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Big Piton
Trad climber
Ventura
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Jul 21, 2009 - 10:06pm PT
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I started dating my partner, then she excepted me to carry everything to the rock.
I asked her what was up? She told me she was talking to a girl at the cliff and her dude took care of everything when they went climbing. So, the following weekend she called and found that I was heading to yosemite without her. She freaked out, when she found out I was with her sis.
I told her that since "sis" wasn't my girlfriend I would get more climbing in. Well that's my story and I am sticking to it.
BTW: she cut up my extra rope into 2 " pieces while we were gone.
MMM
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jul 22, 2009 - 12:00am PT
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Ha ha. Dummies all!
Keep the stories coming.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
way, WAY out there....(OMG)
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Jul 22, 2009 - 12:40am PT
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Yeah, this is a great thread.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jul 22, 2009 - 01:09am PT
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Oh, eh, rappelling down the NA after I had broken (rebroken actually, I orginally broke it in Colorado 10 days before while bouldering but had plans for the NA and had hiked loads up to the base with a cast on my leg but had jumped into the Merced and had chopped the cast off with a piton and then gone up on the route but had broken it again while hauling) my ankle. I had a big pack with all our cans of food and the first 4 pitches of the NA being very steep, had gotten my hair stuck in the rappel system.
It wasn't exactly fun tearing the hair out of my head and the rappel system, all the while my ankle hitting the wall, killing me, trying not to let go of the rope and dropping to my death.
That was pretty much not fun, but yes, stupid.
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Jul 22, 2009 - 02:30pm PT
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Once in my early Yosemite days I decided that it would be a good idea to rope solo the Chouinard-Herbert route on the NF of Sentinel. Things were going well and nearing halfway I started feeling rain. I looked around, the sky was dark with clouds, and and chose to rap off. A few rappels later I am on top of Chessman pinnacle. There was some third and fourth class down to the next rappel, so to save the time of coiling and uncoiling the rope I grabbed one end of the rope hanging above me and started climbing down a gully that narrowed to a chimney. It was here with my back on one wall and my feet on the other that I heard a block tumbling down. It looked about like a cubic basketball ricocheting off the walls into the funnel I spanned. As I was trying to get into the back of the chimney it sailed past about a foot or so away. Now that was dumb and I knew it right away, so it must not be the dumbest thing, which was probably soloing the Lost Arrow Tip with only one jumar clipped to my swami for a belay, and not even knowing I had done anything dangerous until much later.
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oldcragster
Gym climber
WA
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Jul 22, 2009 - 03:17pm PT
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Nice shot of your injury and the road below Black Wall. Sure Mark H. recognized it too Willoughby. Great epic accounts all! Reminds me of all the dumb things I did at Donner. One has to be the time I belayed Rocko Rampino while he tr'd Goldilocks. Getting to the top, he proceeds to move anchor slings/biners down to Gold Dust anchor bolts, then climbs over edge expecting to be lowered to the ground. Problem is: I'm too far back now and talking to Rick Sylvester with my back turned. Needless to say, I find myself being dragged on my back toward base of cliff over boulders. When I stop, I look up to see Rocko just above me. Nice lowering job for him since I kept the belay hand steady the whole time. I ended up with broken ribs. Only bones ever broken climbing.
Gene Drake
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Jefe'
Boulder climber
Bishop
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Jul 22, 2009 - 03:54pm PT
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Belaying Largo on at tr, on the wall above Camp 4, he says he's off, at the same time some friends walk up and start talking to me, I let go of the cord, next thing I know, the cord is sizzling, Largo yelling, I grab the cord and stop his fall. He yells, what kind of f###ing belay was that. I never did tell him what really happened.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
way, WAY out there....(OMG)
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Jul 22, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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Pure Gold.
Love the foot shot, W.(arrrggh.)
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Jul 22, 2009 - 07:38pm PT
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Well Jefe, I sorta think you might have told him now!
