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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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matchscratch
Aug 7, 2003, 6:05 PM
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6 meters in a lead
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meingh
Aug 7, 2003, 7:39 PM
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44 FOOT FALL IN A 45 FOOT GYM.
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miker
Aug 7, 2003, 8:50 PM
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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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gregman
Aug 18, 2003, 5:23 AM
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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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brianthew
Aug 18, 2003, 5:32 AM
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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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justsendingits
Aug 18, 2003, 5:43 AM
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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
R
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boulderman
Aug 18, 2003, 6:03 PM
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16,000+
I was in a plane crash once :shock:
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tyify
Aug 27, 2003, 7:15 AM
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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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fredo
Aug 28, 2003, 4:39 PM
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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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camhead
Aug 28, 2003, 5:32 PM
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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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dilligaf
Aug 28, 2003, 6:33 PM
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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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utahnative
Aug 31, 2003, 11:42 PM
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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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tyify
Sep 3, 2003, 12:00 AM
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Anybody ever blown a bolt that has been put into a wall?
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tyify
Sep 11, 2003, 12:51 AM
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Bump...Sorry it just an interesting topic...
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herm
Sep 11, 2003, 1:09 AM
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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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cantclimbforsht
Sep 11, 2003, 2:40 AM
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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
Sep 13, 2003, 7:19 AM
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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
Sep 13, 2003, 7:37 AM
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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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organic
Sep 13, 2003, 9:26 AM
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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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andypro
Sep 18, 2003, 4:13 AM
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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.
--Andy P
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redpiton
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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vee_fifteen
Sep 19, 2003, 2:36 PM
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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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