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tyify
Jun 24, 2003, 5:38 AM
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Whats the longest fall you've ever took?? Note the "you", not your friend, or the stewardress who fell from 30000 feet...I'd like to know about you. :lol:
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thedesertnomad
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Mine was a 50 footer because of a blown purple Alien that had the common decency to nail me square in the foreheadon the way down (OUCH!!!). The whole experience sucked, but I was relatively uninjured and it happened way too fast to register. I still had the broken hold in my hand at the end of the screamer.
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tyify
Jun 24, 2003, 6:01 AM
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OUCH...Stupid purple alien...haha...I"m sure the hold was like powderized after that long a fall....Crushed it because of the fear... :lol:
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Jun 24, 2003, 6:29 AM
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My longest fall was unroped.
30 ft, broke 3 ribs and limped for a week. Was doing a lie back when a flake pulled and so did I!
Imagine my surprise!
bill
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35 feet. My feet skidded on the rock and flipped me upside down, where I landed head first on a ledge, bounced off, and wound up hanging 20 feet off the ground. Thankfully I was wearing a helmet. Somehow I ended up with a broken finger, but no other significant damage.
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phreakdigital
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Probably around 30 ft or so...a little pendulemed out too so it was a ride. :shock:
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Jun 24, 2003, 2:00 PM
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35 ' +/-
.... on a route in lake louise. a sport climb so I wasn't all that worried. from the last bolt to the anchor was around 12' and I was at the very last move before the chains when I blew the mantle move.
it shouldn't have been that big, but I was climbing on a brand new rope and I kept falling and screeching like a 6 year old school child...what a rush
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ajkclay
Jun 24, 2003, 2:37 PM
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Well, it happened one day when I was at work. I am a Steward for an airline.....
Oh, sorry...
Seriously though,
There was this one time I had this great fall off of a wall I was sitting on, it was terrible. All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put me back together again!
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gthornberg
Jun 24, 2003, 2:57 PM
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60 feet while climbing artificial holds placed under the arch of the bridge. So much friction was on the rope that I yeld "SLACK! I want slack!" Feeling obligated, my friend whipped out a ton of slack remarking, "Look, you have all the slack you need." At this most unplanned time, I fell until I was about 10 feet off the Mississippi River--20 feet below my friend up on the bank. We estimate it was at least 60 feet that I fell. My friend thought it looked so fun that he had to try it too.
A few days later, we took up the unhealth habit of rope jumping up to about 70 feet for a while then thought this couldn't be too good for our ropes. So we stopped before anyone got hurt.
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Jun 24, 2003, 3:32 PM
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Rendog, I'm just curious what route it was at the lake? Wicked Gravity?
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You wan't that in actual distance fallen or should I use Climbers math :lol:
You know what I'm talking about. Listen to the drunken climber spray about his latest adventure then deduct the distance of all runouts and falls by half and you've got a pretty accurate picture of what really happened :D
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Jun 24, 2003, 4:24 PM
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about 5-6m
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tyify
Jun 24, 2003, 5:36 PM
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I'm a whimp...haha...I've only fallen like 10 feet...Mind you it still hurts...
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gthornberg
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Hey!
I'm not as think as you drunk I am!
I have a headache. I need to rest now.
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Mine would have to be when i was rappelling down to set up a top rope and fell about 20 ft with no belay, right onto a huge pile of sharp rocks at the bottom(mostly broken holds)
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tyify
Jun 24, 2003, 6:50 PM
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Climbing- One of the only sports that required two balls...
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I've had two 20' falls, and a few 5-15'. I still have yet to even get a scrape or a bruise luckily...
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In reply to: Whats the longest fall you've ever took?? Note the "you", not your friend, or the stewardress who fell from 30000 feet...I'd like to know about you. :lol:
I say about 30. If I were to really guess it, I'd say it was like 26. Respectfully.
