by self-deleted_user » Feb 2, 2011 11:58 pm
No problem! And it did work for a while. I got it before the TAG fall cave-in.
Did two trips there, Anderson Springs and Pettijohn. In Pettijohn doing the pancake crawl it got two small holes in it (on the yellow thinner side) and I shoe-gooed em up.
Next it was with me in the UK - long wet trips with climbing and crawling and traverses and crazystuffthatrivelseverythingiveseeninthestatessofar!!!!!!!! Over the course of the 2 weeks there it developed a couple more holes on the yellow thinner side, little puncture types mostly. It was still watertight enough even with the small holes nothing got damaged in it and no major waterleakage but it did get moist and a bit of water settled in the bottom (maybe 5 mL worth or so). Shoegooed it up again.
Then was TAG in January...and basically I destroyed it there with crawls. Mostly because I wasn't being careful with it at all anymore. If you make sure to drag it on the thicker side it doesn't get holes in it but I was letting it flip around to the yellow side in too many tight crawls that it was harder to keep it on the "backside". I got quite a few more holes and small (0.5-1 cm) tears in it. Shoe-gooed that all up again. I mean, it does the job, but it doesn't stand up to the drags or when I decide to drop it down in front of me 10 feet before climbing down type thing, basically. The dry caves seem to damage it more. Perhaps because like in the UK where it was all super wet, the rocks are more "smooth" edged with the water running all over 'em constantly whereas dry caves seem more "jagged".
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