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winkwinklambonini
Oct 23, 2002, 3:04 AM
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Two ten footers:one on a .75 camalot, the other on a yellow wild country.
Not impressive
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philbox
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Oct 23, 2002, 5:08 AM
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As they say in the classics, we don`t expect a miracle we rely on them.
...Phil...
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atg200
Oct 23, 2002, 5:19 AM
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i took a 30 footer onto a bent halfway sticking out knifeblade on the kingfisher near moab this weekend. wee little clymbr_chk held the fall beautifully, and i can't believe the KB held. true it was aid climbing, but it would have been 60 feet for sure if the KB blew.
thanks amber!
edit for drunken typos.
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stevo
Oct 23, 2002, 4:23 PM
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Took a forty foot traversing whipper onto a number 7 BD stopper. My feet killed after slamming into the dihedral that quickly ended the pendulum part of my fall.
I fell soloing a mixed route in the Rockies, slid down to a ledge, no pain, just ripped my clothes apart.
My friend beats me though. We were trying to get a FA of a mixed ice trad route. He whipped from the ice, pulled his gear out of the crack, hit the ledge beside me and kept sliding down headfirst, backwards down the first pitch of ice. His one tool was holstered, I am surprised that it didn't cut into his back. His very first piece, a number 4 stopper hammered into a crack held. THat was sweet. I have fallen onto my ice tools before when holstered and that effing kills.
My acquatance belayed a 100 ft multiple ledge fall last week. THat is scary.
Man, trad climbing is stupid, I love it though.
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jules
Oct 23, 2002, 4:54 PM
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Quote:My acquatance belayed a 100 ft multiple ledge fall last week. THat is scary.
On that note...
I think I'll take up bouldering.
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danl
Oct 23, 2002, 5:11 PM
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rrradam..yellow alien ..thats a belay anchor in and of itself.
best I can offer is 25' on a blue alien in a shallow horizontal.
the best I held was multiple lead falls (15') on the 1 and 2 hb offsets opposed in a horizontal..the peice below the #1 lowe ball.
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climblouisiana
Oct 23, 2002, 5:12 PM
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I took a fall on three small wires probably #1 and #2 bd stoppers. All of those ripped but thankfully there was a #3 camalot that stopped my fat *ss. A routine 10' fall turned into a thirty footer.
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greatgarbanzo
Oct 24, 2002, 4:44 AM
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I felt 17 feet on a #6 stopper... at J-tree on Prepackaged
But my ultimate screamer was on La Vagina at La Guairita National Park... alltough it was on a #9 Hex I felt some 30 feet totally unespected... suddendly I was flying.
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reno
Oct 29, 2002, 2:03 PM
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Not much of a challenge to others posts, but I took a 10-12 foot fall on a 0.5 WC Friend at Tallulah Gorge.
After that, I suddenly found a new respect for small gear.
Best,
JRB
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cyberclimber
Oct 29, 2002, 2:27 PM
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I took a 20' grounder on a BD #6 stopper. The nut held and was catching me as I hit the ground, undoubtably saved my but from serious injury. I have cleaned lots of booty nuts and take pride in my cleaning skills, but I thought I would NEVER get that #6 out, that baby was SET!!
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mshore
Oct 29, 2002, 2:46 PM
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600 footer onto 8 equalized #1 heads in sandstone of course, during a rain storm, and I had to walk uphill to get back to the car. hehe
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atg200
Oct 29, 2002, 3:18 PM
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danl - not in desert sandstone...
rrradam..yellow alien ..thats a belay anchor in and of itself.
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mreardon
Oct 29, 2002, 8:10 PM
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60' on yellow alien. 40+ on yellow alien, 30+ to the deck (no alien), a handful of 30+ on everything from green aliens to yellow (2") cams. Another handful of 20+ on everything from tiny brass peanuts to full size hexes. But my all time classic is the 40' over an old stiff 1" friend in a bad horizontal placement that snapped the neck in half (really bad placement) and sent me for an additional 10'. I spent the next 6 months learning as much as I could about placing gear and have never remotely come near to having an incident like that since.
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climbincajun
Oct 29, 2002, 8:26 PM
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My buddy took a 20 footer onto a .5 Alien. Both cables on one side snapped and all four lobes deformed, but it held the fall!
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danl
Oct 29, 2002, 8:54 PM
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Andrew...in desert sand stone everything sucks....saved for the ocassional drilled angle or plugger bolt
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flamer
Oct 29, 2002, 11:07 PM
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You mean you guys fall?
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bloodyknuckles
Oct 29, 2002, 11:20 PM
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One time I caught a 40 ft. great white shark on #2 dental floss in the south sea. It bit one of my legs, but I managed to retreive it with a life preserver and glue it back on with rubber cement and chewing gum.
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philbox
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Oct 30, 2002, 12:14 AM
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"One time I caught a 40 ft. great white shark on #2 dental floss in the south sea. It bit one of my legs, but I managed to retreive it with a life preserver and glue it back on with rubber cement and chewing gum."
Oh yeah, well I had a hangnail once and I scratched the inside of my nose when I was picking it.
...Phil...
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mreardon
Oct 30, 2002, 1:06 AM
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Probably good advice Shakylegs (great nik by the way), but most of the whippers didn't happen because of stressin' from the runout. Prior to a crux I place a couple bomber pieces and then push through. The big whippers happened when I was first starting out (stupid really) or rock break, etc. but also I tend to run it out on overhangs because it's just air time. If you can't trust the gear, why place it. You ain't climbin' unless you're flyin'
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grippedclimber
Oct 30, 2002, 1:06 AM
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fell 30 feet to the deck, cracked my head open, bled all over, stopped the blood, hiked about three miles to the car. I wasn't even really a climber then, I was just intrigued by this cliff while I was hiking. Tried to down climb, didn't work.I started rock climbing for real about six months after this incident. What the hell is wrong with me?
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coclimber26
Oct 30, 2002, 3:07 AM
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Fell off a roof onto a #2 stopper at 11-mile canyon, colorado. It held fine and i did a backward summersalt below the roof.
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klimberbob
Oct 30, 2002, 8:38 PM
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30 footer onto a #2 nut. i lowered and started up again and took a 35+ footer onto the same nut. it is still there...
also taken a couple of small 10 foot falls onto #2, #3 RP's
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fireclimber
Oct 30, 2002, 8:44 PM
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20ft on a #2 nut. thats it does not sound bad when you type it but arrrggggg it sucked
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sparky
Nov 3, 2002, 10:56 PM
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i fell on a skyhook once, it scared the crap out of me, then it broke the rock and the rock hit my face, that hurt but my trusty #2 astronut caught me about 3 feet later
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