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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:32 am
by meetVA
Hey all, a little respect for a groundfall?...
Any news on how the climber is doing? Best wishes to him for a full recovery.
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:18 am
by Ultra
So what happened, was he skipping bolts?
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:41 pm
by rhunt
pigsteak wrote:I am Rhunt...I use the Grigri fail safe method. (Ask me sometime.) I'll never deck.
Ok, I am asking. I what to hear about your "blind" faith in a GriGri!
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:01 pm
by ynp1
sport climbers decking??? thats fucked up...
i hope the guy is alright
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 4:08 pm
by mcrib
The bely either loaded the grigri wrong or held it down during the fall. Chaos ensued and I didn't figure out what went wrong. The kid should be fine I think he broke one ankle a sprained the other. Pretty luck considering he around the 5th bolt.
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 4:44 pm
by rhunt
I've seen seasoned belayers almost drop climbers, using both a grigri and a stitch plate(ATC).
Shit happens.
I hope that the injured climber has a full and speedy recovery!
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:45 pm
by Spragwa
None of the people who belay me would allow me to deck from the 5th bolt of a climb unless they fucked up pretty bad, which I don't believe they would. Sorry rhunt, I just don't believe it happens unless the belayer screws up. Not that people don't make mistakes.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:39 am
by Ultra
So What happened!!
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:04 pm
by rhunt
Spragwa wrote:None of the people who belay me would allow me to deck from the 5th bolt of a climb unless they fucked up pretty bad, which I don't believe they would. Sorry rhunt, I just don't believe it happens unless the belayer screws up. Not that people don't make mistakes.
That's just my point Sprag, people do fuck up including you and I. None of the people I climb with would allow me to deck either, I wouldn't let them belay me if I thought otherwise. Yet shit happens. Everytime this happens, we are quick to say it was the result of an inexperienced belayer. Maybe it wasn't this time??
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:52 pm
by charlie
Spragwa and rhunt wrote:None of the people who belay me would allow me to deck ....... None of the people I climb with would allow me to deck either, I wouldn't let them belay me if I thought otherwise.
You just keep telling yourself that.
How many people on this board have been dropped/hit a ledge/taken a bad fall from trusted belayers they've climbed with regularly?
As rhunt said, people do screw up and that fact that you think your partners are immune to mistakes is foolishness.