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Re: [granite_grrl] Women's climbing harnesses suck?:
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clausti
Aug 24, 2009, 10:32 PM
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granite_grrl wrote: Nope, that still looks like it'll suck. The gear loops are all on an angle, it's going to push your gear forward 'causing it to bunch and create a clusterfuck (note: many of the petzl harnesses have the same thing going, great if all you're carrying are sport draws, no good if you're loaded down with gear). Second, the loops overlap, and while I have no experience with this, you may note that a previous poster in this thread (clausti?) said how much that sucked on a previous harness of their's. Besides, 7 gear loops? That's ridicules. If you ever carried enough gear to require that many gear loops the harness would be so weighted down your hips your be crying in agony.
i concur with GG. "fast foward" type gear loops are generally not best for trad climbing, though they're nice for sport climbing because draws simply don't get tangled like trad gear does. and overlapping gear loops do suck, though mine were more "stacked" than that, so maybe it'd be easier with the slope of those to not get stuff stuck through both.
also, misty harnesses come with padding in a bunch of colors, including yellow and purple red and grey and webbing including navy and black and blue and grey. and i bet if you called and asked real nice, they'd sew you up one in whatever color you want from the colors they have, for a fee.
but again on the prettiness front, my sport harness looks like this, stock:
and i've climbed a fair amount of trad in it. on multipitch i usually wish it was a little more padded, but they sell more padded versions that are also cute and one that even comes in the pretty pretty purple.
(This post was edited by clausti on Aug 24, 2009, 10:34 PM)
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