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brian_h
Jun 25, 2011, 4:28 AM
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Registered: Aug 24, 2010
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Consider hiring a professional guide or attending a climbing course. I'm a new trad leader and the first course I took last year focused on gear placements, physics behind falls, building anchors and basic equipment safety type stuff. It was the precursor course to single pitch lead, but we did talk our guide into doing some mock leads. I tied into two ropes, one on a toprope belay and one lead belay. I thought it was a good way to get acclimated to placing gear. Also, I carried a sling on my tie-in loops to clip each piece and put body weight on it to gain confidence in my placements.
I really found a renewed trust in gear when I took a 45' fall last month. I was caught by a .5 BD cam on two lobes. Fairly dumb of me to end up in that situation, but given the outcome I was also lucky to be able to walk away and learn a valuable lesson in placing gear more frequently.
Hope that helps.
(This post was edited by brian_h on Jun 25, 2011, 4:35 AM)
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