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NEW REVIEW: TrangoWorld Yosemite Jeans

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 UKC Gear 20 Nov 2012
Because of the cotton-lycra mix and articulated knees, the TrangoWorld Yosemite Jeans give unrestricted movement, 4 kb"Classic blue jeans are not just for cowboys like the American climber Ron Kauk," says Mick Ryan. Kauk was wearing 501's over two decades ago for climbing in, as well as for hanging out in the Camp 4 parking lot and when splitting firewood at his home for the cold Yosemite winters.

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/review.php?id=5020
 eggburt1952 20 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear: Go to Bi-mart and buy a pair of Rustler carpenter jeans $8 they are great or any paint shop and get a pair of "Dickies" $15 with reinforced knees , I'm sure that's where Ron does his shopping.
 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear:

Vain people wear jeans to climb in purely as a way of saying "Look at me. I'm so good that I can do this even wearing something offering rubbish freedom of movement." The funny thing is that manufacturers have bought into this by making stretchy jeans so that the posers can still pose to those not in the know but without the actual hindrance of traditional jeans. One of the more amusing bit of consumerism in climbing.
 Durbs 20 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran:

Odd, I climb in jeans (4" too big for me to allow for movement) because they're warm and hard-wearing. Never realised it was because I was vain. Who knew?

Thank you for enlightening us all.

In reply to Robert Durran: What do you wear to climb in Robert?
 Andrew Smith 20 Nov 2012
In reply to Durbs: Ditto. I am remember my mate turning up to climb in a pair of them new fangled Moon pants selling for about eighty quid. I said we are going climbing not f****n clubbing!

Best climbing pants I ever had for climbing cost me a quid from direct sports...
 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to Durbs:
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> Odd, I climb in jeans (4" too big for me to allow for movement) because they're warm and hard-wearing. Never realised it was because I was vain. Who knew?

Well now you do.

> Thank you for enlightening us all.

No problem.

 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to Frank the Husky:
> (In reply to Robert Durran) What do you wear to climb in Robert?

Shorts or leggings (thickness depends on temperature).

 yogi2749 20 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran:
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> Shorts or leggings (thickness depends on temperature).

Leggings? It's 2012 not 1984 Jeans are the way forward! (although saying that I love my E9's...
 USBRIT 20 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear: We wore jeans for climbing in the late 1950's
 Darron 20 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear:
Biggest problem I had climbing in jeans in the '70's was seeing my feet - not easy to do in 19inch flares.

In fashion NOTHING is new
 jezb1 20 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear: I mostly climb in jeans, alpkit ones, plenty of movement and water resistant.

I don't climb hard enough to wear them just to say 'look at me'....

Leggings are for hot girls or men who want people to stare at their horrible legs.
 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to yogi2749:
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> Leggings? It's 2012 not 1984 Jeans are the way forward!

If so, only because fashion victims are gullible enough fork out money for these branded stretchy things - admit it, they are not proper jeans. Leggings are perfect for climbing; I don't care what date it is or who is laughing behind my back.
 Andy Hardy 20 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear: £80! Fkme ragged!
 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to 999thAndy:
> (In reply to UKC Gear) £80! Fkme ragged!

It really is amazing that there are no doubt actually people out there who will buy them, isn't it.

In reply to Robert Durran:

Your argument (which was codswallop to start with) somewhat falls down when the people wearing the jeans to climb in are massive punters like me. I wear them to climb in most of the time because they're comfy, better for wiping my shoes on than thinner trousers and much less prone to ripping when I'm flailing around in some off width horrorshow.

Then again I am a preening primadonna, just ask any of my climbing partners...
In reply to victim of mathematics:

I certainly wouldn't pay £80 for a pair, mind!
 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to victim of mathematics:
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> Your argument (which was codswallop to start with) somewhat falls down when the people wearing the jeans to climb in are massive punters like me.

Why? I reckon there's probably quite a strong correlation betweem punterdom and fashion victimhood.

> I wear them to climb in most of the time because they're comfy, better for wiping my shoes on than thinner trousers and much less prone to ripping when I'm flailing around in some off width horrorshow.

You would pay for overpriced fashion trousres and then wipe your feet on them and grovel up chimneys in them?
In reply to Robert Durran:
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> Why? I reckon there's probably quite a strong correlation betweem punterdom and fashion victimhood.
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"Look at me, I'm so good..." Fails as an argument when you obviously aren't any good and therefore aren't doing anything worth looking at.

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> You would pay for overpriced fashion trousres and then wipe your feet on them and grovel up chimneys in them?

