Rescue on Castleton, left gear on first pitch!
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Hi, |
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Rain today, so cams will be up there another day... |
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I am believing in the good of humanity and hoping you got your gear back versus some dirtbag climber thinking they hit the booty motherlode? |
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Yes, I got all of my gear back! I went up the next day after the heavy wind and light rain day, and a party ahead of me had already collected it all and was holding it for me. Although, the cam that held the fall is nothing more than a wall piece now.... Destroyed! Thanks for the concern, the injured climber is doing great and healing up fast. |
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HOLY SHNIKES!! Glad to hear that he (she) is safe and doing well!! |
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Wow! Did that cam still hold the fall? Or did your partner go to the next piece? |
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Wow, yes please give more details. It must have been a pretty epic fall to destroy a cam that size! |
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psakievich wrote:Wow, yes please give more details. It must have been a pretty epic fall to destroy a cam that size!That's a number 8 right? It's been a while since I owned one. |
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Looks like a Metolius Super Cam. Glad it held and you got down without further incident. And that you got your gear back. |
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It was a Metolious super cam that held the fall. It did its job,,, just got mangled in the process... So here is what I gathered about the fall. My friend was at the top of the first pitch of North Chimney on Castleton Tower, he placed the supercam, climbed about 8 ft maybe, placed a medium sized BD nut, climbed a few feet higher, struggled and MAYBE kicked his nut placement a bit, he fell out, nut popped, fell around what I thought was ~50 ft and the rope caught him. It was a whipper indeed! I never belay with extra slack, I consider myself a pretty decent belayer overall. When he kept plummeting down I jumped backwards and finally felt his weight. |