Does your gear have the "BlueSign approved" label on it?
My local gear shop put out an article about what it actually means.
Does your gear have the "BlueSign approved" label on it?
My local gear shop put out an article about what it actually means.
@[email protected] that's not a low point, that means you look young and climb hard!
My local gym is redoing their bouldering mats. Here's what that looks like!
Today I was supposed to host an informal skills clinic with a climber new to the outdoors, and teach them the basics of anchor cleaning. They ended up rescheduling, so I had some time to waste.
We're usually taught to clip draws with the gate facing away from the direction of the next bolt/pro, but if you're clipping a hanger (as opposed to a glue-in), could the biner rotate, and have the gate opened by the bolt itself?
I tried with an extendable draw I had, and it took some doing, but it was definitely possible. Rope movement can make a draw do funny things, and extendable draws in particular love to flip orientation. Lots of seemingly impossible things have happened to unattended protection!
This doesn't really apply to local crags here since bolts here are glue-ins, with exception of the anchor, but food for thought.
All the same it seems the advice to clip with the gate facing away from direction of travel still seems to supercede this niche edge case.
Hello and welcome to the OpenBeta Forums' September update!
It's been a pretty wild couple months here as @bean and I try to set things up here.
To give you a bit of history, before these forums were re-branded under the OpenBeta banner, it served as a news aggregator for climbing news publications. I was finding that I was missing certain important events (related to the 2024 Olympic qualifier series, mostly) and wanted one single place to check for climbing news. To achieve that, I turned to my old friend RSS (remember that?) in order to proactively pull in content from all sorts of publications, @Gripped, @climbing, @HowNOT2, etc...
All of that still remains, and can be viewed in the @news and @videos categories.
By August I teamed up with @viet and @bean to re-brand the forums to expand OpenBeta's social reach. The idea of running a forum paired very nicely with OpenBeta's mission to advocate for a free exchange of beta and ideas, as well as an underlying current of maintaining freedom of content ownership.
We want the OpenBeta forums to be your one-stop shop for climbing-related news and discussion. Help us make it happen by joining the conversation today!
A couple new items this month to introduce:
/categories
.N.B. The NodeBB team has generously provided hosting for OpenBeta, and in exchange, we get to test our brand-new functionality before it is released, win-win!
@[email protected] that's what my first thought was too. Lay any one of those rental harnesses on the ground and you've got a rats nest of webbing.
Sounds like a voluntary recall. Perhaps the new version will have lots of brightly coloured arrows.
@emilygraham1709 not yet! Been busy towards the end of summer, but thanks for the reminder!
Will get crackin' on something soon
Hi Viet, etc.
I'm looking to get a local checkout of open-tacos working on my machine. I'm trying to verify that a change I made works, but to test it I need to log into an account on staging.
I registered an account but the backend reports ths following:
https://next-auth.js.org/errors#oauth_callback_error access_denied (Unauthorized)
... which usually means the callback url is not added to Auth0; that makes sense since my local url is localhost:3000
.
Just wanted to ask for guidance before continuing, should I set up a record in /etc/hosts
so that I can pretend to be stg.openbeta.io
?
Let me know, thanks!
Nice! Finding local crags changes the game completely. I'm lucky enough to be only ~30 minutes from my local crag. I can't imagine driving an hour or more (and then an approach on top of it) to go cragging.
Very cool! I see twin ropes, I've heard they're more common in Europe than in the Americas.
Are they used here for safety, to reduce rope drag, or a combination of both?
Our wonderful fiscal host, the Open Collective Foundation, has made the difficult decision to cease operations by the end of 2024 (read the official statement).
Our wonderful fiscal host, the Open Collective Foundation, has made the difficult decision to cease operations by the end of 2024 (read the official statement).
(openbeta.substack.com)
How to map climbs and crags on OpenStreetMap
https://openbeta.substack.com/p/live-event-622-openstreetmap-for
How OpenBeta plans to collaborate with Local Climbing Organizations
Did you know there’s amazing bouldering in Rocklands, South Africa?
Thanks Viet, noticed the commit!
https://github.com/OpenBeta/open-tacos/commit/b5682f01c0bb2162b87f47dcf6ae4b6a0d51d833
@tradiban latest discussion on the Discord about this center around your legal right to ask Mountain Project to export your contributions.
If you can get that from them then maybe getting that data into OpenBeta is a possibility, although I'm not part of the development team.
tl;dw pretty damn strong apparently.
@bean confirmed, desktop editing is fine.
This may be a browser issue. I'm using Fennec, which is basically Firefox for mobile. Editing works fine in Chrome.
Attempted to edit this route and was unable to, recieved a 500 error as below:
It's on phone so unsure if it works better on PC. I did edit this route on a regular computer a few weeks back and it saved ok.