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tyify
Jun 24, 2003, 7:32 PM
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You guys have any suggestions of how to keep the "members" downstairs out of the way so they don't get caught up in the action??
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Before you go up, spread your legs so the boys sit neatly between the leg loops and not under them. Work it around a bit so everything is positioned correctly, then cruise.
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I blew a clip on "strong arming the little guy" at summersvile, going 40 feet to the ground "as my belayer was pulled up to the first bolt"
A friend of mine wasn't paying attention and dropped me 40 at red river gorge "he stoped me 5 feet from the ground".
Bouldering, 20 feet at Cooper's Rocks "ouch"
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Topping out on a boulder problem. I peeled as I was about to step up onto the top. My hands were 21ft off the ground and my foot was at a point 18ft off the deck. (Yes, I went back and measured it) Had little nubs pinched between my thumb and index fingers of each hand. One hand popped and then the other, launching myself backward. Since I had passed the crux, my "spotter" had stopped paying attention (great spotter, huh) and only looked up as I was careening toward him. The guy whom my "spotter" had been jabbering with threw his hands up and jacked my shoulders to keep my head from hitting the rocks. I landed between the two of them, flat on my ass. I remember feeling my spine compress like an accordion. Cost me a day without walking, three days without standing up straight, and nearly 6 months to get my head back in climbing shape.
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Holy SHIT :shock: Well, I certainly can't even begin to top that, but the longest fall I have taken was around 35 feet. Upside down screamer while aid climbing!
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I came off from 20 feet, the last bolt 9 feet below me, the one i needed to clip right by my left thigh. I came down up sidedown pendulum style and knocked over a chalkbag on the ground with my head....
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Jun 25, 2003, 2:23 AM
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In the news today @ NYC: baby infant fell (actually thrown out) from the 7th floor (80ft) hit a few branches. Baby found lying on some mulch by a tree. Only scratches and bruises, I think. :shock:
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Its kinda strange, but the longest fall I ever took was while I was following a pitch. The pitch traversed under a roof, then up a corner and then back and up. I was standing on a very large knob below the roof, with both hands occupied with the chalk bag and the knob blew. I pulled most of the gear the leader had in and went about 60 feet down. I was so shocked (knob blowing and taking such a long fall on "TR") that I was pretty shaken. Then I had to lead the next pitch... thin face on knobs. I was sure every knob was going to break on me. Funny in retrospect.
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I grounded from the second pitch of a route at lumpy ridge in Colorado. This was a long time ago and the standard rope length was 150 feet at the time. I figure with knots and my partner being tied in to the anchor, there was probably 130 feet of rope to work with. The rope caught me some ways off the ground but with rope stretch I still hit bottom. I figure the fall was between 135-145 feet. I broke both ankles and hurt my back. Belayer error (faulty use of a figure 8) was why I wasn't stopped sooner! I just fell until the rope came tight on my partner. Luckily the anchor held and he wasn't killed.
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tyify
Jun 25, 2003, 8:06 AM
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This is the reason I don't like figure 8's....Ouch...You have to get pins and screws?? Dear god that would hurt...
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ajkclay
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the biggest drop I ever took was safe, but it hurt my boyos soooo bad!
It was safe because it was at the gym where I used to climb.
I was on my first ever lead, and to prove that you wouldn't freak out you had to jump from the top with your last clip below your feet on this face above an overhang. At a height of 12m I was told to jump, so I did, and my belayer had paid out a lot of slack, so I dropped to about 3m above the ground (about a 9m fall), and I am sure that certain things in my shorts kept moving when the rest of me stopped, and touched the ground.
I walked like John Wayne for a couple of days. :lol:
Nice intro to leading huh?
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tyify
Jun 26, 2003, 6:21 AM
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I"m glad I"m just a wimpy sport climber...so far...I don't really like the prospect of blowing out protection...
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Jun 26, 2003, 12:37 PM
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Two 40+ footers, both Trad...
1 40 footer on Castleton Tower on a Yellow Alien.
