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Comment on Moving On And Getting Over by Narc

Narc — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:26:48 +0000

In reply to Ruomit. Hell yeah

Comment on Moving On And Getting Over by Ruomit

Ruomit — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:54:02 +0000

Still reading the narc in 2025

Comment on Tragic Death On El Capitan by Adam

Adam — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:36:42 +0000

In reply to Laurie Goforth. Hi. I guess it’s been over 11 years since Mason died climbing El Capitan. I knew him as a friend, though not for long. He used to play music banjo I think and maybe dulcimer at our friend Mike’s place in Eureka Montana. This get together was every Tuesday night. Mason was a very solid man, kind and fair to everyone around him. Highly skilled in what he did. He was a stone Mason and house builder. Also had been climbing for years Glacier Park Montana South America Yosemite.Last time I saw him was just before his trip to Yosemite from Montana. He was happy and excited about the house he was finishing for him and his wife to live in. He gave me a tour of it. It was nice. I think all of his friends still miss him. I do too. Very sad for him. Adam

Comment on Moving On And Getting Over by Jared

Jared — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 01:46:35 +0000

Use to visit this site daily. Miss you Narc! Hope you are well.

Comment on Unfinished Business by chris marcolini

chris marcolini — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 14:17:55 +0000

In reply to Austin. Did you ever find the falling block?

Comment on Moving On And Getting Over by Nate

Nate — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:32:57 +0000

The narc lives on, at least as an archive. Miss this site.

Comment on Chris Sharma’s ‘Jumbo Love’ (5.15b) by Climbing Controversy: Behind the Decades-Long Conflict Roiling the Sport’s Elite - Swiss Cycles

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 07:41:17 +0000

[…] the world’s first consensus 5.15b in 2008, he told Big Up Productions (now defunct, sourced from Climbing Narc), “Sometimes if I don’t give a grade, people start speculating, and then it can get all blown […]

Comment on Adam Ondra Repeats (World’s First?) 5.15 by Climbing Controversy: Behind the Decades-Long Conflict Roiling the Sport’s Elite - Swiss Cycles

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 07:40:45 +0000

[…] that they didn’t see repeats for decades. Some received upgrades (even to 5.15 by Adam Ondra, in one case) when they did. One notable 5.15 route got much quicker repeats and plummeted multiple letter […]

Comment on Accident At New River Gorge Offers Learning Experience by J

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 20:42:28 +0000

Two slings half inch webbing 24 inch sewn slings with Petzl strings were girth hitched to the harness. She was planning to rappel, and apparently clipped the anchors with both slings clipped so that the strings would be weighted and break. Normally, the climber should clip the anchor with two quick draws and then clip into the anchor with both harness slings and FULlY weight test the slings before being taken off belay. Because of the generous ledge/stance, the slings were probably not FULLY tested before being taken off belay. If they had been, the Petzel Strings would have broken, and the belayer would have caught the climber, like a fall on top rope. I think that the test was probably a moderate one, and the belay was called off. When the climber got in position to set up the rappel, the slings were FULLY weighted and broke, resulting in a fall to the ground.

If you plan to rappel, always FULLY weight your connection points (slings, draws, cord, daisy chain, Metolius PAS, etc.) BEFORE you get taken off of belay. If your connection points fail for whatever reason, you are still on belay.

If the connection slings fail, then reconnect to the anchor with corrected/reliable connection points, FULLY weight as a test, and if they good, then you can go off of belay to rappel, or thread through to lower. If threading through for lowering, the climber should ALWAYS be kept on belay with slack given as needed.

Having a plan before climbing, and communicating the plan to your climbing partner before leaving the ground is very important. Make sure both partners know how to respond to each other’s climbing/belaying commands, and know how to rappel and clean anchors and test the procedures. I recommend practicing on ground level to make sure the procedure are correct before applying the rappel or anchor cleaning procedures to real anchors. Please get qualified instruction.

Comment on Dave MacLeod Free Solos 5.14b in Spain by Animull89

Animull89 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:23:43 +0000

In reply to Kevlar.

So gnarly that he did that twice…I remember the first time I went climbing with him while living at the nrg…we went water soloing and I followed him up about 40 feet. We were still over water that was only 3 or 4 ft deep and starting to traverse to get over deeper water when the first hard move came up. It was a deadpoint to a full pad flat crimp, done from a layed out sideways and your feet cut as you stick it…making controlling the swing super gnarly as there’d be no way of telling how you’d be cartwheeling down to the water you came off…so instead Greg just let’s his feet dangle and does a huge campus rose move out to the crimp and keeps going…leaving me behind him with my mouth wide open thinking shit like “Wtf did he just do? Who the fuck is this kid??? Damn I gotta figure out how to down climb this whole thing now before I find out if I can shallow dive. Dude could have told me he had super powers before I started following him”