bushwhacker wrote:MacGyver:So you trust your partner to belay you but not lower you?
Bushwacker, after re-reading my comment I can see how you got that. I trust my belayer to do both, but when more than one person is involved things can always get miscommunicated.
A glider suit may give you problems if you need to high step.
"Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy." - Homer Simpson
ahab wrote:i'm convinced this site has some sort of bot built into the programming that generates the same threads over and over every few months. ya know what i'm talkin' bout, the ATC vs. gri-gri, trad grades vs. sport grades, tick marks vs. no tick marks, dogs at the crag vs. kicking dogs at the crag debates/polls. i haven't even been on here a year, and i musta seen all of the above go thru at least 2 cycles. speaking of which, isn't it about time we debated methods to build climbing cardio...nvr mind.
too true
Ever heard of rec.climbing? The interwebs have been used for the grigri vs. atc religious war for well over a decade and a half.