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A to Z
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Bishop, CA
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Jul 11, 2011 - 05:08pm PT
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So, the story I heard was...
Up at the crux on the the first pitch it was wet and sandy. So the soloist chose to downclimb. All went well until about 20 feet off the deck where he fell off.
Then he went bouldering.
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A to Z
climber
Bishop, CA
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Jul 13, 2011 - 04:48pm PT
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So, what are the stories you have heard. There is my version... it is hearsay. How big was the fall in the other versions?
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Jul 13, 2011 - 04:57pm PT
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That's a good read.
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from an ice pick and missing my mama.
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Jul 13, 2011 - 05:01pm PT
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Ever hear of the walking dead? Dude should have gotten himself checked out. You never know how bad you are until later on. I remember feeling fine right after an accident and one day later being unable to move my arm with an injured back and neck that has never recovered.
Plus, even though I really have no room to talk since I dated a soloist... I'm very sick of dead people. Because of my personal baggage, I have fallen in love with the idea of everyone staying roped up.
Please stay safe folks, it matters.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Jul 13, 2011 - 05:05pm PT
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"I turned to see the soloist facing away from the wall and skidding down the slab at a terrifying rate of speed. He had fallen at the crux nearly 100' above my position. The soloist miraculously landed on the lip of the snow patch ... he hopped up and announce that it was, "time to go home." He then walked past my wife, took to steps onto the snow patch, lost his footing and fell again. This time he slid down the snow patch nearly 100 meters and narrowly missed two mid size boulders at the base."
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A to Z
climber
Bishop, CA
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Jul 13, 2011 - 05:16pm PT
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The next time i see my friend i will try to get the whole story out of him. When i was talking to him at the boulders it did not seem like he was telling me the whole story. For the amount of fear in him.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jul 13, 2011 - 05:21pm PT
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The stories jive if you consider that 20 feet into the 5th class is easily 100 feet off the deck. It seems doubtful that someone would skid 20 feet down the 3rd class slabs and have the story come out that they "decked while free soloing".
I climbed the route less than a week before it happened and the snow was fully connected to the rock at that point. When I started reading I was hoping for a snowey landing. The route was surprisingly not as wet as it often is in spite of the full snow traveled required at the time to reach the base.
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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Jul 24, 2011 - 12:25pm PT
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i heard this guy driving a brown dodge van had fell on the reg route the day before, so when the people next to us cooking dinner the next day had a brown van, i had to investigate. after a little small talk, i popped the question
"did you hear about the guy who fell soloing the reg route yesterday"
and he responds
"yeah, that was me!"
so, he said he was downclimbing because it was so wet and it did not feel right. he slipped below the crux and went forty feet into the snow. he said the rock felt like snow as he slid down on his ass. guy's name was mike, i think. he had done oz that day, so pretty much unhurt from the fall. pretty lucky. shipoopoi
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ec
climber
ca
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Jul 24, 2011 - 02:24pm PT
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Stich,
perfect...
Ha! Ha!
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