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mattkuehl
Aug 30, 2010, 7:02 PM
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Our blue double got blown away on windy rappel of Sour Mash on 8.28.10. It got blown into the crack on the Gobbler and is hanging from the third bolted anchors... above the giant roof near Dream of Wild Turkeys/Gobbler/Fiddler on the Roof. If anyone has snagged it please respond. The rope is completely undamaged...
We're heading back to try and retrieve it on our "rest day" today. But wanted to post to be thorough... Thanks to anyone who can help.
Matt
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Rudmin
Aug 30, 2010, 7:26 PM
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mattkuehl wrote: Our blue double got blown away on windy rappel of Sour Mash on 8.28.10. It got blown into the crack on the Gobbler and is hanging from the third bolted anchors... above the giant roof near Dream of Wild Turkeys/Gobbler/Fiddler on the Roof. If anyone has snagged it please respond. The rope is completely undamaged... We're heading back to try and retrieve it on our "rest day" today. But wanted to post to be thorough... Thanks to anyone who can help. Matt
How did this happen? Did somebody let go of it?
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csproul
Aug 30, 2010, 7:36 PM
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Rudmin wrote: mattkuehl wrote: Our blue double got blown away on windy rappel of Sour Mash on 8.28.10. It got blown into the crack on the Gobbler and is hanging from the third bolted anchors... above the giant roof near Dream of Wild Turkeys/Gobbler/Fiddler on the Roof. If anyone has snagged it please respond. The rope is completely undamaged... We're heading back to try and retrieve it on our "rest day" today. But wanted to post to be thorough... Thanks to anyone who can help. Matt How did this happen? Did somebody let go of it?
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Rudmin
Aug 30, 2010, 7:42 PM
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csproul wrote: Rudmin wrote: mattkuehl wrote: Our blue double got blown away on windy rappel of Sour Mash on 8.28.10. It got blown into the crack on the Gobbler and is hanging from the third bolted anchors... above the giant roof near Dream of Wild Turkeys/Gobbler/Fiddler on the Roof. If anyone has snagged it please respond. The rope is completely undamaged... We're heading back to try and retrieve it on our "rest day" today. But wanted to post to be thorough... Thanks to anyone who can help. Matt How did this happen? Did somebody let go of it? Well at some point you have to let go of the end(s) of the rope when rappelling or when pulling the rope!
You mean it got stuck? It sounded like an errant gust of wind just blew your rope away as you were pulling it.
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mattkuehl
Aug 30, 2010, 8:26 PM
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My partner accidently let go of the end before we could untie the double fisherman at the end of the rope... then the wind immediately blew it out of sight into the large crack. We had no choice to pull the ropes (getting one stuck up top) so we could get the other untied and finish the rap. We were at the very ends of our ropes on un-climbable terrain under the giant roof, so this became our only option. The rope is in settled in the crack, but actually stuck at the anchor because of the fisherman knot.
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shoo
Aug 30, 2010, 8:39 PM
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mattkuehl wrote: My partner accidently let go of the end before we could untie the double fisherman at the end of the rope... then the wind immediately blew it out of sight into the large crack. We had no choice to pull the ropes (getting one stuck up top) so we could get the other untied and finish the rap. We were at the very ends of our ropes on un-climbable terrain under the giant roof, so this became our only option. The rope is in settled in the crack, but actually stuck at the anchor because of the fisherman knot.
Good thing your partner didn't let go of the other end, cause if he did, you'd have been in a whole world of screwed.
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subantz
Aug 30, 2010, 9:16 PM
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mattkuehl wrote: Our blue double got blown away on windy rappel of Sour Mash on 8.28.10. It got blown into the crack on the Gobbler and is hanging from the third bolted anchors... above the giant roof near Dream of Wild Turkeys/Gobbler/Fiddler on the Roof. If anyone has snagged it please respond. The rope is completely undamaged... We're heading back to try and retrieve it on our "rest day" today. But wanted to post to be thorough... Thanks to anyone who can help. Matt
You lose My Booty
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mattkuehl
Aug 31, 2010, 6:34 PM
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We recovered the rope today by doing the first 3 1/2 pitches of Dream of Wild Turkeys. We have been the only ones multi-pitching on the Black Velvet Wall these last few days, so I was not surprised to see it untouched. Rope was undamaged and good to continue use.
Subantz, I dropped a biner from the 5th pitch earlier, you want that bomber booty too?
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