No. I would pay for some hard wearing, comfy trousers to go climbing in. What's a 'fashion trouser' though? It doesn't sound like you're in any better a position than me to judge, since you're bumbling around in womanswear.
 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to victim of mathematics:
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> "Look at me, I'm so good..." Fails as an argument when you obviously aren't any good and therefore aren't doing anything worth looking at.

Indeed. If you try this ploy when a crap climber it makes you look even more of a knob. There are actually twpo separate issues here thoug; the "look at me...." one and the fashion victim one.

> What's a 'fashion trouser' though?

Any of these trousers where you are paying extra to have a "climbing" label on them.

> It doesn't sound like you're in any better a position than me to judge, since you're bumbling around in womanswear.

Not bumbling. People tend to overlook the womanswear when I am climbing like a Goddess.

In reply to Robert Durran:

Your assumptions about my fashion sense (or otherwise) are hilarious.

Thanks for calling me a knob though, enchanting x
 TobyA 20 Nov 2012
In reply to Frank the Husky:
> (In reply to Robert Durran) What do you wear to climb in Robert?

I've always presumed it would be hair shirt with some sackcloth and ashes in the pack for a belay jacket?


 Robert Durran 20 Nov 2012
In reply to victim of mathematics:
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> Thanks for calling me a knob though, enchanting x

I thought you implied you weren't in the "look at me..." category and that therefore the knob appelation didn't apply in your case.
Apologies for the confusion.

 TobyA 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran: Have you watched the video of Ondra onsighting the 8c+ yet Robert? His jeans seem to work ok for him!

More seriously haven't most people found that once you put a harness on, most trousers work fine for climbing in? I've been using an old pair of cords this summer and they've been great.

For bouldering you really find the limits of many types of trousers, even supposedly climbing-specific ones. But the harness leg loops somehow pull trousers up around the knees meaning you never get any drag there.
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to TobyA:
> (In reply to Robert Durran) Have you watched the video of Ondra onsighting the 8c+ yet Robert? His jeans seem to work ok for him!

No, not yet, but looking forward to it (I just hope the editing isn't as appallingly vomit inducing as that last video of the place - Ondra's entourage usually produce graet videos though). I assume Ondra is wearing the stretchy jeans which aren't actually Jeans at all, but just look like them. So is he just posing about, trying to con us into thinking he is so good that he can onsight 8c+ in trousers like stiff cardboard? Probably not; even I would sell out and wear stretchy "jeans" them if someone payed me enough money to do so!
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> More seriously haven't most people found that once you put a harness on, most trousers work fine for climbing in? I've been using an old pair of cords this summer and they've been great.

The harness and rack is the problem with most trousers. Any sort of stiff waist band is uncomfortable and any pockets get caught on krabs. This is why I wear exclusively leggings and shorts with no pockets.

> For bouldering you really find the limits of many types of trousers, even supposedly climbing-specific ones.

I disagree. Without a harness, the above problems don't exist and anything not impeding freedom of movement would be ok I imagine
In reply to Robert Durran:

Pockets get caught on krabs?!?

Either you're a cack-handed buffoon, or you're doing something very, very wrong. In 10 years of climbing I have never once found the pockets of any climbing trousers get in the way of anything. How gaping are your pockets?
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to victim of mathematics:
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> Either you're a cack-handed buffoon, or you're doing something very, very wrong. In 10 years of climbing I have never once found the pockets of any climbing trousers get in the way of anything.

Well I have. So maybe I am a cack-handed buffoon - quite possibly. But I've found a way round it. I can set off on a big lead knowing that that crucial piece of gear when I am pumped won't be clipped to my trousers, resulting in faailure or even death; I find this a great comfort.
In reply to Robert Durran:
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> Well I have. So maybe I am a cack-handed buffoon - quite possibly. But I've found a way round it. I can set off on a big lead knowing that that crucial piece of gear when I am pumped won't be clipped to my trousers, resulting in faailure or even death; I find this a great comfort.

Sounds like we need a new warning label:

Caution, these trousers may cause death.

I never realised jeans could be so interesting.
 TobyA 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran:
> I assume Ondra is wearing the stretchy jeans which aren't actually Jeans at all,

No idea what type of jeans he's wearing. You can get plenty of stretchy jeans from high street shops Robert. I'm not saying the skinny jean hipster look is the right one for you, but you never know! Do you wear specs? If so mixing the skinny jeans with some thick horn-rimmed glasses and some ironic facial hair could be a completely new look for you? People will be presuming you're from Brooklyn in no time at all.

> The harness and rack is the problem with most trousers. Any sort of stiff waist band is uncomfortable and any pockets get caught on krabs. This is why I wear exclusively leggings and shorts with no pockets.

