Saturday, January 27, 2007

For the ice climbers

So I finally gave into temptation and yesterday bought some beautiful leashless tools. Today was my first time trying them and I can't say it was an unmitigated success...



As you can see I'm glad that even with my own relatively stout frame I didn't blow the screamer and the ice screw did exactly what it was meant to. So that's another climbing cherry popped - my first real fall onto a screw...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

oops! glad you're ok - how did the fall happen? Did it stem from the weirdness of using leashless tools?

Anonymous said...

how did you get them back?

Anonymous said...

Did you let go of both axes before you took the whipper? as they seem to be still well placed

Anonymous said...

hope you are ok!? where was that? and why?