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A little reminder for the weekend


skink

15-Apr-2009
11:07:09 PM

On 15/04/2009 one day hero wrote:
>Downclimbing
>Ali's for the first
>time 15 years ago, in the dark, with cheap headlights, no experience and
>howling wind was very
>exciting.

Headlights... luxury! In my day (mutter mutter) burnt our hemp rope for light, in driving rain (mutter mutter) margarine on all the holds (mutter mutter) ... and you tell the kids of today, and they won't believe you...


SwineOfTheTimes

15-Apr-2009
11:09:08 PM

On 15/04/2009 Marssan wrote:
>
>Alis is neither challenging, fun nor exciting. There is no point dying
>on it.
>
Agreed, I always take my thongs off when I climb up or down it.


Zebedee

15-Apr-2009
11:20:13 PM

So how do thongs work ON PIG'S TROTTERS!? I always rap down, down climbing just seems so ... energetic.


Sabu

15-Apr-2009
11:27:42 PM

Wow so much teenage angst against the chains.
In my opinion they're there whether people like it or not (cry and wish as much as you
want hero), the area is getting more polished by the day, and all it takes is one slip and
its a decent way to the ground. I fail to see how the gung ho approach has any validity.

widewetandslippery

16-Apr-2009
9:43:32 AM

Firstly Zebebee I have always downclimbed Alis because I find recoiling a rope that one more time in the day to energetic.

I love a good via ferrata. My greatest problem with the Alis is that there is not enough steel. Bomber where are the rungs!

In all seriousness though if you are going to clip in with a sling and biner to be safe you really should have a shock absorbing device in your system. If you don't you risk snaping a biner, hurting yourself in a short but high impact fall and most importantly damaging the fixed hardware.

I am clumsy and I am soft and I have the utmost respect for the gung ho. They are valid.

gfdonc

16-Apr-2009
11:26:23 AM

On 16/04/2009 widewetandslippery wrote:
>system. If you don't you risk snaping a biner, hurting yourself in a short
>but high impact fall and most importantly damaging the fixed hardware.

I've never heard of private parts described that way before, but thanks, I might use that.

16-Apr-2009
4:50:02 PM

On 15/04/2009 andesite wrote:

>Headlights... luxury! In my day (mutter mutter) burnt our hemp rope for
>light, in driving rain (mutter mutter) margarine on all the holds (mutter
>mutter) ... and you tell the kids of today, and they won't believe you...

Ahh, you youngsters ... When I were a callow youth, Ali's didn't have chains, you downclimbed it with the hawser laid rope wrapped over your shoulders (and as it says above) ... mutter mutter ...

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