Can't say I've ever noted that problem. I have though miss-clipped on to the hem of my t-shirt if it's loose and sticking out under my harness. That's annoying. If I'm trying something hard for me I try to remember to tuck my t-shirt in to my troos before starting off. But can't say I've ever managed to clip something to my trouser pockets.


In reply to victim of mathematics:

haha brilliant.

Robert should try "jeggings". Then he'll get the wonderful body hugging feeling of the legging and the fashion benefits of the faux-denim! Also I understand that their pockets are painted on, so no risk of death!
 Enty 21 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear:

I love these jeans - not only functional but they also have the bonus effect of making me look dead cool.

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 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to TobyA:
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> You can get plenty of stretchy jeans from high street shops Robert.

Indeed. My default non-work wear is stretchy black jeans from Asda at under a tenner a pair (with the added satisfaction of knowing that I'm keeping a Philippino child in gainful employment). I wouldn't wear them climbing though because, as I said, I would need to be well paid to look like a posing knob.

> Do you wear specs?

Don't get me started on glasses. Well, ok you have, so here goes:
The evil purveyors of "fashion" (masquerading to the naive/stupid as art) change the shape of glasses every couple of years and then subtly promote bullying so that, if you havn't thrown away perfectly optically adequate glasses and spent at least a hundred pounds on a new pair of the curreently "in" shape, you get laughed at by pointless morons behind your back, or even to your face. Even I (and I'm not proud of this) succumb to this sort of pressure.

> If so mixing the skinny jeans with some thick horn-rimmed glasses and some ironic facial hair could be a completely new look for you? People will be presuming you're from Brooklyn in no time at all.

Do you think all those American climbers with ridiculous designer goatees are actually being ironic? I had always assumed they were just complete dicks.
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Enty:

> I love these jeans - not only functional but they also have the bonus effect of making me look dead cool.

Ooh. Very clever aren't you!

There is, however, a diffenence between wearing something that that you think looks cool (but really makes you look like a knob), and wearing something that you know makes you lools like a knob, but not caring because it's functional.
 neil the weak 21 Nov 2012
In reply to TobyA: I'd just like to contribute at this stage that Robert's wearing of leggings is really a giant leap forward in fashion from his previous favourite wall attire of (very)short shorts, sweatbands and vest top.

He may not be at the jean wearing stage yet, but he's on his way down the slippery slope.
 Enty 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran:

I knew you'd bite! You winder upper you!! Stop it now!

E
 yogi2749 21 Nov 2012
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> Sounds like we need a new warning label:
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> Caution, these trousers may cause death.
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> I never realised jeans could be so interesting.

Hahahaha That's brilliant!
 yogi2749 21 Nov 2012

> Can't say I've ever noted that problem. I have though miss-clipped on to the hem of my t-shirt if it's loose and sticking out under my harness. That's annoying. If I'm trying something hard for me I try to remember to tuck my t-shirt in to my troos before starting off. But can't say I've ever managed to clip something to my trouser pockets.

As you say Iv never had the jeans clipping problem, but I have had the t-shirt problem a few times!

Yogi
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to neil the weak:
> (In reply to TobyA) I'd just like to contribute at this stage that Robert's wearing of leggings is really a giant leap forward in fashion from his previous favourite wall attire of (very)short shorts, sweatbands and vest top.

Hang on Neil. I only wear leggings (well holed, retired from outdoors, powerstetch) when it is exceptionally cold at Ratho. Being dead hard, this is really only a handful of times per year. I do, however, wear baggy Asda tracksuit bottoms over my shorts and harness to belay when it's chilly.

My Marks and Spencer pyjama shorts (honestly the perfect functional warm temperature climbing legwear) at about a fiver a pair are a fantastic replacement for my worn out 50p ones from a Jordanian street market (which I only really retired when advised that they were frightening little girls). I put them, along with the headband, in the "look like a knob but don't care" category.

 TobyA 21 Nov 2012
In reply to neil the weak:
> Robert's wearing of leggings is really a giant leap forward in fashion from his previous favourite wall attire of (very)short shorts, sweatbands and vest top.

What a lovely image! I had an immediate urge to hit "retweet" on that before realising, duh, wrong 'social network'.
 John2 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran: Marks and Spencer's? Poncey middle-class poser.
 TobyA 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran:

I'm starting to feel that, really, the anti-fashionista fundamentalism of your position is a defacto fashionista posture in itself. But, then again, I have read a lot of articles on philo-semitism in recent days and there does seems to be a long intellectual tradition within Jewish thought at least, of seeing philo-semitism as a similar intellectual construct to anti-semitism. So, perhaps, my new found fascination with your trouser choices could be merely transference.

