[pct-l] Self-Arrest

[Reinhold Metzger]

Switchback,
It would not be the first time that a big company gets slapped with a
products defect law suit.

I make you a deal, Switchback,.......you go on a free slide down Half Dome,
and if the ''Wipped'' self-arrest device does not arrest you, you will go to
haven
knowing that   ''HEAVENLY  FUNERAL  HOMES''   will honor their  ''DOUBLE
DISCOUNT  TO  THRU - HIKERS''.

JMT Reinhold
Director, Heavenly Funeral Homes

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Switchback writes........ I wonder why  a big company like Black Diamond
would                          leave itself open to law suites for their
Wipped self-arrest device?........


----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
To: "'PCT-L'" <pct-l at backcountry.net>; <Hiker97 at aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:17 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Self-Arrest


> Switchback,
> Unless you are suicidal or don't value your life I would not trust my life
> on the ''Wippet'' hiking
> pole self arrest devise......I mean, do you really expect this ''Gizmo''
to
> be sturdy enough to
> arrest you if you are in a ''slide-for-life free slide'' down a steep
slope?
> Ski & hiking poles are not build for sturdiness....they bend and break all
> the time.
> Would you trust your life on that?.....they might be OK for none life
> threatening self arrest
> on gentle slopes.
>
> You might be getting old and not value your remaining time very
much.....but
> us younger folks
> still have a lot to live for and value our life more than that.......just
> make sure you have a fully
> executed will with a appointed executor so your loved once are not
burdened
> with the expense of probate.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Court appointed probate administrator & Heavenly Funeral Homes director
> WE GIVE DISCOUNTS TO BACKPACKERS & DOUBLE  DISCOUNTS TO THRU-HIKERS
>