Oct 17, 2003 - Wichitas - The Narrows - Zoo Wall

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Mark performs his first trad lead ever on the Dihedral.

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Although I lead Richard Pryor cleanly, we ran into a small snafu while Mark was cleaning. As he was starting up to clean, I noticed that, because I rappelled off the rappel rope Rick set on Crazy Alice, there was really no anchor on Richard Pryor. To recover, I had Mark tie into a second rope (the rappel rope running through the anchors) so that I could "double belay" with a gri-gri in one hand and an ATC in the other. In this scenario, should my top piece (a #2 camalot) have blown, Mark would have swung left towards Crazy Alice, but still have been safe - especially since I used a gri-gri on this rope. Anyway, this was careless on my part as the more-experienced climber, but fortunately caught before Mark got more than ten feet off the ground.

Here we go through the tunnel to get to the Left Zoo wall. [actually, this is the return on the way back, but I thought the storyline worked better this way. Rick is clearly not climbing up and into the tunnel backwards]

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