ditzy 24//7
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for thoes who have done abseiling
when was the first time you went abseiling and how old were you?
when was the first time you went abseiling and how old were you?
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ditzy 24//7
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my first time was age 11 went to kingswood for a week over at the isle of white in october 2000
danthecavingman
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Bowles Rocks, I must have been about 15. On a safety line as well, kacked meself! Soon got over it though. The rest as they say is history........
Dan.
Dan.
ditzy 24//7
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the first time i did it was quiet simple as it was a tower thing and it was compleatly smooth all the way down but it was great fun. 
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wormster
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Mid 70's in the devil's kitchen
Elaine
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Being older than Hughie, I first went abseiling in a roofless cave during a rock climbing and abseiling week in North Wales when I was 14. This was in the late 70's. We too had the body wrap type effort with none of this cushty 'stop' type rubbish! I did have a life line though which meant I had no fear and abseiled as fast as I could.
whitelackington
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I.I.R.C. it was figure of 8 down,
ladder up, in Thrupe Lane Swallet
then Lacaster Hole, same rubbish system,
ie 110feet ab, spot of caving, 110feet ladder back up.
ladder up, in Thrupe Lane Swallet
then Lacaster Hole, same rubbish system,
ie 110feet ab, spot of caving, 110feet ladder back up.
Peter Burgess
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You would think that anyone would remember something like this, but I don't. It might have been at High Rocks near Tunbridge Wells, or it might have been in the trees at Whernside Manor. Wherever it was, it was on a fig-8.
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Dep
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Late 1970's: As a teenager in the sea-cadets - classic method.
1981: In the Navy - classic method - and later on the sea cliffs at Newquay with a fig 8
No lifelines - very little explanation of what to do apart from to 'not let go!' The rest was fairly obvious!
1981: In the Navy - classic method - and later on the sea cliffs at Newquay with a fig 8
No lifelines - very little explanation of what to do apart from to 'not let go!' The rest was fairly obvious!
My earliest abbing experience ? Must have been Scouts age 11 off Walton on the Naze cliffs (1968 the year), but I recall, age 9 (1966), being given my first and only "old" rope ladder by my parents, bought for my birthday from an army surplus shop opposite colchester castle. I always rigged this myself. I used to regularly climb out of my upstairs bedroom window with my younger brother following, descending onto concrete path below. No lifelines, no parent supervision after first days play. I tied it to a bed leg if I recall, using a round turn and two half hitches. Even rigged string and slip knot to auto release it from the ground, so I could then climb up. Kept me amused for about 2 years til we moved house.
During play the ladder got into bad repair so my father taught me how to re-whip the wooden rungs top and bottom that were pusded thro the three strand main rope - worked fine but I did not have the strength to make them real tight, so they occasionally came undone, but it was climbed regardless.
That was all like 40 years ago !
Parents take a different view now a days ...
During play the ladder got into bad repair so my father taught me how to re-whip the wooden rungs top and bottom that were pusded thro the three strand main rope - worked fine but I did not have the strength to make them real tight, so they occasionally came undone, but it was climbed regardless.
That was all like 40 years ago !
Parents take a different view now a days ...
gus horsley
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Did my first abseil in 1960 at Woodhouse Scar in halifax. it was only about 30ft but seemed miles and the weather was freezing. I might have cried a little bit.
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Dep
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Geoff R said:
They certainly do - my wife'd have a fit if she saw the kids climbing out of the upstairs window - I wouldn't be too happy about it either!
stealth
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lancaster hole scared the living daylights out of me. as i said in a previous thread this was my first experience of caving. not done much srt since dont have any kit of my own since getting spliced over 22 yrs ago
ladder back up hard work for an unfit biker
i would do it again if i ever got the chance.would need to be retrained though
ladder back up hard work for an unfit biker
i would do it again if i ever got the chance.would need to be retrained though