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Re: [carabiner96] How should one respond to this???:
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wonderwoman
Jul 30, 2011, 3:53 PM
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carabiner96 wrote: I had a similar thing happen years ago. I was at a very popular top roping crag, where at the top you can't quite see the bottom. I set my anchor, yell rope, count to 5 and hear nothing, toss it down. When I get down, there's a pissy guy in my face "You need to fuckin' tell people before you toss your rope!" I told him I did and I'm sorry he didn't hear. I hollered pretty loud, but I think it's rude to scream it, climbers a mile away don't need to know I'm about to toss down. My buddy at the bottom (who said I was loud and clear) told me later this guy was just busy macking on this girl, hanging out right at the bottom of the route instead of away from the wall like a normal person. You can't win them all.
The guy should definitely not been a jerk to you. But in busy places where we can't see the bottom (like the Gunks) we yell rope as loud as we can, and then proceed to slowly lower the rope regardless of whether or not we hear a response.
This whole other thread (http://www.rockclimbing.com/...d;page=unread#unread) now reminds me that I recently had a rope snake gently past my face while on lead. I was at the roof (low crux) on pitch three on Bombs Away Dream Baby at the Gunks. What was our reaction?
My partner informed the rappeller that he had just lowered his rope on top of me & asked him to stop. He obliged, and when I cleared the roof, I told him to go ahead and rappel. He rapped past me & by the time he was on the ledge, I was close to the top. However, the second person rapping had to wait a few minutes until I finished because the route was directly below the rappel.
Had he dropped the rope on my face, my reaction might have been different (that happened to me last year on Friends & Lovers and I've never sworn so much in my life!). But he lowered, we communicated, his second waited to rap until i was done, and everyone behaved themselves!
(This post was edited by wonderwoman on Jul 30, 2011, 4:00 PM)
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Post edited by wonderwoman
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