"Exciting" falls?
was at the last bolt of relinquary. wasn't clipped yet when i was stupid and pumped and was trying to clip before grabbing the jug.. long story short, broke a hold and took the plunge down to just above the first bolt. most fun i've had on a fall in a while.. i think i was smiling the whole way down
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Broke a hold? From where I was sitting it looked like you just plain old fell 
Saying a hold broke always makes us feel better though doesn't it... I am a guilty party too
Good to see you at the crag today, and that was a nice whipper regardless.
Saying a hold broke always makes us feel better though doesn't it... I am a guilty party too
Good to see you at the crag today, and that was a nice whipper regardless.
Lest we all forget... climbing is a mostly meaningless pursuit that we do for fun.
Oh yeah! He kept on an on yelling, "TAKE!".....for-ev-er! That was wild!ynot wrote:I watched someone fall half the way down Rock Wars facing out. He had to have been runnout. He was yelling "TAKE!" repeatedly the whole time he was falling.
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Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, Runs marathons to raise money and awareness about children orphaned by AIDS
specialed and I had an exciting warm up on Saturday. We were probably a bit undercaffinated and neither of us noticed the 'X' marks on a chunk of rock between the second and third bolts on Darwin Loves You at Volunteer wall. It was 'just a warm up' so I wasn't exactly the most attentive belayer. I heard an 'umph' noise above me, glanced up and saw Ed falling in some awkward way. I was yanked up towards the first bolt pretty quickly, and a split second later heard a serious 'thud' to my left. It turns out Ed pulled the 'flake' off, wrestled it in the air while taking a lead fall and ditched it off to the side. He ended up with some pretty good scrapes up and down his left arm. I'm pretty sure that if he had just let it fall, I would have taken a 40 lb. chunk of rock to the head.
Just doing our part to clean up the routes and make things safer.
Just doing our part to clean up the routes and make things safer.
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If I remember right, its the jugs you clip the anchors off that are going to blow on someone. Kind of wondered if that was how the route got its name.tomdarch wrote:specialed and I had an exciting warm up on Saturday. We were probably a bit undercaffinated and neither of us noticed the 'X' marks on a chunk of rock between the second and third bolts on Darwin Loves You at Volunteer wall. It was 'just a warm up' so I wasn't exactly the most attentive belayer. I heard an 'umph' noise above me, glanced up and saw Ed falling in some awkward way. I was yanked up towards the first bolt pretty quickly, and a split second later heard a serious 'thud' to my left. It turns out Ed pulled the 'flake' off, wrestled it in the air while taking a lead fall and ditched it off to the side. He ended up with some pretty good scrapes up and down his left arm. I'm pretty sure that if he had just let it fall, I would have taken a 40 lb. chunk of rock to the head.
Just doing our part to clean up the routes and make things safer.
Again, I only overheard that. It's probably an exaggeration to some degree, but I'm sure there's some truth to it. I don't remember a #1 placement either, but I do remember staining my pants as I got up to the ledge. I can also imagine that falling from there and living to tell about it would be rather exciting indeed.Huggybone wrote:If you fall at the top of that route, you will deck. Unless your belayer can RUN. I don't even remember a #1 placement.