I've notice in your videos you clip a lot of the old in situ gear without placing a back up nearby, though you do occasionally. What are your thoughts on trusting old pins to catch a fall?
Thanks for the great climbing videos - rare on youtube. Do you have a system for attaching your go pro so it doesn't move? I always bash mine on the rock face and lose the camera position with the standard helmet mount.
I just crank the screw point super tight. On a helmet, if you use the curved mount (no yoke or pivot point, just the cheapo surface mount), bent all the way back is perfect angle. Because it can't pivot back any further, you can hit all you want and it will never change angle (it will maintain pointing the camera 45-50 degrees downward, depending where on the helmet you mount it). Last month I was down in the Red and shot a video of "Breakfast Burrito". It was really cold that day so I was wearing a hat. About 15 - 20 ft into the climb I wack the Gopro and because I was wearing it over the hat, it shifts position on my head (now pointing more up). In my mind, the footage is no good. Worse, I can't really check that out at the crag, otherwise I would have just done it again. I constantly wack the thing against the rock. Most of my time editing videos is spent removing all the clicks and knocks from me doing so.
This was my first 5.7!! Great climb. The balancy part in the beginning was cool. Second pitch was fun too. Thanks Seth.
I've notice in your videos you clip a lot of the old in situ gear without placing a back up nearby, though you do occasionally. What are your thoughts on trusting old pins to catch a fall?
Thanks for the great climbing videos - rare on youtube. Do you have a system for attaching your go pro so it doesn't move? I always bash mine on the rock face and lose the camera position with the standard helmet mount.
I just crank the screw point super tight. On a helmet, if you use the curved mount (no yoke or pivot point, just the cheapo surface mount), bent all the way back is perfect angle. Because it can't pivot back any further, you can hit all you want and it will never change angle (it will maintain pointing the camera 45-50 degrees downward, depending where on the helmet you mount it).
Last month I was down in the Red and shot a video of "Breakfast Burrito". It was really cold that day so I was wearing a hat. About 15 - 20 ft into the climb I wack the Gopro and because I was wearing it over the hat, it shifts position on my head (now pointing more up). In my mind, the footage is no good. Worse, I can't really check that out at the crag, otherwise I would have just done it again.
I constantly wack the thing against the rock. Most of my time editing videos is spent removing all the clicks and knocks from me doing so.
This route is begging for tricams.
Idk looks more like a sport climb to me
ya skipped the third pin!
Almost. I eventually clip it at 4:05 but I could have clipped it as early as 2:25. Though I wouldn't recommend my clipping stance to anyone.
+FirstPersonBeta lol yea your line looked much harder than I did it