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    "Reeling In" a Falling Leader

    in Newbies

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    I took a 50+ foot fall and my belayer ran backwards about 20 feet into the woods. Once the rope caught, my belayer was pulled back to the rock and up it 10 feet. I was still 40 feet of the ground but it would have been close if it wasn't for his "reeling".

    Getting into Canada

    in Climber's Board

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    I can remember a time when I lived in Montana a couple of hours from the border. My friend and I just turned 19 so we thought we would go up to Canada for a little "legal" bigdrink.gif drinking trip. Somehow I ended up driving a few miles on the wrong side of the one way road. I pulled up to the small border crossing not realizing what happened. I looked through the passenger side window to have the US and Canadan guards asked me what the hell I thought I was doing. I replied, "going to Canada". "Not this way your not", they replied. They made me drive back and come through the right way but to my suprise, they just let us through without any questions. Man did we get wasted.

    Ever see a fistfight at a climbing area?

    in Spray

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    I was belaying my partner up a route when our "friend" rolled up and began throwing his gear in the dirt and kicking it around. He was all mad that we had left him behind at the last route and he didn't know where we were going. He continued to cry.gif like a little girl and then started to throw pretzels at my partner as he climbed. My partner snaped and had me lower him while he told our "friend" to "get ready man". He untied, took his climbing shoes off, slipped his other shoes on and started swinging. The fight lasted about 10 minutes and now one really won. What a waste of climbing energy.

    Looking for a place in PDX to live?

    in The Yard Sale

    Posted

    I have 2 rooms for rent starting in October. Below is my add from roommates.com. Pass the word on.

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    The house is large and there are 2 rooms to choose from. All the utilities are included in the rent - "digital cable TV(ON-DEMAND/HBO/STARS), high speed internet, power, water, garbage, and heating". There are 3 of us living there presently, "1 girl and 2 guys". I work 3 days a week with computers and spend most of my free time rock climbing and snowboarding. Kelly, "the other guy", works downtown at the hospital. He wakeboards quite a bit on the weekends and rides alot in the winter. Deanne works out in Gresham in advertising and she swims, climbs, skis and hangs out with her man. We will all be attending school this winter. We all have different schedules so were rarely all in the same place at the same time. We do like to have fun together bigdrink.gif. The house is less than a 5 minute drive from downtown. Were only 3 blocks from the Max train and bus lines. There is shopping and many restaurants very close. Let me know if your interested.

    Falling

    in Climber's Board

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    Mine was kinda like ken4ord's, not so much a "fall" as it was a jump. It was several years ago at Vantage on a column that separated from the main wall. I was in a crouch, ready to make a mantle to the top of the pedestal when I noticed that the main wall in front of me was receding. I thought to myself, "Self, that's really wierd..." After a millisecond of what can only be called stunned confusion, I decided that I had to spring off the thing, a la Spiderman, as taking my chances in a long swan dive seemed infinitely better than being on the underside of that big hunk o' rock when it hit the talus slope.

     

    I didn't think of much of anything while sailing gracefully through the air (I was told later by nearby parties that my dive was one of the most graceful "falls" that they'd ever witnessed). I was brought up short after a 40-foot+ swan dive, kinda like Wyle E. Coyote stops in mid-air before he crashes, when my first piece off the ground held, absorbing much of my kinetic energy. I flopped on the talus slope from about the height of falling out of the top bunk, and the remains of the pedestal, now about the size of a VW bug, rolled behind me. It melted my rope through about 3 feet from the tie-in knot. I can still hear old Bill Robins's voice through all the dust and haze, "Oh my god! We finally killed somebody!" Truth was, I literally walked away from that one.

     

    I think you got me beat. That must have tripped you out. I sounds like it could have been a lot worse. At least you "walked away" from that.

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