

.... how do you work that while hanging on with your finger nails?

 

By jamming your gonads in a crevice?

[diervek]

I've not long passed my 38 and struggle to find someone to climb with as regularly as I'd like so, before my son was born, (climbing is on the back burner now) I just went out a few times a week and did some rec climbing on my lonesome - not exactly good advice but it's either that, or I'd have to wait for months and months before climbing...

Always make sure someone knows where you're going and keep in touch.