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- From: AS.MSW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marc Whitney)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: Re: Favorite quotes
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:10:43 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <1992Nov16.184745.29354@nas.nasa.gov>,
- eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >
- >Saturday had one of those:
- > "HOW MUCH ROPE DO I HAVE LEFT?"
- > "None."
- > "I NEED TEN FEET. CAN YOU CLIMB UP?"
- >where the crux was right above the belayer. What can you do? 8^) Fortunately,
- >didn't have to stand there too long. All part of learning to follow.
- >
- I think of one route where it seemed like pitch after pitch required
- a 55 meter rope. This was the first time I had ever encountered
- this problem. After the first couple of pitches like this I calmed
- down.
-