1 40+ footer at Mt Lemmon on a #9 BD Stopper.
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tyify
Jun 28, 2003, 9:57 PM
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What injuries do you guys sustain from all this crazy falling?
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Jun 28, 2003, 11:19 PM
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Not even a scrape from my two above mentioned falls.
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tyify
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Lucky..Lucky...Lucky...
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I fell from about 10 feet right on my back (stupid heelhook) just to the right of my crashpad. no injuries, just couldn't breathe.
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I've taken 2 twenty footers; the first one from twenty feet up... walked out of a hospital five hours later. The second one was from close to 3 pitches up and only left me a little bloodied and shaken.
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I took a about a 30 or 40' i think in Rumney on a 11a call Cerail killer...mis counted the bolts and ran out a slab to the face...was at the anchors and getting ready to clip in when i peeled...have to thank hangerlessbolt for the catch
inside at a gym we were working a dyno skiping the last to drws...if you miss its about a 25 or 30'
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A 20+ft. inverted fall at Cathedral Ledge, North Conway, NH on a bomber 2.5 Camp Tricam. Just scrapes and bruises.
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about 20 feet. I was about ten feet from my last placement, a #5 nut, on pitch two of a climb here in the Chugach, sporting a new pair of shoes when they slipped unexpectedly. I wound up landing feetfirst on a ledge and taking almost all the force of the fall. The rope barely started to go taught by the time I hit. Fortunately the only injuries I received were to my hands as I clawed at the rock on the way down. Fun climb!
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tyify
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I've now taken a 16 footer now...From the top of my wall...It hurt a bunch...Went for a crimper and missed...SPLAT..Landed on the pad with most of my body except my elbow which hit the cement..
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elrojobdugs
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a 30 footer on trad... my foot hold broke and one of my camelots umbrellaed
a 30 footer+ i got to the chains and couldnt hold on longer... so instead of cheating and grabbing the chains... or being smart and climbing down a little i just pendulumed
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I took about a 12 foot fall doing a pretty hard dyno in my local gym. I swung off the hold and fell straight down with no pad underneath me landing on my side and breaking a rib
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The longest fall on trad I took was 20 feet and it was one of my first leads. Sport climbing my longest fall was around 25 feet and bouldering my longest was 16-18 feet.
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My longest fall (slide actually) was on Glacier Apron. Not sure the exact distance, but it was far enough to wear a hole through my climbing shoe. I held it up and I could see daylight coming through. And it was a pretty new shoe.
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longest fall was when my belayer at a gym made a mistake and forgot to belay me .. (or sumthing - i never found out why there was somuch slack) .. on TR even ..
i fell about 20' and came withina foot of decking
on TR!.
-- ricardo
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hmm, let's see, the 160-footer was the longest (most of a hook/head pitch) when a 40' block decided to detach. My last 'real' piece (small stopper) caught me.
But also went 40' to the ground (dropped off a sportclimb), which should have been worse.
Somehow walked away from both.
7 lives to go, except now that I'm thinkin' about it I've used up a few more. I'd better watch my step from here on in, though what the hell for? Like Rodney Dangerfield said, "My doctor told me that if I take perfect care of myself for the rest of my life, I'll get very sick and die."
Live it up, kids!
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Very good quote at the end there!
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10,000 ft onto a black and orange Paradactyl. I did that over 80 times.
:). As for rock climbing, a couple of 25 footers. One on a nut and the other on a bolt. The climbing falls were scarier.
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10m in a 12.5m gym...
i miss the last clip and my belayer gave me (for some unknow reason) tons of slack!! :shock:
i stopped at 2feet of the floor, and my belayer with the face on the 1st bolt
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6 meters in a lead
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44 FOOT FALL IN A 45 FOOT GYM.
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30 foot on Castle Rock near Leavenworth, my hand was jammed in a very cold crack while I put in a bomber piece and then I was falling as I had not felt my hand sliding out of the crack.
