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Krioni

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Yesterday I was out shooting at a creek near my house. There is a rock wall that surrounds the creak. It's about 8-10 feet tall.

Well, when I was shooting some landscape and water it started raining. As I was climbing out my foot slipped on a wet rock and I fell about 6-8 feet with my Lowepro Slingshot 200 AW strapped to my back. The bag has my new Nikon D7000, lenses, flash, etc... basically my entire photographic world. I am a bit banged up and I think I may have blown out my knee in the fall, but most importantly the lowepro saved all of my gear!

Way to go LowePro!
 
Maximus96

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+1 for lowepro. I have a primus AW and its really well built like all other lowepros. but i only use it when i have to carry a lot of gear around because its bulky. i typically use my domke shoulder bag when traveling light. but i doubt it would save my gear if i took a fall like that.
 
adairusmc

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Lowepro stuff is nice. I still keep my slingshot bag for when I am hiking or something, but I mostly use one of my Crumpler million dollar homes anymore though.

Good to hear that your bag saved all of that gear though.
 
IronWing

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Krioni said:
Not sure... Are u mocking my post? :)
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Not at all.

This is Castle Rock west of Rio Rico, AZ:
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This is a bag of Babybel cheeses:
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This is a Nikon Coolpix 990:
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On top of Castle Rock is a geocache. Getting to the top is pretty straight forward as long as one starts in the right place. Otherwise things get complicated. So I set off to climb the rock with a backpack holding my lunch (including the cheese mentioned above), water, and camera (Nikon 990) after picking out what appeared to be a plausible route to the top. About half way up the rock I needed to crawl along a ledge to get from where I was to where there was a break in the cliff which I intended to climb through. The ledge was about a foot wide and overhung by the cliff above leaving two-three feet vertical to crawl along. When I got to the far end where the break in the cliff was I noticed that getting from a crawling position to a standing position in order to continue on was going to involve spending some time twisting around with not much but sky below me. I recalled the sage wisdom of the person who had placed the geocache, "If you find yourself doing something stupidly dangerous you are on the wrong path." So, I decided that it would be a good time to get right with the Lord and find the path of righteousness. I simultaneously discovered that there was insufficient room to turn around on the ledge and had to crawl backwards to backup. When I reached my starting point on the ledge I also found that I needed to be facing the other way in order to climb down off the ledge and that the narrowness of the ledge and the overhang above were going to make this all but impossible. The word "idiot" did cross my mind at this point. After considering various options I determined that I could turn around and bring my feet down where they needed to be to get off the ledge but I couldn't do it while carrying my pack. I decided that it was me or the pack and I pushed first. I pushed my pack off the side of the cliff aiming it so that it would land on the route about twenty feet below. At about the same time the pack hit bottom I recalled that the camera was within. Once again the word "Idiot" crossed my mind (note that it is capitalized this time). Free of my pack I was able to negotiate the contortions necessary to work my way off the cliff and down to my pack. A steel juice can had been thrown out of the pack during descent or impact and had sustained large dents. I opened up the pack to find the camera impacted into the bag of now exploded Babybel cheeses. I pulled the camera out of the pack, scrapped the cheese off it, and tested it thoroughly. It came through undamaged. Those cheeses gave up their little lives to save my camera.
 
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Krioni

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Wow! Nice story... I too was referring to myself as in "Idiot" when I took my spill.

Thanks for sharing the story.
 
InverseOfNeo

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I have the same bag and find it very convenient in most shooting situations. Good to know it saved your gear. Sounds like you were a bit lucky, try to be more careful next time.
 
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Krioni

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InverseOfNeo said:
I have the same bag and find it very convenient in most shooting situations. Good to know it saved your gear. Sounds like you were a bit lucky, try to be more careful next time.
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Yes, there is no doubt I was being watched over.
I Had spinal fusion surgery around Christmas and thank God I didn't land in such a way that I undid my surgery!
 
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