Formaldehead Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Do you hold your beer in your control hand, so that you can only drink at the rap stations, or do your hold it in the other hand, and schoon all the way down? I'm just wondering what the safest technique is. catbirdseat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_Pine Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Gatoritas in the Camelback dude. No hands required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formaldehead Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 Any helmet mods I can make? I'm thinking along the lines of those "sipper" helmets, but I don't want to disturb the balance, or the impact resistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_Pine Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 I think it would help the impact resistance, sort of like those big water ballon barriers they have at freeway offramps. As for the balance, I think it would be quite important to have the two beer placements at symmetric postitions on the helmet. Of greatest importance is two straws so that the volumes (and thus weights) of the cans remain equalized. This is all pretty common sense really, and I'm not sure you need any of this explained to you. What I am interested in hearing about is smoking on rappel. Which hand do you hold the lighter in? How about when the roach gets really small? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Formaldehead said: Do you hold your beer in your control hand, so that you can only drink at the rap stations, or do your hold it in the other hand, and schoon all the way down? I'm just wondering what the safest technique is. catbirdseat? I never learned how to do it properly. I'm waiting for mattp to show me how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 really, if you can rappel w/o spilling your beer why add anything to your system. rap w/the beer in your non-brake hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-rock Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 autoblock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 personally i just chug one right at each rap anchor. that way i have two hands when toking up on rappel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 b-rock said: autoblock. Now you're talking. The autoblock should allow even two-fisted drinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 no, erik's got it right - takes a little extra time, but you can use your empties as a can pipe and save some weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formaldehead Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 Roger said: no, erik's got it right - takes a little extra time, but you can use your empties as a can pipe and save some weight. Empty cans are for littering, foo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglehead Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Come on, you guys. Any old schooler knows you make a beer can bong, smoke yer cheeba, then drink the beer/bongwater, then toss the can at a euro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminal_Gravity Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Cans are the best, you can pop the top prior and then hold the tab in your teeth and guzzle all the way down...HANDS FREE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whirlwind Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 the best system i've seen is the beer bong that goes from rap anchor to rap anchor. man the velosity of the beer after fallin 70+feet sends it straight though the liver and to directly to the brain only down fall is the secound has to keep filling the bong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 Al_Pine said: I think it would help the impact resistance, sort of like those big water ballon barriers they have at freeway offramps. As for the balance, I think it would be quite important to have the two beer placements at symmetric postitions on the helmet. Of greatest importance is two straws so that the volumes (and thus weights) of the cans remain equalized. This is all pretty common sense really, and I'm not sure you need any of this explained to you. nice try....but the added weight of the liquid on your helmet could create a lethal amount of momentum should you slip or flip over backwards. Picture an infant taking it's first steps...essentially a tiny body taking it's huge head out for a walk. Best to stick with a Camelback, or a platypus in a fanny pack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatskiclimbsail Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 I was on a caving trip in WV and we came across an english fellow with a custom device he had named the "Rappel Stein". Pretty much a steel biner welded to a steel beer stein. Theory is you wrap the rope around it like a drum brake. He was still working the bugs out like the fact that the beer is warmed by the time you reach the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaphappy Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 I'm usually wasted and out of supplies by the time I start rappeling... ahhh which brings up a fine point... I'm still searching for that perfect partner who will bring/give me some of their "stash", gun up the hard shit, go EXACTLY where I want to go, climb only what I want to climb, and preferably have a fine female figure. Any takers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 slaphappy said: I'm usually wasted and out of supplies by the time I start rappeling... ahhh which brings up a fine point... I'm still searching for that perfect partner who will bring/give me some of their "stash", gun up the hard shit, go EXACTLY where I want to go, climb only what I want to climb, and preferably have a fine female figure. Any takers? damn it! i was yer girl right up to the part about gunning up the hard shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaphappy Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 minx said: slaphappy said: I'm usually wasted and out of supplies by the time I start rappeling... ahhh which brings up a fine point... I'm still searching for that perfect partner who will bring/give me some of their "stash", gun up the hard shit, go EXACTLY where I want to go, climb only what I want to climb, and preferably have a fine female figure. Any takers? damn it! i was yer girl right up to the part about gunning up the hard shit. Oh, I'll still step up to the plate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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