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Quick Q Re: Solo TR 9-Jun-2016 At 3:48:43 PM Eduardo Slabofvic

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On 9/06/2016 One Day Hero wrote:
>Also, if you can find human friends
>who are as switched on as asap, just go climbing with them instead!

Good luck with that one.

I also take a tibloc and a couple of slings, in case you need to jug out or swap over onto another device.

I use a shunt, because I own one, and I don't own anything else, so I need to be able to swap over onto a descender if/when required, as its quite possible that i/you/we wont make it to the top.

Wear a helmet and use a rope protector of some description over the edge. I can't comment on the other devices mentioned, but as for the shunt, if you come off, just commit to coming off, don't try grabbing the shunt in panic (very bad!).

Shunts are great. They don't hot coq about themselves, they quite when you're climbing, don't endlessly say "bro" as if its a substitute for not being witty, or start every sentence with the word "I".

I am tempted by an asap though, they look nice.