Deck off Ruby's Cafe

[John Frieh]

If you're not flying you're not trying

[specialed]

I've fallen and I can't get up.

[olyclimber]

penalty slack! he really must have pissed her off!

[Cobra_Commander]

If you're not flying you're not trying

 

congrats on having all gear pull

 

this post appears to be an AFIVE/NOLSe team effort

[John Frieh]

I love the chalk bag cloud in the last picture

 

I posted at AFIVE's request... I believe he got them from Timmy... he should be posting the details soon.

[Bug]

Shiver me timbers.

I need a Tums...

[chucK]

So I take it from the light-hearted banter and little thingies that the fall presented above did not result in any serious injury?

[Cobra_Commander]

well my was a sarcastic for what it's worth.

[John Frieh]

John- I posted some pictures on CC.com under rockclimbing "trad" There are 8 pictures of this cat from SLC decking off of Ruby's Cafe. That dude walked away with a bruised rib!!!! He is sooo lucky. Check it out, and feel free to put them in a thread for folks to view. Pretty insane. I think he put in pieces that were too small. Ruby's takes yellow metolius the whole way and those cams ripping out of the crack are blue. I don't know what kind they are but just a guess.

 

Edit: Everybody happy now?

Edited November 17, 2005 by NOLSe

[Peter_Puget]

 

 

Anyway less spray, more rock talk!

Edited November 17, 2005 by Peter_Puget

[AFIVE]

If you can believe it, he walked away from this with a buised rib! After speaking with three different people who all sent this to me. The best we could come up with is he was placing gear that was too small. The first cam was a blue Metolius cam and the second cam that pulled was a blue Trango flexcam. These are both smaller than the Yellow Metolius cams which fill ruby's all the way to the anchor. He fell from the first crux. Perhaps he was saving his yellow's for the upper crux at the roof. Borrow or buy more!

[Cobra_Commander]

My question was eradicated. If this is a digital camera sequence, the recovery speed is amazing. Was this shot with some expensive digital rig? Doesn't look slide scanned.

[counterfeitfake]

I like the blissfully ignorant people in the background.

[Cobra_Commander]

I already made that comment but it got deleted. As will this too, I'm sure

[olyclimber]

My question was eradicated. If this is a digital camera sequence, the recovery speed is amazing. Was this shot with some expensive digital rig? Doesn't look slide scanned.

 

They have pretty fast digital SLRs these days (# of CCDs and having fast media to write to is the important stuff). But that doesn't mean the pictures where taken with a digicam. They could have been taken with a regular camera and then they had pictures put on to CD/DVD at developement time or put through a slide scanner after they got them developed.

[EWolfe]

Short quickdraws.

[genepires]

f$^&ing nightmare! That guy is lucky.

[cj001f]

If this is a digital camera sequence, the recovery speed is amazing. Was this shot with some expensive digital rig? Doesn't look slide scanned.

There are a number of rigs that'll do 5fps (rough estimate of the needed framerate to capture most of a 30ft fall). Dunno whats expensive, but they aren't top of the line (Canon 20d for example)

[Dru]

I like green headband guy "Dude I gotcha...just let me chalk up..um...oh well"

[Cobra_Commander]

I like green headband guy "Dude I gotcha...just let me chalk up..um...oh well"

 

I made that exact comment and it was deleted. We'll see how your post fares.

[Cobra_Commander]

what do you think's going through the mind of shirtless guy in the far background?

 

Some options:

 

Damn there's a topless girl on ruby's cafe

I hate these people

SH*T

[ScottP]

I made that exact comment and it was deleted. We'll see how your post fares.

[Ireneo_Funes]

Damn there's a topless girl on ruby's cafe

 

[Bronco]

She should have used the "dynamic" belay.

[ivan]

incredible - glad dude's okay - the girly pony-tail definetly loses it's coolness when accelerating at 9.8 m/s2