20 feet on Hemingway in Joshua tree when I went the wrong way and put in a couple crappy pieces one popped and hit me in the forehead.
Bleeding forehead and misc scrapes and bruises.
fun fun
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About 20 ft. I was at my gym and I had just pullled up for slack and my hand just let go and i fell pretty far. It happened so fast I was like, whoa. I was about 5 ft above the ground when I stopped.
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30 feet, onto a 0.5 clog cam (orange one, in a uber-bomber placement). Was the last piece before the rope's midpoint, ripped the last three nut placements. Ack.
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40 ft. on the 2nd pitch of freeblast.
I onsighted the first pitch 5.10c,My partner told me to keep going,so up I went.As the freeblast was my second multi pitch,and I was a sport climber who only did face climbs.I was doing a 5.12 layback on 5.8
I was a pumped out ,I ran it out a bit,put a piece in,went to clip it and blew off.I caught my foot around the rope,went head first screaming "take" 4 times before I stoped.The two tourist's standing next to my belayer were horrified.
My partner turned to the tourist's and smiled and said"the system works"
They most likely still have mental scars from watching that one.
Drive fast,take chances
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Aug 18, 2003, 6:03 PM
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16,000+
I was in a plane crash once :shock:
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Crazy stuff..Most of these fall happen when you blow protection or when you are being dumb and not placing any?
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'Bout 15-18 feet, bounced off a small ledge with my left ankle (fractured) and came to a rest a few feet above thge belayer. Looked up and was amazed that the #4 Rock held. Rapped off both pitches and went to see the doc
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my worst fall was not while climbing. Was backpacking in Southern Utah during the winter, descending some slickrock down into a canyon, slipped on some ice, slid, went over a thirty five foot cliff, slid another 90 feet on steep slickrock, hit a tree, and stopped about twenty feet above a 200 foot cliff. Broke my hand, got all bloodied up, smashed my camera. Luckily, the big soft frame pack saved me from major back injury, although it was also the reason I got off balance to fall in the first place.
As for climbing falls, I've taken 40+ foot falls on sport on purpose, like on those steep routes where you skip the last bolt or two, tag the anchors, and then just launch, but those probably don't count.
trad fall of about twenty five feet or so when I was hangdogging and a piece pulled. it cured me of hangdogging.
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30' on a sport route, after the rope strech my butt bounced off the rocks on the approach to the route, walked away after I pulled the rope and lead it again.
and 13,500'........... skydiving is a blast.
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I took what would have been a whipper if I would have had a rope off of a 30' boulder in southern utah.
I was brand new to the sport, anxious, young, and dumb, with climbing shoes but no rope, harness, or climbing partner. So I did what any jonesing beginner would have done, I climbed without! When I got to the top I reached for a huge jug. It was so big and bomb-proof, I stuck both hands in and layed back for a big finale. Halfway through the move the bomb-proof hold came loose and I cordially met the earth at 9.8 mps2 (terminal velocity?) The kicker to the incident was that I was 2 miles from my car in a steep ravine. I hiked my a$% out with a broken nose, broken lft wrist, 2 broken ribs, and 20% less skin, drove myself down a windy canyon road to the hospital 50 miles away (try driving a stick shift, with one hand, while bleeding profusely).
Anyway, I don't recommend this to anyone who could or would be as stupid as I was when I first started. Use a rope, and a partner, it's much funner!!!
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Anybody ever blown a bolt that has been put into a wall?
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tyify
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Bump...Sorry it just an interesting topic...
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herm
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60'+ on Misty Beethoven on a glass smooth slab on Glacier Point Apron. 1/4" bent over rusty bolt held.
Longest fall i :shock: personally caught was around 90' when my buddy grabbed a rattlesnake while leading a handcrack on the 4th pitch of the Rostrum.
