Great photo essay of a Ropes course showing everyone with helmets designed to protect only from above.
Posted: June 12, 2014 Filed under: Challenge or Ropes Course | Tags: challenge course, Climb, Climbing Helmet, Granville, helmet, Ohio, Recreation, Rock climbing, Ropes course, Tree 3 CommentsClimbing helmets only protect from drops. What falls from the sky?
A photographer did a great job of showing a group of people having a great time on a rope’s course in Granville, Ohio. The course and setting are beautiful. Everyone is wearing helmets. All the helmets in the photographs are climbing helmets.
Climbing helmets were designed for rock climbing. They were designed to protect you from a rock falling on your head. They are also tested to make sure if you fall and wedge your head in a crack because of your helmet the helmet will come off.
The only things I can see in the photographs that might fall on the people’s heads are trees. If a whole tree falls on you, there is not much you can do. Dependent upon the size of the tree limb, the helmet may or may not help you much.
But why? Why do you wear a helmet on a rope’s course?
Based on this, shouldn’t all groups hiking in the woods wear helmets?
See Common Ground Canopy Tours take you into the treetops near Oberlin, with zip-lines, sky bridges and more (photo gallery)
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Yes a major reason that everyone is required to wear helmets while participating in a high ropes course session IS because of falling objects. While working at a high ropes course myself, we required everyone to wear their helmets at all times – especially when under the course and when ascending. This is because things can fall from the course – removable metal steps (limiting public access when unattended), carabiners, pieces of metal or wood from the element itself, and yes tree branches. Most high ropes courses are around 30-40 feet high, so if a steel carabiner were to hit you in the head from that high, it could easily cause serious trauma. It happens. Also, like Jim said, people can be clumsy, especially when nervous or panicked at that height. One can easily hit his head if he loses his balance or slips in the wrong spot. So yeah, helmets are necessary.
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It is used to protect your head period. Wire rope, rope clips, bolts, hardware connection points. Obviously you have not worked in or participated in many ropes/high element courses. It is best practice. In, on or around they are required on my course.
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Are you saying that you drop that much stuff all the time? Or are you talking about bumping your head on items?
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