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musicman1586
Mar 27, 2007, 6:54 AM
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Didn't read most the posts, but here's my experience with it. My father works for the department of transportation, and every year they clean up plenty of wrecked cars and injured passengers when huge blocks fall off those things, and undoubtebly they've cleaned up a few climbers in their day. Based off what he's told me about their solidity and how they erode, trad gear would be useless and bolts would either pull right out of the choss, or pull out a big block on top of you, same goes for bouldering, you'd like get the entire section of the wall coming out on you. Most of these areas around here are limestone however, might differ in different rock, but I know I myself have swerved around blocks almost as big as cars after a really bad storm or the like. Its rare that you see it in that proportion, but nevertheless, those blast spots are complete choss piles.
Edit: note my father is not the one that goes and cleans up the accidents and what not, he's way up in the management of things, however many stories still make it to his office, and having worked in the business for so long he has a working knowledge of all the commonly used items and techniques.
(This post was edited by musicman1586 on Mar 27, 2007, 7:10 AM)
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Post edited by musicman1586
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