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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 7, 2013 - 01:29am PT
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I'll be coming with a group that will be rappeling from the diving board. The rope should be hanging from the 13th to the 19th.
No jugging up it. there may be someone coming down.
You Yosar types may be interested in the haul system used to pull the rope up from the bottom ( I assume that is how it will be done, it may ride in on a mule.) In any case the last day should be interesting to you too. All the gear will be rappeled down in packs weighing in at about 100 pounds each. One guy has a rack that could handle more, but I don't know if he will be using it. Please note that when I say rack it means a rappel rack with break bars. My inner caver is showing.
See yall at the bridge.
Myrna aka Crazy Bat
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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YER FOR SURE.....................
gonna rapple off the end of your rope
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
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I didn't know you were already back MH - good to see you again.
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2013 - 02:12am PT
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Well that is what I was told it was called. I don't have a copy of the book around or I would let you know exactly where it will be rigged. I'll update after I get to Yosemite and find a copy.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Hauling a bunch of rope and sh#t all that way to just slide down a rope...
sounds kinda lame dude. Is it challenging to slide down a rope? Is it even exciting? I always prefer a walk off to a rap.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Every year the ditch becomes more and more like a circus.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Is Gugglemucci going to be the number 2 man on this team? Sounds like its right up his alley.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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this is awesome, get a grigri.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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If I were you, I'd check in with Werner before you do this.
He works search and rescue in the park.
Oh, I almost forgot, YER GUNNA DIE!!!!,
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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I climbed the Salathe in 1981 with Blond Nick Donnelly:
We arrived at the top quite late and started looking for the way down the East Ledges. We stumbled upon a tent with someone sitting outside it. She told us she was with a group of cavers that had set up a rope all the way down to the ground and they were jumarring up and rapping down it. Nick's eyes lit up... Suddenly realising what was going through his mind I grabbed him and ran off in the general direction of the East Ledges!
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Rap from the diving board? Sounds like something a TAG caver would do.
Hang 'Em High, TAG country
Main Well, TAG country
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Thanks for posting!
Always thought it would be fun. It's certainly no more absurd than what us climbers do.
Please post a TR and pics!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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I used to like rappelling long drops ...
... until I started climbing them, instead. {wink}
If you ever want to know how to ascend a fixed rope, don't ask a climber, ask a caver. Cavers have nothing better to do with their time than perfect their jugging systems.
I would like to see someone try to put a caving rope through a Grigri - you know the tail of the rope weighs about 200 lbs, right?
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WBraun
climber
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You Yosar types may be interested in the haul system used to pull the rope up from the bottom.
We've been doing this for 40 years.
What's new that we don't know?
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Hey Jaan, nice photo of Nick Donnelly!
Heard about this. Was it Peter Bosted, back in 1981, did this first?
I heard that about 6 guys all helped carry the rope up. They of course used caving racks for the descent. Clever trick was a bottle (or two?) of water with a spray nozzle of some kind to keep the rack cool.
Best of luck, Crazy Bat!
EDIT: Or maybe the person I knew who did this rappel was Chaz Young, another caver type....?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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^^^
I went caving with Peter last month in Hawaii. He is still hard at work underground.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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I've done lots of caving with Peter Bosted in Roppel Cave, although not for a few years. He certainly never mentioned anything about a rapping accident on El Cap.
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WBraun
climber
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Rapping accident on El Cap.
You should have been there and seen the end result of that one.
Sick .....
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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I've done lots of caving with Peter Bosted in Roppel Cave, although not for a few years. He certainly never mentioned anything about a rapping accident on El Cap.
No, he was not involved in any accident as far as I know.
My recollection is (though I may have this wrong) that he was first to do the one-rope El Cap rappel. All went smoothly.
It's been a while since I last saw him. He sure does get around some wild caves to this day. A sort of caving version of Fred Beckey.
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