www.mountainproject.com/v/1-problem-or-2/107620481

Why do some climbers care what other climbers think about what they are climbing?

i cant allow hating on dave graham...unquestionable perpetrator of the shirtless beanie look.

Cause of the big awkward bouldering pad you have to carry around. Besides that bouldering is fun.

...because THIS is so much more inspirational:

Tuolumne Meadows area and Tenaya Lake, from Olmstead Point, Yosemite NP Submitted By: Adam Winters on May 7, 2007

Lots of good bouldering in Tuolumne.

I didnt read the previous comments, so someone may have already mentioned this but here is my two cents. I cant stand bouldering. Why? I have numerous lasting injuries caused by mountain biking and falling hurts. Doesnt matter if I land on my feet, on a pad, or have the best spotter in the world. Secondly, when climbing I do everything possible to protect myself against a ground fall... every single time you fall while bouldering, you deck. I do however think that bouldering can, and will improve other aspects of your climbing. Just like trad will help you on sport and vice versa. So.... if you are stoked on bouldering, go wrestle those pebbles to the ground!! And if not... be like me, and enjoy a nice dynamic whipper!

The only time I boulder is while backpacking or the afternoon before an alpine climb at a bivy. Thus, I love alpine bouldering. Otherwise I don't.

bouldering? you mean sending the gnar like THIS:

either an FA or Scrotal Elephantitis Submitted By: Nick Barczak on Jun 10, 2012

Western Gold is a bad ass flick and there is some super hotties in it!
Bouldering or Not....show me more hotties and I don't give a shit what anyone thinks about what they like or don't like to climb :)

I don't hate it. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm just getting too old to be a boulderer. Besides I can't stand to wear a wool beanie in the summer.

<<< Invalid image id: 107649410 >>>


<<< Invalid image id: 107649411 >>>

The only reason is egotism. And the idea that good boulderers can't sport climb or trad climb is not true.

I see new boulderers transfer to the local hard sport crag all the time and send 5.12 pretty fast.

Nor is trad cragging way more scary and more difficult. Hard highball bouldering is easily as scary and commiting as trad cragging...

Alpine is kind of a different bag though. But it's all fun, and the egoists are lame.

As long as you're not chipping holds or bolting obvious protectable routes it's all good to me!!

People hate on it because they suck at it.

Make whatever excuse they want...it's not long enough, people better at it than them wear funny clothes, they might have to sit in the dirt to start, they're too old for it...whatever the excuse, the real reason: THEY SUCK HARDER than Hoover, Electrolux, and Dyson combined.

I love to climb over gear, but my second love is bouldering. Convenient, and I can try the business over and over without having to climb 80' of rambling filler just to get there, or dangle around on a rope with my kidneys getting crushed and my legs going numb.

Not a fan of the beanie/no shirt look, but I'm not a fan of the skinny jeans or pants below your ass cheeks either...then again at 40yo, I don't expect to be down with modern youth fashion choices.

Some trad climbers say that bouldering isn't 'real climbing' because your climbing blocks 15 feet high, not cliffs. A sport climb is essentially a few boulder problems stacked on top of each other, and is climbed with a rope. When trad climbing, there is sometimes a focus on the exposure and movement on the rock, but bouldering has all of that too. Mountaineers try only to get to the top of the peak, so although they have a right to say that bouldering is stupid because you can walk up the backside of a boulder, trails lead to the top of many cliffs that sport and trad climbers use, and they never get bashed for that.

I was looking at only having short bits of time to climb this spring so I thought oh hell, I'll just get a bouldering pad and start bouldering. It's actually been great for my roped climbing. I'm now doing my regular roped routes in half the time I used to take just to keep myself from having to go bouldering.

But to be honest, there is a lot of truth in hating it because you can't do it very well. I find it hard to devote time to that form of climbing when my preferred form is readily available. I know I'd get stronger if I would boulder for a season, but I can't make myself do it. It's boring.