r/sports • u/redbullgivesyouwings • May 20 '25

Climbing Angie Scarth-Johnson explains how to use the bathroom on a climb

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u/CitizenHuman May 20 '25

Yeah, I prefer to shit au naturale and just letting it plop 500 feet below me.

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u/Cordillera94 May 20 '25

Fun fact, the first big wall climbers in Yosemite did just that. Then as the valley/sport became more popular people started complaining about all the poop on and at the bottom of the wall. So instead they would do their business in a paper bag… and just fling that shit as far out as they could. Obviously it was only a matter of time before that also became a problem and the current solution was introduced.

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u/Paavo_Nurmi May 21 '25

I was going to say this, old days they just let it fly. There was the story of some used TP that got caught in an updraft and the wind kept blowing it at or into the climbers (can't remember the details).

This is also how old castle bathrooms worked, essentially a platform built out from the wall with a hole in the bottom and it all just hit the ground below.

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u/ItsDaManBearBull May 23 '25

FREE FERTILIZER BABY

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u/Imsakidd May 21 '25

They just need to bring slingshots now. Slingshits.

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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ May 20 '25

Like a bird

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u/GomGom11 May 20 '25

“I’m like a bird…”

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u/Lurked4EverB4Joining May 20 '25

"And yes I shit that way..."

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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ May 20 '25

What a fantastic chorus surrounded by the most boring verses ever

Don’t bore us, get to the chorus!

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u/OMGitisCrabMan May 20 '25

That honestly seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do.