biggest fear when you was a young climber?

[Big 'Ammer]

I once elbowed the old girl in the face in my sleep dreaming I was pulling a rope to get the top off a tree against a strong wind!

 

Needless to say she was not amused !

[treewizard]

I once elbowed the old girl in the face in my sleep dreaming I was pulling a rope to get the top off a tree against a strong wind!

 

Needless to say she was not amused !

 

 

hahahahahahahaha cracked me up:lol:

[Sambo]

for me it was cutting my rope or forgetting to tight my screwgate

 

Screwgate?!

[Peter]

Screwgate?!

 

Yes, some of us started climbing when screwgates and 3 strand ropes were best practice.

[Log-ologist]

Yes, some of us started climbing when screwgates and 3 strand ropes were best practice.

 

my first rope was 3 strand and it came from a chandlers on Poole Quay.

 

...those where the days .....

 

 

...men from boys.....

 

etc ad tedium.

[Steve Bullman]

screwgates used to suck...id tighten them up hard as i could at the start of my climb, then after a couple hours hard climbing(and it was hard at the start) i wouldnt have the strength to undo the bloody things

[Big 'Ammer]

My first climbing carabiner was a big steel screwgate reassuring stamped "3 Tonnes"!

 

3 strand and prussic and steel climbing spikes!

[Pete Mctree]

screwgates used to suck...id tighten them up hard as i could at the start of my climb, then after a couple hours hard climbing(and it was hard at the start) i wouldnt have the strength to undo the bloody things

 

Often happened when you tightened them after you had loaded them. I don't miss them

[David Humphries]

An old climbing buddy of mine was de-ivying some oaks, when his (large DMM I think it was) Karabiner, got itself rubbed open by the ivy, his prussick then popped out sending him crashing 40ft down on to a huge pile of hedra.

 

After both having recovered from the shock of it, we

then proceeded to pee ourselves senseless, with only his pride left bruised.

 

Needless to say, that prompted us to invest heavily in a complete Krab restock immediately

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[vduben]

i like the sly use of latin there monkey