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Woo! Here we go, folks! Break out the (Original Post) Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 OP
Jack those are industrial safety harnesses nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #1
The only rappelling I ever did was out of a helicopter, Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #3
The scariest rappel I did was in the middle of a thunderstorm nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #5
Looks like Saturday night with the missus jberryhill Dec 2012 #2
or this! Dyedinthewoolliberal Dec 2012 #4
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
1. Jack those are industrial safety harnesses
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:37 PM
Dec 2012


I prefer a real harness and an eight descender. Remember the gloves!

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
3. The only rappelling I ever did was out of a helicopter,
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:41 PM
Dec 2012

with the harness just jerry-rigged out of rope. And I didn't like it.

Fortunately, nobody was shooting at us on the one occasion I had to do that.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
5. The scariest rappel I did was in the middle of a thunderstorm
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:49 PM
Dec 2012

Car skidded off the road into a canyon.

I could not see more than ten feet due to the water volume, punctuated by lightning strikes.

When I reached out patients, they were dead. I called off the body recovery...until the damn storm passed. It was plain too dangerous. No, the coroner was not too happy, until they got on scene.

As I put it, it's good to be young, dumb and invisible. Never asked my kids to do what I wasn't willing to do.

I got over the young and invisible part...



Happy new year, hopping I get a pretty quiet one, though turning on the scanner in a little while.

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