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ajfclark

14-Dec-2009
1:37:15 PM

Glad to hear you're all on the mend.


nmonteith

14-Dec-2009
2:03:42 PM

Here is the news! Quite a positive story really...
http://www.examiner.com.au/news/local/news/arts-culture-entertainment/gorge-climbers-escape-lightly-from-fall/1703737.aspx


henners

14-Dec-2009
2:05:50 PM

oh by the way, it turns out that the route was a recently put up 27! that'd do it.

Rob S.

14-Dec-2009
2:07:55 PM

An experienced local climber, Bill Baxter who was the first person I did a multipitch route with on school
camp in 08 is going to come in and see Hen and for dad who doesn't climb much they're going to go to
the spot where they fell and have a talk about some stuff so dad knows what was going on and so he
can see how risks are assessed when climbing or in that particular case, not assessed.

Rob S.

14-Dec-2009
2:11:43 PM

On 14/12/2009 ajfclark wrote:
>On 14/12/2009 Sammy S1 wrote:
>>His protection must have been decent because he had fallen on it a few
>times before
>
>Did he inspect the placement after each fall?

thats another lesson.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

14-Dec-2009
2:15:17 PM

Rob S. wrote;
>An experienced local climber, Bill Baxter who was the first person I did a multipitch route with on school camp in 08 is going to come in and see Hen and for dad who doesn't climb much they're going to go to the spot where they fell and have a talk about some stuff so dad knows what was going on and so he can see how risks are assessed when climbing or in that particular case, not assessed.

This is a good thing to happen, and I am glad your community has supportive helpful people available to do this. As a parent myself, I know that it is a worry when one is uninformed about how their children undertake the activities they choose. If common myths are easily dispelled by obtaining basic knowledge then it makes parenting in this situation a lot easier.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

14-Dec-2009
3:50:40 PM

>On 14/12/2009 Sammy S1 wrote:
>>His protection must have been decent because he had fallen on it a few
>times before

On 14/12/2009 ajfclark wrote:
>Did he inspect the placement after each fall?

Hip, Hip, Hooray.
Another Chockstone member achieves the 1000 posts milestone.
Good one.
Foreezajollygoodf~~actoid~~ellow! and all of that...
☺

Rob S.

15-Dec-2009
6:41:52 AM

The first examiner article was weird, it said we were "top roping which is a form of abseiling"???
He was actually just starting to lead up the climb.

simey

15-Dec-2009
8:13:16 AM

On 14/12/2009 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>Hip, Hip, Hooray.
>Another Chockstone member achieves the 1000 posts milestone.
>Good one.
>Foreezajollygoodf~~actoid~~ellow! and all of that...
>☺

I love these posts by M9. What these congratulatory messages really mean is that you are loser who is spending far too much time on Chockstone and that you need to get a life. (Unfortunately I fit into that category).

As for M9 monitoring the number of posts by individuals... well that's just sick.


rodw

15-Dec-2009
10:07:50 AM

>As for M9 monitoring the number of posts by individuals... well that's
>just sick.

Your up to 1207 now simey...Im keeping my eye on you ya loser :)

maxdacat

16-Dec-2009
1:05:11 AM

On 14/12/2009 Rob S. wrote:
>An experienced local climber, Bill Baxter who was the first person I did
>a multipitch route with on school
>camp in 08 is going to come in and see Hen and for dad who doesn't climb
>much they're going to go to
>the spot where they fell and have a talk about some stuff so dad knows
>what was going on and so he
>can see how risks are assessed when climbing or in that particular case,
>not assessed.

sounds like a great idea....i'm sure they'll be more careful in future....all the best for a speedy recovery.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

16-Dec-2009
10:44:01 AM

On 15/12/2009 simey wrote:
>On 14/12/2009 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>>Hip, Hip, Hooray.
>>Another Chockstone member achieves the 1000 posts milestone.
>>Good one.
>>Foreezajollygoodf~~actoid~~ellow! and all of that...
>>☺
>
>I love these posts by M9. What these congratulatory messages really mean
>is that you are loser who is spending far too much time on Chockstone and
>that you need to get a life. (Unfortunately I fit into that category).
>
>As for M9 monitoring the number of posts by individuals... well that's
>just sick.
>

You may well be right, but I am curious to know...
~> what do you find worth celebrating simey?

simey

16-Dec-2009
10:55:44 AM

On 16/12/2009 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote;
>~> what do you find worth celebrating simey?

Certainly not reaching 1000 posts on Chockstone.


rodw

16-Dec-2009
11:40:08 AM

1211 simey...your on fire :)

dandan

20-Dec-2009
12:51:19 AM

glad everyone is starting to heal up. ive only just started climbing in town and really have no 'ins' with the scene here, but just cant believe how so many different stories get passed around. at work today, a climber i know who has just moved here told me that a 'reputable source' told him you guys had nailed a contstruction bolt bought from bunnings into a cliff face, hooked a biner over the top of that and were using it as your top rope anchor, which of course slipped off and you fell 20m to the ground. i love small town gossip!


pmonks

20-Dec-2009
6:00:02 AM

On 16/12/2009 rodw wrote:
>1211 simey...your on fire :)

That's an average of 2 replies for each of M9's posts in the last 3 weeks! Coincidence??

Rob S.

20-Dec-2009
9:43:26 AM

On 20/12/2009 dandan wrote:
>glad everyone is starting to heal up. ive only just started climbing in
>town and really have no 'ins' with the scene here, but just cant believe
>how so many different stories get passed around. at work today, a climber
>i know who has just moved here told me that a 'reputable source' told him
>you guys had nailed a contstruction bolt bought from bunnings into a cliff
>face, hooked a biner over the top of that and were using it as your top
>rope anchor, which of course slipped off and you fell 20m to the ground.
>i love small town gossip!

Thats pretty funny but I don't know where it came from, Hen started to lead off a ledge but Jules (belaying) wasn't anchored and so when Hen fell and
his only wire ripped, instead of just decking out on the ledge he collected Jules and they both fell off the ledge to the ground, about 8m.

dandan

20-Dec-2009
10:11:30 AM

yeah no idea who came up with it rob. probably the same dude who said 'top roping, a type of abseiling' haha.

Rob S.

20-Dec-2009
10:23:59 AM

haha yeah that was actually one of the police officers that was there.

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