The frog Walker SRT

[Dean Lofthouse]

camping beer and a night climb challenge would be good

 

Also maybe a tea / coffee drinking challenge

[Pete Mctree]

Also maybe a tea / coffee drinking challenge

 

i'd go for the coffee drinking- as long as it did not interfere with the wine drinking!

[Pete Mctree]

You ready to have another get together then Dean?

[Dean Lofthouse]

i'd go for the coffee drinking- as long as it did not interfere with the wine drinking!

 

I though wine was a yuppy drink?

 

You should be on cider

[Marc]

Thats one of the reasons we organised a fun climb get together in my wood.

 

It puts all the things you hear and see online into practice. Loads of people turned up and shared ideas. Some toys were available to play with and just by watching others climbing and their techniques we learnt quite a lot between us.

 

Hopefully we will put another together soon, it was good fun.

 

Wish i was closer to you I would of come along. i'd like to see more get togethers through this forum and hopefully one down South.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Be nice if one could be organised midlands area, with on site camping. Fun climb saturday, pee up and barbie sat eve and hangover sun morning

 

No that would be fun

[Laz]

im glad i put that picture up as ive now changed the setup slightly and made it safer-i wouldnt of realised what i was doing wrong without your guys info, so cheers for all the advice. and a new kernmantle rope arrives tomorrow so itll be good to see how different it feels. once again, thanks for the advice, especially paolo.

 

I'm very glad about that Drew - you're welcome of course.

 

The rope will feel bouncy for sure at the start, especially on long ascents like your avatar. But for me, thats always reassuring. With smooth technique, its not noticeable.

 

I'll try and post that photo of the clips later (once I get it off my good friend Jez, whom also clipped the video).

[Laz]

Here is the pic.

 

Not very close up, but you can see the red edelrid clip on my right leg loop of the TreeFlex harness. It also shows the low pelvic position of the harness for creating more distance between the stride of handled ascender to chest ascender.

 

Another identical clip runs through the top hole of the Croll.

 

The Karabiner that holds the Croll is a Williams ball lock with steel barrel - cannot be activated by rope action.

[Laz]

http://www.expeditioncave.com/srt/petzl/failure/BC_UDAR_reply_050204.pdf

 

This reinforces my stance on twin cam reasonable redundancy, with cams secured to the rope through top holes.