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camhead
Sep 25, 2003, 2:17 AM
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"man, there's no way that was a 5.7!"
yeah right. you suck.
honestly, what is the lowest rating on which you've fallen, or even hung on gear?
I pulled on a cam on "the naked and the dead," a 5.8 at Indian Creek. It was cold! I couldn't feel my hands, dammit!
so yeah. if anyone has whipped on a 5.4, they get the prize (ouch!).
trad climbs only, please, as sport sucks.
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flyinghatchet
Sep 25, 2003, 2:41 AM
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I don't fall off climbs. I send them.
Werd to your mother.
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the_pirate
Sep 25, 2003, 2:50 AM
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I actually took one of my most damaging falls on what felt like a 5.5/5.6 a few years back. I was taking some non-climbing buddies out on a tour of the now semi-off-limits Farley. No guide so I can't be exactly sure of the rating. I was doing a lot of talking smack, which isn't unusual for me when I climb, but was paying more attention to telling them how to tackle the moves than I was to my own moves. Didn't fully appreciate the looseness of the block I grabbed before I shifted my weight. Took the big swing from about 8 feet above and 6 or so feet to the right of my last piece. I left a perfect arc of blood on the rock as the skin on my right forearm and calf was shredded against it. I still had the block in my hand when I hit the wall on the other side of the open book. Boy did I feel about 3 inches tall. Another life lesson learned the hard way.
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curt
Sep 25, 2003, 2:53 AM
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In reply to: "man, there's no way that was a 5.7!" yeah right. you suck. honestly, what is the lowest rating on which you've fallen, or even hung on gear? I pulled on a cam on "the naked and the dead," a 5.8 at Indian Creek. It was cold! I couldn't feel my hands, dammit! so yeah. if anyone has whipped on a 5.4, they get the prize (ouch!). trad climbs only, please, as sport sucks.
Sometimes I fall getting out of bed. Now--and more importantly--what do I win?
Curt
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Sep 25, 2003, 2:56 AM
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Ok, last Sunday I was climbing a 5.6 (trad lead) and on the second move (I had just placed my first piece) I put my hand in a deep puddle and slipped right off the wall. That fall earned a place in the "I took my first trad lead fall" record book. By the way, the gear didn't even budge and I went on to send the climb. That was the easiest climb that I have ever fallen on.
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valeberga
Sep 25, 2003, 3:02 AM
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Was bouldering, moved to stand on a small ledge about 4' up, then decided to rest BOTH hands at once... fell flat on my back. The landing was the rocks next to railroad tracks dangit.
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rockcrawler
Sep 25, 2003, 3:04 AM
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I fell on my 5 trad lead urge for going 5.8 about 6 feet on to a #2 robot cam :oops
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drkodos
Sep 25, 2003, 3:04 AM
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I fell on the approach from the carriage road at the Gunks. 2nd and 3rd class are my nemesis.
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mike_ok
Sep 25, 2003, 3:30 AM
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Despite the fact that you said "no sport please" I'll post anyway in hopes of winning the prize.
Leading in some small crag around Basle, Switzerland, probably a 5.6 or so piece. Grid bolted to about half way up, then no bolts until the top (it was so easy, why would you need any more?) Suffice it to say, I was flying up it and talking to my belayer below, moving without even paying attention. At some point I just popped off, falling backwards, catching my leg on the rock, plunging back and head first down the gentle slope... read: i'm banging on the rock all the way down. Finally come to stop sitting on my butt on a shelf. Not hurt, not really even bruised. Looked down at FishyPete whose eyes are bulging thinking his new American friend had broken his butt on a gumby 5.6 sport run.
"I'm alright!" I yell down. Of course then I had to reclimb that crap...
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crazygirl
Sep 25, 2003, 2:09 PM
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I fell on a hiking trail once.
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camhead
Sep 25, 2003, 2:26 PM
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In reply to: Sometimes I fall getting out of bed. Now--and more importantly--what do I win? Curt
for that, you win a bottle of Jim Beam. White label. bwaaaahahaha!
