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taller_climber_dude
Mar 7, 2006, 2:58 AM
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i was wondering have any you folks ever been climbing when suddenly there was a earthquake? i have never been out when something happen like an earthquake, a person i meet out climbing one day told he did and couldn't get his cam out of some crack he climbed. his this happen to you?
just wondering
taller
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jabtocrag
Mar 7, 2006, 3:07 AM
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Sounds like B.S.
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taller_climber_dude
Mar 7, 2006, 3:20 AM
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i thought so myself, but still an earthquake while climbing
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highangle
Mar 7, 2006, 4:19 AM
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them cams don't walk, they RUN!!!
gotta be the best troll ever!!!!
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coldclimb
Mar 7, 2006, 4:23 AM
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I would be surprised if it was any issue. In my experience, people who haven't experienced many earthquakes often find the event overly exhilarating, but aside from perhaps rockfall, I can't imagine even noticing.
But maybe I'm biased. Earthquakes happen so often around here that I don't even notice them until they get over 5 points. It seems hard to believe, for me, that an earthquake could affect your climbing much at all.
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ccarver99
Mar 7, 2006, 4:50 AM
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It seems like I have heard the story of the cam getting stuck because of an earthquake also. I guess I heard it on here, but I'm not sure about it.
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waynski
Mar 7, 2006, 5:57 AM
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Two buddies of mine were on El Cap Spire during a 6+ on the sphincter scale. They said the spire was swinging a couple feet away from the wall at a time. Boulders in the chimney below crashed. They backed off. I would too. :shock:
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thor4life144
Mar 7, 2006, 6:13 AM
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I guess it could happen........if the placement was in some really chossy stuff and it was a pretty BIG shake.
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anykineclimb
Mar 7, 2006, 6:17 AM
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I've been to Index when the train rolls and THAT feels like an earthquake!
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basilisk
Mar 29, 2006, 2:42 PM
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In reply to: a 6+ on the sphincter scale
that's nothing. a few days ago i had to squeeze through a stall crack when i felt an 8+ rumbling below. i just barely made it, but i will admit there was a bit of pain involved
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renohandjams
Mar 31, 2006, 1:31 AM
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I did a huge dyno with all of my trad gear on and I caused an earth quake. Does that count?
Honestly, I think that would freak me out if I was ever climbing and there was an earthquake. I would want to be climbing in an area were there wasn't any loose stuff above me that could come down. I would bet a set of cams that I will live me whole life without experiencing a trad lead during an earth quake.
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rhythm164
Mar 31, 2006, 5:50 PM
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pretty soon a acsent won't be considered pure unless done ground up, sight unseen, in traditional style, naked, during an earthquake.
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shnobe
Mar 31, 2006, 6:02 PM
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I think if a registered earthquake does occur while on a route it may increase the routes overall grade by one complete grade. Now I will say I have absolutely no evidence to back this claim up but if for some reason I’m in a earthquake while climbing… I’m using it. Maybe someone can figure that equation out. Grade multiplied by earthquakes magnitude divided by the total number of pieces placed… I don’t know math.
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hosh
Mar 31, 2006, 6:19 PM
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There's a climbing area here in Juneau (the Mendenhall Towers) that has so much loose rock on it that earthquake or not, you're gonna be dodging rockfall...
hosh.
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ambler
Mar 31, 2006, 6:20 PM
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A massive rockfall destroyed routes on the west face of the Petite Dru near Chamonix in 1997. As I recall there was a party climbing on this face who called for a rescue shortly before the rockfall, because huge dihedrals and crack systems were creaking and getting wider as they climbed. They knew something terrible was starting to happen.
Then there's sport climbing and earthquakes -- has any climber not thought about earthquakes as they hiked down into Owens Gorge, passing a gazillion tons of angle-of-repose rubble all waiting patiently for an earthquake to say "Go!" Someone joked once that if the Big One came on a spring weekend near Bishop, it would wipe out half the subscription base of Climbing.
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rdevelice
Apr 2, 2006, 5:08 AM
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In 1983 my wife and I were climbing Golden Needles in the Cascade Falls area of Yosemite when an earthquake occurred. My wife could feel the tremors but I did'nt notice from my belay stance in a bush/tree. We heard all about the quake from folks back in the parking area after the climb. There were no reported quake related injuries to climbers (that I heard), though I suspect some might contend that difficult to extract gear placements were the result of the tectonic events.
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brutusofwyde
Apr 2, 2006, 5:57 AM
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One morning while staying in Yellow Pines in the Valley we experienced a 5.3 on the Richter scale. Kicked off a big rockfall over on Middle Cathedral.
Needless to say, we didn't go looking for booty or picking up trash at the base of El Cap that morning.
Brutus
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ajkclay
Apr 2, 2006, 6:25 AM
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What the heck is going on here?
I thought I had somehow navigated to dickhead.com for a minute; a thread about earthquakes while climbing and another about the potential negative effects of a country on ropes!
See? This is what happens when people are flamed for posting threads that have already been done,
:D Adam
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