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Re: [kane_schutzman] Do you rest on your gear?:
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tradmanclimbs
Sep 11, 2007, 8:18 PM
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Not trusting gear because you heard someone got hurt somewhere somehow? is just plain stoopid. Every situation is diferent and needs to be handled the best way that you can. Sometimes that means yelling take and sometimes it dosen't. If the gear is so crap thet the climb is a solo you shouldn't be on it unless you can hike the grade anyways. Anyone who is so hung up on ego or peer pressure and silly unwritten rules that they won't grab gear in a dangerous situation deserves the broken bones. I was working a rt with Michale Kennedy and Charly Gray up in independance pass about 1986. We seemed to be stalled when Mike fished into his pack, pulled out a hammer, rigged some slings into makeshift aiders and announced " Time to do some TRADITIONAL climbing" He pounded in a pin, stood in the slings and presto! we were back in buisness I like to keep those techniques in my Trad bag so to speak If I think i can send without getting hurt then I go for it. If I am afraid of hitting an ankle breaker ledge or cutting my rope in a fall or running out of gas in a dangerous spot then I will clip directly into the gear and rest up. Better a healtly coward than a brave broken idiot
(This post was edited by tradmanclimbs on Sep 11, 2007, 8:23 PM)
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Post edited by tradmanclimbs
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