Bogley

Iceaxe · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 7759 Location: Local Bordello

There was some talk a while back about the zip line that was rigged to avoid the Bombay at the exit of Zero G. I finally found my copy of the pictures. These pictures actually belong to Canyon Sparky who is shown in the first picture.

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jumar · Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 1685 Location: Lehi, UT

Looks like fun :popcorn:
I think I might try that so I can get my wife and sister through zero g.

marc olivares · Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 614 Location: sugarhouse

trash or not, it's looks like a HOOT!

i doubt i'd trust it as a permanent fixture, but it looks like something i'd setup and clean for my small groups.

Iceaxe · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 7759 Location: Local Bordello

This isn't trash. The guys set it up for the day and then took it down. Without the pictures you would never know it existed. The guys kept climbing back up the exit to do it again. Its really just a fun stunt and not really a practical solution. If you want to get your wife through the bombay I might suggest a guided rappel as the simple option. That way she could easily rappel out the bombay without swinging back underneath.

canyon_sparky · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

That's me in the Pic. We rigged this mostly just for fun, like Shane said. We used a 300' 12.5 mill. rope. It was a little sketchy setting it up, but was a blast doing it. I'll see if i can find some more pics later. Right now i'm going night skiing.

marc olivares · Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 614 Location: sugarhouse

what did you use in the way of pulleys? single, double?

rockgremlin · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 3985 Location: Hotel California

marc olivares wrote: what did you use in the way of pulleys? single, double?

:haha: Ya, right. From the photo it looks like he's using his elbow.

Red Deer · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:56 am Post subject:

Thanks - that brings back memories, sans canyons. Back in the sixties we had a permanent (at least for one summer) zip that ran half a mile from about 30 feet up in a massive pine tree atop a 150 foot hill to the trunk of another tree down in the meadow. Was a steep hill - at one point you were about 50 feet off the ground, which seemed like being totally airborn to a 13 year old. Of course, no safety equipment, no worries, right? Well, the line came down after the first kid fell. He was OK once his leg mended, but the town declared it unsafe. We railed at the injustice, but of course they were right.

Happy Trails,
Reid

Iceaxe · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 7759 Location: Local Bordello

When I was about 5 or 6 my great grandfather had a zip line rigged for the neighborhood kids.. It ran between two cottonwood trees and was probably only 30 feet high and 200' long...... but to a 5 y/o it was like coming off the top of the world.

canyon_sparky · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

We used a tandem pulley, they work a lot better than singles. If you remember Zero G. There is a huge tree right on the other side of the pool coming out of the bomb bay. We just rapped the rope around that and pulled it as tight as we could get it. At the top we rapped the rope around the choke stone, I'm glad it's wedged in good. We also made a zip line at my houde too. It's 170' long. pretty cool.