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I'm dying of curiosity! I'm on the work computer, and judging from the response, whatever sexually explicit carnage is on lemonparty.org is sure to get me fired and shunned from my coworkers. I guess I'll just wait...

I forgot to mention that the second climber tied in on a bite for the short crux pitch and reclipped directionals below the knot.

1) First climber leads pitch, anchors off, unties and drops rope. So the first climber is now stranded on top of the pitch. Screw that! The 2-leader method seems fine to me, but use 2 ropes. I don't ever want to be at the top of a pitch without any way to get myself off of it. The only time I would...

Climbing with three people can be made a lot easier if two people are capable of leading. It makes for a very simple system, but slightly more committing. 1) First climber leads pitch, anchors off, unties and drops rope. 2) Second climber leads on pre-placed gear. 3) Third climber top-ropes and clea...

pawilkes wrote:its a good idea to carefully read what you're responding to before making suggestions of ignorance or stupidity, thats all.

That's deep man. I think I'll write that down.

no there was no apparent damage to the device and chances are that it was operator error, thats not the point. the point was that people to get dropped on grigri's during leader falls and not just on lowering. I wasn't speaking against Grigris, i still own one, i will still use it and i will trust ...

um...ME i don't know exactly what happened, either it was threaded backwards or the belayers hand got jammed in the device when i fell but i fell from the top of the gym to the ground, probably 30 feet. the only thing that saved me was the skin on my belayers hands, they were totally burned up. Sou...

http://seclimbers.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9387 A few quotes from the above thread: "I just spoke with the prentice cooper people and T wall is closed this weekend due to the fire. It will remain closed even if it rains saturday night. Spread the word." "Th...

anything that needs a graphic illustration on how to feed the rope is too complicated... I hate to put such an abrupt end to this fascinating discussion, but the ATC Guide has such an illustration, thus making it too complicated to be worth any serious consideration. While I'm here though, I do own...

anything that needs a graphic illustration on how to feed the rope is too complicated... I hate to put such an abrupt end to this fascinating discussion, but the ATC Guide has such an illustration, thus making it too complicated to be worth any serious consideration. While I'm here though, I do own...