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The Art of Onsight Trad Climbing 11-Nov-2005 At 10:45:13 AM gumbywankenobi

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On 10/11/2005 simey wrote:
>Here is some other advice I give to people who are learning to lead on
>trad...
>
>Trad climbing will often involve...
>10% - Working out how to do moves and actual climbing.
> 90% - Faffing with gear, shaking out, and calculating your relative safety
>at any given time (according to the protection you have placed, protection
>coming up and the relative difficulty of the climbing).
>
>Your emphasis should be on staying alive, not getting up the route.
>

Heh heh. Very true. When I started leading (not that long ago) I told people I'd stopped 'climbing' and started 'safetying'. I still get more of a kick out of it than just about anything else in the world though.
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