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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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phillycheese
Sep 19, 2003, 2:46 PM
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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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eodclimber
Sep 19, 2003, 3:52 PM
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In reply to: Are you clipped in when you fast rope?
Uhm........no!!!!! :wink:
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andypro
Sep 19, 2003, 7:36 PM
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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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jakedatc
Sep 20, 2003, 1:44 AM
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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
Sep 20, 2003, 2:29 AM
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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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dc
Sep 20, 2003, 1:09 PM
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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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tyify
Nov 23, 2003, 11:49 AM
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Bump...I'm bored...
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ernie
Dec 1, 2003, 5:42 AM
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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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scubasnyder
Dec 1, 2003, 6:08 AM
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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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rock_rat
Dec 15, 2003, 6:32 PM
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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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a3webhog
Dec 15, 2003, 6:40 PM
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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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bighigaz
Dec 15, 2003, 6:50 PM
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25 feet, no problem...
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floridaputz
Dec 15, 2003, 8:20 PM
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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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okinawatricam
Jan 9, 2004, 7:30 AM
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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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Jan 9, 2004, 7:48 AM
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100 + in to snow.
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biggernhell
Jan 9, 2004, 7:55 AM
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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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skiclimb
Jan 11, 2004, 8:22 AM
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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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njari
Jan 21, 2004, 6:49 PM
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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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Jan 21, 2004, 6:55 PM
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15 footer on my first lead climb. Went up to clip the last bolt and peeled.
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