On glasses, I say let the world come to you. My first glasses (only found I needed them in my late 20s) were immediately described as making me look like a German terrorist (think a Hans Gruber henchman). But within a few years everyone wanted to look like a German terrorist.

"Give me my detonators!"

 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to John2:
> (In reply to Robert Durran) Marks and Spencer's? Poncey middle-class poser.

In my defence, I do actually have some BHS once too. Equally functional, but, if anything, even more ridiculous looking

 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to TobyA:
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> I'm starting to feel that, really, the anti-fashionista....

I consider anti-fashionistaism to be pretty much on a par with anti-fascism; entirely admirable in that both oppose the forces of evil.
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Game of Conkers:
> (In reply to TobyA) Robert Durran warming up at Ratho?
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> http://thevelvetonion.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/partridge_shorts.jpg?w=18...

Not me. Those are running shorts, not pyjama shorts. Running shorts, while looking pretty cool, get caught up in harness leg loops.

 John2 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran: All this talk of tatty clothing is reminding me of the occasion on which Cuthbert claimed that he failed to score during an evening in the bars of Sardinia as a result of the tattered state of my trousers.
 Cuthbert 21 Nov 2012
In reply to John2:

Friday night and I need a fight
My motorcycle and a switchblade knife
Handful of grease in my hair feels right
But what I need to make me tight are...
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to John2:
> (In reply to Robert Durran) All this talk of tatty clothing is reminding me of the occasion on which Cuthbert claimed that he failed to score during an evening in the bars of Sardinia as a result of the tattered state of my trousers.

Fantastic! It couldn't possibly have been anything to do with him of course......

 ti_pin_man 21 Nov 2012
wow, just tuned into this barney rubble looking to see what the review said and found a fashionistas war. Awesome. Aint the t'internet great.

ti_pin_man always wears what he wears, sometimes moon shorts, sometimes E9 and occasionally a pair of Ron Hill leggings. Who really cares? As long as it works for you, then just shut up and climb.

p.s. where can i get some of those super sexy jeans? lol.
 nbonnett 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran:

So whats wrong in wearing a pair of £3.00 jeans from Asda to climb in .
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to nbonnett:
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> So whats wrong in wearing a pair of £3.00 jeans from Asda to climb in.

They would be pretty uncomfortable to climb in compared to, say, their £3 tracksuit bottoms or, better, women's leggings. I'd keep the jeans for watching TV or going to the pub or something.

 TobyA 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran:
>I'd keep the jeans for watching TV or going to the pub or something.

Ironically, I normally take my jeans off when I get home and put my jogging bottoms on. You should try watching TV in your cotton climbing troos, it may be a revelation in comfort over your jeans! Anyway who are you posing to in those jeans when watching TV?
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to TobyA:
> (In reply to Robert Durran)
> >I'd keep the jeans for watching TV or going to the pub or something.
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> Ironically, I normally take my jeans off when I get home and put my jogging bottoms on.

When I get home I take off my work trousers and put on some very oancient work trousers that I don't mind wiping grubby hands on, dropping food onto, eating off etc

> You should try watching TV in your cotton climbing troos, it may be a revelation in comfort over your jeans! Anyway who are you posing to in those jeans when watching TV?

I'm not posing to anyone. They're just cheap and comfortable enough to sit still in. Actually I quite often stretch or do shoulder exercises while watching TV; I then wear something offering better freedom of movement.

 John2 21 Nov 2012
In reply to Robert Durran: Actually it's possible that I did him a favour. I remember a friendly Milanese who stayed in the same accommodation warning us that it was not unknown for the locals to come after outsiders who chased after their daughters with a shotgun.
 Robert Durran 21 Nov 2012
In reply to John2:
> (In reply to Robert Durran) Actually it's possible that I did him a favour. I remember a friendly Milanese who stayed in the same accommodation warning us that it was not unknown for the locals to come after outsiders who chased after their daughters with a shotgun.

What a pity though. The image of Cuthbert, with his £200 designer jeans round his ankles, being chased through the streets of Cala Gonone my an angry Italian with a shotgun is absolutely marvellous.
 neil the weak 21 Nov 2012
In reply to TobyA:
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> What a lovely image! I had an immediate urge to hit "retweet" on that before realising, duh, wrong 'social network'.

I know. I still remember back when I was new to the Edinburgh area going in to Alien Rock and seeing the full glory of it all. Roberts partner at the time used to climb in a one piece lycra suit too, cut off at mid thigh so they were quite an eyecatching display all in all.
 USBRIT 23 Nov 2012
In reply to UKC Gear: Levi jeans here 21 pounds and below

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