Where are some good places to get experience free soloing 5.1 to 5.5 in NC. I need some training for a climb I'm planning next summer. I don't plan on using any gear except to rap.

I just hope your judgement of what you can climb is better than your Internet search skills.

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I don't know your climbing experience but you may want to rope up on these first. One persons 5.easy is another persons 5. time to clean the underwear.

I would repeat some advice I read in one of Craig Luebben's "How-To" series books: Never Solo Anything! That being said, sometimes alpine climbing requires running protection out or full-on soloing. But to spend a lot of time practicing it? I would be so, so careful. Some of the great climbers of history, Derek Hersey comes to mind in particular, died free-soloing. Do it when you have to, but unless your name is Alex Honnold or Catherine Destivelle or Peter Croft or Steph Davis, I wouldn't recommend making a regular practice of it.

How about you act like a responsible climber and find yourself a belay. Your selfish climbing style puts rescue and recovery members at risk.

mtnbnd wrote:How about you act like a responsible climber and find yourself a belay. Your selfish climbing style puts rescue and recovery members at risk.

I don't understand how peeling a body off the ground is putting rescue members at risk. Unless your assuming rescue people do not know how to hike to the bottom of crags without putting themselves in a substantial amount of risk.

Hotoven wrote:

mtnbnd wrote:How about you act like a responsible climber and find yourself a belay. Your selfish climbing style puts rescue and recovery members at risk.

I don't understand how peeling a body off the ground is putting rescue members at risk. Unless your assuming rescue people do not know how to hike to the bottom of crags without putting themselves in a substantial amount of risk.

Body recovery can be just as dangerous as a rescue. Not to mention all the resources, time and emotion involved in recovery efforts.

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Spare me the lecture Mtnbnd.

I had the misfortune of watching a 5.10+ climber fall and die on 5.4. It could not possibly have been worth it.

gwave47 wrote:Spare me the lecture Mtnbnd.

Spare us the dick-swinging.

Autoxfil, you have no idea what I'm training for or what kind of practice I'm looking for. You simply saw a post, interpreted how you wanted to, and chose to be an ass about it. Never did I say I want to climb a 5.4 free solo, just asked where some good places are to get some practice at it. What I will actually be climbing is a few very small moves about 10 feet is the biggest of 5.1 to 5.4. I was looking to practice at the base of some routes no more than 10 to 15 feet up to get some ideas of different moves I would face and how I would tackle them. People come in these forums for guidance and advice, not to hear you be an opinionated ass. Nobody's swinging, but if I were at least I'd have something to swing.

I don't come to these forums much, but every time I do I'm amazed at the douches on this site. The guy wanted to discuss climbing in North Carolina on a CLIMBING site and got jumped.

gwave47 wrote:Where are some good places to get experience free soloing 5.1 to 5.5 in NC. I need some training for a climb I'm planning next summer. I don't plan on using any gear except to rap.

You only want to go up 10 feet? Uh climbing gym... Finger Board. Build your own wall. Local Climbing Rock.

http://www.indoorclimbing.com/northcarolina.html Deouche bag simplest thing in the world to type into google and find. You can learn more and faster in a climbing gym than "free soloing" sand bush filled crap.

That being said. All stuff east coast I have run across in my limited time back there visiting college friends is either dead vertical or overhanging due to a thing called Vegetation. Meaning unless its a Very well used site its gonna be covered in crap and that coming from a guy in Washington. Also dead vertical or overhanging stuff is NEVER under 5.5.