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In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

What a mess...

In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

...and no stopper knot on a Fo8, what is he thinking; before he knows it it will be rolling and inverting.

Haha

That particular climb had barely any pro. Seriously. :P

Oh, and it's a grade 3 scramble with only a single roped section, that didn't really even need to be lead tbh. We did some of the route alipne stlye which was quicker.

In reply to WetAndCold:

He lives!

In reply to WetAndCold:
can I ask why you italian hitched on to it?

In reply to CurlyStevo:
I remember it being a clove hitch at the time...

In reply to WetAndCold:
yeah doesn't look like it

In reply to CurlyStevo:

Easy enough to drop a bend.

In reply to CurlyStevo:
Indeed, that and an awful amount of slack :P I should take a pic of me next to a decent belay to prove I'm not entirely incompetent

You should all get jobs, or go develop some new climbing. Do something, but definitely do NOT sit on an internet forum chatting about the mistakes made by an evident chump doing a scramble alpine style.


There's a fine line between cutting edge single-push climbing and peadophilia.

In reply to Franco Cookson:

Ummm...whats wrong with practicing different rope techniques?

In reply to Franco Cookson:

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_love_peas_heart_t_shirt_hat-p148339551898592569qz14...

???

In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

He needs to take a few lesson off this guy:

http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/67368622


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Hehe, looks alright to me, my ropes always look like that

I'll delete this pic in a bit, just let a few more people see it first :P

In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:
My best cam placement of late was a dodgy 'head down' size 1.0 friend placed to stop a sling lifting off from behind a shallow horizontal flake. That was an 'I'm glad these are easy moves' moment...

In reply to Franco Cookson:

Look, it's not an all round perfect set up, so he deserves a bit of banter, it'll probably serve to make him think about everything next time, so no harm done. Okay so the cam is not placed well, used a munter's instead of a clove hitch, the top karabiner is not done up, and it would be best to orientate the lower karabiner with the screwgate down, and his bag is open so something could fall out onto someone, and he isn't wearing a helmet, blah blah. We've all been there; except me of course.

WetAndCold, climb safe, and enjoy.

In reply to escalator:


lol - I can see you've spent some time studying that photo

to the OP - hopefully you're now well past your novice phase (I see the pic was from many years ago) and, having survived to tell the tale, are a safe(r) climber ... Don't mind Franco; he's just being an arse and should get out of that internet cafe (or wherever he is) and go climbing.

In reply to Chris Craggs:

That's brilliant!

In reply to JonC:

Thanks, the pic isn't actually from 2001! It's from a bit more than a year ago. My second multi pitch ever and yes I've climbed a lot since then and (hopefully) My belays are a bit better now!

In reply to JonC:

My house?

In reply to CurlyStevo:

Obviously he thought a more dynamic knot wouldn't pop the poor cam

In reply to WetAndCold: whats at the bottom of the purple sling?

In reply to JonC:


Actually, no I didn't spend a lot of time, I teach climbing and guide for a living, so need to be able to quickly spot when something is not right; especially from a distance. I've been doing it for many years, so I'm getting quite good at it, but not perfect I might add. And of course what I said was only my opinion, and should not necessarily be taken as the correct way.

In reply to brianblock:

My partner clipped that there while he took the pic before carrying on IIRC

In reply to brianblock:


I'm going to guess the photographer?

In reply to Franco Cookson:


a) eh?

b) would you like to define "peadophilia" (sic)?

In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

From the other thread:

"My parents aren't the most supportive of my climbing, they don't stop me, or tell me it's bad or anything. They just worry about my safety sometimes I think."

With some justification given the evidence presented

In reply to Franco Cookson:

When you said on another thread you were in Innsbruck I assumed you were travelling. I'm glad you didn't disagree with the rest of my post

In reply to Horse:

Your profile pic is of you with a fag.

I'm safer now when I climb given the evidence presented

In reply to escalator:

Did you have a sense of humour bypass as part of your training?

In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut: was the cam that bad? can't tell from the pic. Messing up the clove hitch on it though - inexcusable. By the way, rather than using clove hitches on the krab at your harness and cross-loading it because the hitches run down the back bar use figure of 8s and it will lie neatly.

In reply to JonC:


Nah, travelling is for open-minded nob heads. And I agree I should go out climbing, but I was out till 6 last night and I'm still buzzing my nut off- hence all the ukc posting.

In reply to Toerag:

The little sneak has removed it now!!

But IIRC the hitch was surplus to requirements precisely because the rope was tied back to a screw gate

In reply to andic:

Yeah, It shouldn't have been hitched, but just clipped into the crab because it was coming back onto a clove hitch on the crab on my harness. Oooh I have learnt something since then...I still feel bad, no one makes mistakes when they're a newbie

In reply to JonC:

Nope, no sense of humour failure. Just passing on more info that I thought might be relevant to my previus post, you know what it's like there's always plenty of people on UKC ready to have a go at you for the slightest thing. Viz, WetAndCold, etal.

In reply to escalator:
there's always plenty of people on UKC ready to have a go at you for the slightest thing. Viz, WetAndCold, etal.

I haven't had a go at anyone :/

In reply to WetAndCold:

'Not you'. I was pointing out that several people are always keen to have a dig at anyone for anything, just like they did with you. I was using you as an example, not saying you did it.

In reply to escalator:

Oh I see, yeah, I agree. I think the correct term is 'keyboard warrior' ;D