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sting


Jun 1, 2007, 2:47 PM

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A good (or better) personal anchor???
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I found this buried in another thread and found it interesting enough that I wanted to revive it under it's own post.

Assume I don't like the idea of buying extra gear like a PAS or using daisy's for anchoring myself at the top of a sport route... let's not debate this... let's just assume those options are no favorable to me.

One popular option would be to use a sling - knotted to shorten if required.

But I found another way that seems to provide adjustability with much more convenience (posted by speleodude). It seems much nicer and quite inexpensive.

Basically it's a 7mm static cordlette girth hitched to your belay loop with a prussik tied onto itself providing adjustability - just locker the loop to the bolt, adjust the prusik and get comfortable!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/...d4&.dnm=be41.jpg
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/...d4&.dnm=734e.jpg
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ramblinhammerjack/detail?.dir=/b3d4&.dnm=f2e5.jpg


However, I'm not experienced enough to see if there is an safety problem with it. Is this genius or a problem waiting to happen? Thoughts?

Lance


(This post was edited by sting on Jun 1, 2007, 6:50 PM)



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Post edited by sting () on Jun 1, 2007, 6:50 PM


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