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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Jul 14, 2016 - 09:44pm PT
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Why, was Pete in the haul bag?
As of two days ago, he was fishing in Ontario. His usual MO doesn't include moderate free routes at the base of El Cap, in July.
The injured climber is named Pete, but it isn't an unusual name.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Jul 14, 2016 - 09:49pm PT
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Sending thoughts out to both Pete's....rj
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:13pm PT
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that's fuct' up
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:15pm PT
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hey there say...
wow, as to this... i was surprised, as, too, i saw he was fishing...
whew, glad he is okay, then...
but wow, sad to hear this... and yes, as jody said:
Jul 14, 2016 - 09:45pm PT
Well, even if it wasn't PTPP, still praying for the Pete it did happen to.
sure will!!!
going to read what happened, now...
thanks for sharing... any climber, down, needs our support...
oh my, :(
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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Jul 14, 2016 - 11:29pm PT
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On Sunday June 16th at approx 12:30 pm Yosemite dispatch received a 911 call of a climber injury on El Capitan in the vicinity of the Heart Ledges rappels. Last time June 16 landed on a Sunday was in 2013. Hope Pete's arm is all healed up by now.
It's a good lesson to be learned by all at Pete's expense.
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rwedgee
Ice climber
CA
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Jul 15, 2016 - 12:20am PT
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Tough crowd....funny too.
Hope everyone is OK
As previously stated....for Pete's sake
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enjoimx
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Jul 15, 2016 - 02:29am PT
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The injury happened on Little John Right.
You guys really think PTPP would be free climbing on el cap?I dont think so......
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couchmaster
climber
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Jul 15, 2016 - 06:19am PT
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Wish this Pete well. That had to be pretty damned painful to have a loaded haul bag hit you from such a long distance up. The accident report from the link upthread is one of the better ones I've read. Accident reports usually screw up plenty of details and you're still left wonder what occurred. Not this time.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 15, 2016 - 06:50am PT
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"Dang it! We missed him. Obama's not gonna be happy this time!"
See, who needs accident reports?
Just blame the prez.
Seriously, glad Pete will live.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Jul 15, 2016 - 08:39am PT
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That is a pretty severe injury. Hope this guy regains full use of his arm.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Denver CO
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Jul 15, 2016 - 08:44am PT
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Good luck with your arm Pete. The explanation for how the haulbag unclipped itself makes no sense.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 15, 2016 - 10:19am PT
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The explanation for how the haulbag unclipped itself makes no sense.
Amen. I thought the same thing while reading the article.
Better to say something like, "Have no idea how this happened" than to invent some fantasy where magical fairies lift the bag enough to unweight it from the 'biner, while another opens the LOCKING 'biner and slips the slings out of it, and then the heavy-lifting fairies let go. Not buying it!
Vibration? Uh, no.
It would be good to get to the REAL story of what happened. And I do hope that Pete is recovering and will suffer no long-term effects!
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jul 15, 2016 - 10:27am PT
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Better to say something like, "Have no idea how this happened" than to invent some fantasy where magical fairies lift the bag enough to unweight it from the 'biner, while another opens the LOCKING 'biner and slips the slings out of it,
the slings became unweighted when the bag hung on a ledge. This allowed the slings to come off an apparently unlocked biner. When the bag was freed fromthe ledge it dropped. Sounds like bad luck with the bag dropping, good luck that it only broke an arm.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 15, 2016 - 11:01am PT
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This allowed the slings to come off an apparently unlocked biner.... Sounds like bad luck...
Sounds like really bad luck. Locking 'biners don't just unlock, and if it was unlocked, they don't just magically open. I certainly struggle to imagine what events caused not one but both slings to just pop out of a locking 'biner, even given just the right sort of unweighting due to the ledge, or that both non-locker 'biners/slings got unattached simultaneously.
Everything comes down to the phrase "somehow unclipped," and that's where the magic happens. Unpacking that magic would be valuable indeed, although it's probably never gonna happen, sadly.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Jul 15, 2016 - 11:44am PT
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agreed, nothing really to be gleaned that is of value due to the apparent PTSD symptoms from the 'chaos of the moment'.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Jul 15, 2016 - 12:31pm PT
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The analysis was crystal clear and written in plain English. Slings unclip from biners all the time. A little too wordy would be my only complaint.
WTF is with the thread title? There's only 1 Pete I know on ST.com, must have been him - as if the group here [and it's views on things] represents more than 0.0001% of the climbing world.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Jul 15, 2016 - 01:28pm PT
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And then there's the other part. The Park probably won't charge for the rescue, but is the climber who dropped the bag liable for Pete's medical bills?
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Jul 15, 2016 - 02:16pm PT
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uh oh, Jillypees' feathers are ruffled
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sween345
climber
back east
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Jul 15, 2016 - 03:35pm PT
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After packaging Pete’s arm, Jeff rigged for a tandem rappel using a modified version of a rescue spider.It should also be noted that this is the exact same method Jeff had been using to rappel with the dropped haul bag,
Do you think they told Pete about this before blast off?
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