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General Climbing Discussion

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IdratherbeclimbingM9
11-Jun-2004
4:16:18 PM
On 11/06/2004 Edward Frillypants wrote:
>An important thing in climbing (as with other things in life) is to be true to yourself.

Not quite the same topic but similar flavour. Enhancing or preventative? ... or somewhere in between.
Have experienced phenomena called 'puffy fingers/hands' syndrome. Came about from extended duration (days) aid climbing combined with dehydration?
Heard later that asprin tablets helps prevent / alleviate symptom, by thinning the blood.
Subsequently tried the tablet trick but with inconclusive result, perhaps due to not being willing to take more than a couple a day.

I don't regard this as 'enhancing' my performance, nor a necessary curative thing (for something that is basically not life threatening), ... just a convenience thing to make conditions a little better after the climb inasmuch as less recovery time required, till I can get out and knock my bod around again!

Perhaps a bit like Mighty Mouse ' If Im gonna climb the mountain, Im gonna climb it, ...'
I also tend to take a hammer in the bottom of the pack for 'just in case' when I strive to clean-aid a line.
Half of me says its irresponsible to end up in a situation where I would need rescuing when, if I take a hammer I can more effectively self-rescue; ... the other half of me says it lowers the committment if I take the hammer...

Have gotten crook hiking to altitude also. I came down, and never did reach the summit. I am not fussed by this, ... though I would still like to achieve some summits, but only in a conservative fashion.

Yeah, somewhere in between is probably the answer.

nmonteith
11-Jun-2004
4:25:50 PM
On 11/06/2004 A5iswhereitsat wrote:

>Have experienced phenomena called 'puffy fingers/hands' syndrome. Came
>about from extended duration (days) aid climbing combined with dehydration?

This puffy hands thing isn't caused by Aluminium on your hands is it? I found after days of aid climbing my hands tend to get a bit stuffed from handling all the 'biners. It must be a bit like rubbing underarm deodorant onto your hands all day!

IdratherbeclimbingM9
11-Jun-2004
6:19:34 PM
On 11/06/2004 nmonteith wrote:
>This puffy hands thing isn't caused by Aluminium on your hands is it?
>I found after days of aid climbing my hands tend to get a bit stuffed from
>handling all the 'biners. It must be a bit like rubbing underarm deodorant
>onto your hands all day!
What you say may be another animal altogether?

What I experienced did not go away in a hurry. It was close to 6 weeks later that I could get my wedding ring back onto my finger. I did not lose strength in fingers/hands but they sure swelled up.
At the time I thought it was related to spending most of the day/s with my hands above my head and possibly to (default enforced) poor circulation of blood to those extremities.
I read on a USA thread about others experiencing the same thing and thats where I got the asprin clue from.
I have subsequently found out that dehydration can cause puffyness also.
This may be ignorance/misinformation on my part but I gather (layperson speak) its the bodies way of coping with dehydration to 'close down' cells to retain what fluid they have in them. Another image that comes to mind (that might be related?), is pictures of malnourished children. They always seem to have distended stomachs, which kind of defies the logic involved ....

I have found taking a few 'moist-antiseptic-wipes' in a sealable plastic bag is a good way of cleaning hands (and feet!) on multiday wall climbs. The perfumed ones help the nose cope also!
I recycle them (at the once off time of using) by 1. clean face; 2. then armpits; 3. then hands etc; 4. then feet at the end of the day to get mileage out of the wipe at that time before it dries out. I then store the 'dead' wipe overnight in my shoes to kill the pong!!
deadpoint
14-Jun-2004
9:53:36 PM
5. Store in Poo tube

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