Did Spry recently. Replaced a lot of webbing. Many anchors were rigged “Circus-Circus” – 1 piece of yellow and 1 piece of orange. For the most part, replaced with 1 piece of black.
There was a well-built deadman anchor in the “under the rock” pool. I removed 42 feet of 1″ tubular webbing from this.
This rappel (surprisingly pulls) quite easily from the transverse rock anchor. I’m wondering if there is a story of misadventure associated with this deadman, or whether someone built it just for fun. I’d gladly trade the 42 feet of webbing for the story!
Waterlevels: “under the rock” – thigh deep. “gateway rappel pool” – ribcage deep. “downclimb into pool to rappel” – jewels deep.
Tom
rich_rudow
Waterlevels: “under the rock” – thigh deep. > “gateway rappel pool” – ribcage deep. > “downclimb into pool to rappel” – jewels deep.
Tom >
Tom, I’ve always used slightly different terminology for waterlevels:
ribcage deep = girl line jewels deep = boy line
A few AZ folks are doing a Deer Creek speed run Friday where the adjective “extreme” will be used in front of the waterlevel to reflect the dangerous nature of swift cold water
Rich
Christian
The deadman must be new. It wasn’t there when we where in there on the 7th. I think the location you mention is a common place for misadventure.
5-6 years ago we found webbing tied around a very small bush up the cliff face a bit at this location. We figured a group dropped in, pulled their rope then needed an anchor. The climb to the bush must have been 5.11 or better and I definately would not have rapped off that bush.
— In Yahoo Canyons Group, “Tom Jones” wrote:
Did Spry recently. Replaced a lot of webbing. Many anchors were > rigged “Circus-Circus” – 1 piece of yellow and 1 piece of orange. For > the most part, replaced with 1 piece of black.
There was a well-built deadman anchor in the “under the rock” pool. I > removed 42 feet of 1″ tubular webbing from this.
This rappel (surprisingly pulls) quite easily from the transverse rock > anchor. I’m wondering if there is a story of misadventure associated > with this deadman, or whether someone built it just for fun. I’d > gladly trade the 42 feet of webbing for the story!
Waterlevels: “under the rock” – thigh deep. > “gateway rappel pool” – ribcage deep. > “downclimb into pool to rappel” – jewels deep.
Tom >