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TR: Cosmic County and Narrowneck 11-Jun-2013 At 10:30:26 AM sbm

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On 11/06/2013 Mike Bee wrote:
>Cool TR.
>The one time we went to Cosmic we tried Interstate 31 too. We didn't have
>enough cams. The hope was that there'd be some slightly wider sections
>that would take BD #3 and some slightly narrower ones that would take BD
>#1, but we never found any. #2 the whole way. Every #1 was undercammed,
>every #3 was overcammed and we only had 2 x #2s. We lowered off, and then
>rapped down to clean the gear.
>

I wished I'd had some mid-sized hexes. Some good placements for them. I did find bigger and smaller placements, but yeah if you had a rack of five or six BD #2s you wouldn't even have to think. Indian Creek style sprad climbing.

>On 10/06/2013 sbm wrote:
>>Fortunately, the rope drag ensured a very soft fall and I barely felt
>>a thing.
>
>I would have thought though that the rope drag may have given you a soft
>catch as the belayer, but would have actually increased the fall factor
>and impact force on the leader and top piece.

Probably. It was a safe fall though. I was waiting for a yank on the rope, so I could jump and give a dynamic belay, but it never came, I barely felt a thing. The piece that held it (2.5 Wild County friend) has a couple of munged teeth but is otherwise all good.