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Kim Marschner boulders Unendliche Geschichte 1+2+3 (8C/9a)
How did you arrange all safety logistics?
I tried to even out the landing with sticks. That saved me like four or five crash pads. In the end, I had around 20 pads. Without those it just would have been too dangerous I think. I only used one pad and a sit-start pad for the first two parts. The landing took me about two hours and every day I added a few more sticks to extend it. I took quite a while to get all the pads there, haha. The first day I had to get pads from everywhere in the forest because my friends had their pads stashed at many boulders. It was a bit of a hike😅. Luckily, [the next day] I got the code of a pad stash with 8 Pads, I had 6 pads and some friends had pads as well.
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