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>> With experience you can tell what weight rocks will hold. > As a climber, this is total hubris. LOL. IMO GP is correct on the object level ("you can free s
by ke88y 3y ago
>> With experience you can tell what weight rocks will hold.
> As a climber, this is total hubris.
LOL. IMO GP is correct on the object level ("you can free solo with zero risk of being killed by a chossy hand hold") and you are correct on detail level ("if you haven't ripped a piece of choss off the wall by surprise maybe get more mileage outside of perfectly manicured de-facto-gym-crags").
Anyways, the point is that the choss risk is usually totally irrelevant. Most soloists don't solo on-sight. By the time you're soloing a route you usually know these sorts of details. TBH being killed by choss is way more likely belayed or at least on a rope because of the route-familiarity bias in soloing. My closest choss-related call was on TRS trundling shit.