old school

[Mark Bolam]

Yeah, it takes so long.

[White Noise]

Started with a prussik . Trust the prussik . Climb every day on the prussik ?

 

Tried the VT ...Nice until you forget to dress the mother . Mechanical devices are cool but I dislike the fact you cannot visually see the wear and tear ... like you can on a cord .

 

Prussik everday unless Im feeling lazy them its SRT baby .......

[Stephen Blair]

I climb on spikes and descend on Prussik.

[MattyF]

I climb on spikes and descend on Prussik.

 

 

It's the way forward , you don't need nothing fancy if your good on spikes !

[billpierce]

I climb on spikes and descend on Prussik.

 

pfffft spikes and prussik, how fancy can you get! i have just reverted to this

 

you really know where you are when you climbing barefoot, no spikes slipping, no fancy harnesses to fail loler etc

[TIMON]

Talking of old school.... I got to a job yesterday and realised my harness was left back at home

Improvised rope harness saved the day.

Very uncomfortable but did the job

 

[billpierce]

nice one!

[billpierce]

used a hitch climber with a vt for the first time today - didn;t seem any easier to a prussik? what am i missing? vt was annoying me as i kept having to give it a little tweak to get it to grip everytime i tended slack.

 

any tips?

[Joe Newton]

used a hitch climber with a vt for the first time today - didn;t seem any easier to a prussik? what am i missing? vt was annoying me as i kept having to give it a little tweak to get it to grip everytime i tended slack.

 

any tips?

 

 

Give it more than five minutes?

[Mick Dempsey]

Here's why I don't like my ZZ.

1. The thin rope is hard to hold. A blakes is nice in the fist.

2. It doesn't have the organic feel of a blakes/prussik.

3. When chogging down using the climbing line under the wire core flip line as a safety it self tends, thus tightening around the stem rather than staying loose, making it harder to move down.