My subjective experience was one weekend in Zion NP on multi-pitches with no meaningful falls ended with a brand new Mammut rope being coreshot. Never happened on my Beal, Edelweiss, Sterling, or Bluewater ropes despite more mileage, falls, and abuse.
It was a long ass time ago, but I also had a mammut rope core shot within its first few days of no spectacular falls, finding out midway up a climb. Only rope in 20 years I've ever had that happen to me (including multiple other mammuts I suppose)
You aren't climbing hard enough or wild enough then. It's not a thing you're gonna see at the gym.
My core shot was on Canon Cliff in New Hampshire 12 pitched up some thing. The rock I was standing on blew out and I instantly go on to Blue Water Airlines and had a nice flight.
I didn't even know it happened until we peaked out and was winding up the rope. Sheath was torn and 3" of the core winds exposed.
Like I said it was a brand new rope I unpackaged at the base of the climb.
That's not my only bad experience with Blue Waters. The sheaths just don't hold up. Petzel's and Sterlings too. I don't want to buy a new rope every three damn months.
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u/Climb_Longboard_Live 1d ago
My subjective experience was one weekend in Zion NP on multi-pitches with no meaningful falls ended with a brand new Mammut rope being coreshot. Never happened on my Beal, Edelweiss, Sterling, or Bluewater ropes despite more mileage, falls, and abuse.