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i fell about three feet one time because my belayer had some slack in the top rope
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teddy
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It would also be interesting to see what peoples biggest bottom falls are, whether bouldering, stuffed up at the start of a climb, or just a really poor belayer
Personally i'm new to the sport and trying to get enough strength and a partner to be able to go outdoors so i'm a gym rat atm. But somehow my biggest fall is about 25ft, my belayer took his hand off the break from almost the top of the gym... I was lucky not to break something now that i think about it, especially coz one leg gave way and i landed with my leg splayed out sideways
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tyify
Sep 13, 2003, 7:23 AM
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I would get a new partner...25 feet in a gym...
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teddy
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yeah i know... i was quite amazed at it, it wasn't any of my usual partners, they were either not there or were with other people, this kid was a bit younger than me (im only 15) and a bit smaller. But that gym has webbing going from the belay device to the floor so lighter people can belay, unfortunately his assuring me he could belay properly was wrong
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One time I fell in love that has lasted over two year,s what a long fall!
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tyify
Sep 18, 2003, 1:49 AM
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Over confidience seems to be the number one causer of injury...
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hmmm....
20 footer off the top of a garage wall onto two matresses. Dind't hurt, knocked the wind outta me though.
30 or so vertical (the swing was much longer) after popping a #4 BD nut doing an aid traverse, then popping like 6 more pieces along the way before a #4 or 5 brassie caught me. I never actually thought those things could hold anything. I hit my shoulder on an outcropping and it was nice and purple for a week.
20-25 feet onto a #2 (red) trango 3cu. that one was..uhm..hair raising. but it held like a champ.
Fast roping out of the back of a CH46, another marine ran into me on the rope, knocking us both off about 15-20 feet. That one was probably the most firghtening and painful.
100 feet or so bungi jumping at squaw valley 8)
14,500 feet onto about a mile of nylon That's what, like a factor 2.75 fall? :D :shock: :wink:
I hate falling. I always end up getting hurt in some manner.
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Sep 18, 2003, 5:22 AM
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I don't fall, I fly.
I rolled about 25 feet on a slab once. I hate slab.
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I slipped off a bad sloper on a 5.12a , #2 ball nut caught me though :o:o:o scariest 20' fall I ever did.
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tyify
Sep 19, 2003, 2:40 PM
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Are you clipped in when you fast rope?
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30' leader to the deck. it wasn't as bad as it could have been. i just had a little bit of a back injury.
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In reply to: Are you clipped in when you fast rope?
Uhm........no!!!!! :wink:
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In reply to: Are you clipped in when you fast rope?
nope! a Fastrope is actually a name for the "rope". it's not actually a rope though. it's a steel cable that's got about 2 inches of nylon braided around it. You grab it with your hands, hook with your foot, step out, turn and go! Zoom!!!! hehe. We used to do them pretty high too. sometimes from 100 feet after doing high speed Nap of the Earth helo insertions through mountains in the dark over a "hot" LZ. Oh baby I get shivers just thinking about it. God I miss that stuff :D
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hroldan
Sep 19, 2003, 8:22 PM
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6 mt leading and 6-7 TR in a gym with tons of slack
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on_sight_man
Sep 19, 2003, 8:55 PM
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15 feet on second on the Naked Edge. Pendulumed out over 500 feet of air and screamed like an altar boy.
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tyify
Sep 19, 2003, 11:38 PM
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Scary Scary Scary...Thinking that your could fall 500 feet would freak me out....
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Andypro "We used to do them pretty high too. sometimes from 100 feet after doing high speed Nap of the Earth helo insertions through mountains in the dark over a "hot" LZ. Oh baby I get shivers just thinking about it. "
now i'm no expert.. but how exactly do you grab a rope hanging from a chopper AFTER jumping from an airplane like 30k feet?
on topic ive been lucky.. mine was only like 3-4 feet flat on my back/side off a boulder problem.. which was the first testing phase of my Invisible Crash pad (this doesn't include planned fast lowerings from TR (planned by them.. not i :shock: )
jake
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andypro
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In reply to: now i'm no expert.. but how exactly do you grab a rope hanging from a chopper AFTER jumping from an airplane like 30k feet? jake
Huh? Wha? Who said anything about grabbing a rope hanging from a helocopter after jumping out of a plane at 30k feet?!?! Uhmm...commonse sense should tell you ya CANT.
