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#37192 - 05/27/08 01:37 PM
Re: Screaming Girl/High E/Cut Rope
[Re: yellowhouse]
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Registered: 06/14/04
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...this ought to make for major rc.com internet drama. We were on Southern Pillar when our party heard the girl screaming(who at the Trapps didn't????).
I have no details as to what was going on. But my read of the thing(which obviously is just what I thought at the time and has no real relevance) was that it sounded like the screamer was very new to climbing and freaked out. Like, first time on the rope climbing.....
I was thinking it was some family TR'ing a kid under 10 by the sheer, uncontrollable terror she seemed to be expressing. I can't imagine someone doing a multipitch(High E?!?!!!) with a child who would have found themselves that frightened.
While the screaming went on for a longish amount of time for TR standards(which is understandable, now that I read it was'nt a TR....), it wasn't *that* long, in consideration of a multipitch rescue.
Cut rope? That sounds bizarre.
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#37193 - 05/27/08 02:00 PM
Re: Screaming Girl/High E/Cut Rope
[Re: Terrie]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/29/01
Posts: 2952
Loc: LI, NY
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i heard some weird ass shit from a guy down at the willaims wall... he had heard it from someone at a party. sounded ridiculous. would love to hear the rest of the details.
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#37195 - 05/27/08 02:07 PM
Re: Screaming Girl/High E/Cut Rope
[Re: yellowhouse]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 07/05/00
Posts: 3400
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here's the skinny, related later that eve at a party. Source- 3 guys on Modern Times. High E is crowded. A party of 3 takes off and gets to the ledge. Second party of 5 takes off too. 1st party leader takes off the GT ledge and does the last pitch. the other two in the party decide to simul climb the last pitch, cowtailed together. 2nd and 3rd climber of ist party get stuck. 2nd can't move and the third is dangling, I suppose near the GT ledge. Enter the screaming sounds. The party of 5's "leader" tosses out some webbing (and a knife I guess) to the chick dangling. Then there's the "one, two, three" count and the ledge party pulls the dangling chick just as she cuts the rope. My friends on Modern Times said, "We couldn't believe what we saw and that nobody died", the guys on Modern Times had no idea that the parties would CUT a rope or they obviously would have intervened. I can't figure out why anyone would think that this was a suitable solution. CUTTING a rope, you've got to be kidding me! I haven't heard how she made out, I figure she had to slam into the GT pretty hard. Now some ass leader thinks that he saved the day by getting that chick to cut her rope. Doh!
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#37196 - 05/27/08 02:16 PM
Re: Screaming Girl/High E/Cut Rope
[Re: alicex4]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/14/02
Posts: 2623
Loc: brooklyn
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Wow...
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#37197 - 05/27/08 02:40 PM
Re: Screaming Girl/High E/Cut Rope
[Re: quanto_the_mad]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 10/06/01
Posts: 2652
Loc: Sittin' Pretty in Fat City
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I quess if it was good enough for Clint Eastwood it must be the way to go.
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#37199 - 05/27/08 03:10 PM
Re: Screaming Girl/High E/Cut Rope
[Re: alicex4]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 12/12/01
Posts: 2626
Loc: Brooklyn, NY
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here's the skinny, related later that eve at a party. Source- 3 guys on Modern Times. High E is crowded. A party of 3 takes off and gets to the ledge. Second party of 5 takes off too. 1st party leader takes off the GT ledge and does the last pitch. the other two in the party decide to simul climb the last pitch, cowtailed together. 2nd and 3rd climber of ist party get stuck. 2nd can't move and the third is dangling, I suppose near the GT ledge. Enter the screaming sounds. The party of 5's "leader" tosses out some webbing (and a knife I guess) to the chick dangling. Then there's the "one, two, three" count and the ledge party pulls the dangling chick just as she cuts the rope. My friends on Modern Times said, "We couldn't believe what we saw and that nobody died", the guys on Modern Times had no idea that the parties would CUT a rope or they obviously would have intervened. I can't figure out why anyone would think that this was a suitable solution. CUTTING a rope, you've got to be kidding me! I haven't heard how she made out, I figure she had to slam into the GT pretty hard. Now some ass leader thinks that he saved the day by getting that chick to cut her rope. Doh! No F**KING Way!!!  Thats just too... too... I'm speechless, totally speechless...
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#37201 - 05/27/08 03:28 PM
Re: Screaming Girl/High E/Cut Rope
[Re: yellowhouse]
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old hand
Registered: 04/16/02
Posts: 981
Loc: a wanna be kerhonkson-er
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No way! So vertical limit was a true story after all?
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