Tri-mul Climbing?

In a dream I had last night, my girlfriend and I were following a buddy on the diamond and we were Trimul-climbing. He was leading, tied into a bight in the middle of the rope and clipping as if twin ropes. We followed together taking turns pulling gear. The leader took a 60 footer and his back was abraded to a bloody pulp but we were hardly pulled because the force was distributed between two dynamic ropes and followers.

Has anyone tried simul-climbing with a party of three in such a way? I am wondering if it would truely benefit the followers as it did in my dream?

p.s. No my girlfriend was not naked, nor was I or our buddy.

Slightly related, last year I had a dream where I was SCUBA diving in Chasm Lake. Anyone done that? Does the park allow it? You wouldn't believe what I saw down there in my dream!

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Forestvonsinkafinger wrote:In a dream I had last night, my girlfriend and I were following a buddy on the diamond and we were Trimul-climbing. He was leading, tied into a bite in the middle of the rope and clipping as if twin ropes. We followed together taking turns pulling gear. The leader took a 60 footer and his back was abraded to a bloody pulp but we were hardly pulled because the force was distributed between two dynamic ropes and followers. Has anyone tried simul-climbing with a party of three in such a way? I am wondering if it would truely benefit the followers as it did in my dream? p.s. No my girlfriend was not naked, nor was I or our buddy. Slightly related, last year I had a dream where I was SCUBA diving in Chasm Lake. Anyone done that? Does the park allow it? You wouldn't believe what I saw down there in my dream!

That reminds me of this time I was trimul-climbing with Elleanor Stone and Trad Ninja. It was horrible, we had no communication due to all of Elleanor's webspeak, and trad-ninja kept falling while he was trying to chop bolts on lead. Totally epic.

Then I woke up in the bottom of Chasm Lake wearing cement shoes, and thought, "whew, it was just a dream! Everything's going to be ok!"

I'm staying out of the climbing portion of this.

As for diving in CHASM.
1. I sure wouldn't want to haul the necessary equipment to dive that far. That would suck big time.
2. Navy dive tables only go to 10,000 for elevation. Diving becomes more complicated with changes in elevation, hence why when you learn to dive they teach you don't fly 24 hours before or after a dive. We have built some models to push those tables up to 12,000 for emergency response purposes (SAR). We are also doing research that we feel will show that 100% pure oxygen therapy in combination can help the diver at such depths recover faster and be safer.

-Jon

cheifitj wrote: We are also doing research that we feel will show that 100% pure oxygen therapy in combination can help the diver at such depths recover faster and be safer. -Jon

Forestvonsinkafinger wrote: Wouldn't 100% pure oxygen make a person instantly septic?

Scott O wrote: Why would it? Sepsis is a disseminated bacterial infection.

Forest, you should be writing Hollywood screenplays.

Forestvonsinkafinger wrote: Wouldn't 100% pure oxygen make a person instantly septic?

but in rainbow flames.

Okay...so you have a dream about having a threesome, and it is a climbing dream. Hmmmm....

Breathing 100% o2 wouldn't instantly increase the partial pressure of o2 in your body to a deadly level. It would eventually kill you at depth though. If you look at the nitrox tables you will get an idea of how playing with relative proportions of gas (nitrogen/o2) at depth will affect the body. Granted all the tables I have used were for sea level.

The important thought was brought up earlier in this thread: carrying a standard scuba tank to chasm lake would be a huge pain in the ass.

Happiegrrrl wrote:Okay...so you have a dream about having a threesome, and it is a climbing dream. Hmmmm....

I had a dream that I was doing a salvage dive in Chasm Lake, which is connected to the Great Lakes incidentally and has seen some of the worse shipwrecks in maritime history. A coal freighter had gone down the month before and word was it also had a cash box on board from the coal company. These sort of dives can be pretty spooky, as the water is ink black down there are very cold. I had a pretty pounding headache from the cold.

I found the wreck quickly and started looking off to the port side and saw a faint object about ten yards away. As I got closer I could see it was a man floating upright. I was approaching from the back. When I turned around to his front, his perfectly preserved features stared back at me, mouth agape and eyes wide open.

Then I told him, "Hey, it's going to be OK."

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There's three people tied into one rope in the opening scene of Vertical Limit. Go for it.

Jeff Thomas wrote:There's three people tied into one rope in the opening scene of Vertical Limit. Go for it.