Pulling a Cam on Rock Wars

Post by **michaelarmand** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:36 am

climberjevans wrote:sketch sam, how can you tell that the cam had two lobes tipped out? It appears that the climber was quite aways up. This sounds like speculation to me.

Sketchy Sam speculate....never

Post by **pkananen** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:53 am

This is soft sandstone - will your pieces blow?

Post by **TradMike** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:19 am

The flake below can be thin at times and the crack up top consists of loose peebles lightly glued together. Most should hold unless you weight a lot. It only takes one pebble to shatter under the load to spit out a cam. And a hard fall with a heavy climber will break the flake.

Post by **512OW** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:45 pm

And an earthquake might just turn the whole damn place to rubble. So what? Something tells me this isn't the first time a cam has pulled or rock has broken. I don't know... maybe I'm wrong.

Post by **ahab** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:36 pm

512OW wrote:I don't know... maybe I'm wrong.

nope. we were walking into long wall one day at just the right moment. the fearless leader was at the original anchor, so i kinda stopped for a sec to watch the show. he starts past it, throws in a #1, climbs a little past it and then begins the sketch. "ohmygod, ohmygod, fuck dude i'm gonna fall!!" he does, screaming the whole way down. his #1 pops and sends little pieces of rock wars zinging into the woods. lucky for him, his next piece was the bolt from the original anchors, which caught his fall.

Post by **512OW** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:48 pm

ahab wrote:
512OW wrote:I don't know... maybe I'm wrong.
nope. we were walking into long wall one day at just the right moment. the fearless leader was at the original anchor, so i kinda stopped for a sec to watch the show. he starts past it, throws in a #1, climbs a little past it and then begins the sketch. "ohmygod, ohmygod, fuck dude i'm gonna fall!!" he does, screaming the whole way down. his #1 pops and sends little pieces of rock wars zinging into the woods. lucky for him, his next piece was the bolt from the original anchors, which caught his fall.

Fun. I have the other bolt in my collection. Pulled it out by hand eons ago. Too bad that one didn't go too...

Post by **agentWTF** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:26 pm

What's with the pussy face at the end?