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It's the same thing with ultralight backpacking, a few ounces here, a few ounce there... it does add up. What you really need to consider is the cost of shaving weight off of your gear and ask yourself if it's really worth it to you.

Yea, yea, yea. I suppose you know EVERYTHING about climbing. I'm sure there are some folks here that will find it useful.

Sorry if this is a redundant post. I did a search for it here and did not come up with any obvious hits. Anyway check out chockstone.org for some cool tips and tricks.

http://www.chockstone.org/TechTips.htm

Al

Hi, I'm looking for a trad leader/partner for those dates. I just started leading this season and am still a gumby. I'm looking to lead some easy routes, 5.4-5.6. I can follow up to a 5.7 or so. I have a pretty decent rack, and a 50 meter rope. I've climbed a few times with Ynot so you can get the s...

pigsteak wrote:devils tower and seneca both suck....unless climbing 5.4 mank is your game.

But it's a great place to learn multi-pitch.

That's true about the cord needing to be a smaller size. I wonder if adding additional loops to the prussik would work. From what I've read over on RC.com this set-up is used by the folks that live/climb in Brazil.

I found this over on RC.com. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ramblinhammerjack/detail?.dir=/b3d4&.dnm=f2e5.jpg&.src=ph It looks interesting. I think that two of them made out of Titan or similiar cord would work well. Just so long as there would be sufficient friction to lock the prussick into...

Biners_Of_Steel wrote:It looks like the guy taking the pictures not on belay. Do I win anything?

I certainly was on belay, he just tied a big figure 8 on-a-bight on the brake side of the rope.

Andrew,

Sounds good to me. I just want to wait until it cools down bit. We went to a small, local crag last Sunday. It was around 90 here and really hot.

Al

I was thinking about coming down in Sept or Oct during the week. I could come down on Tues, climb Wed and Thurs and head back on Fri. I just started to lead trad, really easy stuff, 5.5. I can follow on 5.8 maybe 5.9.

Al

Drop me a line if you're interested