Have you puked on (or shortly after) a route?

[Melini]

I thought it was suburban legend.

Here's a copy-paste of Bill Folk's classic tale of a guy yakking on Ahab...guided by Bill Russell.  Don't know if Bill has ever read it.  The guy posted up a bit of self-defense some time later on rec.climbing saying that he's grown to be a lover the wide...Maybe he plays here now ore will find us.  I put in some white space for readability. 

Here's my Ahab story.

A partner and I were doing El Cap base routes one warm summer day. We reached the base of Moby Dick, and there was a party aiding (!) the center route. We decided to wait.

Another party was on Ahab. This party consisted of a guide and a client. The client wanted the
guide to lead Ahab, and the guide did so. The guide then rapped from the anchors of the center route to give the client a top rope. The client struggled mightily at the start of the squeeze, and after several attempts and much weight on the rope, he managed to get up into the upper part of
the squeeze.

He was huffing and puffing, and apparently the heat and exertion were a little too much for him. His face took on a pale, greenish hue, and spasms shook his body. He tried unsuccessfully to hold it in, and then erupted into one of the proudest displays of projectile vomiting that it has been my misfortune to witness. Wave after wave of puke arched outward, to splash on the slab, and spray outward toward the small crowd gathered at the base.

My partner and I dove for cover, but the guide and the belayer of the climber on Moby Dick had no choice but to endure the shower of pink tinted puke (red grapes, we later discovered.)

The guide thought it was pretty funny; he said he had been puked on several times by
accident victims when on YOSAR, but upon discovering the extent to which he, his gear, and his immediate surroundings were spattered in vomit, he changed his tune, and was soon yakking in the bushes. This guide was a pretty burly dude, so my partner and I were doing our best to control our laughter.

After determining that Moby Dick was vomit-free, my partner started up. He got to the start of the wide section, but the heat and exertion were getting to him too, and he asked to be lowered.

I pulled the rope, tied back in, and started up. I was about halfway up the route when I noticed
some commotion below, someone who had been waiting to do Moby Dick after us was now belaying me while my partner, you guessed it, ran off to barf in the bushes.

I continued on up to the anchors, quite happy that my breakfast managed to stay where it belonged.

[RussWalling]

I was belaying the Manx on Petes Handful in HIdden Valley.... I'm up in a hole and can't hear what is going on until half the campground is yelling "lower him!!!!".  He was hanging in a swami, no loops, spraying out a quart of Strawberry Kefir!  Ugly man, ugly.....

There were no more attempts that day due to hold coating

side note edit:  I've had many close calls... used to puke on my road bike a bit... but never on a route as far as I remember.

[scuffy b]

Barf Crack in City of Rocks has induced vomiting at least 3 times.
On the first ascent, perhaps obviously, but I've heard other
eyewitness reports.
Would I remember it if I had?

[Melini]

Would I remember it if I had?

Throwing up and then blacking out on route is another thread...but no one will remember anything to post to it. 

[scuffy b]

I definitely have not puked on a climb.
The Barf Crack thing is a slightly wide crack with a hard face
climbing sequence to get to it. I think a lot of people
have got on it as their hardest-to-date crack without
realizing it, as most people I've talked to consider it
one of the more flagrant sandbag ratings in the City.
Like, working their way through all the 5.9s in the City
but this 5.9 is really 5.10 kind of thing.

[Jaybro]

Yes, I definitely have!

[mungeclimber]

only dry heaves with a little spittle. I think it was 5.7.

[Ed Hartouni]

I haven't, but feeling like I have to is generally how I know I'm "in the training zone"

However, I have been belaying someone who has... and they didn't get the holds or the rope, and mostly they missed me...

[spyork]

I almost puked on Entrance Exam on TR. Oh the shame!

I was pretty close to launching on something at Reeds. Oh yeah, Chingando. Is that spanish for barf now?

[scuffy b]

close enough.

