On 31/01/2006 MichaelOR wrote:
>it also needed natural gear at the end of the traverse
>- just before you climb up onto the belay ledge. These moves are a bit
>tricky and a fall from there would be very nasty ... a pendulum back past
>the top of the bolt ladder and down a fair way. I think I used small flexible
>cams (TCUs).
>I also seem to remember stories of a few plummets from that point of the
>climb in the past.
I have been one of those stories. I fell from the last move, ended up a short way from the deck, after a body slam on the slab and a long sideways roll and swinging fall.
Chalk that one up to experience. Sore ribs and a slightly wounded ego.