Dru Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 What is the worst thing you ever rappelled off of? The impetus behind this thread was reading the Warning thread in North Cascades. My own: broken off plate of desert varnish lodged in wide crack and slung - Red Rocks jammed knot on a bleached white sling - Red Rocks bush that started ripping roots while I was half way down - Old Settler 6' diameter slush bollard - Shuksan two half driven compression bolts - Fraser Valley slung boulder that rocked back and forth - N Face of Silvertip lets hear some more. truth only. no made up "I rapped off a slung 3 lb yam" stories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Dru said:no made up "I rapped off a slung 3 lb yam" stories! trask is pm'ing his bedtime stories again eh? faded whitish webbing in the eldo area chewed solidly halfway through by snaffles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 An angry midget wedged into an offwidth chimney in Zion... no really, probly the 5 equalized nuts all in either extremely shitty rock or behind loose flakes on the west pillar of the Eye Tooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberBuxom Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Dru said: What is the worst thing you ever rappelled off of? splain how this darwinawardwinner behavior is sumpin you wanna chestbeat about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted October 2, 2003 Author Share Posted October 2, 2003 AmberBuxom said: Dru said: What is the worst thing you ever rappelled off of? splain how this darwinawardwinner behavior is sumpin you wanna chestbeat about? risk taking behaviour has been shown in many species to correspond to increased desirability of mates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 This might not count but I once got to the top of a spire and the only anchor was on old Star bolt with the lead sleeve at the end exposed. We rapped but actually down climbed so it might not count. The next worse time was rappin off a tiny nubbing in a storm and the sling blew off the nubbin while I was coiling the rope. An exapmle of complete stupidity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberBuxom Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Dru said: AmberBuxom said: Dru said: What is the worst thing you ever rappelled off of? splain how this darwinawardwinner behavior is sumpin you wanna chestbeat about? risk taking behaviour has been shown in many species to correspond to increased desirability of mates so am i to assume you do these 'risk taking' rappels in front of an audience of ovulating hot chicks? otherwise whats the point? maybe as a half time show at the local high school football game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 my worst were probably single piece anchors and unhealthy looking bushes but you seem to have quite a varied collection. does it mean anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 AmberBuxom said: Dru said: AmberBuxom said: Dru said: What is the worst thing you ever rappelled off of? splain how this darwinawardwinner behavior is sumpin you wanna chestbeat about? risk taking behaviour has been shown in many species to correspond to increased desirability of mates so am i to assume you do these 'risk taking' rappels in front of an audience of ovulating hot chicks? otherwise whats the point? maybe as a half time show at the local high school football game? No but you can apparantly talk shit about it afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 The shadiest buttonhead I have ever seen on Lost Planet Airmen, when we got off route on orbit about 3 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Rusty 1/4 inch spinner and rusty, untested 3/4 inch angle with one cracked eye at the top of the bolt ladder at Moonstone Beach, Humboldt County. Grit came out of the pin placement as I weighted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norsky Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Some bad shit in Europe. In Germany I got to the top at a sport area and they have a string of 10mm rope tied between two YOUNG trees. About 5 routes shared this "anchor" by clipping into "fixed" non locking biners to lower off of. In France, single bolt anchors seemed to be the norm. Kinda like how I found lots of the old routes in the Flatirons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 An old dead shrub backed up to an old existing ring pin driven into dirt that I could wiggle with my fingers. We should have downclimbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jja Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Last winter on night-n-gale, when pulling the screw out of the first v thread hole, had to wait almost a minute for the water to stop flowing. I'm the fat boy with the pack, but for some reason I rapped last after pulling the back up screw. When I pulled the backup screw it got me all wet when water started gushing out of that hole too. Last week on Chianti, the rap at the top of the first pitch is a little chockstone behind a block, that wiggles around, and is slung with really old and tattered webbing. I'm still fat so I rapped first with a backup gear anchor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambone Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Yosemite- '96 or so...tried an old route up above Commitment, it was crap, and we rapped off an old tat sling around a loose flake. Those were my young and reckless days. Bozeman 97 or 98 rapped of some sorry excuse for a dead pine sappling tring to get down from one of the Climbs Below Winterdance. It was stupid, but just about the only way off, sans downclimbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beck Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 a two inch tree and a chicken head grouped with an american death triangle where we thought the chicken head and tree ledge would catch sling if tree broke. never rapped so gently....praying the entire rap. plus, anytime my buds set up a rap rope right thru the slings, I HATE that! even though theres never been any problem. two guys i know broke ankles on rap this summer, one of them has given up climbing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 i have one question for the people who are rapping off of tat in bad shape. why didn't you all back it up? i personally see little reason to risk your life rapping if you have the tools to facilitate a safe descent? just a question! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norsky Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 erik said: i have one question for the people who are rapping off of tat in bad shape. why didn't you all back it up? i personally see little reason to risk your life rapping if you have the tools to facilitate a safe descent? just a question! What, and leave booty?!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambone Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 For me, it was before I understood the benefits of cheap insurance...infact I didn't have any insurance at all, so I figured the hell with it. Or maybe it just wasn't cool to leave gear behind... Sorta like kids who wear helmets with the buckle undone... go figure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted October 3, 2003 Author Share Posted October 3, 2003 "You might live, but I will die with a FULL RACK" -John Baldwin in the 1980's, taking out the anchor his buddy just rapped on, and beginning to downclimb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt.Caveman Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 vthread in rotten ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted October 3, 2003 Author Share Posted October 3, 2003 Cpt.Caveman said: vthread in rotten ice. i am glad i started ice climbing after the days of rapping off electrical conduit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 A half driven knife blade that bounced like a diving board when weighted - Cutthroat peak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texplorer Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 I was out of pro so I looked in my rucksack and what do you know I had one number 7 yam left. I wedged it as securely as possible, slung it, and . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salbrecher Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 (edited) Chestbeating Rapped off 2 weathered slings on a pile of small rock off the North peak of black tusk. I remember looking over the the north peak since having climbed the main peak and thinking WHO THE HELL WOULD RAP OFF THAT ! Edited October 3, 2003 by salbrecher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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