step up from prussic

[skyhuck]

18 years on a prussik... the new generation of climbers who start on SRT and hitch climbers should be able to climb into there 80s...

 

What makes you think I won't??????

[Joe Newton]

What makes you think I won't??????

 

 

'Cos by the time you're 80 you get up into the tree and mutter "I've forgotten what I came in here for"!

[Steve Bullman]

I do that already at 38...should I be worried?

[treequip]

'Cos by the time you're 80 you get up into the tree and mutter "I've forgotten what I came in here for"!

 

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Good answer

[Arran Turner]

What makes you think I won't??????

 

please do it, pictures will be required though..

[Mark Bolam]

It's a good point Arran.

Modern techniques will definitely prolong a climbers working lifespan at commercial pace.

 

 

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[TIMON]

It's a good point Arran.

Modern techniques will definitely prolong a climbers working lifespan at commercial pace.

 

 

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I hope so too... At 49 I'm at the start of a great career

[Mr. Squirrel]

It's a good point Arran.

Modern techniques will definitely prolong a climbers working lifespan at commercial pace.

 

 

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I dunno, they're definitely easier on the body, but then they're faster too. So instead of spending half, even a whole day on a tree you can probably do 5, 10, more even. I reckon it'll balance out in the end.

[James Atkinson]

I moved onto srt as i reached in to my tenth year of climbing as I was already getting wrist problems and I'm only 26, defo died down now. But this is prob for another thread

[SteveT1989]

What about just trying a different knot. We all know the prussik renowned for binding up, I'm using a swabish prussik, sometimes a distel with a long friction cord length so its exactly the same as using a prussik without the lack of performance.