By George Wilson
From Las Vegas
Sep 25, 2008
| Just thought I'd let you know...
We rappelled the Solar Slab gully on Monday and came across a lot of bees and a shit ton of mosquito's. Watch out for the little stinging bastards and bring a lot of bug spray. |  |
By saxfiend
Administrator
From Atlanta, GA
Sep 26, 2008
| One more good reason to rap Johnny Vegas instead!
JL | |
By lucaskrajnik
From Trying to go to santa cruz
Sep 26, 2008
| and get your rope snaged? chya right,
you just need to learn to sting back.... or top out! | |
By saxfiend
Administrator
From Atlanta, GA
Sep 26, 2008
| lucaskrajnik wrote: and get your rope snaged? chya right, you just need to learn to sting back.... or top out!
You think that doesn't happen rapping the gully? When we were hiking out from Solar Slab, we could hear a climber up in the gully dropping F-bombs over his snagged rope.
JL | |
By lucaskrajnik
From Trying to go to santa cruz
Sep 26, 2008
| ......i guess solar slab isnt high enought to base jump, is it. | |
By George Wilson
From Las Vegas
Sep 26, 2008
| I personally enjoy rappelling the gully...Never had my ropes snagged the 6 or so times I've rappelled it. Don't like rappelling JV for the traffic issues usually caused...I'll keep that sting back thing in mind if I'm up that way again soon! Don't know that I'd base jump off, if not for the height issue for the massive fine I'm sure you'd end up with...PARAGLIDING PROHIBITED the wilderness marker reads (I'm sure that encompasses parachutes as well!). | |
By Greg DeMatteo
From Flagstaff, Az
Sep 26, 2008
| saxfiend wrote: You think that doesn't happen rapping the gully? When we were hiking out from Solar Slab, we could hear a climber up in the gully dropping F-bombs over his snagged rope. JL
I rapped the gully in 1995 and got my rope stuck three times. It was my first route of that size and I had a really inexperienced partner and it took us allll day to climb it. Topped out at dark and rapped at night. The third time the rope got stuck I was so tired and hungry and sick of soloing back up in the dark that I just left it there. We had two ropes so we just used the other one.
Turns out that the webbing on one strand of my two bush anchor broke as I was rappelling the final rappel.
We had to hike back to the loop and then all the way out the loop and down the highway cause we couldn't find the trail back to the campground. Finally got back to the car at 2.30 am.
All in all a great first Thanksgiving away from home. | |
By Andrew Carson
From Wilson, WY
Sep 26, 2008
| There's been a bee colony over near the base of Beulah's Book for quite a while. Mostly, bees don't really care about people unless you hassle their home, or they have some africanized genes mixed in. You got stung? Many? Of course for a person allergic to bees, once is more than enough. | |
By lucaskrajnik
From Trying to go to santa cruz
Sep 26, 2008
| Theres a hive on olive oil too . | |
By SAL
From broomdigiddy
Sep 26, 2008
| That gully is F'd! | |
By lucaskrajnik
From Trying to go to santa cruz
Sep 26, 2008
| AND WET | |
By cammyjams
From Las Vegas, NV
Oct 4, 2008
| We were in there a couple weeks back. I re tightened all of the bolt hangers that were lose or spinning. Some of them are in pretty bad shape. No stuck ropes or bees (yikes!) for us. Still contemplating an alternate rap line avoiding the current anchors. Need to spend a couple days up in there poking around. Anyone interested? | |
By vegastradguy
From Henderson, NV
Oct 4, 2008
| cammyjams wrote: We were in there a couple weeks back. I re tightened all of the bolt hangers that were lose or spinning. Some of them are in pretty bad shape. No stuck ropes or bees (yikes!) for us. Still contemplating an alternate rap line avoiding the current anchors. Need to spend a couple days up in there poking around. Anyone interested?
personally, i think that the rappel down the gully has always been the fastest and least prone to snagging of any of the options up there. i've never had a stuck rope out of the dozens of times i've descended that gully.
as for the stations- they were all in good shape last spring- surprised to hear that they're looking bad. i'll have a peek and talk with greg at the asca in the next month or so as temps start to make that area more appealing. | |
By John Hegyes
From Las Vegas, NV
Oct 4, 2008
| The gully is a great line of descent, and I've never had a single problem with it... | |
By Aaron S
From Vegas
Oct 4, 2008
| I've descended the gully at least a dozen times without trouble. It seems fine the way it is. | |
By John Hegyes
From Las Vegas, NV
Oct 15, 2008
| We climbed in the Gully yesterday, it seems like the bees and the mosqitoes are gone because we didn't see any. However I noticed a huge beehive over at Moderate Mecca near Red Springs last week... | |
By Jeff Stephens
From Carbondale, CO
Oct 21, 2008
| Rapped the gully a week ago. It was SUCK! Crux of the day on Solar Slab. If you have to do it, use only one rope, therefore resulting in half the snags, in theory. There are bushes, boulders, flakes everywhere. A couple rap stances are slippery and awkward. You have to throw your rope again about every 10 feet. It may be better just to downclimb the thing. Never again, I swore. | |
By vegastradguy
From Henderson, NV
Oct 22, 2008
| Jeff Stephens wrote: Rapped the gully a week ago. It was SUCK! Crux of the day on Solar Slab. If you have to do it, use only one rope, therefore resulting in half the snags, in theory. There are bushes, boulders, flakes everywhere. A couple rap stances are slippery and awkward. You have to throw your rope again about every 10 feet. It may be better just to downclimb the thing. Never again, I swore.
absolutely use a single rope- the gully twists and turns too much to use two.
i've found the quickest and easiest way down is to downclimb to the top of the first pitch, then make two quick rappels to the base (the first pitch is a bit slippery for downclimbing). | |
By Jon Ruland
From Tucson, AZ
Oct 22, 2008
| rapping johnny vegas sux. everything up until that point had been going incredibly smoothly, but that almost ruined our entire day (dare i say, almost ruined our entire trip?).
anything you can do to avoid rapping johnny vegas is probably worth it. | |
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