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NOTW
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Jul 22, 2009 - 09:23pm PT
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3 hits of acid.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Jul 22, 2009 - 10:49pm PT
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Just last night I was climbing for about 4 hours. Hot. Sweaty. Dirty! Shirtless. Some manky old steel that really made me wonder. Cord got stuck a couple times. Eventually, had it wired.
Then one of my partners asked where I left the wire cutters. I said I think I left them on the scaffolding he was working on.
Turns out I laid them down on an air duct after snipping a cable tie.
:-)
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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Jul 23, 2009 - 01:37pm PT
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Spit on another party below....not purposeful, of course. Big loogey hit the dood square on top of the noggin'!
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knieveltech
Social climber
Raleigh NC
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Jul 24, 2009 - 11:04am PT
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Bump! More!
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Jul 24, 2009 - 11:10am PT
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narrowing it down is the hard part...
clipping into my knott bight instead of my harness, then starting to untie the rope ?
grabbing the damn pro as i peeled and ripping my shoulder ?
putting the top prusik on one rope and the footloops on the other, instead of both on both, and pulling myself upsidedown as soon as i weighted them ?
soloing bolted quartzite with daisy chains and hooks ?
the list goes on...
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Terry
climber
Spokane
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Jul 28, 2009 - 07:25pm PT
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Bump.
C'mon. There's gotta be more dumb things done by supertopoans. I've read to many of your posts to believe otherwise :)
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Jul 28, 2009 - 10:00pm PT
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During college a friend got accepted to be in the Shuttle
program and we were partying . About 10pm after talking about rock climbing for awhile we somehow loaded the car and drove up the
Scottsdale Hwy to the rockpile. The idea agreed on was the full moon was just up and we could use its light to climb a short wall. No headlamps.
I led, and had to lean sideways a lot to see the holds.
My future astronaut friend freaked out on the way up and was
twitching like a spaz as I pulled him the last bit up to the ledge.
Had to lower him to the ground as he was messed up. Later I had that 'moment' of fearful clarity that this genius had been belaying me! But the desert at night is magic so not a total
loss.
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xtrmecat
Big Wall climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Feb 12, 2010 - 02:42pm PT
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I'm too lazy to type it all again, so I am copy and pasteing it from an earlier thread of Jul 08.
Not the dumbest, but pretty amusing and dumb to boot. The thread was about backup knot use. It may help to visualize Willie Coyote.
Yes, I have. Scared the crap outa me but I'm still here to tell the tale. Never have and wouldn't consider not using one. Fallen quite a few times solo, mostly free climbing.
It was the manzanita choked approach ledge of Liberty Cap last May, and anchored my rope off on the more exposed part and the docking tether of the haulbag to my belay loop so I had enough slack to toss the pig over and under the many obstacles. Nearing the 3/4 section of my rope, I had to toss the pig uphill on some loose sandy stuff, and scoot it around until it would stand on it's own, and then try to climb my sweaty fat butt up to it. In the process I stood up and slid down a little and pulled the top of the very overstuffed pig towards me and it yanked my dumb a$$ off faster than I could have imagined. Soloists do not catch head first falls so I went to the backup, which was nearing the end of a 60 meter rope. Went about 50 foot with the stretch and all the give in the slung manzanita I had used for pro.
Scared the crap out of me, but relatively unhurt. Hanging by the backup knot, with the over 100 lb. pig pulling on the belay loop, I was just not having a good time. Had to pull the chest cord off the soloist and prussic the pig up enough to get it off the locker and let her go to the deck. about 250 to 300 feet I suppose. All the basics I needed were in the bag, ascenders, more slings and biners,ladders etc..
Climbed the rope back up to the ledge and got really pissed and scared that I was getting in over my head for a first solo wall, went and gathered my crap, tucked my tail, and went back down to the valley, pretty whipped.
Still love to solo. Still think the way I do it is the right way. I would never hesitate, thinking that the system will not do a good job of keeping me on the cord. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Bob
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Feb 12, 2010 - 03:09pm PT
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Trying to pick out the John Muir Trail right before it meets up with the top of Nevada Falls:
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