[pct-l] Self-Arrest

[Mark Jernigan]

One thing I will say for the Whippet     ...at least it's in your hand as your feet go out from underneath you and you begin to slide.  The vast majority of photos I've seen show the high performance ice axes proudly displayed on the back of hikers backpacks.
   
  'Slogger

Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net> wrote:
  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" 
To: "'PCT-L'" 
; 
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
>

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