Spry Canyon June 14th - Deadman?

Did Spry recently. Replaced a lot of webbing. Many anchors were rigged "Circus-Circus" - 1 piece of yellow and 1 piece of orange. For the most part, replaced with 1 piece of black.

There was a well-built deadman anchor in the "under the rock" pool. I removed 42 feet of 1" tubular webbing from this.

This rappel (surprisingly pulls) quite easily from the transverse rock anchor. I'm wondering if there is a story of misadventure associated with this deadman, or whether someone built it just for fun. I'd gladly trade the 42 feet of webbing for the story!

Waterlevels: "under the rock" - thigh deep. "gateway rappel pool" - ribcage deep. "downclimb into pool to rappel" - jewels deep.

Tom

The deadman must be new. It wasn't there when we where in there on the 7th. I think the location you mention is a common place for misadventure.

5-6 years ago we found webbing tied around a very small bush up the cliff face a bit at this location. We figured a group dropped in, pulled their rope then needed an anchor. The climb to the bush must have been 5.11 or better and I definately would not have rapped off that bush.

--- In Yahoo Canyons Group, "Tom Jones" <ratagonia@...> wrote:
Did Spry recently. Replaced a lot of webbing. Many anchors were > rigged "Circus-Circus" - 1 piece of yellow and 1 piece of orange. For > the most part, replaced with 1 piece of black.
There was a well-built deadman anchor in the "under the rock" pool. I > removed 42 feet of 1" tubular webbing from this.
This rappel (surprisingly pulls) quite easily from the transverse rock > anchor. I'm wondering if there is a story of misadventure associated > with this deadman, or whether someone built it just for fun. I'd > gladly trade the 42 feet of webbing for the story!
Waterlevels: "under the rock" - thigh deep. > "gateway rappel pool" - ribcage deep. > "downclimb into pool to rappel" - jewels deep.
Tom >

Waterlevels: "under the rock" - thigh deep. > "gateway rappel pool" - ribcage deep. > "downclimb into pool to rappel" - jewels deep.
Tom >

Tom, I've always used slightly different terminology for waterlevels:

ribcage deep = girl line jewels deep = boy line

A few AZ folks are doing a Deer Creek speed run Friday where the adjective "extreme" will be used in front of the waterlevel to reflect the dangerous nature of swift cold water

Rich