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tim
Jul 16, 2003, 4:26 AM
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check this out next time you think you've taken a long fall on lead...
Dean Potter whips 50' onto a 0.2 micro camalot in sandstone
I've taken a 35' aid fall and it felt like forever sailing through the air. This is much, much bigger than that and... it looks like he sails forever.
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apollodorus
Jul 16, 2003, 4:33 AM
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What a great video!
At the beginning, it looks like a multi-media textbook on good technique up a corner crack. Then, suddenly, your adrenaline hits you and your hands get cold when he falls.
I only wish that I didn't know he was going to fall. If you'd simply called the post DEAN POTTER FREEING TOMBSTONE, the effect would have been better.
Thanks for sharing it.
You need the Apple QuickTime viewer to see it.
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moabbeth
Jul 16, 2003, 4:44 AM
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Gawd damn!!!! Thanks for posting that. Dean is the man!!!
Ahhhhhh...Utah sandstone......(insert Homer Simpson drool here).
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yotrepo
Jul 16, 2003, 4:56 AM
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Even though you know it's comin, it still makes your heart stop. Sick!
I will never climb Tombstone... :cry:
... Bow down to Dean :twisted:
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epic_ed
Jul 16, 2003, 5:20 AM
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WOW! Holy F'en...that's one BAD A$$ video. His technique is mesmerizing. He was soooo damn close to the next anchor. That's gotta be frustrating.
Ed
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manacubus
Jul 16, 2003, 5:35 AM
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Thanks - that was awesome!
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Jul 16, 2003, 5:42 AM
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Did I see Dean scratching his ankle with his other foot close to the beginning of this sequence. looks that way anyway, props to a real cool climber, go Dean.
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foograbbinstone
Jul 16, 2003, 5:59 AM
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Dude.......Tim . great link
Watching Dean do his thing all up close and personal like that was sweet!!
He had such a smooth flow going, then wham......what a whipper.....that was a ball tucker!!!!
Looked like he was just shy of smashing his dome of the bottom of the dihedral......................that would have been bad :!:
foo
Remember::: Boyz & Girlz today is a bad day to go to the hospital :cry: :shock: :oops: :?:
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coldclimb
Jul 16, 2003, 6:32 AM
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lol, this sucks. I downloaded the movie in about half an hour, but then I couldn't play it with any of my three movie programs. Tried downloading the quicktime components, and it kept corrupting the download. Then I tried upgrading quicktime, and it stopped in the middle, and when I hit cancel it said it was done, but it's not. Now I'm downloading the whole version of quicktime at 8mb, so in about an hour, I'll get to see this movie.
I need cable. :x
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manacubus
Jul 16, 2003, 7:40 AM
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That sucks - it streamed for me beautifully. And all from the comfort of my work ;)
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neeshman
Jul 16, 2003, 8:08 AM
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Holy cow man, never really seen a fall of that magnitude, crazy to see how much the rope stretched. Good thing it did though.
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jman
Jul 16, 2003, 12:27 PM
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Yikes...
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vagtobe
Jul 16, 2003, 12:51 PM
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Man, watching great climbers is mesmerizing, does anyone know where you can get you hands on other videos like these, of Dean, or Sharma and the like. That is one crazy frigin' fall, you gotta have some set between your legs to hop back on after a ripper like that. Imagine his belayer.
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reno
Jul 16, 2003, 1:05 PM
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I'd have probably needed to change underwear after a fall like that.... Holy Cow!
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missedyno
Jul 16, 2003, 1:27 PM
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wow. cool video.
i guess i shouldn't have watched it on a day that i'm already nauseous...
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timstich
Jul 16, 2003, 1:31 PM
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Nice video. I was able to clearly see that the top piece held. Dean falls clean, too. Didn't seem to brush the wall on the way down.
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gretchino
Jul 16, 2003, 3:09 PM
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Wow...that was awesome. I love how cool and collected he was steadily making it to the top...Then you sense the hesitiation to let go of that last grip..YIKES! Great video! Thanks man!
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boulderpaul
Jul 16, 2003, 3:31 PM
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that was cool how he did the footwork. that fall was faaaarrrrrrr! :shock:
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maculated
Jul 16, 2003, 3:43 PM
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I've got a 0.2 micro cam I have never really trusted . . . never mind, 50 footer, here I come. Too bad that link doesn't work for me.
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jipstyle
Jul 16, 2003, 4:07 PM
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In reply to: Too bad that link doesn't work for me.
I had problems with it as well ... I run Linux, and Apple hasn't provided a port for Quicktime. As a result, I can't open QT clips with a browser. If you're having the same problem, you can grab the clip at http://www.bdel.com/community/vids/fall.mov ... I grabbed the URL from the source of the page in the original link. Hope that helps! :)
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maculated
Jul 16, 2003, 4:17 PM
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It did. Thanks. :) I got a little adrenaline rush just prepping for it.
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jt512
Jul 16, 2003, 4:45 PM
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Great clip. A couple of comments:
First, careful viewing of the fall shows why a .2 micro camalot in sandstone holds a 50-foot near-factor-1 fall: the belay was very dynamic. Watch as the rope starts to come tight and notice how far he continues to fall. That's not just rope stretch; that's his belayer allowing rope to slide through the belay device to limit the force on that .2 cam. If you believe that dynamic belying is unnecessary or just a sport climbing thing, think again.
The second point is the footwork. I've never seen anybody lieback a dihedral like that. Very interesting.
-Jay
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lemon_boy
Jul 16, 2003, 5:25 PM
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yeah, that is pretty wierd how he is back step cross stemming every move. i'll do it once in a while to try to send some of the fatigue to different muscles or whatnot, but doing it every move would be strange. from the photos i've seen, the geometry of the dihedral isn't excessively funky, so i am not sure why he sould be doing it that way. that would be cool if he logged on and explained it to us.
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elvislegs
Jul 16, 2003, 5:29 PM
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seems to work alright for him though.
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arkangel
Jul 16, 2003, 5:40 PM
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That's so insane:-) Good thing his fingers didn't get jammed too far in the crack before he fell... ouch
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