When fastroping, your already in a helo. Not an airplane. I still dont know where the hell you got that from :roll:
I mgiht be misunderstanding what your saying. I jsut went back through everything up to and since I said that, and there isn't even a mention of 30,000 feet anywhere. What ARE you on about?
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In reply to: Well, it happened one day when I was at work. I am a Steward for an airline.....
:D :lol: :D :lol: hahaha
well actually ive been very lucky.. and my falls are quite insignificant compared to what some of you have described... i just thought this quote was hilarious :wink:
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jakedatc
Sep 20, 2003, 3:07 PM
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:oops: :oops: i read ur Helo thing wrong i thought you said HALO High Altitude Low Opening jump.. green berets and seals do them.. which are from about 30k
my mistake carry on :)
Jake
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Bump...I'm bored...
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It was 1976 in Josh about 50 feet to the ground from between the two horizontals on double cross I was 16 so it didnt hurt to bad (if it happend today the last thing to go through my mind would be my ass.
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mine was about 20 foot, landed on my feet though, so i didnt hurt nething.
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About 40ft. Didn't really enjoy it. Pulled 2 cams. Everything was ok, as I was about 400ft of the deck . Bungonia Gorge is a scary place.
Makes me laugh when some of you guy's say ''don't buy hexes, they are a waste of time''. If you had ever climbed any limestone (I'm not talking about Rifle) , you seriously wouldn't say that.
The Wombat
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Longest Fall I have taken is a 30 foot whipper in the rock gym i used to climb in. Was leading a 12' roof that was about 18 feet off of the ground, and my last clip was where the roof and the wall met. I was about 6 feet out on the roof with a drop kneed and a right arm lock off, hanging upside down. When i went for my next clip I missed it, the weight of the slack yanked me off the wall, flipping me upside down, and barrelling to the ground, wall pendulem style. Ending in me going head/shoulder first into the wall, causing a mild concussion and a mildly seperated shoulder.
The scariest was my self and my long time climbing partner Jon where out @ Summerville Lake trying to onsite a .10a near the colleseum, that is about 30' long and has 2 bolts :shock: ... can't remebmer the route atm. Was on the runout from the last bolt, and a crimper blew and I took close to a 20' fall and barely missed a tree by 2 or 3 inches. Thank god no injuries there.
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Four feet :)
Been trad leading for about 6 months and finally took my first leader fall this weekend. Was a couple of feet above my last cam when my foot blew and I slid down the crack. It's nice to see that the pro works after all :)
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25 feet, no problem...
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The two most notable Leader Falls
1983 adventure climbing @ the Grand Canyon Az, coconinio sandstone formation. I took a 60 ft'er on a sling wrapped around a chock stone in a chimney. I hit the end of the rope after what seemed a lifetime and came into the chimmney at warp speed. I had the belayer girth hitched to a rock horn. the impact broke the horn. The rope was ruined. I spraned my ankle trying to protect myself going into the chimney.
Fell 30 feet from the crux on "the nose" @ Looking Glass rock and landed on my back on the belay ledge (top of 1st pitch) This was my 3rd time doing it and I was careless.
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THe first time I did Serenity Crack in Yosemite, 1991, I paniced on the third pitch and dynoed (I don't think it had a name yet) and missed the hold. 70 feet later I had to go back up.
While climbing at Stone mountain, my wife caught sevral 50footers from the same place before she asked me not to try it again.
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100 + in to snow.
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20+
Droped the rope during a non backed up rappell on one of my first solo aid attempts. I got lucky and caught/wrapped the rope arround my leg or I would have decked from 80+. Evidently it wasn't my day to give up climbing.
