[Porsche-O-Phile]

I remember being up there a few years ago stuck in traffic on the cables. A guy and his gf are in front of me (she was in front of me, following him). I remember him asking her to get a bottle of water out of his backpack, which she did. As she reached up to hand it to him, it slipped out of her hand and instinctively she wheeled around and went for it - by this time it was rocketing down the face. I literally had to grab her and throw her bodily back onto the cables (the guy she was with was standing there white as a sheet). If I hadn't, she'd have gone sailing down the mountain after the water bottle; she was already "committed" to it with her body weight and balance. Not that she intended to kill herself, it was just an instinctive reaction that took her off the cable and shifted her weight in such a way that she'd have undoubtedly gone skidding off after it. As soon as she realized what had happened she said thank you and meekly went back to plodding up the cables. Crazy. I literally would have seen someone get seriously hurt or maybe even killed that day just because of a reflex action and because of all the dopes that get up the rock face and then just panic and "freeze" on the cables, plugging up traffic.