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good reason to wear a helmet (and dreds)

Robb

2-Feb-2007
3:30:06 PM

here's a couple of pics of the damage caused to crystals helmet from rockfall in patagonia. her dreds and helmet proabaly saved her life. another smaller rock hit her in the face.

Chuck Norris

2-Feb-2007
8:12:13 PM

pretty impressive...curious to know how much you think the dreds really helped or is it just something
that made the incident funny/memorable in hindsight.

also did a climber knock off the rocks or was it natural rockfall?

Sabu

2-Feb-2007
10:36:34 PM

the dreds would've helped absorb/cushion the impact on her skull (i think!)

FangDangler

3-Feb-2007
2:34:45 AM

On 2/02/2007 Sabu wrote:
>the dreds would've helped absorb/cushion the impact on her skull (i think!)

The fact that there are dreds, means there's not much brain to damage!

Vegos have even less brain mass.

cheesehead

4-Feb-2007
11:17:49 AM

Whoar! That's a very cool outcome, relative to a potentially very nasty situation.

I really do think dreads make a difference to impact absorption. I cut mine off to save weight, but it was a poor trade. They're on the way back.

hardware

4-Feb-2007
9:21:59 PM

On 3/02/2007 FangDangler wrote:

>The fact that there are dreds, means there's not much brain to damage!
>
>Vegos have even less brain mass.

Surely your comments need a "Ha Ha" and a tongue in cheek exclamation mark!!!

muki

4-Feb-2007
11:26:38 PM

On 4/02/2007 hardware wrote:>
>On 3/02/2007 FangDangler wrote:
>The fact that there are dreds, means there's not much brain to damage!
>Vegos have even less brain mass.
Surely your comments need a "Ha Ha" and a tongue in cheek exclamation mark!!!

check out the other posts FkDp has made and then decide!

andyR

5-Feb-2007
6:40:24 PM

Yeah well, we can't all grow dreads!!

belayslave

9-Feb-2007
3:06:06 PM

wow... nice. What kind of helmet is that beefy?

Robb

9-Feb-2007
4:27:49 PM

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