So the situation, a deserted crag with around 20 or 30 routes. A trio rock up, one guy has a project and has a warm up burn on that. Then the belayer begins showing interest in the route we were on, I happily talk about the route and share some beta. He asks if we go again, and we do and then strip it and move onto the next route to the right. Same thing happens, he belays his friend on his project, and then starts showing interest in the next route we are trying and asks if we climb again and if he can have a go.
I enjoy working routes with people and happily share draws. What’s annoying though is when someone turns up to a deserted crag with ample routeS to choose from, and decides to pick whatever you put the draws in. I was fine the first time he asked, thinking he had an interest in the same route. But when we took the draws out and moved them into the next route, this was now the one he wished to try!
Maybe I’m just a grumpy Brit that isn’t used to this etiquette. But I did hear from some friends who were climbing at a crag with a 45 minute walk in, when some climbers repeatedly turned up at the crag without a set of draws with the intention of just getting on whatever route someone else was on.
does anyone else have much experience of this ?! If I go to a crag and there’s people on a route, unless that was the only route I wanted to do and reason I was there (in which case I might ask politely), otherwise I would just get on something else. This was the first time the guy has been to the crag so he had every route to choose from, plus we weren’t even on the crag classics although everything’s good.