Carp Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 To the person who took my BD green quickdraws, please be aware that I (240 lbs) took a 50 footer onto the top one. Use wisely. If I hadn't been hurt in the fall I wouldn't have left them. If you want the other 3 I took with me, I'll give you a good price. This would have been a month or so ago. -Carp Quote
Mr_Phil Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Also tell um how you dropped the biners onto the rock below causing 'microfractures'. Quote
smithisheaven Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Hell he just washed the slings in a mixture of white gas and diesel fuel, he thought they were dirty. Surprisingly they got quite clean. Almost so clean you couldnt see em anymore Quote
genepires Posted April 1, 2007 Posted April 1, 2007 a fifty footer on a slab like larabee probably didn't put too much stress on the draw or bolt. rock to skin friction took a good chunk of the forces. Otherwise the bolt in the shitty sandstone would have blown. I knew a guy who fell from near the middle of the cliff while soloing and landed in the low water at high tide. He walked away thanks to the high friction coefficient. Quote
Carp Posted April 16, 2007 Author Posted April 16, 2007 rock to skin friction took a good chunk of the forces. Oddly I'm not so comforted by that, but thanks. My body on the rock sounded like a horse on cobbles. Weee, fun. Quote
max Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 I knew a guy who fell from near the middle of the cliff while soloing and landed in the low water at high tide. He walked away thanks to the high friction coefficient. Funny (yeah, ha ha...) I knew a guy who did similar. He was up there as a kid with his parents, "exploring" and traversed in from the left... got stuck, scared... two broken arms. He said he met his junior high sweetie in the hospital, thuough. Quote
Blake Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 (edited) I did that climb last monday (4/9) and it was not there then. However, I wish it had been! That's a fun route. I think there are only 4 bolts on the whole route, aren't there? How did you take a 50' fall onto the top one, if the top one is less than 25' from the end of the route? You should tell your story, in all it's slab-sliding cheese-grater details. Edited April 16, 2007 by Blake Quote
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