New tyrolean traverse record

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dfinnecy

Social climber

san joser

Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 26, 2008 - 05:16pm PT

News from my home of Sydney, Aus.
1.2 km.
The aussies down here are into some weird stuff.
Now who is going to slack line it?

http://manly-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/12km-rope-trick/

You can see photos here:

http://www.spsphotography.com.au/

The climbing area is Point Perpendicular, which is a pretty awesome place to climb. Very atmospheric sandstone sea cliffs.

survival

Big Wall climber

A Token of My Extreme

Nov 26, 2008 - 05:44pm PT

Thassabiggun'

jewedlaw

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Nov 26, 2008 - 05:53pm PT

``It’s just a big exercise. When you’re working with 1.6km of rope, one tangle ruins the day because it takes hours to get it out.’’

Ro-sham-bo for flaking the rope after a climb.

sweet, see you next week

MisterE

Trad climber

My Inner Nut

Nov 26, 2008 - 06:06pm PT

"Two 800-m 11mm static lines tied together"

Wow!

SteveW

Trad climber

The state of confusion

Nov 26, 2008 - 07:20pm PT

I don't know the distance, but back in the early 70's
some folks did that over Roy Gap Road at Seneca Rocks.
Probably not a km, but real far. . .
That rope handling was a bugger, and I sure wasn't gonna
go across that thing. . . I remember when one spool of rope
came down, it blotted out the sun. Thank goodness for the overhang. . .

Salamanizer

Trad climber

Vacaville Ca,

Nov 26, 2008 - 08:21pm PT

Oh great, now it's only a matter of time before some boneheads string one up from Middle Cathedral to El Cap.

Not that I wouldn't give it a go.

nutjob

Stoked OW climber

San Jose, CA

Nov 26, 2008 - 08:33pm PT

Hmmm... you might have something from Higher Cathedral over to the Nose... would need some assistance with traffic management on the roads below...

Caveman

climber

Cumberland Plateau

Nov 26, 2008 - 09:23pm PT

"Hmmm... you might have something from Higher Cathedral over to the Nose..."

Two ropes were made that were hopefully going to be used for just that. From what I understand opinions were that authorities would not allow such a scenario.

I helped set up a tyrolean with a single 6500ft static that was ridden for at least 5200ft in 1987. The two statics that were made to span the valley were perhaps the longest static lines made at over 8500ft per line.