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Check out this website: http://xmission.com/%7etmoyer/testing/ Look at the section entitled Comparitive Testing for High Strength Cord. This testing was done by the Salt Lake City Search and Rescue at the Black Diamond testing facility. The testing was done to look at cord for use in search and resc...

lordjim_2001 wrote:No NC in Dixie Craggers Atlas and good luck finding it, it's out of print. Dr. Topo has topos for Foster Falls and Obed so they may be some help.

We have some copies for sale at RockQuest: 513-733-0123

Chris

I have used one. Works pretty well when you need to manipulate heavy loads. It's a quick easy way to add some friction when lowering something heavy.

Good to hear from you Ted, Laura and Anna. Would be great to have you guys back in the area! Great pictures, Anna is beautiful. Were you guys eating moon pies on the beach?

Chris Wood

We had a staff person here that was a pretty big guy and his belayer was quite small, About 125lb difference between the two of them. When outdoors she would use a long sling and attach it to their backpack which they would fill with some stones. It took some experimentation on getting the weight ab...

There is nothing inherently wrong or dangerous about grigri's. What people are describing is a correlation (which does not equal causation) between people who use grigri's and inexperienced gym climbers. I think simply the word inexperienced is what you are looking for. I agree that some people wil...

Recently returning from OR in Salt Lake City I sat through an interesting meeting with the Climbing Gym Association, where the president of Petzl America was present. He specifically stated that a GriGri is an expert device and should only be used by those that are expert in the field of rock climbi...

Life's like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Better quite while I'm ahead.




--You should be flexible when dealing with other people's ideals...just don't bend so far back you put your own head up your ass.

I'll pinch your head off and tell God you died on purpose.

Appetite: -I'm so hungry I could the ass end out of a dead rhino. Fear: -That boy's got more nervous ticks than a belfast parking valet. Nervousness: -She's as skiddish as a virgin on prison night at the rodeo Defeat: -I feel like I've been eat by a wolf, and sh*t over a clif. Utter coolness: -That'...