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what to do with my wedding band while i climb?

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coppolillo · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Sep 2009 · Points: 70

yo all,

just got hitched. won't be climbing with a band on my finger, so the question is...what to do with my band while i'm climbing? i'd like to put it on a piece of leather around my neck, but i'm wondering what other married guys do? ideas?

tell all. thanks. rob

Micahisaac · · Fort Collins, CO · Joined Apr 2006 · Points: 80

I used to put mine on the mini biner that held my chalk bag. Getting divorced increased my climbing by 3 number grades, and pawning my ring got me enough to fill up the tank. Good luck to you either way!

Randall Chapman · · Grand Junction, CO · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 1,532

I use 3mm nylon cord around my neck and just girth hitch the ring on. I went with the titanium ring so I don’t even notice it when it’s on my finger (not that a gold ring weighs all that much) so I have to remember to take it off before I start climbing.

Joshua Balke · · Colorado Springs · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 260
Micah Isaac wrote:I used to put mine on the mini biner that held my chalk bag. Getting divorced increased my climbing by 3 number grades, and pawning my ring got me enough to fill up the tank. Good luck to you either way!
HA! Divorce does improve climbing and by the way I got both hers and mine. That = 3 tanks of gas. That said just take the thing off and leave it in the car. If your attached to it throw it around your neck.

Edit: It seems the divorced guys are chiming in. Don't take it as negative. Marriage is good and a lot of fun. Be sure to practice lots of baby making. Congrats!
Bawls E. Climber · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 35

I used to just leave it home...........until the divorce

Puzman puziss · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 45

I usually leave mine in the car or in a small zippered pocket in my pack. And by the way, getting re-married after the divorce added 15 lbs and dropped my climbing by a grade!

Edward Medina · · Ridgway, CO · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 1,061

I used to clip my wedding band into a hematite necklace I got for my 10 year anniversary. While moving through a crux sequence on Angell Falls the necklace snagged and the catch popped. Ring and necklace tumbled 200 feet to the leaf littered base. My buddies came back the next week with a metal detector and found it for me. Now I just leave it in the car when I go climbing.

Woodchuck ATC · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 3,280

I say just bring the band along, and let them play some rock'n tunes from the base of the routes for all to enjoy. Will you be climbing in your tuxedo? Bride coming along too?

John Johnson · · Boulder, CO · Joined Sep 2006 · Points: 30

+1 for clipping it to the 'biner holding my chalk bag to my harness -- nice, secure and out of harm's way. Sometimes it stays there for weeks!

Aaron Lowry · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Aug 2007 · Points: 0

I clip mine to the mini biner on my keyring, and it has worked for me so far.

I think that key is to ALWAYS put it in the same place. Otherwise, it's too easy to misplace something so small.

Good luck on your marriage!

Tom Caldwell · · Clemson, S.C. · Joined Jun 2009 · Points: 3,623

My wife and I leave ours at home when we go climbing, even if its for a long vacation. I have misplaced it before outside taking it off while I was there, but luckily found it hiding. Don't run the risk of losing it out there, it can be devastating.

Jay Eggleston · · Denver · Joined Feb 2003 · Points: 21,326

I leave mine at home or put it on my key ring.

Kevin Stricker · · Evergreen, CO · Joined Oct 2002 · Points: 1,197

When I remember I leave it in the change cubby in the center console of my vehicle, when I forget I clip it to the key clip on the top of my pack.

Joey Faust · · Pocatello,ID · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 300

My wife and I put our rings in our ash tray of our vehicle or we put them on a spare biner if we forget to take them off.

Sam Lightner, Jr. · · Lander, WY · Joined Apr 2006 · Points: 2,732

let your girlfriend hold it.

Joe Huggins · · Grand Junction · Joined Oct 2001 · Points: 105

My wedding ring was molded from a piece of 6mm perlon; just had our 21st anniversary. Don't pay any attention to all this bragging about how good divorce is...a good marriage is way better. If you have a secure way to carry a chalkbag, get one with a zipper pocket, or leave the ring at home; the missus will understand that you don't want to damage or lose it. Hanging it around the neck is good too.
Congratulations on the Hitching.

Eric Krantz · · Black Hills · Joined Feb 2004 · Points: 420

Ditch the ring and get a tattoo.

Austin Baird · · SLC, Utah · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 95
Eric Krantz wrote:Ditch the ring and get a tattoo.
x2!!
Dwayne Wood · · Huntsville, AL · Joined Mar 2009 · Points: 30

This has got to be a troll!

tenesmus · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2004 · Points: 3,023

Take it off. Leave it off. Put it somewhere where your wife knows it is and forget about it.

flyk · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2008 · Points: 0

Girth hitch it and use it as pro. With a good placement it should hold.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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