Weirdness
A few weeks ago Mark Jackson and I were climbing in the valley at the Great Arch. He did Black Powder. I pulled the rope for my turn. No one else was there so I didn't yell ROPE real loud or anything. Everything seemed to be going well when all of a sudden the rope hangs up on the third bolt. It had tied itself into the bottom biner with a half hitch. It was impossible to pull the rope even for two strong men suck as Mark and myself. Had we not been quick thinking professionals I'm sure an epic of sport climbing proportion would have ensued!
So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing-- Zep
For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing-- Zep
i had a similar event to sunshine's happen a few weeks ago on pogue ethics, after cleaning and rapping off, my friend pulled the rope. as the tail was passing through the anchors my "friend" put extra tension on the rope, causing it to whip over the top and tie an overhand knot around the chains. fortunately there were other climbers nearby who were kind enough to re-lead the route and retrieve my rope. it would have been interesting retrieving said rope w/o helpful climbers nearby.
I have had the exact same experience as sunshine with the rope tying itself into a half hitch. A few years back i was out at roadside, climbing awol. I fell, can't remember exactly where at on the route, and as i fell my belay loop clipped in to a draw on the way by. I couldn't figure out what had happened, as the fall hurt like hell and there was still tons of slack in the system and i wasn't movin. Pretty crazy
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Thoreau
here is a good picture of this happening, just imagine the climber is moving up and left from the bolt and pulling the draw in the same direction as the rock rubs on the gate and it comes off the bolt.
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" – Lord Byron
Something kinda weird happened to us today...
Ray climbed a route and I lowered him to the ground through some tall rhodos. Then I climbed and he lowered me through the tall rhodos. While he was lowering me he was like, "Hey! There's one of our quickdraws on a limb!". Apparently, one had unclipped from his harness and reclipped to a branch when he went through before me. Crazy how this stuff happens!!!
Ray climbed a route and I lowered him to the ground through some tall rhodos. Then I climbed and he lowered me through the tall rhodos. While he was lowering me he was like, "Hey! There's one of our quickdraws on a limb!". Apparently, one had unclipped from his harness and reclipped to a branch when he went through before me. Crazy how this stuff happens!!!
Does he have a strange bear claw like appendage protruding from his neck? He kep petting it.
Back in the day when sunshine was a project for me, I was hanging the draws, got to the anchors pumped out of my mind, grabbed the one quickdraw on my left side, and dropped it. It caught in the pocket of my shorts, so I was able to hang the draw, make the clip, and say "take". I had another draw on the other side, but no way could I have hung on long enough to switch hands and get the other one.
"There is no secret ingredient"
Po, the kung fu panda
Po, the kung fu panda
Dude! Unreal?
I did it once but different. I was climbing a 13 bolt 5.11b whan I got to the top all my draws were on my hip and I said "Sheet marn, I done already up n drunk too many REEBS' No joke, I really said that.
It happens brother, the weirdness I mean. I didn't downclimb though, only p****** climb opposite the prevailing upward paradaigmaa.
Cheers;
DBT
I did it once but different. I was climbing a 13 bolt 5.11b whan I got to the top all my draws were on my hip and I said "Sheet marn, I done already up n drunk too many REEBS' No joke, I really said that.
It happens brother, the weirdness I mean. I didn't downclimb though, only p****** climb opposite the prevailing upward paradaigmaa.
Cheers;
DBT