New Rope With Exposed Core...

I have this new rope used 4 times never taken a fall on it. Today I went out and did a multipitch and on the descent rappels I noticed the core was exposed. I didn't see it when I wrapped the rope up to move to the rap stations so it must have happened during the rappelling.

Has this happened to anyone else in RR?
Rope is a New England Glider 70m 9.9

That sucks, man. My rope has some sheath abrasion in a spot from a rappel, but nothing like that. The photo's a little blurry, but it looks like it was cut by a sharp edge. Is there anything on the other half of the rope in the symmetric spot, like the 2 sides ran over the same sharp edge during a double-rope rappel? Or did it get caught in a constriction and then get tugged through? IF you really didn't do anything that could reasonably cause a cut sheath like that, return the rope or get a replacement. Think about it: ropes are not exactly protected when they're kept hanging in stores. Maybe it had a small cut in the sheath that grew when you stretched the rope.

I was about to buy that same rope yesterday for $180. New England makes good ropes and has reasonable prices.

i love the rope as well and have had alot of good luck with them in RR... but a guy in zion told me that two of his friends were really disappointed in the rope and had your identical experience: seems the density and handling are great but they put encased it in a single-layer sheath (?) just repeating what i was told...

kind of a bummer to see a 3rd report of the same exact situation w/ the same exact rope ('specially since jasmine just unwrapped her brand-new 9.9 new england last week! dang!)

please post if you get a return in case it happens to us too

thanks!

jon

Its a great rope I really like it and will probably get another. I have their equinox rope which has been great. I checked to see if the other end equal to it had any abrasions and I found nothing near it. It had to have happen from pulling the rope and I don't recall any rock formations sharp enough, but could be possible. I could only think it happened from the shrubs/trees because it did get caught a few times...is that possible?! It would be a pretty weak sheath if that was.

you should call up NE Ropes and get it replaced.

Wow.

Warranty that sh*t. There's a good chance that the company, seeing that the rope is brand new, will throw you a bone. Even if it doesn't work out, it is worth trying.

seems like everyone I know with a NE rope has issues of sorts at some point...

This guy had a coreshot on a New England Galaxy: mountainproject.com/v/fell-…

Get the Sterling Evolution Velocity 9.8 next time and you won't have to worry about anything like that.

Wow...it is amazing how everyone immediately blames the gear manufacturer. I would suspect that the same thing would have happened with any rope. Obviously cut by use. If it was cut when you received it wouldn't you notice it?

Well, it is a little suspicious. i have been climbing for five plus years and only got a core shot once on a rope and it was because i fell over a sharp edge. did your second ever hang on the rope while climbing? like john said, im sure they will be curious. could be a rope defect.

I dont want to place blame on the manufacture I like their ropes I think something must have happened on the descent. Neither my friend nor I fell or hang on it.

The route we were on was Trihardral on lotta balls wall. Did the lotta balls rappel descent. mountainproject.com/v/triha…

So after discussing with my friend I was climbing with we came up with another possibility of it possibly getting hit during the climb.
There is this section on the second pitch that had a lot of large loose rocks and one rock went crashing down. It could be possibly that the rope got smashed as it bounced down. Although as I mentioned earlier I didn't see anything wrong with the rope as I coiled it to move to the first rap station.

One more thing the damage is somewhere in the end of the rope within 15ft or so.