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traddad
Jan 7, 2002, 4:39 PM
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I just adopted a Petzl Reverso and would like to run it in the autolock mode. However, as a lightness freak (that's Superfreak to you), I shudder at the number of big lockers I have to bring along to use the self locking feature and be able to lower as per the USMGA protocol. Can anyone educate me on what are good, compact, LIGHTWEIGHT, pear shaped (like the petzl attache) 'biners? Traddad
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wigglestick
Jan 7, 2002, 4:51 PM
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I have a reverso and I carry an extra BD Enduro Locker to use when using the reverso in autolock mode. (I use the enduro to connect the reverso to the anchor and a normal pear biner for the rope part). Those enduros are pretty light. Only slightly heavier than their non-locker counterpart. You could probably use two regular biners with the gates opposed. I think they will fit through the hole. But the extra weight of another pear locker really that big of a deal? It probably weighs no more that a quickdraw. To save weight buy a Ti nut tool or take half as much chalk or don't wear underwear and take a leak before you climb.
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traddad
Jan 7, 2002, 5:29 PM
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The enduros are the lightest D lockers that I have found. You're right, I would only REALLY need a pear 'biner for the lock off side of the Reverso. Good call. In your list of lightness tips you forgot: shaving your head, the Calista Flockhart diet, cutting off your leg loops, climbing barefoot and nude, forgetting the rope altogether..... I'm a lightness freak because I have had a tendancy to allow my rack to accrue more and more "needed" gear in the past, to the point I looked like I was heading out to do "Wyoming Sheep Ranch" on a simple day out at the crags. A timely intervention by a friend, and two years in a twelve step program (GearBoy Anonymous) has brought my rack to the svelt proportions it now has. It has now beem 563 days since I last brought along a #5 camalot on a sport climb. Traddad [ This Message was edited by: traddad on 2002-01-07 09:35 ]
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