Biggest Sport Falls????

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briceb13
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Biggest Sport Falls????

Post by briceb13 »

I just took my first big fall over 30+ feet on sunday and was wondering about some of your big whipper stories.
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Post by bcombs »

My big whipper story consists of saying the fall was 15-20 feet longer than it really was.
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Post by flashmaster »

70+ on tuna town. Man I hated trying to clip those anchors. Right of passage though.
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Post by Toy »

70+ on tuna town
Sounds about right.
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Post by ynot »

now that's a big whipper
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Post by p0bray01 »

Yeah my largest was 40 feet.....thank God it was overhung because if it had been vertical I would have decked....my back barely grazed the ground. Thats what I get for trying to clip ABOVE my head and falling with a boat load of slack layin in my lap. :shock:
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Post by anticlmber »

other than the overhang being over a void how would one not deck from a footer simply by a climb being overhung?? a 40 footer on one of the tens at roadside would be close but a 30 footer on ro would suck, because of the boulder. just wondering the math.
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Post by Shamis »

I think I took a 40 footer once. It was scary because I ended up only a few feet off the ground :shock:

Don't try to clip far below a bolt and fall with lots of slack out, it sucks.
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Post by pawilkes »

unless kenny added a bolt, falling from the anchors of Special Boy out at Purgatory is pretty exciting. i thinki fell from the anchors to the third bolt, at least 30 feet, probably 40
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