Chads93GT wrote:While we may not all agree on how safe or unsafe it is, i think we can all agree that if you were at the bottom and you got hit by the rope bag with 10-30-50-100 feet of rope still in it, it is going to make you have a bad day.
Yep, but probably no worse than somebody being down the bottom as somebody rappels down "grooming" away loose rocks. I think the key difference here is I always knew there was nobody down the pit when I dropped the rope, not like TAG pits where you have dozens of different groups bouncing a pit on any given weekend.
Marlatt wrote:After dropping the pit, we discovered that the core was blown out through the side of the mantle a foot or so from the end of the rope!
Cool! Good thing it was only the last foot of the rope. I suspect the rope impacted something sharp-ish at high speed, then? Anybody take photos of the rope?