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fallingup
Feb 2, 2005, 9:22 PM
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In reply to: when i first started climbing i was actually afraid of heights... i don't know if that's common, i'd say it is...
Same here. I did start getting used to it the more I climbed but those first few were quite interesting. I have a feeling that it is more commen than we think.
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arctic_wolf
Feb 7, 2005, 2:24 AM
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I'd say the most terrifing moment of my life wasz when we had a really bad storm in our area. This thing was so bad our full grown trees were bending to the ground and a few of them snapped under the strain. The storm was right above us though, so whenever there was lightning there was also immediate thunder, and it was deafening. Our house actually was struck by lightning and our satelite was fried. It rained so hard that all the streets flooded and police and ambulences and stuff couldn't even get around. The next day when I went outside I was amazed at the carnage. Mangled trees, torn up roads, and still flooded streets. I've been terrified of storms ever since, even distant ones.
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rockrat_co
Feb 7, 2005, 3:13 AM
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WEll,
my scariest experience so far would have been mountainboarding. I was comming around a curve in a paved road that has a pretty steep slope. Reportedly I was traveling at about 35 miles-per-hour..I accidentally bent my ankles to try to turn and this action caused my board to begin to violently vibrate from side to side. I powerslid, launched into the air, landed about ten feet downhill on my back, and slid to a stop... It was really gnarley before and during loosing control of the board but I guess my buddy got a worse scare from the whole thing.
I had a cheepo water bottle in the outside pocket of my pack, and on impact with the asphault the waterbottle blew open sending water all over the road. My buddy believed it to be blood, needless to say, it kinda startled him!
Thats the only situation I can come up with at the time...Worse luck so far with climbing has been getting stuck twelve feet off the ground, so nothing too bad...
Later,
rockrat_co
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gunksgoer
Feb 7, 2005, 3:41 AM
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5 or 6 years ago (or maybe more, i have no clue), i was climbing for my first time (i think), and i was with a small group, tr-ing an easy climb. Partway thru the day, one of the people i was climbing with, informed me that climbing ropes could, and sometimes did break :shock:
i certainly didnt fall for the rest of the afternoon... that was my scariest moment as a noob, after that tho, i have no idea, ive been scared may times
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brent_e
Feb 7, 2005, 4:38 AM
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a scary incident for me occured in a boat alone. I went fishing with my dad on the Niagara (lower river). I was meeting my girlfriend of the time later in the day to show her the river. So my dad took off and I tooled around alone for a bit before she came. I went and fished a bit by the power plants and in Devils Hole (just above the plants).
Some of you boulderers out there know what the niagara is like - turbulent and fast. This was in january or december or so so the water was a bit below 40 degrees, as well. I was in a 16 foot boat and finishing a drift just before one of the power plants. These plants are pretty neat and they spew out TONNES of water (so much that the river actually raises up a couple feets from the volume).
Where the water from the plant meets the water from the main flow it usually depresses and eddies horizontally (and sometimes swirls like huge drains). My boat got caught in the break where the currents meet and started to pitch the gunwhale down just as I started the motor and gunned it. That is something i will never forget. It scares me going through the plants a bit every time now and I NEVER keep my hands off of the throttle. It's fine in a bigger boat, but with that little one it's wild.
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salamanizer
Feb 7, 2005, 6:39 AM
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Climbing somewhat rotten WI4 only to find out later I had misread the topo and it was actually WI5, not to mention the one inch horizontal crack midway up the first pitch.
Everytime I climb ice I tell myself (mid pitch) how stupid and pointless it is only to find myself volunteering to lead the next pitch. Climbing ice is a sickness.
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