Biggest Sport Falls????
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:04 pm
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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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:52 pm
My big whipper story consists of saying the fall was 15-20 feet longer than it really was.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:06 pm
70+ on tuna town. Man I hated trying to clip those anchors. Right of passage though.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:23 pm
Sounds about right.70+ on tuna town
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:46 pm
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:48 pm
now that's a big whipper
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:43 pm
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. 
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:14 pm
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:22 am
I think I took a 40 footer once. It was scary because I ended up only a few feet off the ground
Don't try to clip far below a bolt and fall with lots of slack out, it sucks.
Don't try to clip far below a bolt and fall with lots of slack out, it sucks.
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:28 am
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