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Re: [saxfiend] Who's been dropped?:
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cracklover
Feb 21, 2007, 9:56 PM
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In nine years of climbing, I've never dropped anyone. Never come close. Never will. I just don't do shit that could cause me to drop someone. I've seen plenty of climbers who think they're safe belayers, but that have bad belaying habits. And while it's not my job to fix them, I'll be damned if I'll climb with them. It *is* possible to never drop someone.
Oh, and I've never been dropped.
My story: I was belaying a second from an inappropriate stance, and when the second fell, a directional popped, pulling me off my stance. I was pulled over backwards and down nearly ten feet on a steep slab. I never let any rope slide through the ATC.
The only way I'll ever drop someone is if I forget to screw closed the gate on my belay biner, and it somehow unclips or the rope comes out. Since I check it every climb, the chances of that are so low as to be close to nil.
GO
(This post was edited by cracklover on Feb 21, 2007, 9:57 PM)
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