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Took my first trad fall and got a nice rope burn souvenir

sqwirll · · Las Vegas · Joined Mar 2006 · Points: 1,360
Keithb00ne wrote: I have never climbed here. Are we talking 4th class or easy 5th class? Some are saying to put in 2-3 more piece before this one. What is the rock like? I don't see any pictures on MP of the route. Add pictures of the route and rope burn!
Barney's Rubble from road

It's the crack left of the trees.
Tom Mulholland · · #1 Cheese Producing State! · Joined Apr 2010 · Points: 50

Boo. I was looking for a picture of the rope burn. Pictures or it didn't happen.

Kevin K · · San Diego · Joined Nov 2011 · Points: 5
Ryan Dirks wrote:As for the rope between the legs, the thing I'm still worried about is hitting the rope between the gear and belayer on the way down.
slim wrote:when you get one leg on each side of the rope it is called getting flossed and tossed. it isn't pretty.
Like this?

Two climbers about to have a not so fun time on Atlantis Photo by Darshan Ahluwalia

Certainly doesn't look like fun, but better than your only piece blowing out!
AndySkol · · Seattle, WA · Joined May 2013 · Points: 0
sqwirll wrote: It's the crack left of the trees.
The lower part is certainly 5th class - that bulge between the two major horizontals looks trivial but it's not, so I put a piece in there, then a high piece that I can reach from the stance before starting the crack proper, then one before pulling the main bulge. I'm guessing the OP fell at the vertex of the main crack curve, as after that it's fairly straightforward.
highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion · · Colorado · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 35

Run the rope over your shin.

slim · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2004 · Points: 1,103
Kevin K wrote: Like this? Certainly doesn't look like fun, but better than your only piece blowing out!
the piece is only one of the many things i would worry about getting blown out in this situation. ouch!

one of my partners was leading sort of a leaning/stemming pitch, and i knew if she came off it could be trouble. the way she was stemming i could tell that if her foot slipped it would 'push' her foot right over the top of the rope. sure enough, foot pops, over the rope, slightly flipped, and one hell of a rope burn on her achilles.

i have definitely been in situations where i realized this could be a problem, and i had to do things differently (ie more difficultly) to ensure it wouldn't happen. kind of a pain, but that's how it goes.
Bill M · · Fort Collins, CO · Joined Jun 2010 · Points: 317

It is amazing how easily your skin rope burns. A friend of mine has a scar on their arm where there partner fell past then after falling above their first piece. It sounds like everything worked the way it should have.

DuncanKL · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Aug 2008 · Points: 0

There are certainly plenty of lessons to learn here, but it looks to me like you are trying to learn them which is a lot better than many people. Every commenter here has done some dumb things on the path to experience. Keep analyzing your successes and failures (even when they don't bite you), and as other have mentioned, do some more mock leading. Most of all though, keep climbing.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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