@ai6yr @_thegeoff @stepheneb @MHowell @pmonks @W6KME @cpsc_bot Right. You would notice it protruding (and your pick or handle becoming wobbly) looong before it would have actually cleared all the threads.
Related: I suspect most folks don't understand how conversant most serious climbers (especially rescue climbers, but really all of the serious ones) are in engineering, math, systems. My MR team did a five-day course from "Rigging for Rescue" that was 75% math: how many kN are involved in a 75kg climber taking a whipper on a 1-meter Dyneema daisy chain? How much force is transmitted to the spine and kidneys by the 2" belt of the climbing harness at the end, and what does that do to the human body? At what point is the angle between two anchors too obtuse? How much should a given highline system sag to avoid the load on each anchor approaching infinity (as it does when a perfectly tight rope is deflected even slightly)? What are the failure strengths of every single piece of gear in a given rigging system? How much mechanical advantage is converted by each of a wild variety of complex and compound pulley systems? Add in the scientific knowledge needed to perform a truly competent avalanche assessment, the amount of medical knowledge conveyed in a ten-day Wilderness First Responder course, all the hours spent waiting out storms in tents while reading that year's Accidents in North American Mountaineering case studies aloud to each other (freaking out at the errors we too could have made, and laughing at the idiots who brought disaster on themselves), etc., and basically the mountains are full of surprisingly sophisticated engineers and scientists.
Which is why I cannot grok how the fzck that nut and bolt wound up in that ice tool. It's not the *culture*!
