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Thanks for the report. I assume the snaphook appeared to be functional afterwards, otherwise that would be a clearer likely cause. I was part of a field review of an accident, a fatality actually, some 15 years back now. A contract climber working for BLM. Spur climbing, fell about 55 feet...

Since you say it possibly could have been caused by a jammed open snaphook, does that mean there was, or was not, evidence of a broken non-life-support-use component on the saddle, such as the gear loop in my tale?

That's a long way to the ground, Bermy...nasty.

I remember a long time ago, when I was a lot younger and worked a lot faster, clipping a cable core lanyard snaphook by feel after a limb-over manuever. Flipped and climbed about three flips worth without putting any significant pressure on the D's, just holding the lanyard in each hand...