trad

Now - there's always been a thick and disgusting stream of bullshit running through trad media.

Users will never be able to move from trad PC to tablet to phone to Xbox.

I guess sport climbing is technically free climbing, but a lot of people mentally equate free with trad.

In the opinion of many trad climbers, a first free ascent is just as important as a first ascent (if not more).

And it remains true that top-selling established authors do okay out of trad pub.

Essentially a pretty standard setup for hard free climbing on big walls - trad, augmented with a mix of bolts and fixed gear.

If people saw policy as what it is in criminalization they might trad more lightly but uber isn't setting policy because they can't.

What role do you see that community playing in future 'non-trad' bio-tech start-ups?

I think they probably mean trad climber.

The system we use in the UK for trad (not bolted) routes has two parts.

The machines happen to self-assemble rather than being engineered in a top-down way like trad media, and they're certainly more open than they believe to external influence.

In an immediate sense, we can encourage trad neighborhoods by asking city councils to slightly change laws that allow smallness and interestingness to take hold.

And I totally don't get that y'all are saying ebooks cost more than trad.and "awful" selection?

We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations." This essay, by comparison, likes that computers can be used to "trad[e] understanding for extreme speed of execution." That sounds more like an isolated clever trick for computations, rather than the heart and soul of augmenting human intellect.

But yeah, aid is pretty much an exercise in staying calm while your brain screams at you, "you 'bout to die!" (ed: I only ever did aid once, practicing with a salty old trad climber I used to follow around a lifetime ago.

I don't want to minimize the mental challenge here (I struggle with it when I lead climb in a gym, let alone "trad" outside with my own gear), but for climbers at this level with this much experience, the fear of falling is sufficiently small that they're thinking about the climb rather than the consequences of a misstep.