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mustclimb69
Sep 25, 2003, 2:39 PM
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I was Attempting to show a couple of friends who sport climb the world of trad. We just hiked along the bottom and stuck gear in and than sat on it. I placed a large hex in a crack and was explaning how they cam into place and become bomber, my favourite piece to place. When I sat on it it held and then I bounced the junk out of it and it pulled and I fell on my a$$.
funny more than anything
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elvislegs
Sep 25, 2003, 2:45 PM
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In reply to: I fell on my 5 trad lead urge for going 5.8 about 6 feet on to a #2 robot cam :oops
I have read this like ten times and still can't figure out what the hell it means.
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mreardon
Sep 25, 2003, 3:37 PM
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Stepped out of the car and fell into a yucca plant once. Ruined the whole weekend.
As for actual climbs, the last wonderful fall on an "easy" climb was a 10b at Donner. I put in the gear on a no hands rest, gave it a tug, then cracked myself in the forhead when the gear yanked out. Sent me for about 10 feet. Nothing like falling from a no hands....
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baalzimon
Sep 25, 2003, 3:39 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: I fell on my 5 trad lead urge for going 5.8 about 6 feet on to a #2 robot cam :oops I have read this like ten times and still can't figure out what the hell it means.
Me Neither!!
I have only sent Robinson's Rubber Tester (V0 Buttermilks) once in many many tries.
I have climbed 11A and V6
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onbelay_osu
Sep 25, 2003, 4:04 PM
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5.6 a lead down in okie-ville called The Interseptor, my piece fu_kin' ripped on me and i decked.....to this day i still think of that climb, and i will return one day to send it... until then just bad memories.
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robmcc
Sep 25, 2003, 4:18 PM
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Shoot, I lose if we're talking lead only. I've never taken a lead fall on anything other than 5.8s. 5.8, actually, since they've all been on the same damn climb.
I took my first fall ever (TR of course) on the first pitch of Totem, which is supposed to be 5.6. I'd like to think I've never fallen on a 5 or below. Can't remember it happening, but that's not a sure thing...
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dalguard
Sep 25, 2003, 6:12 PM
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I fell on my first lead, which was a 5.3.
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davidcollins
Sep 25, 2003, 6:45 PM
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Embarrassingly enough, on the second pitch of Ecstasy Junior (5.4) at Seneca Rocks. Even worse, I was well beyond the crux and had just pulled onto the face above the small cave. At that stage the route is a bit less than vertical, decently featured and probably only 5.2 although the meaningful protection becomes quite tricky. I must have put too much thought into placing two medium nuts and forgotten completely that I was climbing. At about waist level with the upper nut I inexplicably slid off. Mercifully I had selected one of the few decent placements. It would have been pretty spectacular if I had slung the small tree instead as I had done the first time I led that route.
David Collins
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climbsomething
Sep 25, 2003, 7:23 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: I fell on my 5 trad lead urge for going 5.8 about 6 feet on to a #2 robot cam :oops I have read this like ten times and still can't figure out what the hell it means. |
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bldr
Sep 25, 2003, 8:02 PM
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a guy i climb with fell 20 or more feet on a 5.3, the climb is really low angle and he slipped on some sand/gravel that was on the rock
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fyreflii
Sep 25, 2003, 8:04 PM
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I fell on a 5.6 sport lead. Less than vertical almost the whole way, big cushy pockets, great feet . . . and I fell. Can't get much easier than that!
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herm
Sep 25, 2003, 11:49 PM
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I took a couple spectacular unroped wingers on some scary, exposed class 2 in the Sierras this summer. Escaped with minor scrapes and bruises, lots of sliding and bouncing.
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knuckles
Sep 26, 2003, 1:36 AM
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Sneezed myself off a 4th class downclimb recently.... ever stare at a light and it makes you sneeze? The sun came out from behind a cloud and hit white granite, I let go a big watery-eyed achooo and then reverse belly glissaded down 15 or so feet of slab. My partner laughed for an hour.
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camoaero
Sep 26, 2003, 2:09 AM
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I ate sh*t on this really easy approach to the...uh...kitchen. Ok, so I fell down the stairs. So...about this prize?
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