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Lister
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12 years ago

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exspelio
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12 years ago

Naah, if its that cold, the curry house is a better place!. 😉 😉

Always remember, nature is in charge, get it wrong and it is you who suffers!.

RJV
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12 years ago

No, not much call for it in Cleveland though climbers seem to be happy enough to. In any event much prefer to use something properly bombproof like badly corroded bits of iron forced into shale or hundred year old planks of wood laid over hopper tops...

Wormster
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12 years ago

If it was necessary - yeah why not!

Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.

blackshiver
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12 years ago

The joy of placing a bombproof ice screw 100 foot above your last dodgy tied off rock peg is one of life's great unsung pleasures.

The aprov, aplocv, approc (sod it) method of drilling two screw holes so they meet and can then take a threaded length of cord is good, but difficult to execute in a raging whiteout while hanging off an axe with one hand a couple of hundred feet off the deck.

It is however an excellent technique for retreating from a good ledge on a mountain, an action usually preceeded by erm....slight errors of personal judgement.

Wormster
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12 years ago

Could almost be a "Touching the cloth" moment!

Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.

Roy Morton
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12 years ago

Abolokov..? is that a real name or made up? Sounds more like what might happen to you as a result of an anchor failure. 😮

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

simonrl
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12 years ago

"Roy Morton" wrote:
Abolokov..? is that a real name or made up? Sounds more like what might happen to you as a result of an anchor failure. :o

Abolokovice :lol:

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

J25GTi
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12 years ago

"SimonRL" wrote:

"Roy Morton" wrote:
Abolokov..? is that a real name or made up? Sounds more like what might happen to you as a result of an anchor failure. :o

Abolokovice :lol:

A friend of mine has anchored in an ice cave on a 150m pitch and suffered a harness failure half way down due to abrasion and cold.

Now feeling your harness rip 100m above ground in -35 would focus the mind a little I think!