(don't tell mt wife)
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About 30' at night on the groove pitch of Shield....got a little cocky with a 2 cam alien placement 3 placements above the well sunk fixed knifeblade....pop..pop...pop...I can verify that the knifeblade is bomber as I suspected..at least it woke up my belayer.... :shock:
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I took a 30-footer indoors. I was leading, and my belayer glanced down to check that the rope wasn't kinked. I came off while clipping high, and his hand slipped. I ended up lower than him!
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15 footer on my first lead climb. Went up to clip the last bolt and peeled.
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i fell recently bouldering about 15 feet and got a sharp rock in the back it sucked
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I have three that are memorable:
1) In 1978 on an early ascent of Jules Verne (Eldorado) I took the big one on a 2" waist swami. It was probably 45 feet. Then I did it again.
2) In 1979 I rapped off the ends of my rope, 300' off the ground, at night, on the Apron, Yosemite. I fell 3' into a bush I didn't think was there. It wasn't much of a fall but it was memorable.
3) In 1999 I took a 200-footer while attempting a new route in Alaska. You can read the story here: http://www.trango.com/malstory.html
Mal
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I took a 28ft fall on lead that took me to the deck. I had just moved to Cali and was hard up to find a climbing partner. I finally met this guy who sprayed a bunch of b.s. and we took off to Texas Canyon to try this 5.11c. He had me on a gri-gri so I figured no problem. What should have been a 5ft fall sent me to the ground landing on my butt and smacked my head against the opposing wall. Blacked out, came to and had a 1 1/2 hr up-hill hike to the car. After getting to the hospital, I found I had a fractured hip and severly bruised backside. The biggest idiot in this story was me for not checking out my "partner's" abilities. Learned the hard way. Check out the following pic for more-
http://www.rockclimbing.com/photos.php?Action=Show&PhotoID=24158
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How many lives do you have, Malcolm? :lol:
While aiding on P7 of Zodiac, my piece popped within two moves of the ledge. When I finally came to a halt, my head level was below that of the top of the black tower. I guesstimate that it was 60+. I guess that I got lucky that it wasn't another 10 or 15 feet lest I bounce off the ramp. :shock:
-Jason :D
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35-40' at governor lister cliff in bellingham, wa. i pulled one nut and a bolt caught me but i landed on the top part of a madrona tree upside down. the scary part was that when i lowered the last 10 feet to the ground, i looked up at the rope and the sheath was completely missing from 4 or 5 feet of the core and 2 of the 9 strands of core were sliced apart. i still dont know why, there werent any sharp edges and the rock is just soft sandstone.
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5 meters= Broken ankle :(
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Broken Foot! 16 feet!
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Two years ago I fell down till the floor from almost 6 mts (5.80 mts exactely); my collegue was using an eight and I was double distance from the first bolt, I couldn't resist any more and .....splash! I went directly to the ground. I don't know how but nothing was broken. From that time I began to read climbing books to inform about this sport and, afortunately, I haven't had anything similar to this:shock:
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the scariest long fall i have taken is a 35' aid fall on the giraff down in the baja... i pulled a peice after three hook moves. got alittle bloody from the piece hitting me in the mouth. i have taken 35' on sport climb called surf right, a link up in frustration creek. the crux was at the end of a string of moves after a clip... took that a # of times. 20' on trad... 1.5 tricam the first year i started climbing. that slowed me down.
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Man, the fall of 1985...I thought it was never going to end. I remember thinking to myself, "Jesus...where the hell is winter already?!"
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Does rope jumping count?
230’ off of the Rostrum in ’98.
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30' on a #4 BD stopper
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It was at HCR on Sour Girl, took a 35 foot fall and my heels grazed against the ground, that could of hurt!
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In reply to: Does rope jumping count? 230’ off of the Rostrum in ’98.
mmmm, fun
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The longest fall I ever took was about 20 - 25 feet. I was about a foot away from clipping the third bolt on Mamplitude when I took my fall.
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