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justroberto
Dec 8, 2010, 4:57 PM
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cruxstacean wrote: So has anybody every fallen on a back clipped draw and had the rope unclip? USA climbing comps allow climbers to backclip so some people think it is not particularly risky...
Gumby 1 leads up, backclips, and then Gumbies 2, 3, and 4 on the ground start frantically yelling up at him that he's done so and he's going to die. Gumby 1 starts to freak out a little bit, can't figure out what he's done wrong. He starts sketching, and yet he still takes the rope back out of the draw in an attempt to correct his mistake, feet skittering and hands oozing off his holds in certain groundfall territory. Eventually he clips it back in and takes on the rope, only to have Gumbies 2, 3, and 4 yell up that he's still backclipped.
Now he's sitting there, pumped and looking completely dumbfounded while his his friends try to tell him how to fix it, all yelling up different ideas, confusing him further. He gets back on the rock, sketches hard, and unclips the rope from the draw again, and the cycle begins again.
Sadly, I actually saw this happen on a mid-11 route a few weeks ago. The kids shouted hilariously at each other for over an hour, with two of them attempting to fix it multiple times. Every time they tried, they fucked it up even worse.
I'll leave it up for debate which one is actually more dangerous - backclipping and not knowing it, or doing it and then trying to fix it.
(This post was edited by justroberto on Dec 8, 2010, 6:10 PM)
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