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tyrolean traverse 23-Nov-2011 At 5:03:49 PM rolsen1

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On 23/11/2011 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 23/11/2011 Sonic wrote:
>>
>>You need far more specialized equipment like a chest harness, pulleys,
>>rigging plates, etc to do a 120+m traverse. You obviously dont have this
>>gear or the ability to use it and a recreational abseiling course is
>not
>>going to give it to you.
>
>What the fuch are you on about? You don't need any of that shit! Sure,
>it might make things easier, but you could do it in total safety without
>that 500 bucks of gucci nonsense.
>>
>>You are going to seriously injure yourself or worse if you do this right
>>now. You clearly have no idea of the gravity of what is needed - for
>instance
>>trees are no longer really a suitable anchor for what you want to do
>here.
>
>That's pretty rich! So, if he finds a 40m high eucalypt which is 1.5m
>across at the base, its not a suitable anchor? Get thy head out from thyne
>arse!
>>
>>Do us all a favor and drop it - unless you really want to become a statistic.
>
>Queensland dude, don't drop it! Put it on the backburner for a while and
>learn a few skills. Its not rocket science. Its just that there's a bunch
>of stuff you haven't thought of yet, and you don't want to first realise
>that you haven't thought of them when you're hanging in the middle of that
>zawn.

ODH's best post.

Agree