Cocaine Crack Sling Speculation Thread

[catbirdseat]

In climbing Cocaine Crack I noticed that there was a sewn shoulder length sling girth hitched to a piton under the roof. I got to wondering why someone would do that.

 

It could be they bailed from that sling, but that seems unlikely as that would be foolhardy. Do you think they used it to aid the move around the roof? Maybe they girth hitched it because they figured the second would also need it to aid and couldn't clean it?

[RuMR]

maybe they are trying to keep an idiot in suspense? I can see that its working...

[catbirdseat]

And I'm sure that plate of brownies is working its magic too.

[pope]

I'm thinking that if the sling was clipped on the FA, why not add a bolt a couple feet down from where the piton is?

[catbirdseat]

Lord knows why the piton is there. There is a perfect Yellow Camalot placement three feet below it. Maybe it's a really old piton.

[chucK]

Is that a yellow C4 or a yellow old style, or perhaps the yellow camalot with the double stem? Or, fuck, I dunno, I may be thinking of a gold camalot (the old style, but not the really old style).

[Sol]

a friend took a bad fall clipping a gear on cocaine crack a few weeks ago and had to bail, prolly part of her bail gear.

[Bug]

Maybe she clipped the piton, girth-hitched it, set up the rope in the sling for a rappell, and cleaned the biner.

[Alex]

I'm thinking that if the sling was clipped on the FA, why not add a bolt a couple feet down from where the piton is?

 

Now THAT was a good one!!

[catbirdseat]

a friend took a bad fall clipping a gear on cocaine crack a few weeks ago and had to bail, prolly part of her bail gear.

There is a cam or something with a green sling buried deep in the crack below the roof. I didn't get a good look at it. It's probably there for good.

[G-spotter]

there's something green buried in the Nose too

[catbirdseat]