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Dumbing 9-Sep-2009 At 8:21:11 AM evanbb

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I have done lots of stupid things. For some reason they all blur together in a general feeling of 'the past'.
This was pretty stupid

But surely there have been others.

Until I think of them, I'll tell a fun story about someone else doing something silly. (Hi Adz!)

Went to give a mate a belay on Grasshopper in Pierce's Pass. It's pretty hard, 25ish, only recently freed by Mikl. We were at the second belay, Adam working the moves to get established in the crack proper. he had a cam in a good break, and a decent wire in the crack. He fell a bit and eventually threw in the towel. We'd just had a pretty adrenalised adventure on Fungus Face around the corner. So, he's back cleaning to get to the belay. Got a decent finger lock in, and popped the wire out, then lowered down to sag onto the cam, which was a couple of metres out from the belay. He grabs the cam, but for some reason grabs it by the trigger. He realises his mistake, he takes his hand off it and falls anyway. The cam holds for about a second and we both start laughing. Then it explodes out of the rock, Adz falls past the belay and he's not laughing anymore. But I'm laughing a lot more. The look on his face was priceless. Self recrimination, fear and relief all at once.