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Quick Q Re: Solo TR 14-Jun-2016 At 2:59:04 PM surfziggy

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On 9/06/2016 surfziggy wrote:
>I'm not telling anyone how to do it, just explaining the system I use
>and have used for several years.

>You kinda did though. There is very little disadvantage to having a second device on the other half of >the rope (who topropes stuff longer than 35m anyway?). The main advantage of a second (preferably >different) device is that you are less likely to smash yourself via a systematic fuch-up. A common >example is forgetting to unlatch the cam on the mini-trax.

Did I feck. And if you can't remember to engage the cam, you're in the wrong game.

>It's also the same system I know has been
>used by a full time climbing friend for 20+ years without incident.

>Mini-trax didn't exist in 1996......so this claim is not 100% free of bullshit.

With shunt and then mini-t. So stick that in your crack pipe. WHich you are obvs smoking

Regarding pulling slack through the grigri, As you pretty much stated typically most people shunt 15-20m ropes. How long does that take, really?!?!?

Seems like you're just got the hump because somebody ain't doing it the same way as you.