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Dude, I think I could deal with a 330-foot rappel. But there better be something mechanical to haul my ass up!
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wimp...........
Okay, dd, since you insist, we'll give the materials and the k-y, send you on your way, and you can take it to the base...
Okay, dd, since you insist, we'll give the materials and the k-y, send you on your way, and you can take it to the base...
Watch this....................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB-fuSSVCns
330' of steps with a Jumar...
Will admit that drop is much prettier than the first one I ever did - 220' of cylindrical pit in a cave in southwestern Virginia, the Penly-Baines(? this was twentyfive years ago) connection... I was the first one over and we weren't sure if the rope was long enough... At the time, I wasn't sure what I'd do if it weren't!
As it was, it just brushed the debris pile... I dropped my spot with the party going in from the drop so I could go back up the rope just to experience that! 220' of jumaring, just like steps... The only problem was we were using carbide lanterns and quite frequently I would notice char marks on the rope from someone glancing back and forth and not aware the flame was that hot!
I only started shaking when we got to the tavern later and I realized what could'a been!!!
I like the visuals on the one posted here, though... My drop was simply a dark shaft illuminated in about twenty feet in any direction I looked - dark everywhere else!
Will admit that drop is much prettier than the first one I ever did - 220' of cylindrical pit in a cave in southwestern Virginia, the Penly-Baines(? this was twentyfive years ago) connection... I was the first one over and we weren't sure if the rope was long enough... At the time, I wasn't sure what I'd do if it weren't!
As it was, it just brushed the debris pile... I dropped my spot with the party going in from the drop so I could go back up the rope just to experience that! 220' of jumaring, just like steps... The only problem was we were using carbide lanterns and quite frequently I would notice char marks on the rope from someone glancing back and forth and not aware the flame was that hot!
I only started shaking when we got to the tavern later and I realized what could'a been!!!
I like the visuals on the one posted here, though... My drop was simply a dark shaft illuminated in about twenty feet in any direction I looked - dark everywhere else!
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That is beautiful ... a 100m abseil in streaming sunlight. Brings back wonderful memories of my youth. I learned vertical caving in the American Southwest as member 1330 of the National Speleological Society.
Those were good times.
Of course, going back up is slightly more challenging.
As to carbide lamps ... we'd abseil or rappel with electric lights, then switch to carbide when we were off rope. Made everything that little bit safer...
Those were good times.
Of course, going back up is slightly more challenging.
As to carbide lamps ... we'd abseil or rappel with electric lights, then switch to carbide when we were off rope. Made everything that little bit safer...