By Geir
From Tucson, AZ
Jun 6, 2010
| This is a photo from a recent climber get-together. Any guesses as to what it is?
| what is this?
Submitted By: Geir on Jun 6, 2010
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By Mark Cushman
From Cumming, GA
Jun 6, 2010
| Looks like load testing the oval carabiner (loaded across the gate) by pulling it with a comealong. Rope looks like it is there to keep things from flying around and plywood is a shield. |
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By Buff Johnson
Jun 6, 2010
| looks like crossloading a biner (possibly to failure) with some type of dynamometer to offer a reading. -- basically what Cush said. |
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By Stucker
From Centennial, CO
Jun 7, 2010
| Someone's plan to keep their little piece of California from sliding off into the ocean? |
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By tooTALLtim
From Boulder, CO
Jun 7, 2010
| Looks like breaking stuff is fun! |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
Jun 7, 2010
| Can you find the hidden climber in this picture?
| Devil's Head on the back side of the Training Ground.
Submitted By: Stich on Jun 7, 2010
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Yes, there is one. |
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By Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi?
From Vegas
Jun 7, 2010
| Geir Hundal wrote: This is a photo from a recent climber get-together. Any guesses as to what it is?
| what is this?
Submitted By: Geir on Jun 6, 2010
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I've narrowed it down, and these are my final guesses.
Drilling a glory hole, or two.
Setting up for the annual "Burning Cam" event.
Playing pin the big bro on the donkey. (He'd better be blind-folded!)
Back woods red-neck trying to set a booty trap for a climber, because he's lonely, and hungry.
He's dead drunk, about to puke, while trying to impress the girls at camp that he's figured out how the Titanic really sank.
Edit: [send. more. hidden. pictures.] |
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By John Maguire
From Boulder, CO
Jun 7, 2010
| Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi? - "Drilling a glory hole, or two."
Hahahahaha. Awesome! |
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By Geir
From Tucson, AZ
Jun 7, 2010
| Award goes to Cush for the correct answer, with GiGi as a second runner up for the funniest post!
It's a pull test station we built to pull slings/rope/gear up to around 8,000 pounds.
Here's another shot...
| take two
Submitted By: Geir on Jun 7, 2010
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By England
From ?
Jun 7, 2010
| Geir Hundal wrote: Award goes to Cush for the correct answer, with GiGi as a second runner up for the funniest post! It's a pull test station we built to pull slings/rope/gear up to around 8,000 pounds. Here's another shot...
May I ask why? |
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By Adam Stackhouse
Administrator
Jun 7, 2010
| Stich wrote: Can you find the hidden climber in this picture? Yes, there is one.
Couldn't find it. Post this in a higher resolution so I can get another look. |
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By Rick Blair
From Denver
Jun 7, 2010
| England wrote: May I ask why?
I think the beverages you can see in peoples hands in the picture answers that. |
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By Geir
From Tucson, AZ
Jun 7, 2010
| HAHAHA Rick!
Yeah, the beverages did make the whole event a lot more festive.
England,
Mostly out of interest. I've done some research over the years to check out various climbing myths, and this thing is a part of that. stuff like: is he EDK really safe for rappels? does a carabiner that gets dropped a long distance weaken? does use/aging weaken dyneema slings significantly? etc. I also wanted to do controlled testing of hardware so i built a "crack" into the form to pull cams & stoppers. (it's hard to see in the photos). Plus I know some folks that are designing new climbing hardware that wanted to test it. |
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By Price
From SLC, UT
Jun 7, 2010
| @Gier -
Ever break a comealong with that setup? I mean the plywood looks totally safe and all, but what if something breaks on the other side? Or rather when. |
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By England
From ?
Jun 7, 2010
| Geir Hundal wrote: HAHAHA Rick! Yeah, the beverages did make the whole event a lot more festive. England, Mostly out of interest. I've done some research over the years to check out various climbing myths, and this thing is a part of that. stuff like: is he EDK really safe for rappels? does a carabiner that gets dropped a long distance weaken? does use/aging weaken dyneema slings significantly? etc. I also wanted to do controlled testing of hardware so i built a "crack" into the form to pull cams & stoppers. (it's hard to see in the photos). Plus I know some folks that are designing new climbing hardware that wanted to test it.
Is this the device you used to do your report on the Gri-Gri, and clove hitch slipping forces etc.., that was very informative. Thanks for that, good stuff. |
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By LeeAB
Administrator
From ABQ, NM
Jun 7, 2010
| I think barefoot and mildly inebriated are probably requirements for this sort of activity. |
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By Rick Blair
From Denver
Jun 7, 2010
| Geir Hundal wrote: HAHAHA Rick! Yeah, the beverages did make the whole event a lot more festive. England, Mostly out of interest. I've done some research over the years to check out various climbing myths, and this thing is a part of that. stuff like: is he EDK really safe for rappels? does a carabiner that gets dropped a long distance weaken? does use/aging weaken dyneema slings significantly? etc. I also wanted to do controlled testing of hardware so i built a "crack" into the form to pull cams & stoppers. (it's hard to see in the photos). Plus I know some folks that are designing new climbing hardware that wanted to test it.
Myth busters for climbing, I like it. Post up. |
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By Tea
Jun 7, 2010
| looks like a picture of a guy not worried about losing a toe. |
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By Doug Foust
From Henderson, Nevada
Jun 7, 2010
| Stich wrote: Can you find the hidden climber in this picture? Yes, there is one.
Is the climber trapped between her breasts? |
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By Geir
From Tucson, AZ
Jun 7, 2010
| Price wrote: @Gier - Ever break a comealong with that setup? I mean the plywood looks totally safe and all, but what if something breaks on the other side? Or rather when.
God I really hope not! The comealong is rated to 8,000 pounds and I'm pulling no more than 3K right now - will probably have to get a bigger one just to be safe when it comes time to pull bigger loads.
:) |
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By Hendrixson
From Tucson, AZ
Jun 7, 2010
| That's a pretty cool setup. I'll be curious to hear what you discover. |
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By Umph!
Jun 7, 2010
| Stich wrote: Can you find the hidden climber in this picture? Yes, there is one.
Nope, but I see nip!
Freakin hilarious Gri!
And I might add, Stucker's was funny too.
Let's see, who else can I compliment?
Excellent post Stitch! |
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By Pete Elliott
From Co Spgs CO
Jun 7, 2010
| I thought maybe it was the climber on the couloir on the peak way in the back. You can just kinda see him. Kinda. Sorta. |
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By Greg D
From Here
Jun 7, 2010
| Ok, now we know. So how did the tests go?
Old dyneema vs new?
Anything worth sharing. |
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By Buff Johnson
Jun 7, 2010
| TDog wrote: ... Days without Injury = 0
maybe it's just me, but...nah, it's just me; carry on |
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By John Maguire
From Boulder, CO
Jun 7, 2010
| Greg D wrote: Ok, now we know. So how did the tests go? Old dyneema vs new? Anything worth sharing.
In all the drunken madness, no one remembered to write any of the results down! Until they found these pictures - I don't think they even remembered what they did that night. I think the OP was actually genuine while trying to get the community to help decipher this photo |
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