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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
Jun 24, 2003, 5:53 AM
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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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onelung
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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phugganut
Jun 24, 2003, 7:15 AM
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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
Jun 24, 2003, 8:35 AM
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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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rendog
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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"D"
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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!
Regards
Humpty.
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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.
GT
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climbingbum
Jun 24, 2003, 3:32 PM
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Rendog, I'm just curious what route it was at the lake? Wicked Gravity?
-J
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tradmanclimbs
Jun 24, 2003, 4:02 PM
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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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overlord
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
Jun 24, 2003, 5:58 PM
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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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alpinerock
Jun 24, 2003, 6:28 PM
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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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bandycoot
Jun 24, 2003, 7:23 PM
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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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wildtrail
Jun 24, 2003, 7:25 PM
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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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petsfed
Jun 24, 2003, 7:49 PM
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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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dbrayack
Jun 24, 2003, 7:57 PM
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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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the_pirate
Jun 24, 2003, 8:53 PM
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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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socalclimber
Jun 24, 2003, 11:49 PM
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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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