[animalhands]

i am a puker.
it is neither contagious nor plaesnt but it seems to produce immense amounts of uncomfortable laughter from all around.
revenge of the rock gods on pistol whipped at the creek. a wide finger layback. 95 degree heats, 19 schlitz hangover, cold egg breakfast. after three falls i began dry heaving and demanding to be lowered while trying not to puke on the route. got to the ground and proceeded to vomit with lead line still connected. in between heaves i was laughing unbelievably hard. once finished my girlfriend at the time brought me some water and asked if i was ok. still laughing i asked if she got any photos. she said no. i informed her that from now on she must record my vomitations. she is no longer my girlfriend.
some unnamed ow right of generic crack. ran it out through a sandy flared bulge. tasty bile tickled my tongue. above the bulge is a small stance. while placing a .75 i burped and body temp schlitz shot out my nose. i was lowered and finished puking near some guys dog.
currently in search of belayer.

[RussWalling]

 

[426]

Several times was very close to chunder-just last week even...

...best advice, rip off harness, shoes, clothes (YMMV) and douse with a spray bottle a la Geoff Weigand.  If you want to go all "new millenia" style, use the misters witha  fan.

Lay down...when the earth stops spinning (yah right) you might be okay...

[brutusofwyde]

only dry heaves with a little spittle. I think it was 5.7.

Ipecac got its name from my first attempt. Clearing out dinner-plate sized tater chips of granite, doing nasty abrasive things to my knees as the kneepads rotated... after i fellout I was hanging in mid-air, dry-heaving. must have cleared 60 pounds of granite debris onto my belayer. Good thing i didn't follow it up with liquids.

We don't have an emoticon for this?

[mungeclimber]

Brutus is a dirty kid. 

Followed him on this one... I horked some black lung butter dust for sure.

[Dr. Crankenstein]

Two weeks ago I dry heaved my face off on Big Guy in Indian Creek. Someone on the route to the left of it said that she could hear the sound of my dry heaves echoing out of the bottom of the crack. I had my face in there deep so that I could attempt to projectile enough so that it didn't get on the climb. I wonder if that would have worked.

[Ed Hartouni]

[bradkillough]

Not yet, but came real close a couple of times!!

[rwenzel]

I thought everyone knew that if you haven't yakked on a wide climb, you really haven't applied yourself yet?! 

[scuffy b]

Knowing a thing is not as easy as it sometimes seems.

[joergB]

Yes, I remember puking at least four times on lead, and also four cases of followers vomiting.
But only 2 times it was because I was overexhausted and I puked into the crack. The 3rd time I blame more on the mixture of orange juice and pure alcohol we had the evening before. And the last time it just was too hot. I remenber yelling down "Its much too hot, I'll puke" but the guy down didn't take me serious until I barfed on his head.
Somehow funny was also the 1st ascent of "alcohol intoxication", maybe the worst ow I ever did as 1st ascent.

When I started, there were around 10 guys watching, possibly half of them intending to follow. The first follower did half way when he started to throw up. The second one wanted to die, fainted near the end, and when we pulled him up he puked on the top.

When I called the 3rd to follow, the rest of the bunch was gone 

There is a saying in Elbsandstein that you cannot fall out of a crack, rather puke into.

[RussWalling]

 

hardcore!

[wideload]

C'mon Russ... I'm thinkin' SkamperFest at the Creek in like April.
I can see you there... your side in!!!

[Will]

Do dry heaves count?
 
Steck Salathe with Scuffy. Topped out, untied, and immediately started wretching. Nothing in the stomach, severly dehydrated, so no actual vomit.

My partner on Zodiac, Alan, had dry heaves for about an hour after we topped out in a heat wave that saw a couple parties get plucked from dehydration and another party get lowered gallons of water (late Sept '03).

Dry heaves after leading Five and Dime on a wicked OE800 hangover. And dry heaves after one extended attempt on the Cedar Eater.