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Stupidest thing youve seen? 13-Aug-2006 At 7:41:01 PM manuinthewoods

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I don't think it will come close to the entertainment provided previously. In a blue mountains canyon, we met 2 guys (probably around 3 people by weight). They very pretty smelly and annoying as well. The smell actually helped avoid them as we could feel when they were getting within 50m of us and speed up.
They caught up with us while we were eating. We showed them the way down (an easy scramble) but they said they knew what they were doing and abseiled off a tree. The tree was sticking out above a rock and about 5cm wide. It was bending as they were going down. Luckily nothing happened (it didn't feel like carrying two 100+kg smelly guys out of a canyon!).

Another story was partly my fault. I was climbing with someone who, I thought, wasn't quite a beginner. I explained to her how to rap off the rope. She said she understood and seemed annoyed that I had to go through everything several times. It was a 2 pitch climb with a ledge at the first belay.
Once she finished top roping the 1st pitch, she removed the rope from the carabiner to which it was attached. She wasn't attached to anything else.
My friend (doing a climb nearby) spotted it. He asked her what she was attached to, she answered "to the rope"... probably not that useful as the rope wasn't attached anymore (unless it's a very very stiff rope)...

The first lesson is to not assume that people understoodd what to do, even when they say they did.
The second lesson is never to underestimate people's lack of common sense!