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Shroom
Mar 10, 2010, 6:32 PM
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Do you really rely on reporters who have no idea about climbing to report on climbing?
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majid_sabet
Mar 10, 2010, 6:38 PM
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Shroom wrote: Do you really rely on reporters who have no idea about climbing to report on climbing?
no
i rely on people like you to come forward and let me know what happen and by the way, stop chasing me in RC.
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evanwish
Mar 10, 2010, 9:10 PM
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wow another climbing report where the general media has no idea what they're talking about..
what exactly was the journalist saying happened? They were leading and couldn't reach a belay?
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theguy
Mar 10, 2010, 9:17 PM
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If Brendan Farrelly is ever incapacitated by an accident, The Independent may have a job for the wabbit.
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joneus
Mar 15, 2010, 6:56 PM
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I know I'm a n00b to leading... but... how do you run out of rope?
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TradEddie
Mar 17, 2010, 1:16 AM
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Apart from the incorrect spelling of Imaal, there doesn't appear to be anything technically wrong in that report. It's missing details, but can you say it's wrong? It distinguishes between hikers and climbers, which is the usual complaint, and kudos to the climbers for at least trying to help themselves before calling for help.
Now, that said, unless there was snow or ice left in that gulley, I'd be surprised if anyone of those five had much of a clue what they were doing.
Slightly more details:
http://www.mountainrescue.ie/node/426
TE
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airscape
Mar 17, 2010, 12:10 PM
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joneus wrote: I know I'm a n00b to leading S&M... but... how do you run out of rope?
That's what she said...
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evanwish
Mar 17, 2010, 6:51 PM
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True. Its the details that are missing that would make it make sense, but what exactly did he mean? I'm guessing not reaching somewhere to set a belay, or rappel not reaching the ground, or maybe leader fell and didn't have enough rope to lower back to the belay?
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TradEddie
Mar 18, 2010, 12:13 AM
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Nothing on that gully could be so tall that a single line rap wouldn't get them down, and the top is a walkoff. My guess is that they ran out of knowledge, not rope. There must have been ice still there, because there is no technical rock climbing in that area.
TE
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evanwish
Mar 18, 2010, 1:30 AM
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TradEddie wrote: Nothing on that gully could be so tall that a single line rap wouldn't get them down, and the top is a walkoff. My guess is that they ran out of knowledge, not rope. There must have been ice still there, because there is no technical rock climbing in that area. TE
Interesting, good insight to the story
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TradEddie
Apr 8, 2010, 1:21 AM
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I could hardly believe it, but there was still snow even on the south-facing slopes of the Wicklow mountains last week, and that was before another foot of snow fell on Tuesday. Conditions must have been great on the North Prison Gully a month ago.
Global warming is certainly a misnomer for Ireland. When I lived there, we waited two years for a single snowy weekend on Lugnaquilla.
TE
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